| Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology |  | Artist: Bob Newhart
Label: Rhino
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 8,777
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 081227674229
EAN: 0081227674229
ASIN: B000059Z84
Release Date: March 20, 2001
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Disc 1
| • | Abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue | | • | The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish | | • | Merchandising the Wright Brothers | | • | Driving Instructor | | • | The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (and Storm Door Co.) | | • | Bus Drivers School | | • | Retirement Party | | • | Ledge Psychology | | • | Rocket Scientist | | • | The Uncle Freddie Show |
Disc 2
| • | Introducing Tobacco to Civilization | | • | The Siamese Cat | | • | Defusing a Bomb | | • | A Friend With a Dog | | • | The Expectant Father | | • | On Poodles and Planes | | • | The Man Who Looked Like Hitler | | • | King Kong | | • | Returning a Gift | | • | Buying a House | | • | Ben Franklin in Analysis | | • | Daddy of All Hangovers | | • | On Trains and Planes | | • | Modern Witch Doctor |
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Genre: Spoken Word: Comedy
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAR-2001
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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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