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Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bob Newhart
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 2036
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 081227674229
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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Media Type: CD
Artist: NEWHART,BOB
Title: SOMETHING LIKE THIS-BOB NEWHAR
Street Release Date: 03/20/2001
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY
Amazon.com
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Funny, classic memories. February 27, 2008
I purchased this product for my brother's birthday. We all enjoyed hearing Bob again and the now classic stories he told in his own special way.Good, clean fun!
Great CD....crappy amazon February 22, 2008
Amazon didn't bother to let me know that the item didn't deliver until I made a inquiry.
What a coincidence they "just" realized the item was returned....yeah it was returned 3 weeks earlier.
Normally I like Amazon, but they dropped the ball on this one
Exactly as I hoped January 14, 2008
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.
 The Bob Newhart Anthology by Bob Newhart CD December 31, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
The laugh track is distractingly and annoying loud (shrill) and Newhart's humorous monologue is far softer than the laugh track. Would not recommend this to anyone.
Bob Newhart December 26, 2007
Classic comedy. Hits all ages and makes us all laugh.
Great CD. Highly recommended.
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