Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Comedy Gift Guide

…because the Comedyblog wants to help you check your favorite comedy-lover off your list, and also because no non-profit infoblog is complete without a shameless barrage of rewards-based Amazon links masquerading as a friendly shopping list. Here's some brand-new items that any self respecting fan of laughter should be asking for this year.



Saturday Night Live - The Complete First Season


Fuck best of's, now you can start collecting the whole thing, at least until it turns god awful. All the episodes are completely uncut, with many skits and musical guests that haven't been shown on TV for years.



Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated Widescreen Edition)


Talladega Nights was amusing in theaters, but Ferrell and McKay have complained about what they had to cut to get a PG-13, so the Comedyblog pretty much guarantees you that there's a lot of gold left to mine.



Get Smart: The Complete Collection


It's only available from Time-Life in a massive $200 set, but if you have the cash, who wouldn't want this 25-disc collection of the original spy spoof from Mel Brooks and Buck Henry? Plus it comes in a phone booth collector's box that will make your other DVD boxes look like shit. Get it now, before it gets all "reimagined" by Warner Bros. and Steve Carell in 2008.



Police Squad! The Complete Series


All six episodes of the inspiration for the Naked Gun series. Also six times as funny?



Da Ali G Show - Da Compleet Seereez


If you didn’t already have the individual seasons, you can now have this boxed collection, which is just like the original DVDs except with extra cardboard.



Extras - The Complete First Season


The release date just barely misses Christmas, but if you like to be fashionably late, you can buy someone all 10 episodes of Ricky Gervais’ fantastic new series.



That's My Bush! The Definitive Collection


DVD is probably the only place you’ll ever see Trey Parker’s misunderstood sitcom parody, and it’s a Christmas miracle that it even got one. All 8 episodes!



Seinfeld - Season 7


If you like great sitcoms, or sitcoms starring recently outed racists, then this would be for you.



The Kids in the Hall Megaset


The perfect gift choice if you have $150 burning a hole in your pocket and know someone that doesn’t already have any Kids in the Hall episodes.



The Dog Dialed 911: A Book of Lists from The Smoking Gun


The ballsy and hilarious Smoking Gun team has a new crime book, featuring infotaintastic lists such as 7 Things You Should Never Tell a Cop and 3 Ineffective Ways to Kill Your Spouse.



World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War


One deadpan book about zombies wasn’t enough for author Max Brooks, so now there’s this one too. Word on the street is that it’s even better.



Live In: Nerd Rage


Is Brian Posehn the funniest Comedian of Comedians? The Comedyblog thinks maybe.



These Are Jokes


The unique and hilarious Demetri Martin is now a “Daily Show” regular, and has multiple movies in the pipeline. But this CD/DVD before it’s too late to be in the “I heard him first” crowd.



En Garde, Society!


Eugene Mirman is the sort of comedian that works very well in album form…whatever the fuck that means.



Har-Larious



Harland Williams: What a Treat


Harland Williams is probably the weirdest person alive right now, and the Comedyblog doesn’t throw around “alive right now” lightly.



Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny


Yeah, the movie was (arguably) pretty disappointing, but it’s hard not to want this smoking collector’s item that includes the lovable soundtrack, the movie tie-in book, 8 tarot cards, and a poster.



Homestar Runner: Everything Else, Volume 2


The second collection of Homestar Runner shorts of the non-Strong Bad Email variety.



Flaming Carrot Volume 1 (Flaming Carrot Comics)


Did you know there was an all-new Flaming Carrot series by Bob Burden? The Comedyblog didn’t, and thought you should know.

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