- Audio CD (Jan 22 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Explicit Lyrics
- Label: Uproar
- ASIN: B0000C0FA4
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #40,039 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Squalor Show | |||
| 2. Confession | |||
| 3. Dick Ballentine Phone-show #1 | |||
| 4. Disco Hotline | |||
| 5. Dick Ballantine Phone-in #2 | |||
| 6. Love Birds / Flashnova | |||
| 7. Listener-Sponsored Radio #1 | |||
| 8. For $ 25,000 | |||
| 9. Gymnasty | |||
| 10. Dick Ballentine Phone-in #3 | |||
| 11. Yiddishco | |||
| 12. Listener-Sponsored Radio #2 | |||
| 13. Pulp | |||
| 14. For $ 15,000 | |||
| 15. Rapeline | |||
| 16. Mr. Roberts #1 | |||
| 17. Stereos And Such | |||
| 18. Listener-Sponsored Radio #3 | |||
| 19. Height Report Disco | |||
| 20. Mr. Roberts #2 | |||
See all 27 tracks on this disc
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
Though it ran for only a year in the early 70's, The National Lampoon Radio Hour remains one of the most influential–-and consistently hilarious-–efforts at audio sketch comedy. The core of that show became the inaugural class of SNL's "Not Ready For Primetime Players," and many of the performers on this 1977 album (that recycles some material from the radio show to great effect) also went on to fame there, as well as SCTV. The material here is as rapid-fire as it is pointed, ranging from recurring installments of Richard Belzer's prophetic, acid-tongued radio talk show host Dick Ballantine and Christopher Guest's unsettling Mr. Roberts (a dead-on, way-too-kid-friendly take on the late Fred Rogers) to Bill Murray's obnoxiously whining public radio fundraiser and jabs at Nadia Comaneci, mindless radio fodder, hotlines, Mel Brooks' 2000-year old man, and even a Paul Shaffer-produced musical epic, "The Height Report Disco." Though not quite reaching the sublime level of some of the radio show's more surreal moments, it's consistently irreverent, wildly funny, and delivered with machine-gun efficiency, remaining one of the troupe's best satirical collections. --Jerry McCulley
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Stick with your LP... that's what they did!,
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This review is from: Thats Not Funny Thats Sick (Audio CD)
For those who remember this record, yes it's one of the funniest things National Lampoon ever did. My LP was sounding pretty worn. So much so, in fact, that I dubbed it onto a CD so I wouldn't have to put any more wear and tear on the vinyl while I waited for somebody to put out a real CD. Not only was this CD *not* made from the master tapes, it wasn't made from a tape at all. It was mastered from an LP (just like my homemade CD), apparently with no effort to clean up the surface noise or ticks and pops. 5 stars for content, but zero stars for not going back to the master tapes. Let's hope Uproar does a better job in a few months when they reissue Goodbye Pop.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great album.still makes me laugh.,
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This review is from: Thats Not Funny Thats Sick (Audio CD)
i'll never forget the first time i heard this album.it was in the mid 80's and i was about 11.my older brother had a really lousy copy of it on tape.but the condition of the tape didn't matter.i laughed til i was sore.i played it for my other brother and one of my childhood friends.we couldn't get through the confession part without losing it.we had to keep on playing that bit several times til we could silence our laughter and hear the whole bit.what fond memories i have of this album.a must for anyone old enough to understand and appreciate what real comedy is and how real comedians did it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
lampoons funnies album,
By Joseph M. Hudec (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thats Not Funny Thats Sick (Audio CD)
I was pre teen when my oldest brother owned this "record." I consider is one of the best comedy albums of all time. It is not well known by all, which makes it even better. From the Mr. rogers skit to gassed whales and F@#$'in orange juice!!!! You will laugh till it hurts. If you love classic lampoon/second city style humor, you must have this album.
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