MUSIC CITY : The first collaborative Music Database

Contact Us
Main Menu
HomeMusic by GenresMusic by ArtistsSearch Music CityThe FAQUsers

 
Search
Sponsored links

Sponsor Music City and by this through Amazon.com

Bob Newhart

Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology

Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology Tracks
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
11. Introducing Tobacco to Civilization
12. The Siamese Cat
13. Defusing a Bomb
14. A Friend With a Dog
15. The Expectant Father
16. On Poodles and Planes
17. The Man Who Looked Like Hitler
18. King Kong
19. Returning a Gift
20. Buying a House
21. Ben Franklin in Analysis
22. Daddy of All Hangovers
23. On Trains and Planes
24. Modern Witch Doctor
Bob Newhart - Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology
Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology Review
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


Users's Reviews
Feel free to add your comments about Something Like This... The Bob Newhart Anthology
Classic Newhart
5
Bob Newhart never gets old. His delivery is impeccable and his material is still relevant. We all need to laugh more and this is a great way to do it!
Posted by Anonymous, on 2006-01-16
Classic, uh... comedy
5
This... this collection of uh, of... comedy routines by Bob Newhart is... well it's downright hilarious. Bob... Bob's delivery... that classic manner, uh mannerism of stuttering and... and... pauses... is just priceless. No, no one has ever had better, uh... comedic timing than Rob, um BOB Newhearth... NEWHART. Bob Newhart.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2005-08-04
Don't listen to this while driving
5
I've had this double disc set on my iPod for five days now, and I've found myself just listening to it over and over again. I'd heard much of this material before, but had forgotten just how funny it really was. It is sad that our culture has devolved to the point where most Americans would not find Bob Newhart's routines funny. To truly appreciate his humor from the '60's requires a good education, intelligence, and a disdain for the present state of "comedy" (i.e. comedy channel vulgarity, def comedy jam ignorance, etc...).

I question some of the material included on the disc, especially disc 2, which has less of the abstract "man on the phone" type comedy. I would have included routines such as "an infinite number of monkeys" and "automation and a private in Washington's army" instead of real world routines like "siamese cat" and "buying a house". Newhart's material really hits the mark when it is utterly abstract and ridiculous.

Classic "don't-miss" routines included here are:
1. Abe Lincoln versus Madison Avenue - "Abe, do the speech the way Charlie wrote it, would you?"...classic.
2. The Cruise of the U.S.S. Codfish - "Looking back on the mutiny"
3. Retirement Party - "Of course, Mrs. Wilson is down in Mexico with her hundred thou...and i'm still up here..with this crummy watch"
4. Introducing Tobacco to Civilization - "Don't tell me Walt, don't tell me..." "You see Walt, we've been a little worried about you lately..."
5. Defusing a bomb - "I'm gonna give it to you straight, Willard, you've got yourself a live one there..."
6. King Kong - "Well, sir, when people come to work in the morning, they're gonna see the ape in the street, notice the broken windows, and I think they're gonna put two and two together..."

I've never laughed so hard in my life. Buy this. It's worth every penny.

Posted by Anonymous, on 2004-02-24

Bob Newhart
Main Page
Discography
News
Biography