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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 9218
Released: October 11, 2005 |
| Our Price: $11.48 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Featuring two of her finest stand-up comedy shows, The Ellen DeGeneres Collection highlights over two hours of one of today's brightest and most celebrated comedians. Bold, hilarious and always entertaining, Ellen shines in both "The Beginning" and "Here and Now" available now in a 2-disc set.
Ellen DeGeneres - The Beginning / Here and Now Reviews:
I can watch over and over and over and LAUGH each time 
2009-06-02 - I love these stand up routines. They are thought provoking, funny, serious, intelligent. I have watched them many times and have showed them to many friends. Ellen is a GREAT comedian and her material is original. With this set you are getting two of her stand up routines--well worth the money. And, if you ever feel down, just pop one in and laugh uncontrollably.
Ellen Degeneres
2009-04-11 - These tapes are so funny and entertaining. I laughed so hard and I ended up buying a set for my sister. Worth it.
This woman is brilliant.
2009-03-24 - I don't see how anyone could not love Ellen DeGeneres. The woman is brilliant. I just love how witty she is & enjoy her clever ability to use every day situations that we all have shared experience in to help us enjoy the irony in life. I love her. :)
Excellent Performances
2009-02-16 - I have always loved Ellen. These CDs allow you to enjoy her as a stand up act. Some of her best work.
What a disappointment! 
2008-12-21 - Her show was aired tonight as part of a series of the best stand up comedians of our time and I made sure I was around to see this. A big fan of her persona and on most issues in line with her views in a broader sense I even insisted my family stayed up to watch her 'live'.
I am perplexed to see the couple of reviews already as I found it absolutely disappointing. It seems from her show and the reviews it was more a question of validating her 'coming out' rather than meant as comedy. Sure she made a few nice anecdotes mostly about the obvious frustrations of our time but she did not manage to make any of us do more than smile a couple of times - not once did we laugh out loud. I have full and total respect for her bravery in coming out in a country so divided over an issue we don't even consider an issue in Europe but I fail to see why people should pay to go to a show or buy a DVD because of that... send her a donation or a letter of admiration if you want to support her.....
Unless the show erroneously was labeled stand-up comedy and it is meant as a tribute to Ellen or her sexuality I totally miss the point of this show and cannot recommend it to anyone looking for a decent laugh.
I certainly will need to build credibility again before anyone will listen to my recommendations on stand-up comedy again!
