- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details
|
Reviews
120 MINUTES
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Four stars for the material - lots of great sketches from Kenny Everett but the release could have been better. The extras are nothing special to speak of and both shows appear to be compilations previously released on video.
A disc of the complete shows would have been far better, but alas, two hours of Kenny on DVD are better than none.
A disc of the complete shows would have been far better, but alas, two hours of Kenny on DVD are better than none.
131 of 134 people found the following review helpful
Kenny Everett's legacy really is rather ill-served at the moment -
as other reviewers have noted, this DVD is simply a re-package re-issue of two old VHS compilations of the Thames TV "Kenny Everett Video Show".
as other reviewers have noted, this DVD is simply a re-package re-issue of two old VHS compilations of the Thames TV "Kenny Everett Video Show".
Although there's plenty to chuckle at, even the odd belly laugh,
you can't help feeling the whole thing has been hacked and edited to death - you miss the surreal flow and momentum of an individual episode of the show - on the DVD, the comic pace is skewed somewhat, the running gags no longer run, the characters don't develop from week to week.
And there's no way this is all the BEST material, even from the 1970s Thames TV show (and of course, there's oodles of 80s stuff from the BBC's "Kenny Everett Television Show" that needs to be seen as well)
For a man who was an indisputable televisual genius, and considering some of the other TV tat which has been lavished with DVD box sets, it really is a crying shame that more of Kenny's material isn't available.
We need a multidisc box set of the Kenny Everett Video show, and another of the Kenny Everett Television Show! Anyone who disagrees, I say round 'em up! Put 'em in a field! And BOMB THE B*STARDS!!!!!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
I had great happy memories of this comic genius - but sadly, this compilation doesn't really do them justice.
For starters, it certainly isn't the naughtiest of the "naughty bits". That, surely would have to include the Hot Gossip dancer who famously hadn't ... er-hem... shaved too well. Not to mention the classic Brother Lee Love scene in which the audience repeats the last word of each line, to extremely naughty effect. Or how about the Sid Snot classic - "So I said to my girl - your knickers are coming down. How do you know? She replied. No no. It's an order, not an observation... (or words to that effect).
Sorry, but this is pretty bland material, that covers none of the edgier stuff that cuddly Ken famously got away with on TV.
Some of the Marcel Wave scenes are still very funny (the mirror scene with David Essex is brilliant), and the final scene, with Kenny being dumped in a dustbin is genuinely poignant, but overall, this is a generally uninspired collection.
Finally, the disappointing "extras" are just a flat text account of Kenny's life and a superfluous repeat of some Carla and Hot Gossip bits that are already included in the main feature!
Please, let's have a genuine naughty bits DVD sometime soon!
For starters, it certainly isn't the naughtiest of the "naughty bits". That, surely would have to include the Hot Gossip dancer who famously hadn't ... er-hem... shaved too well. Not to mention the classic Brother Lee Love scene in which the audience repeats the last word of each line, to extremely naughty effect. Or how about the Sid Snot classic - "So I said to my girl - your knickers are coming down. How do you know? She replied. No no. It's an order, not an observation... (or words to that effect).
Sorry, but this is pretty bland material, that covers none of the edgier stuff that cuddly Ken famously got away with on TV.
Some of the Marcel Wave scenes are still very funny (the mirror scene with David Essex is brilliant), and the final scene, with Kenny being dumped in a dustbin is genuinely poignant, but overall, this is a generally uninspired collection.
Finally, the disappointing "extras" are just a flat text account of Kenny's life and a superfluous repeat of some Carla and Hot Gossip bits that are already included in the main feature!
Please, let's have a genuine naughty bits DVD sometime soon!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Kenny Everitt
Kenny Everett - the Complete Naughty Bits is an absolute must for those of us who saw Kenny Everett the first time round when his series was shocking at that time. Read more
Published 8 months ago by chrisnemo
Rubbish
This is the worst (actual picture) quality video I think I have ever seen on a DVD. And...I just love Kenny... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Graham
kenny everett
oh dear was looking foard to this being a big fan of the great man but so let down renny did great itv and bbc shows but not this bits just put on dvd a chance missed poor print... Read more
Published 11 months ago by steve p
Unplayable
The DVD was damaged when it arrived and I never got to play it.
It wasn't expensive so I couldn't be bothered packaging it up to return
It wasn't expensive so I couldn't be bothered packaging it up to return
Published 13 months ago by Anthony Gallagher
kenny gone and missed
kenny everett,what a genius.to date this is what you get,quite frankly i feel disgusted that no retailer manufacturer of dvds offer up what is a very small pathetic tribute for... Read more
Published 13 months ago by D. barnett
Ditto to other reviews - good to see but could have been better...
A few other reviewers have said the same thing. Picture quality is not what you would hope for in this day and age - it is distinctly 'video'. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. NEIL
What a clever funny man!
Kenny Everett was just so funny and so clever and so man next door! It's a shame there's so much hot gossip on it as they don't look naughty any more just very, very shiney! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Syko
Brilliant - ahead of his time
Buy this if you want humour that was so ahead of it's time it should have been banned. Great memories.
Published 18 months ago by John
Kenny Everett
I have only got half way through this DVD, it was so boring I had to turn it off.
Not as good as I remember him or maybe just rather dated now
Not as good as I remember him or maybe just rather dated now
Published 18 months ago by Ade
Disappointing
What a disappointing DVD! I was looking forward to "The Naughty Bits" and if that is all they can find, I wouldn't bother! Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by C. Love
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
