SNL Best of DVDs

NBC Enterprises and Lion’s Gate Home Entertainment are releasing three separate Saturday Night Live: Best Of DVD titles featuring Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, and Adam Sandler on Tuesday, August 12, 2003. The three individual DVD titles include special features ranging from audition videos, to outtakes to photo galleries of the three former SNL stars. Each title, produced by Broadway Video and NBC, will be available in stores and at shopnbc.com on Tuesday, August 12. ($19.99 each)

“Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, and Adam Sandler are three great examples of the comedic legacy of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ says Kim Niemi, Senior Vice President Video, Music, & Product Development, NBC Enterprises. “The DVD’s, highlighted with digitally re-mastered performances, will allow fans to relive their favorite classic SNL moments with friends and family.”

“It is a special opportunity to launch our new line look of ‘Saturday Night Live’ with such eagerly anticipated debuts such as The Best of Will Ferrell and The Best of Molly Shannon as well as the remastered The Best of Adam Sandler,” stated Peter Block, President of Home Video, Acquisitions and New Media for Lions Gate Entertainment. “Coupled with our upcoming slate of both new and improved releases including The Best of Chris Farley, Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, they make a great start to the definitive and comprehensive SNL collection.”

SNL: The Best of Will Ferrell offers fans of Ferrell’s a full assortment of his hilarious SNL characters, with roles as different as Craig the Cheerleader to George W. Bush. The disc includes the best of Celebrity Jeopardy, Bobbi and Marti Culp, Morning Latte and Robert Goulet—along with plenty of yelling, near nudity and more cowbell. Plus there is plenty of extra material, including never seen before scenes cut after dress rehearsal, audition video, a photo gallery, outtakes and some of his best TV appearances.

SNL: The Best of Molly Shannon features the former SNL star in her most memorable roles, including Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, Sally O’Malley, Joyologist Helen Madden, Courtney Love and much more. Special features include some never seen before scenes that were cut after SNL dress rehearsals, TV appearances, audition video and outtakes.

SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler features the actor/comedian playing all of his best SNL characters, from Opera Man to Cajun Man, Canteen Boy to the Gap Girl and much more. It also includes guests Alec Baldwin, David Duchovny, Courtney Cox, Shannen Dogherty, Kirstie Alley, Michael Keaton and SNL regulars Chris Farley, David Spade and Rob Schneider. This digitally re-mastered DVD also features an all-new Sandler photo gallery.

Over the last 28 years, “SNL” has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as “The New York Times” noted on the occasion of the show’s Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999: “In defiance of both time and show business convention, “SNL” [is] still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture.” At the close of the century, “Saturday Night Live” placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.