Lily Savage Live: Paying The Rent on DVD

• Cert:
• Cat.no: PAR 61032
• Running time: 52 minutes
• Year: 1993
• Pressing: 1999
• Region(s): 0 (UK PAL)
• Chapters: 4
• Sound: Linear PCM Mono
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: None
• Fullscreen: 4:3
• 16:9-enhanced: No
• Macrovision: No
• Disc Format: DVD 5
• Price: £19.99
• Extras : Scene index
  

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  Director/Producer:

  Gary Wicks

Lily Savage Live: Paying the Rent is a stand-up comedy video recorded at the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden, London, 1993. With a successful comedy career and a couple of BBC TV series, having taken over the host role of Blankety Blank, Liverpudlian Lily is the creation of one Paul Grady. However, I have to ask: why do live videos never feature the entire gig though?

The gig features plenty of observational humour (as well as the bad language), such as the fact that you can’t smoke in cinemas any more and during a tense horror film you’ll be needing a “ciggy”.

The picture quality is fine and does the job but is not particularly outstanding. the best thing about this disc though. Obviously, it’s fullscreen-only, but the print is clear of artifacts and it can comfortably be zoomed in to fill a widescreen TV. The average bitrate is an above-average 6.2Mb/s.

The sound format isn’t stated on the cover. It may have been recorded in stereo, but it’s reproduced in very tinny mono here.

Extras :

Chapters : Only 4 chapters across the disc, which only serves to break up the show, although one of the chapters lasts almost 20 minutes.

Languages & Subtitles :

Language in Scouse, with no subtitles.

Menu :

The menu is static and silent only offering you the chance to start the programme or select a chapter.

Overall, this was quite entertaining in places but I’m not Lily’s biggest fan and not every piece of observational comedy he/she had to say rang true with me.