Mjeteconer Just perfect...

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

treykrumel A runner up of saturday night live the comedy use to be good but now its staring to die down. its a shame because i actually still like this show and i want it to improve. in future i will expect more from this show.

tobisteiner62 NOTE: Though I checked the "Contains Spoiler" box, I have no intention of posting said spoilers, nor indeed any clear idea what would constitute a spoiler on a program of this sort. Call it a precaution...or insurance. ;-)To the posters who claim that AL was too Seattle-centric to appeal to non-Washingtonians, I (Tobi) wish to state that my sister and I are both native-born Californians who have never set foot in Washington State, let alone in Seattle, and we LOOOOVE this show! I saw some episodes on Comedy Central, back when that network still showed really funny stuff much of the time, but when my sister sent me some VHS tapes of AL she had painstakingly made from her local cable channel, I played those suckers to *death*. Since I had two little boys back then (mid-'90's), my husband and I were pretty selective as to what we watched in their presence (I would fast-forward past "Worst Girlfriend in the World" for example), but you can bet we all got a huge charge out of such hilarious fare as "High-Fivin' White Guys", "D.J. Waiter", "Speedwalker", "Mind Your Manners With Billy Kwan/Quan" and "The Lame List"--imagine if you will a six-year-old solemnly quoting "Mired in a sweaty mass of lameness", while his two-year old brother was hair-tossing and chanting "Yame! Yame! Yame!" (Pardon the digression, but I feel I should point out that their father and I reared our boys on the Masters of Comedy: e.g., Stan Freberg, Spike Jones, early Bill Cosby and George Carlin, Jay Ward & Company... the finest of the classics.) It's a crying shame that while SNL continues its run unabated, and automatically gets archived on DVD, we fans of AL have to make do with deteriorating VHS tapes and YouTube clips--grateful as I am to have both of those. Here's hoping that NetFlix and/or KING-5 will release DVDs of AL *soon*, so that my younger son can brush up on his "Lame List" impressions before he heads off to college. *Sigh*

goleafs84 Almost Live! actually had 2 different formats, but had one theme; Comedy. The first, was hosted by Ross Shafer (1984-88), which had a "Tonight Show" type of format; Sketch comedy, local and some national celebrity appearances and stand-up comedians were showcased, whether it be local comedians like Chris Alpine or up and comers at the time like Jerry Seinfeld or Drake Sather.After Ross left the show in 1988, to become Joan River's replacement on Fox's late night talk show, "The Late Show", John Keister took over as host.He tried to use the same talk show format, but in the summer of 1989, they changed it to all sketch comedy and the show really took off from there.What made this show great was, it was humor we in the Northwest United States could relate, enjoy and call our own. It's very rare when you see humor based on this region; Usually, shows like this are based on New York, the east coast and California (mostly Los Angeles) humor.In my humble opinion, here's my top 10 list of the best skits "Almost Live" had:10. "Grape Nuts" commercial parody. The old Grape Nuts commercial theme from the late 80's was used, but it celebrated the party animal in us.9. Ross Shafer's video "Too Many Ties" with the "Almost Live Band". Dedicated to all those who get nothing but ties for gifts.8. "Mind Your Manners With Billy Quan". Wonderful parody of all those bad Kung Fu movies of the 70's and 80's.7. "The High Five'in White Guys". Pointless, dumb, but hilarious.6. "Cops in (name of city here)". Parody of Fox's "Cops". Made fun of virtually every community in the greater Seattle area.5. "The Lame List". Dumb, but hilarious. Featured "Soundgarden".4. "Ballard Driving School". If you've been in Ballard, you'd get this.3. John Keister's April Fool's Joke Of 1989. Did a fake news bulletin, that the Space Needle fell like a chopped tree. Funny, but Keister got into a lot of trouble when people took it seriously. 2. "Ballard Vice". One of their most popular sketches. Parody of "Miami Vice". Filmed in the Ballard neighborhood. The Beginning was hilarious, when the camera chased after Canadian Geese, than the pink flamingos you see in the actual show.1. "Ballard Vice: The Movie". This 15 minute short movie featured, 2 ex-Seattle Seahawks, Hydroplane driver Chip Hanauer among the cast. Hanauer plays an "H" smuggler (halibut), ex-Seahawks Jim Zorn and Michael Jackson play the well dressed Ballard Vice officers, while John Keister and Ross Shafer play the 2 slob Ballard Vice officers.Honorable Mention: "This Here Place". Pat Cashman parodied PBS' "This Old House" and my sides would be aching from laughter every time.

RiotStar-2 I have grown up in the Seattle area, and my daddy weaned me on "Almost Live." Consistently funny, great timing, and some truly inspired skits make for great Saturday evening viewing. I have been known to leave parties to come home and watch it, then go back. The local NBC affiliate that shows it, KING 5, airs "AL!" at 11:35pm, then "Saturday Night Live" at 12:05am. In my almost 15 years of watching "Almost Live", I have never seen it resort to the 'dick and fart jokes' that I saw on SNL time and time again. There are so many things in the Seattle area to make fun of (Kent, Lynnwood, Ballard, the entire east side of Lake Washington), there's no reason to fall into toilet humor as the more recent years of SNL did. I guarantee that any way you can get ahold of an episode of "Almost Live", it will be worth it, a million times worth it.