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it,s nutty walt on again

Advantages: includes all best known newhart sketches
Disadvantages: some items not so strong

This C D contains some great material,Newhart was and still is a one off,no one does these kinds of monologue's these days and even back then,most of these sketches come from the early sixty's,only Victor Borge comes to mind.Newharts idea's come from real life,in many ways he was an early leader in what became known as,"observational comerdy"although he is not as P.C. as most comedian's today,as in picking on women drivers in the Driving Instructors ...
...are based on historic event's,such as Abe Lincoln vs Madison Avenue,Introduing Tobacco To Civilization and Merchandising The Wright Brothers.All are bacisially Bob Newhart talking to himself about thing's he finds humour in,that most others would not be able to find anything funny in at all.These subjects include bomb disposal,flying,bus driving,retirement and jumping off buildings. I am not going to list every track as there are 10 on CD1 and 14 ...

tony2457 09.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Something Like This - Bob Newhart

The Prophets Never Mentioned Socks

Advantages: Fitth Hounds of Hades
Disadvantages: There is No Proper Name For The back of the Knees

...the extreme. Take Sir Henry for example a pompous arrogant buffoon with very few redeeming qualities to his character. He drip feeds his marrow, described as a monstrous jade zebra veg, the reason for this being "should some rascal half-inch and eat it, it'll give him the liquorice for weeks" very quickly we are faced with the full pomposity of Sir Henry's character and in here there is definitely shades of Churchill being saterised, quite viciously. ...
...one who could live with Sir Henry would have to have both these qualities. Sir Henries attitude to the staff is shockingly bad they are there to satisfy his needs and nothing else his request to the housekeeper Mrs E "I don't know what I want, but I want it now" shows this quite clearly, as is his repost to Old Scrotum "You are supposed to love me, You vile Jelly" before hitting him over the head with a gun reinforces this. Vivian's ability to use ...

Champ666 17.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Sir Henry At Rawlinson End - Vivian Stanshall

Minty Pylon Sings

Advantages: You will a nice sing-a-long
Disadvantages: You will get strange looks from other car drivers

While some old favourites are on here - Always look on the Bright Side of Life / The Meaning of Life / The Lumber-Jack Song - there are some lesser known songs from the TV programmes which are very very silly. Never be Rude to an Arab / and I like Chinese would perhaps not be allowed today - despite it being good advice. What needs its own paragraph is the song I know as "An Infectious Song" but to keep it a surprise I will not tell you the actual ...
...of your granma, and proves that only Monty Python can make a joke about every sexual disease under the sun. It is a shame that the painfully slow song "Traffic Lights" is not on this album nor is "I bet you they won't play this song on the radio" but this is certainly worth it's weight in alternative Xmas songs. In conclusion - lacking, but worth the £5.99 or whatever you get with a discount. ...

coleecip 28.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Sings Monty Python (Live In Concert) - Eric Idle

How much more black could this be? and the answer is none.

Advantages: You can turn this one all the way up to 11.
Disadvantages: Unfortunately this is not a real band.

...British heavy metal band released this collection of songs from the albums soundtrack as homage to the “Smell the Glove” album that they were promoting through the film. Due to the album being released as a soundtrack it never really received any great success chart wise and was mainly just purchased by those who, like me are great fans of the film. Now firstly let me start by saying that if you haven’t seen the film that accompanies this album it ...
...at least after you’ve read this anyway.) Like I’ve said the band themselves are completely factious everything from who they are to their previous career which was made up only for the purpose of the film. Just who are “Tap”? The main members of the band consist of some quite well known American actors, that’s right I did just type American as once you hear them talking in the film or singing on this album you would swear they where English. ...

HarryKgh 23.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of This Is Spinal Tap (Original Soundtrack) [Remastered] - Spinal Tap

Don't Laugh At Me Cause I Am A Reviewer.

Advantages: Buy this to listen to TWO great nostalgic songs.
Disadvantages: There are 20 awful songs as well!

...And My Gal" is also very good. In between, most of the other songs are slow tempo dreary sounding ballads set to mediocre string arrangements or very forgettable massively dated sounding ditty ballads accompanied by big band brass based arrangements. There are also a few cringe worthy duets that are also totally forgettable and some other rubbish songs where the instrumentation is just light percussion and a double bass. Many of the songs on this ...
...the 1950s. He is an iconic figure to this day in Albania. This is because his films were the only Western culture films that were permitted to be shown in Albania during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. If we were back in the days of the Cassette listening to this album would be torturous as you'd be constantly fast forwarding the tape. However, because this is a CD it’s an album worth having just to be able to play "Don't Laugh At Me (Cause I'm ...

bella6789 01.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Very Best Of Norman Wisdom, The - Norman Wisdom