The Best of Victor Borge

Product Details

Format : Classical, NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 9781892562159
Product Group : Video
Release Date : 1999-09-28
Studio : Morningstar Ent.
UPC : 744433000229

ASIN : 1892562154

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Editorial Reviews

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Victor Borge was a master at combining two seemingly disparate elements: comedy and classical music. While the Dane's dapper dignity fit the image of "longhair" music, Borge undercut it with broad physical comedy, clever spoofs, and off-the-cuff wit. A pioneer in the field of live comedy recordings, Borge is nevertheless best appreciated on video, and The Best of Victor Borge Acts One and Two captures a 90-minute concert that includes many of his most famous routines. He chides late-arriving members of the Minneapolis audience ("I come from Copenhagen and was here before you!"), falls off the piano bench, and reads his sheet music upside down. There are a few unwitting guests: a stagehand drafted to turn Borge's pages, soprano Marylyn Mulvey who tries to sing a Verdi aria through Borge's teasing and scolding, and Sahan Arzruni as he and Borge play a two-piano Hungarian rhapsody on a single piano by climbing over and around each other. Borge also presents an opera "written by Mozart but credited to Salieri" ("so you can imagine what kind of opera it is") and proves that he's not merely a clown by skillfully performing a set of waltzes and lullabies. In addition, two of his best-loved sketches are nonmusical: Inflationary Language, in which numbers in language, like the economy, are increased ("I'll go back to Elevenessee.... Three-dleoo."), and Phonetic Punctuation, in which a period is read aloud to sound like fft and an exclamation point fsss fft. Like Anna Russell and PDQ Bach, Victor Borge helped make classical music accessible to a wide audience by showing that it could be laugh-out-loud funny. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews

Best Musical Comedy My Family Has Ever Seen (2004-06-15)

What can I say? We laughed until we cried the first time we saw it, but the humor never grows old. It gets better each time.

The Best of Victor Borge (2004-01-19)

Very good, but I would not say it is the Best of Victor Borge". I recall funnier moments. Also, the captured episodes are a little on the redundant side. But all in all it is very good.

Also, this DVD is 100% identical to "Victor Borge Act One and Two". Very disappointing if you are anticipating a new set of episodes - which one would when ordering a DVD by a new name.

Very Funny and some great music too! (2003-05-10)

This man is a gem. His comic genius cannot be matched and his ability to play the piano and still be funny is unbelieveable. Just sit down for an evening of great music and laugh your cares away. Well for a few hours at least.

Classic Victor Borge Style (2003-04-30)

What more can I say? If you haven't heard of or watched his routine, you need to. It's clean, quick-witted and very entertaining. If you've seen it once, it's the same routine he does everywhere, but that's not to say it isn't worth watching more than once.

Amazingly funny (2003-04-13)

This movie was one of the best I have ever seen. Victor Borge is hillarious, and very talented. I find my self and my friend quoting parts of the movie- because it's so funny! All I need to say is- "Negi Negi" and we're laughing histerically.

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