World Famous Comics: The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two
The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two
Starring: Sahan Arzruni, Ronald Borge, Marylyn Mulvey, Victor Borge Directed By: Sahan Arzruni Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Gmg Records Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 20, 1999 Running Time: 90 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Amazon.com: 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
Best of Victor Borge Act one and two Very intertaining. I got this video to pass Victor Borge down to my grandkids--- they had never heard of him but enjoyed him immensely.
love borge, but not this dvd I really like Victor Borge, but for a DVD this had really bad video quality. Basically VHS quality, and it was as if they transferred that straight to DVD. Also, it was not at all long enough for a $20 price. This is basically only one of his performances, not a collection of them.
phonetically the best! As a child I enjoyed an LP by Victor Borge, and now as an adult have thoroughly enjoyed seeing the DVD of Mr Borge. My children, who love classical music, found him completely entertaining and loved the Soprano. The highlights for all being the Phonetic Punctuation, Inflationary Language and the piano duet. Highly recommended.
Great Gift Idea I bought this dvd for my husband for Father's Day. He loves it!! I highly recommend it for the humorous music lover in your life.
Good clean fun!!! Hard to find these days!!! Love the comedy and the music of Victor Borge. It's fun to watch people that see him for the first time and see the laughter that he creates. It is so refreshing to see comedy that does not enclude a four letter word in every sentence!!
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