Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology

Bob Newhart - Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology

Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology
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Artist: Bob Newhart
Brand: NEWHART,BOB
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue
  2. The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish
  3. Merchandising the Wright Brothers
  4. Driving Instructor
  5. The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (and Storm Door Co.)
  6. Bus Drivers School
  7. Retirement Party
  8. Ledge Psychology
  9. Rocket Scientist
  10. The Uncle Freddie Show
Music CD 2
  1. Introducing Tobacco to Civilization
  2. The Siamese Cat
  3. Defusing a Bomb
  4. A Friend With a Dog
  5. The Expectant Father
  6. On Poodles and Planes
  7. The Man Who Looked Like Hitler
  8. King Kong
  9. Returning a Gift
  10. Buying a House
  11. Ben Franklin in Analysis
  12. Daddy of All Hangovers
  13. On Trains and Planes
  14. Modern Witch Doctor

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Free Music Review: Button-Down Brilliance
Hit: 5 Stars

Comedy dates. Comedy records date very quickly.

The Charlie Chaplin movies which had your great-grandparents in guffaws barely rouse a smirk on you. The wacky comedies of the fifties and early 60's now seem naive, innocent, and terribly dull. By rights, 40-year old comedy albums, particularly those with nary a nasty word on them, should be about as entertaining as a rainy afternoon with Aunt Clara showing you her collection of porcelain cats.

Somehow, perhaps because of the very simplicity of his act, Bob Newhart's recordings escape that fate. They are as funny now as they were when they first came out. And that is VERY funny.

It's a simple idea in most of Newhart's monologues. Make your audience do at least half the work. Give only one side of a telephone conversion, strategically provide just enough infomation for the audience to work out what the other person is saying. Play the driving instructor, but let the audience do the driving. Put the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, like the Empire State Building security guard asking his boss if there's anything in the manual to cover giant apes. Or put the extraordinary man in a commonplace situation, like Abe Lincoln talking to history's first spin doctor.

Bob Newhart won the very first Grammy for Best New Artist. He's the only comedian to ever win it. He has starred or co-starred in 5 TV series, with a 6th, co-starring rapper Sisqo (?!?), slated for September 2001. His 2nd series, The Bob Newhart Show, where he played a psychiatrist, and 3rd, Newhart, as a Vermont innkeeper, were the biggest successes. In both those series, he remained the stoic solid center, surrounded by people far odder than he. In effect, he played us, and his reactions more than his actions were the source of his humor.

As funny as his co-stars were, Newhart was funnier still. Often with saying a word, his silence drew laughs. That same timing, those same funny silences, remarkably are just as effective on record (or CD) as they are on video.

Buy this CD for yourself and enjoy it. Or buy it for your kids, so they know who that old guy with Sisqo is. Or buy it for your great-great-grandchildren.

Because, very likely, they too will find it funny.

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Genre: Spoken Word: Comedy
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAR-2001
Part of what Bob Newhart mastered, earlier on stand-up albums like The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! and later on his long-running TV series The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, was capturing a brand of Everyman neuroses and heightening it, bringing mundane, common scenarios into the realm of the absurd--and the absurdly funny. Newhart also perfected playing a character involved in a conversation with the other party in absentia, as in one of his most famous routines, "King Kong," in which he plays the part of an Empire State Building security guard who calls his boss the night King Kong makes his famous ascent. ("Yes, sir, I looked in the handbook index under 'unauthorized personnel' and 'people without passes' and 'apes,' and 'ape's toes,' but it's not in there....") Something Like This... is a generous sampling of Newhart's best stand-up bits, and while some of his topics--airplanes, hating to fly--have now been so overdone as to be comic faux pas, rather than making his material seem dated they often serve to demonstrate just how rare a talent he is simply because the routines still elicit involuntary snorts of laughter some 30 years later. --Mark Hunstman

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