Bob Newhart - Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology
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Free Music Review: Exactly as I hoped
Hit: 5 Stars
As a kid (in the 70s) my father played his Bob Newhart record every once in a while. He only had one, but I loved the way he laughed at it, and I laughed too. I was old enough to understand some of the humour in routines like the driving instructor, and the telephone conversation with Sir Walter Raleigh.
When I was wondering what to buy Dad for Christmas this time around I thought of that record, and looked up 'Bob Newhart' on Amazon. I quickly found this double CD compilation, recognised many of the tracks, and bought pretty much within the blink of an eye. Dad and I listened to it in the car driving to the cricket (you know, the game Americans would play if they weren't brainwashed by baseball). He and I laughed enough to make city traffic very trivial. The old favourites still get us in exactly the way they did years ago; the tracks we hadn't heard before get us with the same style of humour.
If you've ever heard a Bob Newhart routine and enjoyed it this compilation will deliver plenty of the same, with many little twists and quirks along the way. If you've never heard a Bob Newhart routine but would like a taste, this is a great introduction and summary.
Free Music Review: Bob Newhart Comedy Pioneer
Hit: 5 Stars
Bob Newhart, who was not a stand up comedy star and had actually not done stand up in a night club prior to recording his break through first album became an overnight star after it's release. It was one of the first live stand up albums, in fact Inside Shelly Berman is the only album I can think of that predates it. Bob is such an everyman on these recordings, as in his two TV series. He let's the unseen, unheard historical figures on the other end of the phone be the wild and crazy guys as he gets laughs with his endless patience at dealing with Abe Lincoln trying to re-write the Gettysburg address, and many other historical figures who he deals with in very modern Madison Ave and pop-psychology terms.
I'm a big fan of Bob's two hit sitcoms, but this is his best work. He is so paced, taking his time, waiting so long after each laugh knowing that when you're finally done chuckling he has a few more words to reignite the laughter which he again patiently waits for you to finish.
Free Music Review: Among the best of absurd humor
Hit: 5 Stars
Newhart is among the best, if not the best, at presenting the most absurd situations in the most down-to-earth ways: non-chalant musings of a very quirky mind. If there were nothing else but the "Introduction of Tobacco to Civilization" on this album it would be worth it. That selection made me laugh until tears were flowing down my face and I was gasping for air. While the rest of the nearly two dozen cuts are not quite that funny, there are wonderful moments as Newhart takes the mundane and makes it bizarre or the bizarre and makes it mundane, both with clever wit. The reactions of the live audiences only heighten the anticipation of the next joke and reveal Newhart's brilliant writing and timing. These are routines we should still listen to and pass on to younger folk. They are timeless. Bravo, Bob!Free Music Review: Great material without the vulgarity
Hit: 5 Stars
Dear Amazon, I never thought it would happen to me, but I actually enjoyed this album...Newhart is not the kind of guy that strikes you as being extremely funny, but darned if he aint! I am a huge Monty Python fan, so I never thought I would like Newhart's comedy. But Newhart, like Python, comments on the rediculousness of the world around him in an intelligent and well thought out way. There is intellectual energy behind his humor.
This makes his humor clean and classic, funny even after repeated listening. It is not zany and madcap, but it is still funny enough to make you almost wreck the car while driving down the interstate. I heartily reccomend it!
And if a State Farm agent calls you, then I lost control of the car trying to avoid a collision with a deer, got it??
Free Music Review: "It might go...
Hit: 5 Stars
something like this..." With these words Bob Newhart, one of my favorite comedians, launches into one hilarious skit after another. Most of the bits here are every bit as funny as they were when originally performed, though a couple like "The Man Who Looked Like Hitler" or "Rocket Scientist" can seem dated. While I'm not opposed to the odd vulgarity (and I don't think that they either makes things funny or keep them from being funny), I enjoy the fact that Bob works so clean. It makes it possible for me to share something I really enjoy with both my older relatives (who would be offended otherwise) AND my younger relatives (who shouldn't be exposed).