Too much of everything

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the amazing things about UCB was its use of running gags. The only negative comments I've ever heard were from people who had only seen a couple episodes. Jokes get better with age. Many of the same jokes coincided with other sketches. The brand of comedy surely wasn't for everyone. But the parody of Searching for Bobby Fischer and the cyborgs...OH, the CYBORGS!Definitely a show that must be viewed the whole way through (at least the first season) for full appreciation. Anyone who doesn't find the Ass Pennies episode downright hilarious has no place watching sketch comedy to begin with.

I'm four episodes into season 1 of UCB (I decided to take a chance and purchase the DVD based on all superlative praised being lavished on it by users on this site)and I may have laughed twice so far. It simply isn't that funny. And believe me, I know funny.Relatively speaking, it's funnier than what passes for Saturday Night Live these days. I'd put it roughly on par with Mad TV, In Living Color and the State. But it is not fit to be mentioned in the same breath with Second City TV, Kids in the Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus or that holiest of holies...Mr. Show. For the uninitiated, Mr. Show is THE greatest sketch comedy show in the history of television. Period. SCTV, KITH, MPFC (and vintage SNL) all belong in the sketch comedy hall of fame, but Mr. Show reigns supreme.If my opinion of UCB radically changes over the remaining six episodes on this DVD set, I'll happily post a revised follow-up review. However, I'd say that I find the prospect of this happening unlikely.Again, UCB is far from unwatchable. However it's equally far from the cream of the TV sketch comedy crop.

I loved it originally on comedy central, but I think it is even better sans commercials on the dvd. The fact that it is just the four of them, and that it is so well written, directed and acted, makes me enjoy it all the more. Shows like "KIDS IN THE HALL", "THE STATE", and "SNL" are ok, but seem silly by comparison. I have been turning my friends on to the show and my copy has become a hot commodity amongst them. Kudos to the UCB. I look forward to season 2, which I hope will be released soon.

UCB was sketch comedy at a new level, especially when compared to the banality of the modern bit show. The writers and cast presented skits that other productions would have disregarded as too "sophisticated", or just too unorthodox. In doing so, I feel they explored the limits of sketch comedy and brought us closer to the edge of the surreal, better than any comedy production today. The "Brigade" is bent on causing chaos everywhere they venture to, and they do not disappoint. From Santa forcing a man to take sample of his "Santa Liquor", to an authoritarian school bus driver, crushing a children's revolution with her backside.Now, the dialog was very suggestive and risqué at times, but the writing is non the less very creative. I feel that it is necessary to ignore the sometimes superfluous vulgarity's in order to "get" this show, particularly if you have dismissed it for being too odious. The UCB, in their creativeness and witty verbiage, have heavily diluted the crudeness to which a story is presented. I guess this is comparative to another comedy central production, "South Park", where you just have to ignore or look beyond what offends you, to appreciate what really is being presented to us. Most important the UCB was there to entertain, and cause us laughter, and this they did with alacrity.It ended it's run in 2000, and is still missed 6 years later.