Steven Wright - I Still Have a Pony
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Free Music Review: More than worth it
Hit: 5 Stars
I have always loved this comedian. This c.d. well worth buying. Very good choice for a road trip or just to lighten your mood.Free Music Review: I Sill Have a Poney
Hit: 5 Stars
Steven Wright with his deadpan humor is my favorite comedian. He makes me laugh outloud which doesn't happen very often.Free Music Review: Please don't wait another 20 years
Hit: 5 Stars
A great comedian gives us some very funny stuff to chuckle about as we drive around in Hell. Definitely worth buying.Free Music Review: He's still going...
Hit: 5 Stars
Play this disc right after 'I have a Pony' and you wont even know you changed years. Still funny as ever!!!Free Music Review: Great collection of unique one-liners
Hit: 4 Stars
If you've heard and liked the first (only other) Steven Wright CD "I Have a Pony," which was released in 1985, you should be excited about this one, as it holds another ton of new unique deadpan one-liners.
What I must mention, though, is something that I was a little disappointed by--and it has nothing to with the quality of Wright's act, but--a lot of the material on this CD is excerpted from the 2006 Steven Wright DVD "When the Leaves Blow Away" - it actually holds big chunks of that same Elgin Theatre performance of May 2006, though also parts of a performance/performances (?) from The Winter Garden Theatre Centre where he did the same act that same month.
Because of this I'm also disappointed in how this CD has been advertised; as it has been over 20 years since Wright recorded his previous disc it has been suggested that the material of "I Still Have a Pony" would hold material from what he's done since. Ok, it's true in a sense, but no material of the 20 years following his debut is included here - genius acts of his past have never been officially released for purchase. To high extent there's mainly (if not only) material from Wright's act of the last year or two.
...so, be warned: if you own "When the Leaves Blow Away" you will get an almost duplicated performance without the visual feature - sure, there are small variations and adlibs (from the Winter Garden gig,) but aside from less than a handful of one-liners they're entirely the same jokes.
Much praise must go to the man behind the material however, and if you're not familiar with Wright's most recent act you can decide between getting this 42 minute CD and the DVD "When the Leaves Blow Away" (which is 78 minutes long counting the featured short film "One Soldier" from 1999 and a short stand-up gig from 1988.) It's your call, but you'll get quality either way.