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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 27102
Released: July 23, 2009 |
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Editorial Review:
Having been screwed out of “Married ... with Children” residuals by his convalescent manager, David “Bud Bundy” Faustino is now a pathetic, washed-up porn store proprietor. Star-ving follows his attempt at regaining stardom. Bringing along his old buddy, Corin Nemec (“Parker Lewis Can’t Lose”), Faustino gets attacked by an angry black mob, reunites with his “Married ... with Children” cast members, kidnaps Alan Thicke, steals money from Coolio, and kills Gilbert Gottfried’s 34-year-old mentally challenged son - all to get back into the Hollywood game. Amazing guest appearances include his “Married ... with Children” family - Christina Applegate, Ed O’Neill and Katey Sagal - as well as Gilbert Gottfried, Ed Asner, Alan Thicke, Tracey Gold, Jeremy Miller, Seth Green, Kato Kaelin, rapper Coolio and even porn star legend, Ron Jeremy!
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Description of Star-ving: The Complete First Season:
Rude, crude, and compulsively watchable, web series Star-ving pushes the degradations of celebrity life to truly vile depths. David Faustino, the former Bud Bundy on that long-lived festival of crass Married...with Children, plays David Faustino, washed-up child star, who is now broke and desperate for attention, money, and sex. To achieve these ends, David and his sidekick, Corin Nemec (played by Corin Nemec, formerly of Parker Lewis Can't Lose), will beg, rob, kidnap, and appear in scatalogical snuff films. In the 12 episodes of the first season (each between five and nine minutes long), they accidentally kill the mentally challenged son of foghorn comic Gilbert Gottfried, get threatened with sexual assault in jail by former OJ Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin, get maced by Tracey Gold (former star of Growing Pains), and agree to costar in a sitcom with Osama Bin Laden. Star-ving wipes away any distinction between satire and reality. Both stars, depicting actors who would debase themselves for a hint of their former success, appear naked and feces-smeared in multiple episodes. The result is impressively grotesque and, while not always funny in the usual sense, has the hypnotic appeal of fearlessness (or utter cluelessness). Some of the best bits feature guest appearances by Faustino's former castmates and other post-fame celebrities like Coolio, Alan Thicke, and Ed Asner. In one of the best episodes, Seth Green gets cast to replace Faustino in the fictional movie version of Married...with Children. --Bret Fetzer
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Star-ving: The Complete First Season Reviews:
By Episode 2 I was hooked... 
2009-10-21 - When I first saw this series on the web it hooked me with its fast-paced, politically incorrect hilarity. David Faustino and Corin Nemec's clever satire of their lives post teen-stardom is probably the funniest series I've seen since Chapelle's Show went off the air. I've already bought multiple copies of the DVD for myself and friends and plan to buy even more as X-mas gifts this year.
Dave and Corin are joined by a motley crew of guest stars including Dave's Married With Children cast members, Gilbert Gottfried, Coolio, Ed Asner, Alan Thicke and Jeremy Miller of Growing Pains as well as Kato Kaelin ("America's Houseguest") in my favorite episode (Literally... Starving).
There are twelve 8-10 minute episodes in the series with about half being "pee your pants" funny start-to-finish. The outtakes from the Just One Drink episode alone made the DVD worth buying.
Fair warning, Star-ving is awesomely crude is guaranteed to offend the churchy, conservative, or racially-sensitive. No topic is sacred as Star-ving pokes fun at Osama Bin Laden, the mentally challenged, hillbilly meth labs and nazi porn movies.
finally there's proof that you have to take the bitter with the sour
2009-08-08 - David Faustino and Corin Nemec star in this absolutely hilarious set of episodes that make up the first season of Star-ving. The episodes may be short but make no mistake about it--this is so funny you'll be laughing you're a** off from the very first minute and all the way through! The acting and casting are great; and the episodes are done in such a way that the laughs keep coming so fast so I could never got bored; in fact I wish there was more--much more--material on this disc! It was even great to view it the second time around just after I finished watching it the first time!
There's a lot of episodes on this DVD; they last anywhere from roughly five minutes to about eight or nine minutes. David Faustino does a great job of acting so well; comedy is truly his calling as he plays an actor whose career is on the skids, to say the least. In addition, Corin Nemec does every bit as well as David's loser, has-been friend with a Hollywood career that's also gone bust. Together David and Corin get themselves into all sorts of troublesome situations that are invariably over the top; and there are plenty of guest star appearances to make things even more interesting. Guest stars include the principle cast of Married With Children; Alan Thicke; Ed Asner; Coolio; Kato Kaelin (yes, that Kato Kaelin); Gilbert Gottfried--and others!
My favorite episodes are the ones that include cast members of Married With Children; "Straight Outta Compton;" "Starving...Literally;" Going OJ" and "Stealing Alan Thicke." The other episodes are also quite good.
The bonuses we get are deleted and extended scenes with an optional commentary.
Overall, Star-ving: The Complete First Season features David Faustino at his usual best and Corin Nemec is great as David's buddy and sidekick. Fans of Married With Children will enjoy this immensely; and people who like good comedy will love this, too. A few of the jokes are crude but actually most of the humor is much better than I expected it to be. I hope a major network picks this up to be a weekly sitcom that can fit into a half-hour time slot; David, Corin and the rest certainly deserve it!
not for the faint of heart (or funny bone)
2009-08-06 - If you like good, clean fun, this is NOT the show for you. But if you like edgy, dark, dirty, stinky sh&%...this is for you! I watched the entire first season in one night and nearly peed my pants laughing. Watching Ed O'Neill drop the f-bomb, Kato in the dumpster, "we can't have one beer? What kind of p*ssies are we?", German scheize videos, and Corin Nemec. It is SO freaking hilarious what depths David Faustino has sunk to. I'm glad he can laugh at himself, I am laughing with him.
Hysterical
2009-07-30 - This series is hysterical! I couldn't help but finding myself laughing. David is a riot and you should definitely pick this up.. Not for the kiddies though....
Naughty monkeys that they are!
Great show!
Genuinely hilarious. I nearly wet myself.
2009-07-29 - The minute I witnessed a sexy, lycra-clad woman bend over and let one rip in Dave's face I was hooked. Totally my sense of humour. I only hope he does loads more. Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!
