Saturday Night Live - The Best of Chris Kattan (2004)

There is nothing ordinary about the characters Chris Kattan brought to Saturday Night Live. From 1996-2003 he created a string of hilarious high energy comic creations. You can finally have the Mango along with the best of Mr. Peepers Suel Forrester The DeMarco Brothers and many others. The best of Chris Kattan also features bonus material including outrageous outtakes and scenes that were cut after Dress Rehearsal and never seen again until now.System Requirements:Running Time: 75-80 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 031398163039 Manufacturer No: 16303 Product Description

Are you kidding me?

Honestly, I can't believe this DVD exists. I realize that the fine folks behind saturday night live are trying to squeeze as much money out of the old episodes as they can, but the best of Chris Kattan? That's like selling a dvd on the subject of "most enjoyable colonics" or "best stds to pick up while vacationing in the far east."

At his best, chris kattan was a barely adequate contributer to a few good sketches (that other cast members carried), at his worst he was "someone please gouge my eyes out of my head and bite my ears off so I don't have to be subjected to this lack of funny material" bad. Just for the record, he was at his worst far far FAR more often than he was at his best.

So what's next, SNL brain trust? Best of that worthless fat kid from Good Burger? I sure hope so. February 3, 2007

I can't remember lauging this hard!

When I put this DVD in, I was very depressed. I was sulking over the disaster my life has become. I really didn't expect Chris Kattan to make me laugh at all, nevermind getting me to laugh until I cried and my chest hurt.

I think the skit with JLO was the most boring of all. Sorry, but she can't act, not even when she's playing herself. I'm not real thrilled with the Mango skits in general.

But the ones that really had me rolling? There's one that Kattan plays a washed-up Las Vegas lounge style comedian, complete with out dated polyester suit and hairless scalp. What got me about this skit were the cocktail servers walking in front of the camera. My God! Their expressions of sheer boredom and burnout were incredible! I worked in Vegas for ten years, and man! They really nailed the cocktail servers with that one.

The second skit that I choose to be the best on this DVD, is the one where Kattan is getting set up on a date with "twins." What's so hilarious about it is the fact that the twins turn out to be siamese twins, and "his" twin is, as his character says. "not finished baking yet."

You have to watch the DVD. Even if it can only briefly lift you from the existance you are stuck in, it's worth it for a moments escape. November 14, 2006

"Shot Through the Heart & your to blam this took us 3 night to make..."

This is so funny!
Parts
"Send Him In,Send Him in"
"I'm Dead!"
{Mango Is Here}
"Mango heres and he's here to say get out of here i'm
going downtown/go to a store now let rock it now get out to go.."
So Funny
LOL March 26, 2006

Extremely Funny

I was actually surprised to see how funny this one was. I loved Kattan in several skits i saw him on tv, and as a huge fan of SNL, decided to get it anyway. This Best of is probably one of the best ones I've seen! It's hilariously funny and really enjoyed it. I really reccomend this one! April 6, 2005

A Great Look At Chris's Work On The Show

While not as talented as Will Ferrell or Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan manged to carve his own niche in "Saturday Night Live's" long history and emerge as one of the most popular cast members of the show's stellar 1995-02 period, creating a range of diverse characters ranging from exotic gay male dancer Mango to gibberish talking southerner Suel Forrester.

This dvd includes all of Chris's principle characters, not all of them necessarily in their best moments but nonetheless in very funny sketches. The Mango/J.Lo catfight was definitely worth watchin just for the part where Mango calls her J.Ho, which I thought was hysterical. The DeMarco Brothers sketch with Bon Jovi I thought had some great lines, especially at the end where Jon Bon Jovi tricks Kyle (Chris) and his brother Sean (Chris Parnell) into thinking they want them (they're interpretive dancers) to work for them and telling them to go just when they have their hopes up. "Goth Talk" was hysterical, especially when Will Ferrell came out as Baron Nocturna and read a eulogy for dear departed Azrael Abyss (Kattan).

As a whole, this dvd is a very good retrospective of Chris's seven years as a cast member. However, a with most of the best of's, there were a few sketches that didn't work. They could've chosen a better (not to mention longer) Roxbury Guys sketch, preferrably the one where Jack Nicholson guest starred. Likewise, the Mr. Peepers sketch wasn't too great, either. In my opinion, the best Mr. Peepers sketch was the very first one with Tom Hanks where they go on "The Tonight Show" and wreack havoc on the set. Sketches that didn't work at all were the "Update" bit with Keri Strugg and the Siamese twins sketch with Jennifer Garner at the end. These sketches could have been removed and replaced by either:

The "Oprah" sketch from 1997 where he was Anne Heche (one of only two sketches where Chris said, "Live From New York, It's Saturday Night")
The Bird Family (which one reviewer mentioned) where Julianna Marguilles mouth fed him Apple Pie
The Mango sketch with David Duchovny
On "Hardball" where he played Paul Begalla, who was constantly insulted by Chris Matthews (Darrell Hammond)

Other than these complaints, "The Best Of Chris Kattan" is definitely worth watching. It's not as good as the ones for say, Will Ferrell or Dana Carvey, but it's really funny nonetheless. March 6, 2005

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