Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Ben Stiller had something going for him here. He had pretty good cast members like Janeane Garafolo, a great actress in comedy movies, Bob Odenkirk, future host of Mr. Show with Bob and David along with David Cross and Andy Dick back when he used to be funny. Now hes just weird and completely unfunny. Ben Stiller was okay himself. I'm not very familiar with John F. O'Donohue's work so I can't really say much about him. I think David Cross should have been a cast member. He was already the top writer on the show. This show should have lasted a little longer then it did. I don't know why it did. It was on Fox though and they don't give anything a chance. I'm surprised it wasn't more like SNL seeing it had two SNL patrons on it (Ben before the show and Janeane after). The show was more like Mr. Show with Bob and David probably being Bob Odenkirk and David Cross both did work on the show. RIP The Ben Stiller Show.

Some really GREAT bits here; one which hasn't made mention yet is "Ask Manson." "How do I get out tomato stains?" "The stain, THAT'S ME!" Or the Gradie's Oats commercials, with a really unstable Wilferd Brimley. COPS, filmed in Ancient Egypt ("You got a permit for that burning bush?") or Salem, Massachusetts. The Few Good Men parody: "You can't handle the truth! Do you want the truth?" "I WANT THE TRUTH!" "GIVE ME A T!" "T!" GIVE ME AN R!" Etc. etc. Followed by an explanation by Ben of why the cast wasn't good enough to play Jack Nicholson. Way sharper writing than SNL has done in a long time. Some dross in there but on the whole first rate sketch comedy, buy or rent if you're a fan of the parties involved.

May contain Spoilers (if you can call them that)The Ben Stiller Show was a very humorous program back in 1992 when Fox canceled it. The show still went on to win an Emmy Award, which is very ironic because of its cancellation. The show was a vehicle for its stars Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk. The DVD includes all of the 12 episodes that made it on to the Fox Network including an unaired 13th episode.The show had guest stars like Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family), David Cassidy (The Partridge Family), Dave Madden (Mr. Kincaid, The Partridge Family), Gary Shandling, Tom and Roseanne Arnold (still married back in 1992), Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Miller (who prophesized the shows cancellation on one of the episodes) and many more.On the infomercial, parody to promote the release of the DVD, which aired Dec. 2, 2003 on Comedy Central Janeane Garofalo, said jokingly `Some of it holds up.' Well a lot of it does hold up such as Skank, The Bruce Springsteen sketches, Tom Cruise: Dress Casual, Oliver Stoneland, Scotty Fantasy, The B-Minus Time Traveler, Manson and many more.There are several skits, which are dated. Those particular skits were funny back then but aren't as funny now especially if you were too young to recall any of that pop culture. Information 411 parody of Rescue 911 with William Shatner, Blue and White Shampoo parody of annoying Head and Shoulders commercials, Amish Studs parody of the Fox dating game show Studs, The Grungies parody of the Monkees (outdated if you have never seen the the Monkees at all) and Rob Morrow from the TV show Northern Exposure as a guest star (younger family member had no clue who he was).Now if you are a big fan of the commentaries that many DVDs have you must be alerted that not all of the Ben Stiller Show episodes have commentaries and many of the ones that do have them do not contain the entire cast, which is a bummer.I would guess that it probably took this long to release the Ben Stiller Show because Warner Bros thought Ben Stiller was a big enough star that people other than the few who actually saw the show would buy the DVD set. Overall, it's still a very humorous show. The quality of the images are far better then the recent worn out looking ones that I viewed on Comedy Central. It doesn't have any kind of social or political messages that you might hear from one of its stars now. The show is just funny comedy to watch.

Sorry, Everything has a place in this world, and this show belongs in the black hole of television shows that should never be aired again. I taped all 13 episodes when they were aired on Comedy Central recently. After watching maybe 4 of them, I seriously contemplated burning the cassette. But instead decided to use it for recording quality television (Southpark, Man Show, Howard Stern Radio Show, Newsradio, Homicide: Life on the Street -- just to name a few).