The Best and Second Best of the D Generarion

THE BEST AND SECOND BEST OF THE D GENERATION

Distributor: Roadshow
Certificate: M15+ | 181 Minutes
Cast: Santo Cilauro, Marg Downey, John Harrison, Rob Sitch, Magda Szubanski, Michael Molloy, Jane Turner

With it's stellar line up of future major stars the D-Generation is like a who's who of Australian comedy, featuring as it does the likes of Santo Cilauro, Marg Downey, John Harrison, Rob Sitch, Magda Szubanski, Michael Molloy and Jane Turner (who of course went on to such shows as The Late Show, Fast Forward, Kath and Kim and latterly the big screen with movies like Crackerjack.

Starting in 1986 and running for much of the 80's the show (which was retitled the D-Generation Goes Commercial after switching from the ABC to Channel 7) is basically a series of quick fire sketches which luckily are generally very funny.

Highlights include Dag City, The Tense Family, The Kerrigan Brothers, The Dubbo Olympics, Yellow Thing With Hinges, Stranded Dogs on the Beach and the very clever Discoverers sketch, best of all though is the classic Homicide send up Degenocide (classic scenes of Homicide are revoiced and intercut with funny newer bits), the Late Show would carry on this theme with their now legendary Bluey send up Bargearse.

Some of the material is quite near the knuckle (still funny though) and it's fun seeing Jane Turner trying out some early Kathism's in some of the sketches.

The DVD is broken up into three section, The Best of the D-Generation, D-Genocide (with most of the Homicide material) and the half hour The Bottom Drawer which throws in a ragbag of off cuts and some never seen before material.

A very funny release and luckily the gang never focused too much on topical material so the sketches haven't dated.
Nicely nostalgic!