In Jet Blues, Jackson Publick talks about the upcoming Venture Bros. DVDs — and tells a tales about DVD commentaries:
On the DVD front, I’m told the official release date is officially March 14, 2006 now. It will be a 2 disk set. Due to space limitations inherent in the format, we won’t be doing commentary on ALL the episodes, but we are hoping to cover at least a few of them, possibly as many as five. Trust me, you don’t want to hear either or both of us babble for seven hours anyway, and no doubt the legal clearance on all our comments would be a nightmare (there’s a lot of stuff you’re not allowed to talk about, apparently. A friend of mine, who worked on the Goodfellas DVD, tells me they had to cut out Scorcese’s comments about how, when he was a kid, the father of one of his friends worked at the Copa Cabana and would let him and his friends sneak in. Apparently, despite the fact that the Copa has been closed for years and the guy who worked there is no longer alive, one can’t encourage underage drinking nor incriminate people for the crime of encouraging it even forty years later. If they rode Scorcese that hard for the commentary of a seminal movie like that, what chance do we have?).