Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen [Widescreen Collector's Edition]

with great performances by a young Chris Rock, and a just before Home Improvment Tim Allen, as well as John Fox, Joey Gaynor, Bill Hicks, Stephanie Hodge, Monty Hoffman, Otto and George, Steve Pearl, Larry Scanaro, Thea Vidale, and the funny man of the Howard Stern show Jackie "the joke man" Martling, who IMO is the funniest on this thing! Always save the best till last!

The other show is not as good, Ive had the CDD for years on VHS, and this DVD includes another show called "the heavy weights of comedy" which really was not at alll funny to me, I got a couple of chuckles out of it, but I wont be watching that ever again I dont think... tho, be the judge of that for yourself.

As long as your into a dirty sense of comedy, and dont take offense to things, and can stand alot of rude & crude gesteres and foul mouth, then you should find this great show as funny as I did!

Out of the twelve standups that performed in this movie, there are four that I found the most notable.

- Chris Rock doing part of his "Born Suspect" act, just prior to joining 'Saturday Night Live'. His sexual fantasy about Aunt Jemima is one of his most twisted standup moments ever. His performance here is one of the first ever recorded, and displays the spark of genius that would become a bit less mean-spirited, and more focused socially and politically in later years with "Bring The Pain" and "Bigger and Blacker".

- Tim Allen and his "Men Are Pigs" riff, his most notable standup performance, telling all what it "truly" means to be a man, as well as manly. I found it to be the movie's best performance. This is the act that launched him to superstardom, and helped inspire the "Home Improvement" sitcom.

- The late Bill Hicks revealing which celebrity and/or politician is the true Anti-Christ. Although I didn't always find his act to be laugh-out-loud funny, he was fun to watch and listen to. His act was basically social critiques in the spirit of George Carlin, but less focused and quite a bit more mean spirited. And anyone who can beat out Carlin in the mean-spirited comedy department is someone to admire in my book. This film was my first exposure to Hicks, and since then I've taken a listen to his other works, all of which I found both profane and wonderful. I'm still surprised that I never knew about him before this, and somewhat saddened that he's no longer with us.

- Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, firing off the filthiest jokes & riddles I've ever heard. Although he had a small share of infamy as the Howard Stern Radio Show's head writer at the time (a position he still holds today), this is one of his first performances to reach a big audience. I both love and hate watching him perform... it's like a train wreck. Not only does he throw the jokes at an almost incomprehensible speed, he has a hell of a time trying not to laugh while telling his sick little stories. In some cases he's barely able to get the punch line out before guffawing. To summarize, he's got too much show to do, and not enough time to do it. It's both riotously funny and depressingly pathetic at the same time.

'Late!