Rowan Atkinson Live!

Absolutely brilliant performance by Atkinson; this is a fantastic DVD. As noted by other reviewers, it has a plethora of skits, including both US and UK sets. I was ecstatic to finally get the Devil sketch on DVD, having not seen it in years. (Had the VHS but lost it to Katrina.)Now, a big knock against A&E, enough to give the release itself zero stars (I wish Amazon allowed for multiple ratings, so we could rate the performance separate from its media presentation). A&E apparently hates the hearing impaired. For years they have released countless shows on disc without any form of closed captioning or subtitles. What's mind boggling about that is, in many cases, the captioning is available to them, but they opt not to use it, instead "cleaning" the footage of such encoding. (In fact, A&E television programs are almost always captioned.) I can't fathom why, but it does result in lost sales.I'm not deaf, but I do have a hearing problem. I overcome it with hearing aids and a good speaker system on my video, but I rarely buy A&E releases; I either rent them or wait for their appearance on TV. But I've bypassed buying scores of A&E releases -- everything from the entire release sets of Poirot to Jeeves & Wooster to Space: 1999 -- for lack of any form of captioning and/or subtitles.FWIW, I have contacted A&E about it; the polite response was that the company did not feel their normal viewership/customer base needed captioning or subtitles to justify the additional cost.Sorry for the rant. 5 stars to Mr. Atkinson and a superb performance; 0 to A&E for another shaft to the hearing impaired.

In August of this year, I did another weeding out of my VHS tapes for things that I had on DVD, to narrow my vast collection of movies. I found my VHS copy of this and put it aside, because it was not easy to find, and was not available on DVD here yet. Ironically, I had just researched it shortly before that. Much to my surprise, only a few days later this was a suggested item on Amazon! At first I thought it was the VHS, and it made me upset that they would tease me like that. But, I was completely shocked to see that it was finally being released on DVD (at the same time, I found out that there was a second Mr Bean movie coming out)! This is a great collection of some of his best work. I'm a big fan of his, and recommend this to any other fans out there that are uncertain of this DVD.

I saw this act a long time ago on a cable TV channel. Then, in 1998, I bought the VHS, which unfortunately didn't bring two of the sketches now included on this DVD, maybe because it was a british version of the show. The text has some alterations too; e.g. "latest release from Kylie Minogue" instead of "Puccini's greatest hits", mentioned in the "The Good Loser" sketch. Of course, there is an improvement in terms of image and sound quality, along with the possibility of going directly to the funnier chapters you might want to show your friends. But, I have to agree with some of the reviewers that this DVD should come with a fair warning, since explicit language and gestures can be found with no shame at all! I love Rowan Atkinson and admires everything he does (well, maybe some of his movie roles could be left out of my list). The man is a comedy genious, either talking or not.

I saw this show for the first on a Saturday night right after Saturday Night Live. The SNL had Pearl Jam as the musical guests and ran a week or two after Kurt Cobain had killed himself. I was so sad over that loss and then this came on. I laughed so hard. I quickly sought it out on video and saw for the first time the sketch about the rollcall at a high school. I couldn't believe that this man was using such vulgar and hilarious language. I have watched the show at least ten times and my affection for it has never diminished. Stand outs: No One Called Jones, With Friends Like These, and Pink Tights And Plenty of Props. I give copies of this show to people to see their reactions. If they don't think this is funny, then I find it hard to believe they would find anything humourous.

I have owned the VHS copy of this performance forever and I am so happy to see it out on DVD at last! Almost every sketch of this performance is pure gold, and two out of the three sketches not shown in the US were great! I didn't even know these existed until I downloaded a copy of this just a few weeks before its release. You will not be disappointed if you pick this up. The language is very mild, though some of the best lines involve the use of curse words. Even if you don't love every sketch, like me, the sketches that are great make this a 5 star collection. Thank you Rowan Atkinson for your comic brilliance.

Having the good sense to catch Rowan on tv when Blackadder was running, i have been a fan ever since. When Mr. Bean was making the rounds on Public tv, i was rather prepared to expect Rowan to win me over again.He did that in abundance, as again, he created another original idea and took it overboard. He won me over again.This intimate and pleasing dvd shows Rowan from 1991, and his approach has not changed. A generous amount of material is displayed with such laid back restraint, i was overcome with laughter by the second skit.I am glad that America appreciates Rowan's talent. He is superb with whatever is handed to him. Am hoping that more like this is released for us fans.

The more I find of Rowan Atkinson, the longer my Amazon.com wish list grows. I was familiar with him as Mr. Bean, America's introduction for those, I imagine, who hadn't ventured far into British comedy. Most recently, I had an endless, tearful laugh over the second (and, yes, sexy!)"Johnny English" at the movie theatre which showed acting chops you mightn't have guessed if you limited the man just to Mr. Bean. That juxtaposition of his acting styles started an all-out love of Rowan Atkinson. "Rowan Atkinson Live!" was simply fun and showed more of the man's versatile comedy talent.

It was really funny, wish it had been longer.

I used to own this show on cassette and vhs one of the funniest live shows of all time I still quote this today and would love to see it released on dvd in the near future absolute comedy genius featuring Rowan Atkinson and an unknown at the time Angus Deaton Quality through and through

Wie funktioniert Komik? Hier die Antwort.(leider nur in klarem Englisch und eingebrannten NL Untertiteln, sollte jemand danach fragen.)Als Allgemeinwissen für angehende Drehbuchautoren unentbehrlich. :)

Fantastic - Classic Rowan Atkinson standup - get it, you'll laugh every time you watch it!

Rowan Atkinson is so talented! I don't know why comedians resort to profanity. He is hilarious without using the F-word.He also blasphemed Jesus Christ which may amuse many but puts many off. Not keeping this.