So the folks out at Lions Gate sent me a copy of the Best of Saturday Night Live–Tracy Morgan.  And I’ll tell you this much…I’ve never been so baffled by a DVD.  Oh sure, I got lots of laughs, but they were the confused, vaguely uncomfortable sort of laughs that can only be generated by people acting like utter loons.

Anyway, this one is pretty much exactly what it says on the box, the best sketches of Saturday Night Live that featured Tracy Morgan. And Tracy Morgan will show you in no uncertain terms why he may well have been the biggest lump of sheer raw lunacy ever to hit Saturday Night Live, and why it was probably a good thing to put him in charge of Scare Tactics on SyFy.

Seriously, this is just puzzling stuff.  It’ll often be hilarious, but at the same time, it’ll be funny mostly because it’s so wildly unexpected.  I watched Aunt Jemima’s husband, Uncle Jemima, sell something called “mash liquor” while he hallucinated a flock of birds and butterflies. I saw a homeless man try to sell a musical script from his home in the sewer.

I watched a man with a sixth grade education present a show about animals.

That may well have been the single strangest thing of the evening.

I’ll tell you this…this would be a pretty good rental, but buying this one is probably a bad idea.  You’ll need two, maybe three watches to get past the superabundance of moments that make you just clap a head to your forehead in astonishment and say, what the hell did I just watch?  Past that, you’re going to lose a lot of the replay value, because by then, the sheer outlandishness of the footage is going to get tired.

Even after a first viewing, some parts of it will be more tiresome than others.   Like the “ex-porn stars” bit that was really just the same joke over and over again, a lot like Saturday Night Live in general.

But there will even be a dose of added value here, with some extra footage like an audition tape for Tracy Morgan, as well as some outtakes and other bonus footage.

Thus, the Screenhead Ten Scale is left to hand out a rating, and it hands out a six out of ten for a thoroughly outlandish, funny good time with added value that will really only be funny a couple times before it just loses everything until you forget the jokes.  Then it’ll likely be funny again.