Some more positive reviews of ‘The Best Of The Colbert Report’ DVD.

UltimateDisney.com has posted an indepth review of “The Best of “The Colbert Report” DVD and is quite positive about it. If you wanted to know what’s on this DVD, this review has it all detailed.

Regarding the issue of bonus material:

BONUS FEATURES, MENUS, PACKAGING and DESIGN

There are no bonus features included, but for several reasons, this is one of the most forgivable instances of an extras-less DVD. For one thing, there’s three hours of content, so we’re already pretty much filled to capacity. For another, the studio could have been cheesy and designated some of the segments as bonus features with no effect on the disc’s composition. (In fact, one brief part of the featured presentation is called “a deleted scene” without special distinction.) In addition, as a compilation of a program intended chiefly for TV, it’s not like this DVD was necessarily long in planning and posed opportunities for bonus footage.

I can only imagine how little free time Colbert has, as someone who produces four new current half-hour episodes a week. A book and presidential campaign are doubtlessly a better use of it than filming DVD bonuses, which might very well have felt like a sales gimmick as content not shown on TV sometimes does. In the end, while a behind-the-scenes look at “Colbert Report” production would be interesting (and slightly illusion-shattering), I still think more people would prefer to watch segments from the show than that, which justifies the disc space going to it.

And the final opinion:

It’s tricky figuring how best to handle the DVD release of a show that has generated over 300 episodes in two years, especially when the show deals largely with politics and current event issues. Nevertheless, The Best of The Colbert Report gets it right, with three hours of varied, consistently entertaining programming that lends itself to multiple viewings and whim-based sampling. Delivering lots of content for a very reasonable price (especially considering the $1.99 iTunes charges for less uniformly excellent full episodes), the disc earns a strong recommendation for fans of Colbert and those lacking access who are interested in seeing the show.

And Mommy Brain explains why even a Republican might / should like it:

Having said that Colbert is willing to ridicule the Dems when they are asking for it, I must admit that this DVD compilation pretty much targets the Republican Party, and the man Stephen Colbert modelled [sic] his program after, Bill O’Reilly. And, frankly, I find a lot of it very funny. Some of it is too one-sided, but sadly, a lot of it has the ring of truth to it. I can no longer listen to Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly because they are unwilling to admit or discuss the fact that Republicans can and do make mistakes, and that they can and do move outside of the bounds of ethics. (Most politicans [sic] do, unfortunately.) That stubborn pride is what makes them easy targets for someone like Stephen Colbert.

So, I guess my bottom line is this: If you like political satire, and you aren’t so married to the Republican party that you can’t see when they are wrong, you would find this DVD funny. If you don’t like political satire, or you think that Republicans shouldn’t be the target of satire and ridicule, I’d avoid it.