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Whenever a new network gets a start, some weird things make it onto the air. That’s the only possible explanation for Get a Life, Chris Elliott’s short-lived series in which he starred as a thirtysomething paperboy, Chris Peterson, who still lived at home with his folks. (His dad, strangely enough, was played by Chris’s real-life father, Bob Elliott, a respected comedian in his own right.) The two episodes on Volume 1 exemplify what Get a Life was all about: a straight-face… More >>
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Rating: 5.0 (36 reviews)
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I remebered Get A Life as being really funny. Boy was I mistaken. The first vol. left a lot to be desired. Save your money I wish I would have. In memory of Siskel I give it a big Thumbs (way) down.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was sure I remembered “Get A Life” as being a comedy…These two episodes were painful to watch. All I can hope is that these were the least creative episodes and that great Chris Elliot comedy series did really exist. I’m shocked at how unfunny these episodes were.
Rating: 1 / 5
. . .from the minute i first heard about this “sitcom”, i just knew it wasn’t gonna stick around long, much less acheive “friends”-style immortality via ad-nauseum syndication :/ in my experience, most people, particularly women, just take an Instant visceral dislike to chrissyboy, much to their everlasting loss. he’s the anti-tom cruise; every project he touches (tattinger’s, daddy’s boy, cabin boy, teen beat articles, cinemax specials, snl and getalife) turns to despised, financial turds. damn shame, cuz with the exception of getalife’s premiere episode (thankfully not among the few selected for inclusion on these rhino releases; it was likely an intentionally-watered-down pilot to lull fox execs into green-lighting this programming aberration), elliott’s utterly unique, downright Poetic (he has Such a way with words) flavor of clueless idiocy is maintained with remarkable potency throughout its too-short run. these two eps are no exception: among their other acheivements they puncture, a la an assassin’s scopelock, diana ross And to-sir-with-love styles of oozy sentiment (both particularly strong banes to my sensibilities) without hardly even trying -those are just colLATERAL damages!
if Anyone deserves an honest-to-goodness, messianic cuckoo cult to spring up around him it’s paperboy chris peterson. he’s got all the standard qualifications: a humble station in life; near-universal apathy, scorn and rejection from the world; a tendency and gift for sharing his “insights” via oblique, evocative metaphor; timeless youth and resurrectional abilities (he literally Dies at the end of many of these shows. plus, it’s an historical inevitability that he’ll never mature one Whit); and undying faith in sacred visions only he can see
so I SAY UNTO YOU ALL, in this, our year 2000 (holy date significantly embedded into so many getalife episode titles), let our getalife jihad sally forth like a kid at the beach buried up to his neck in sand. only it’s not sand, it’s candy. and it’s ALIVE! vt
Rating: 5 / 5
in the oven at 350 till your as brown as my daddy’s loafers…
Snake, be a dear and order this video (after you zip mommy up)… Eat that cheese, pluck that banjo, you have very nice looking shoes miss…
Hair Ball? I asked for a hairball. Chris Pedersen: Millionaire stuntman, half Jackalope.
Rating: 5 / 5
For me, “Get a Life” provided plenty of laughs in its spoofs of what often manages to pass as television comedy, from Chris’ unique effort to rehabilitate a collection of street punks to his discovery of a space alien (in home video Volume 2) which is anything but cuddly. I only wish Rhino would expand its offerings of “Get a Life” episodes.
Rating: 5 / 5