I recently saw The Best of Jimmy Fallon from his days on Saturday Night Live. It is in my opinion one the best Best Ofs I have ever seen. It includes a lot of Jimmy's finest moments. There are lot of his impersonations, which are absolutely hilarious to watch. Some of his best material is on this DVD, and I recommend it to any Fallon fan and to any Saturday Night Live fan. It makes a great addition to any DVD collection. I haven't known of Jimmy for long, but I'm glad I've found him. Whatever he's been in, he's managed to make me laugh out loud every time. And this DVD is no exception. There are so many great skits on this DVD, from his time on Weekend Update, to the many characters he created and the celebrities he portrayed. An easy 10 out 10!
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prue_4155 November 2005
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heather_elmes18 September 2006I waited 7 suspenseful weeks for this DVD to arrive on my shores, and I can honestly say it was worth every minute! I haven't seen much of SNL so I have nothing to compare this 'Best of' with, but I know Jimmy deserves it. All the skits on this DVD are gold (except for The Leatherman because it features Britney Spears). My favourites are Weekend Update, The Barry Gibb Show, Z105, Cork Soakers and Jimmy's audition for SNL, which is included in the 'extras'. I felt like the biggest dork; sitting by myself laughing my head off. Jimmy is known for his great impressions - I'd heard his parodies before but this was the first time I'd seen his impressions. They're AMAZING! I bet my bottom dollar if you look away and just listen to his voice or hit the mute button and just watch him you'd swear it's Adam Sandler or Jerry Sienfeld. Jimmy Fallon is awesome. This DVD is on the top of my stack now.
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wrdmegle30 April 2006Jimmy Fallon is quite possibly the worst player on Saturday Night Live to "make it". Let's look at the sketches on this collection and see why, remember, his sketches have a common trend. 1. Mick and Fallon backstage: Jagger carries the sketch as fallon plays himself.
2. Jeopardy: Wow, are we really thinking Fallon is the best thing about this sketch? He's playing his apparent idol Adam Sandler and isn't good at it. Meanwhile, Ben Stiller as Tom Cruse and the rock that is Will Ferrell appears as Trebec again. Let's not forget Sean Connery. This is the strongest on the disc, but its not a "Fallon sketch".
3. Jarrett's Room: Fallon plays a college kid who is a druggie and a slacker. Funny bits include the role of Horatio Sanz and Fallon, not being funny, plays the straight guy.
4. Barry Gibb Talk Show: Let's be honest, who even remembered this sketch until it appeared on the Best of Jimmy Fallon? The answer is, no one. Fallon does a horrible accent of Barry Gibb and Justin Timberlake plays his brother. Highlights include Timberlake ruining the sketch by laughing instead of Fallon and a contest while they are singing to distract the viewer more between Timberlake and Fallon. Remember, this is the first sketch after the cold opening and should be the strongest. Sadly, it probably is.
5. Fallon doing impressions. Most of these involve no improvisation by Fallon and are weak. His Barry Gibb impression looks dead on by comparison.
6. Repetitive Fallon fare with poor impersonations and Fallon laughing on camera. I remember watching this one when it first came on and cursing Fallon for screwing up yet another sketch, but it probably didn't have a chance in the first place. I do remember thinking why Lorne doesn't tell Fallon to act like a professional or at least slap him and say "Be a man!".
7. Sully and Denise. I actually liked these skits, but not this one. I always thought Rachel was the best of the two on it though. This one was more reliant on Affleck however and didn't work.
8. Weekend update bits. Wow, all he had to do was read a teleprompter. Granted, there wasn't much to work with, but he didn't even try.
9. Song parodies. I mean, an Adam Sandler impression. Lorne thought Fallon would be a great replacement for Sandler. Unfortunately, he had not an ounce of originality in his body and tried to do the exact same thing. Of course, Fallon even tried an album that was even worse than his sketches.
10. Cork Soakers. Hands down the best sketch on the disk. However, it wasn't a Fallon sketch, it was more of an effort by all the players (like Jeopardy!) and relied more heavily on Sanz than Fallon. Fallon of course cracks himself up again. Great performance by Parnell as well. I'll allow that Fallon was good on this sketch, when he wasn't laughing it up.
11. Holiday singers: Fallon appears on yet another sketch dominated by Sanz. I understand the two may work really well together, but Sanz must have a sore back from carrying Fallon so much.
12. Leatherman. Brittany Spears appears. Enough said.
12. More singing! How cute, its too bad its horrible and embarrassing.
Okay, that's enough. There's nothing else worth mentioning. I liked the skit where he played the office computer expert. There's only one problem, its not on this collection. There's too much singing on here and I guess that's what he was known for. Hopefully, his career is over, but I think we'll have to see more Fallon before people see that he's talentless. -
laura_caygill5 December 2006This DVD is definitely the best Saturday Night Live DVD available! Jimmy Fallon (despite what many others say) is hilariously funny and completely original! All the skits on this DVD are laugh-out-loud hilarious, it comes with excellent special features (including Jimmy's original SNL audition!!) and it makes you wonder every time how people can not find Jimmy Fallon funny!! This DVD contains the best of Weekend Update, Jimmy's best impersonations and many other of Jimmy's characters. Skits you should look out for is the hilarious Barry Gibb Talk Show and the Cork Soakers ;) Jimmy Fallon is a comic genius! Honestly, this DVD is excellent!!!!! 10/10 for sure!!!!!
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elliot_gordon115 January 2014I don't understand any of you people who might actually like Jimmy Fallon and I never will. I think I worded that wrong because I do understand liking Jimmy Fallon, he seems like a very decent human being and a nice friendly guy. I would love to have him come over for beers sometime. But I hate watching him on TV because he has no comedy talent! The entire disc and remember this is supposed to be the best of all of his stuff over several years, is him doing really hellish poor impressions. Pretty much every sketch just as you would expect he ends up laughing at himself or other people which is just maddening. Even when he's doing something all alone and it's 100% not funny he starts laughing. Why does this guy get a best of disc? The rest of the sketches are all other, stronger actors and comedians carrying him through the scenes. I'm not exaggerating, this guy is terrible and talentless. Not sure who but he must have naked pictures of somebody to have gotten on TV and how he is still on there is also a huge mystery, his late night show is the worst ever. I sure hope those nude pictures aren't of Lorne Michaels. Shudder. I give 2 out of 10 because the other people give some strong performances. Jeopardy is great as always. Some Weekend Update bits are also decent.