Rocco Urbisci Movies
- 1996
- Add George Carlin: Back in Town - Live at the Beacon Theatre NYC to QueueAdd George Carlin: Back in Town - Live at the Beacon Theatre NYC to top of Queue
This video offers viewers a taste of comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. Filmed live in New York City, Carlin offers viewers a wide range of his unique comedy style, from his observational humor to his often cutting remarks about society and government. Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for younger viewers. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1996
- Add George Carlin: George's Best Stuff to QueueAdd George Carlin: George's Best Stuff to top of Queue
This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. In this particular tape, Carlin performs some of his best-loved routines including "A Place for My Stuff," "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television," and "Baseball and Football." Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for young viewers. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1994
A middle-aged woman comes into her own in this Spanish comedy. Carmen liked to have affairs. After one typically hot night playing poker and messing around with her male friends, she returns home in the morning to face her husband's jealous rage which causes him to die of a massive coronary. This leaves the newly widowed Carmen in a transitional state. On one hand, she misses her husband and her former life, on the other, she is now seen as available by her boss and co-workers at the newspaper she works at. When her daughter, Marta, a ballet student in Paris, announces her pregnancy, Carmens' life becomes even more complex. After coping with sexual harassment and several lousy dates, Carmen finds her dreamboat, a dashing businessman who appreciates her for herself. She also comes to look forward to becoming a grandmother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmen Maura, Antonio Resines, (more)
- 1993
Jamie Foxx: Straight From the Foxxhole was the future Best Actor Oscar winner's first solo comedy special. The program showcases his various talents including his knack for celebrity impersonations and his singing ability, which is used to showcase material from an album he had out at that time titled Peep This. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jamie Foxx
This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. In this particular tape, Carlin regales an audience with his observational humor. Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for young viewers. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1992
- Add George Carlin: Jammin' in New York to QueueAdd George Carlin: Jammin' in New York to top of Queue
This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. This tape is of a performance in New York City. Included are his takes on government and society in general. Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for young viewers. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1988
- Add George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head to QueueAdd George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head to top of Queue
This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. In this particular tape, Carlin performs a variety of his classic routines on stage. Also included is a short film with co-star Vic Tayback. Intended for adult audiences, parents will likely find that the language and content of this video make it inappropriate for young viewers. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide
- 1986
- R
- Add Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling to QueueAdd Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling to top of Queue
Popular African-American comedian Jo Jo Dancer is severely burned while free-basing cocaine. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. While hovering between life and death, Dancer flashes back to his childhood, when he grew up in a brothel. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. Dancer decides to become a comic, but has a great many difficulties rising to stardom until he begins making scatological comments about race relations. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. As he rises to fame, Jo Jo has problems controlling his drug addiction and womanizing. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists.....Well, you've caught on by now. If one were able to excise the excruciatingly boring "introspection" scene, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling would stand as an excellent testimonial to Richard Pryor's cutting-edge comic brilliance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, (more)
- 1984
Less formally known as Garry Shandling Alone in Vegas, this 60-minute video is 100% Shandling, which is either good or bad news depending upon who's watching. Shandling's "average guy stuck in the farce called life" persona works quite well within the framework of the tape. Casual fans, however, might prefer the Johnny Carson-baiting Shandling of the much-later cable series It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show. Like those two projects, Alone in Las Vegas began as a Showtime cable special--Shandling's first, in fact. This 1984 effort was directed by William Dear, who also helmed Mike Nesmith's Elephant Parts, which begat the series Television Parts--which in turn begat the It's Garry Shandling's Show comedy sketch that put Shandling on the map. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love. This version was designed as a pilot for a TV series that never materialized. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
