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I love Affleck's intro to one of the deleted scenes on Amy, where he goes on about ripping off lines for his own movies. He ends up doing a Charlie Sheen impression that kills me every time.

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Mike Nelson's commentaries from before he started doing RiffTrax are pretty funny and are real commentaries for the most part, not riffing.

He did them for the Legend Films releases of:

Reefer Madness
Night of the Living Dead
Carnival of Souls
The House on Haunted Hill
Plan 9 From Outer Space

(not sure if these are others besides these)

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Last night, we watched Wedding Crashers with the Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson commentary track. I was largely disappointed. They didn't really share any particularly interesting insight, and seemed disinterested at parts. The highlight might have been the complete absurdity about a third into the film, when Wilson asks if Vaughn caught any NFL games earlier that day and they get sidetracked by that for a minute or two. It's so random that it reminded me of how Skip Caray would lose interest in Braves games by the fourth inning and start discussing the movie he watched on the hotel TV the night before.

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'Night' I thought was only slightly amusing. Not his best.

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I remember Samuel L. Jackson's short commentary for Deep Blue Sea being very funny as he makes fun of how ridiculous the movie is. (Unfortunately, his commentary ended with his character's death as I recall.)

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Zack and Miri Make a.. oh wait, never mind.

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I just heard the 'Rutt and Tuke' (Rick Moranis / Dave Thomas) commentary for Brother Bear - oh my god, it's funny as sin.

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Kevin Smith does great commentaries.

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Evil Dead II (Raimi/Campbell/Spiegel/Nicotero)
Mallrats (Smith/Mosier/Affleck/Lee/Mewes/Pereira)
Re-Animator (Combs/Abbott/Crampton/Sampson/Yuzna)
Shaun of the Dead (Wright/Pegg and Pegg/Frost/Ashfield/Davis/Moran)
UHF (Yankovic/Levey)

Any Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker commentary, any Kevin Smith commentary (I point out Mallrats anyway because it's probably one of the best DVD commentaries ever recorded), and most Pixar commentaries are also quite funny. As far as shows go, "Futurama" commentaries are always good, and while I haven't gotten past the first season, the commentaries I listened to from "Home Movies" were a riot (especially Jon Benjamin).

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If you're interested in a truly amusing/entertaining track for a classic film, listen in on Tom Weaver's for THE WOLFMAN. I wound up on the floor a bit out of breath from laughing at his telescope comment early in the film. The guy crams so much information into his commentaries that it's amazing he has time to include any humor, but he does. He's actually somewhat irreverent, but you know he loves the movie. He also did somewhat less hilarious tracks for IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and THE CREATURE series, plus a bunch of others.

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Joe Bob Briggs' commentary for JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER

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What's even better, IMO, is the commentary they do for From Beyond (Gordon/Yuzna/Combs/Crampton). You'll never hear "like a gingerbread man!" the same way again.

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Anchorman

If you love absurd humor, non sequiturs, and general whaaaaaaaaaa? than this is your commentary.


I love it.


I love it so much.


EDIT: Why did I type that?!?!

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I've recently uncovered a new treasure:
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Who does the commentary?

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Luke Y. Thompson and one slightly less sane pro critic.

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The Brian Helgeland & Paul Bettany commentary for A Knight's Tale
pretty much any Tom Baker or Peter Davidson commentary on the Dr. Who dvds

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Anything with Kevin Smith.

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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms!

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What they said.
Now that I think more about it, I dont really listen to too many commentaries. Every once in a while I will listen to one, but I have lsitened to all of the commentaries on the Kevin Smith discs.

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I just listened to the commentary on the R2 Prince of Darkness DVD with John Carpenter and Peter Jason. It's hilarious because Peter keeps asking John about minor details concerning the story and script and John starts getting a little irritated because they seem so inconsequential to him. Jason is a funny guy.

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^ the Ralph Bakshi commentary is like that for 'Fire and Ice' moderated by Lance Laspina, who directed the Frazetta doc on the second disc of the DVD special edition, he keeps asking him questions that Bakshi you can tell is getting slightly annoyed over. Granted it's a PG movie, the commentary at the very end you can tell Bakshi is ready to end it by interjecting a couple of f-bombs.

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Joyride with Steve Zahn. That dude is so funny on the commentary, and the scene where they have to walk in the restaurant naked always gets a laugh.

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I'll have to listen to that one soon. I love awkward commentaries like that.

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it seems that Bakshi in general has a stick up his butt anyway - there's a snippet of him on the 'Remeber the Alamo' (42 St. Forever Vol. 5 supplement] - where he just loses it during an onstage interview at the theatre.