Product Description

Enjoy this incredible laugh-filled reunion that started the nostalgia craze for classic "feel good" television. Marvel over the most hilarious moments when this funny foursome couldn't keep straight faces, and subsequently brought the house down. If laughter is your best medicine, The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers is a healthy dose you'll want to watch over and over again.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2487 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2002-10-08
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Amazon.com
If you don't get at least a half-dozen belly laughs from this compilation of outtakes from The Carol Burnett Show, you'd better check your pulse. Originally broadcast on CBS in 2001, this affectionate retrospective reunites the peerless cast of Burnett's variety show--Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, and Harvey Korman--to answer audience questions and reminisce. The cast recalls the many times they lost composure on camera, halting sketches due to all varieties of faux pas, from faulty props (or urinating horses) to mutual crack-ups. Culled from the show's mid-1970s heyday, the clips are infectiously hilarious, and the cast never missed an opportunity to inject a little raunchiness (later deleted) into their otherwise wholesome entertainment. Conway's the real conspirator here, frequently turning Korman into a helpless heap of giggles, and costume designer Bob Mackie (pulled from the audience) is given fair tribute for his outlandish creativity. TV like this doesn't exist any more, and Show Stoppers will make you wonder why. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Burnett Deserves better than this DVD
Let me start first by admitting my bias: I'm a HUGE Carol Burnett fan. I grew up watching the show, and loved it because it was so funny, and it made my folks laugh, too.

However, this DVD is simply a lot of promise and no delivery. Imagine someone tells you about this great wine. You are shown the bottle, it's poured in the glass, you're allowed to smell its bouquet, and then... it's taken away. That's just how you'll feel watching this DVD. First off, the DVD is only 40 minutes long - the original hour special, minus all the commercials. There are hours of material that could have been put into a proper DVD, so why wasn't it? The material that is here is very funny, but 10-15 second clips just only go so far with true fans of this very funny show. The show was so great, with such a great cast - why no one bothered to dig in and add some content to the DVD version of the TV special is way beyond me.

Save your money, and send a letter to the companies that hold the rights to the Carol Burnett Show, and ask them to produce a proper DVD special!

***DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY***
I wish I had paid attention to the numerous reviews that stated that this was not a good buy... I was very disappointed to get a DVD that showed a couple of minutes of a scene. It included language that was, of course, censored on the live broadcast. And the funniest scenes (e.g., Tim as "The Dentist") were not even included. Bottom line, if I can't have entire episodes, I'll just live on my good memories of the show... and the 2 or 3 episodes I recorded on videocassette.

I wonder if they're waiting for our generation to die off so that it can be presented to kids who never saw it before. WE are the ones who would really appreciate it.

Wonderful but awful
I agree with other reviewers - the Carol Burnett show should be put on DVD in its complete, total, absolute, full and whatever else synonym you can find entirety, this little tiny excuse for entertainment doesn't begin to satisfy. Please, please, please - whoever owns the rights to the show, please, please, please - release it in total. I'll pay lots of money for it. Please, please, please!