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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026359284328
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Running Time: 390 minutes
Sales Rank: 7911
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 05, 2005
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Description:
(HBO Comedy Series) Ten years ago she was TV's 'It' girl. Now It's a different story. For Valerie Cherish, no price is too high to pay for clinging to the television spotlight. Lisa Kudrow stars as Valerie Cherish, a former B-list sitcom star so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called The Comeback.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Audio Commentary
Interviews:Valerie?s DVD Interview
Other:Valerie Backstage at Dancing with the Stars
Amazon.com:
How wickedly ironic--and delicious--that Lisa Kudrow's single season of The Comeback provided the talented actress with enough meat for her to be nominated for an Emmy--after the show was canceled by HBO. Kudrow went for the Anti-Phoebe role after the demise of Friends, demonstrating her spectacular acting chops and range of comic abilities. The show centered on Kudrow's playing an actress, once the ingénue of the moment, trying ever more desperately to get back into the limelight. The vehicle of choice: a reality 'series' that follows Kudrow's Valerie Cherish into scenarios with the deck more than stacked against her. Kudrow's acid delivery and willingness to show Valerie's raw pain, ambition, and obsequiousness make for engrossing and poignant, if squirm-inducing, viewing. Valerie's fond memory of being on Leno: when a fellow guest's monkey unexpectedly relieves himself on her head. 'It was a real water-cooler moment,' she says, desperately spinning. 'And you know, this was Leno's first year. So it was a real important show for him too!' The boxed set includes all 13 episodes and some yummy extras, including a new 'interview' with Valerie Cherish, an appearance by Valerie backstage at Dancing with the Stars, and backstage dish with series creators Kudrow and Michael Patrick King. The series, though short-lived demonstrates why Kudrow is one of our most talented actresses; here's hoping for a succession of more Comebacks. --A.T. Hurley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Comeback: The Complete Series
Well, Entertainment Weekly has never steered me wrong. I was one of the many who did not catch this show when it first aired despite EW begging us to show it some love. The joy of a boxed set (even though 2 discs doesn't actually require a 'box') is that we get second chances to see really amazing shows like this. Lisa Kudrow co-created and plays Valerie Cherish, a 'C-list' celebrity who starred in an "Ally McBeal"-like hit series a few years back and desperately misses the fame and attention that came with that show. In an effort to get back on the magazine covers, she signs on to do a reality show about her 'Comeback' as she gets a new series, painfully bad but semi successful 'Room and Bored'. The insider depiction of the struggles and humiliations of an actress of a certain age desperately trying to hang onto her celebrity status is equal parts hysterically funny and heart-breaking. She may seem shallow, needy and image obsessed but you soon realize that she cares as much about her friends, fans and family as she does about herself and her strength and determination to be a worthy 'star' is, in a weird way, inspiring.
Rating:  - WORST SHOW EVER!!!
Without a doubt one of the worst shows I've ever had the displeasure to watch! Lisa Kudrow's character yaps constantly in a horrific, nasally voice and is so annoying you will spend most of the show fighting back the urge to punch the TV to make the torture stop! No surprise the show was canceled after it's first season.. but very surprising it lasted a whole season. Don't waste your money on this show but more importantly, don't waste your time!
Rating: - Great series, but NOT for the easily embarrassed
What a great show this is! Lisa Kudrow is AMAZING and the casting for all the other parts is perfect!
That being said, you have to be able to deal with the high humiliation factor on this show. I loved the original (british) Office series...The Comeback is almost twice as humiliating/embarrassing imo, and several times I've had to hide my face from the TV due to the utter embarrassment that Lisa's character supplies/aids/witnesses. It's almost too much to bear, so be prepared!
Rating: - The Lisa Kudrow HBO vehicle!
I caught this show by accident on HBO, about fifteen minutes of it. I stood there in front of the television set unable to move or change the channel. A week later, I went out to rent the disc set and became riveted to the show. I had no idea that it was a one season only and that it was from 2005! I thought it was a brand new show. See how much I've been paying attention.
I was never a "Friends" fan, but I do enjoy Lisa Kudrow's work. She has the kind of humor I find very funny, and I can sit back and watch her sarcasm forever. "The Comeback" was more than entertaining, and I found it to be, almost sadly, an incredibly factual depiction of the T.V. network sitcom world, but done in a way that is painstakingly humorous. All the struggling actors, people with dreams of Hollywood and being on TV, should watch this as it's pretty close to what you'll be facing and having to deal with if you get in. It is Hollywood at its worst, and have no fear it's not all this bad, but so many have this false fantasy dreamy pictorial about how great this kind of life is choosing it as a career. They are all blind-sighted by wanting to be famous, instead of the actual work itself, and IT IS work.
It's only 13 episodes at 30 mins each which will hardly kill anyone with interests in the themes of the show.
Lisa Kudrow and "Sex and the City" creator Michael Patrick King both created and wrote a very enjoyable sit back and have a good time show, that for some reason didn't ... Read More
Rating:  - BEST COMEDY EVER!!!
Valerie Cherish is the funniest character ever created, and Lisa Kudrow is pure comedic genius in portraying her. Only gets funnier and funnier every time I watch it.
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