DVD 1: Favorite Moments of the Stars and Slapstick: Favorite Moments of the Stars - From movies, television, and stand-up, here are timelessly funny moments to treasure, personally selected by the stars, their families, an... more »d the people who knew them. Includes: Carol Burnetts Went with the Wind, Jackie Gleason on roller-skates in The Honeymooners, and, from Saturday Night Live, the Coneheads on Family Feud. Also includes Lucille Ball, John Belushi, Carol Burnett, Sid Caeser, Charlie Chaplin, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, Jackie Gleason, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Phil Silvers, Red Skelton, and many more. DVD 2: The Golden Age of Comedy - Return to the days when comedy was king! From silent films, when body language spoke volumes, to the first talkies that added side-splitting dialogue to the energetic slapstick, comedy has always been a key ingredient in the magic of the movies. Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton, The Keystone Cops, Laurel & Hardy, Harold Lloyd, Mabel Normand, and many more. You will also meet the comedy legends who made the 1940s fabulously funny! After honing their craft on the burlesque, vaudeville, and Broadway stages, they brought their unique voices to the movies and radio. Includes priceless moments with the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Three Stooges, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Spike Jones, and many more. DVD 3: What Made America Laugh - From Lucy and Ethel in the candy factory in I Love Lucy to the Marx Brothers in the stateroom in Night at the Opera, great comedy never goes out of style and neither do the antics of a legendary group of entertainers who defined their eras. In the 1930s, comedy was the silver lining in the dark clouds of the Depression thanks to such stage-trained entertainers as Fanny Brice, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, the Three Stooges, and many more. In the 1950s, television launched a new golden age of comedy with such entertainers as Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, Eddie Cantor, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, and Jonathan Winters. During World War II, Abbot & Costello, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, and Charlie McCarthy, Bob Dont Shoot, Its Only Me Hope, Spike Jones, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton, and others, kept spirits up on the home-front. DVD 4: Laugh? I Thought Id Die! - Corral a menagerie of TVs most hilarious animals, including Eddie from Frasier, Arnold the pig from Green Acres, and the memorable Mr. Ed. Salute members of our Armed Farces with scenes from Stripes, TVs M*A*S*H, and Sgt. Bilko. Experience the arresting comedy of Leslie Nielson in Police Squad, Don Knotts in The Andy Griffith Show, and the gang from Barney Miller. Scream with laughter at the fiendishly funny Ghostbusters, Young Frakenstein, Dial a Joke with Bob Newhart, and Lily Tomlin as wisecracking operator Ernestine, and TVs the Addams Family. All this plus classic commercials and great stand-up performances by Tim Allen, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Rita Rudner, Jerry Seinfeld, and Garry Shandling. DVD 5: TV Comedy Classics - This program spotlights legends of stage, screen, and radio who became some of televisions most enduring and beloved stars, including Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Sid Caeser, and Red Skelton. Comedy variety shows and situation comedies offered these seasoned entertainers a national stage, and their outrageous antics made them more popular than ever. DVD 6: Unexpected Bloopers and Blunders - Sid Caeser, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Durante, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and many more are featured in this star-studded Blooper-palooza of wardrobe malfunctions, defective props, physical slips, and verbal stumbles.« less
