Steven Banks - Home Entertainment Center - Rare! [1989][VHS-SP decent quality]

Steven Banks: Home Entertainment Center (1989)



This torrent is a superior replacement for the original "noisy" version.



The quality is very good, about as good as it can possibly be from a 20 year old vhs tape.



IMDB



This truly unique and amazing one man show was recorded live on stage with no edits for Showtime. There is an intro by Penn and Teller. I recommend reading the comments on IMDB to see what others have to say about the performance. It got a 9.5/10, but only 72 votes because so few people ever got to see it as it aired only a few times and there is no DVD available.



Check out the sample video is in this torrent to see the video quality and kind of comedy Steven does.



from imdb.com:



In this brilliant one-man show, the mild-mannered, thirty-something Steven Banks arrives home after a long day at his dead-end corporate job, still dreaming of being a rock star. Steven receives a message on his machine from his boss, Mr. Buttle, informing him that he never received an urgent speech Steven wrote for the board of directors. Steven must scramble to write a new one, but he has less than an hour to do it. Along the way, he continually procrastinates and distracts himself from the task at hand, playing with toys and various musical instruments, baking cookies, putting on costumes, leafing through an old high school yearbook and performing some hilarious original songs along the way. Meanwhile, he's got to deal with his grumpy landlord Mr. Mescue, his clingy girlfriend Phoebe and even a broken toilet. Will Steven ever finish his speech? Or does fate have something else in mind for him?



from Wikipedia



Banks hit it big when he developed (and starred in) a one-man theatrical show titled Home Entertainment Center – a comedic play about an easily-distracted procrastinator trying to meet a work deadline. He gave 440 performances of Home Entertainment Center at venues like the Canon Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Marine's Memorial Theater, and The One Act in San Francisco (where the show ran for eleven months). For his performances, he was awarded the LA Weekly Theater Award, four Drama-Logue Awards, and three San Francisco Bay Area Critic's Awards. He also performed at the Aspen Comedy festival, the Cast Theater, Callboard Theater, and Las Palmas Theater.



In 1989 Home Entertainment Center achieved national fame when it was filmed and aired on Showtime; the filming was done at the Marine's Memorial Theater. The show featured original songs written and performed by Banks. On May 14 of 1989, he appeared (with Penn) on the Dr. Demento radio program (that year's Mother's Day Special) and performed a number of his songs live on-air.



torrent created on May 25, 2009