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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780738902760
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0738902764
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 771
Studio: Sony
Theatrical Release Date: July 14, 2002
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Sharper and deeper than Robin Williams's previous road material, Live on Broadway is a mature comedian's view of all things to do with power, prejudice, and paranoia in the 21st century. On the anthrax scare of 2001: 'The Senate cleared out of their building but told the rest of us, 'Get on with your normal lives!'' On his solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem: 'Time share!' On the pitfalls of America's deepening alliance with Britain: 'The House of Commons is like Congress with a two-drink minimum.' A viewer may have to slog through Williams's tedious breast fetishism, but patience is quickly rewarded with bitchy takes on Martha Stewart facing prison, solid satire about French existentialist judges at the Olympics, and subversive op-eds about the Bush administration's inability to clarify terrorist threats to the public ('Has the CIA become the Central Intuitive Agency?'). --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Duck! Here's Robin!
Robin Williams is a brilliant stand-up comic, a highly original talent who gives an over-the-top, irreverent, profane, iconoclastic, hilarious performance. It's a very funny show. Williams is alone on the large stage, his only prop being a small table loaded with bottles of mineral water. He is constantly gulping and spilling water while he sweats profusely. The bottles are used at times very comedically to demonstrate various functions.
Williams has a myriad of targets: the haughty French, President Bush, Osama bin Laden, the augmentation of body parts, cats staking out their territory, Viagra, the child molestation scandal involving priests, various churches and denominations, his own hairiness, etc. The list is long. His delivery is rapid-fire, frenetic, and sometimes too hectic and too harrowing. He is trying hard, sometimes working too hard for laughs, but he almost always hits a homer.
It's definitely not for the kiddies or for the prudish or linguistically timid. Little is sacred. It's a very visual, animated type of humor which relies on his actions as well as his words. An audio version would not do it justice. He's crude; he's coarse, but not as wild in his use of profanity as George Carlin. He returns to certain themes and riffs with the French coming in for extra jabs.
It's a broad type of almost slapstick humor that doesn't seem as satiric as just plain funny. He'll do almost anything for laughs, with the visual often topping the linguistic.
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Rating:  - robin williams on broadway
I always like Robin Williams stuff....even when his shirt is literally dripping sweat like on here!
Rating: - Robin
This is one of his best stand ups. If you have not seen it you should.
Rating: - Best Stand-Up Comedy I've Ever Seen!
Robin Williams is the Einstein of comedy. His skits in this performance are incredibly funny. What makes a better stand-up comedian is an actor. Williams really gets into his roles when he performs his skits. If Williams wasn't so good at imitations then I don't know what would be so humorous. His cultural characters are so hilarious, I just about cried. I would have never guessed that Williams would be so vulgar, but sometimes you have to jump outside the boundaries and laugh at what you're missing. Robin Williams is one of the funniest men on the planet, and this film is one of the best displays of his talent. Any Robin Williams fan must aquire this work of art. It is one of the best movies he's done. If you enjoy stand-up comedy then view this titan. Live on Broadway truly raises the benchmark of American comedy.
Rating: - Hilarious
Robin Williams is just hilarious all in his own. But this dvd tops it for me. I was suprized how dirty he could actually get. HAHAHA. This DVD is highly recomended!!!!
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