Just heard from the good folks at Warner Archive that the transplendent 1980 concert film Gilda Live -- starring the unutterably adorable Gilda Radner and directed by Mike Nichols -- is at long last making an appearance on DVD.

This is wonderful news on all sorts of levels, but one of them is it means that, finally, you can watch a high quality digital version of perhaps the greatest song and live musical performance of the 20th century.

I refer, of course, to Gilda's romp through Michael O'Donohue's "Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals."

A rooster says "Good morning"
With a cock-a-doodle-doo
A horse's neigh is just his way
Of saying "How are you?"
A lion growls "hello" and owls ask
Why and where and "Hoo?"
May I suggest you get undressed
And show them your wazoo?

There's more to the song, of course (and please enjoy it here from an earlier incarnation on VHS).

Seriously, the film (shot in 1979) is a really terrific little capsule (guest stars include Letterman foil Paul Shaffer and the much-missed Father Guido Sarducci) of a wonderful moment in American comedy history. And of course Gilda is just so sweet and funny that it hurts; if you can watch the film without falling head over heels in love with her, you really need to have it looked at.

Bottom line: You can order Gilda Live -- and definitely should, immediately, assuming you have a soul -- over here.

You're welcome.