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Something Like This - Bob Newhart

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it,s nutty walt on again

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4 May 9th, 2006 

13 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

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includes all best known newhart sketches

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some items not so strong

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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 .Much of the humour is set in it's time,although some 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 on CD2,but i will list my personal favourites
1-Introducing Tobacco to Civilization-a pretend conversation between Sir Walter Raleigh's london office and Sir Walter in America.
2-The Cruise of the U.S.S Codfish-the captain addresses the crew at the end of a mission.
3-The Driving Instructor-how fast were you going when he jumped out of the car.
4-Defusing A Bomb-one wire is a blue'ish grey and the other is a greyish blue.
5-Abe Lincoln VS. Madison Avenue-Hows grettysburg Abe? a bit of a Drag,well you known those New England towns they're all pretty much the same.
There are many good moment's on these C D,s, I don,think it's as funny or important as monty python,but if your interested in comerdy and even to some extent history you will enjoy these recording's. 

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shirley49 09.05.2006 15:12

I loved this 1st time round

mariegall 09.05.2006 15:12

dont know who he is

silverstreak 09.05.2006 14:52

The driving instructor is my favourite too. He has such excellent timing - did you see him in a serious role in ER not so long ago?

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