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NATIONAL LAMPOON - THAT'S NOT FUNNY THAT'S SICK | 
| Label: Uproar
Category: Music
Buy New: $12.35
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 66048
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 3844
ISBN: 1929243545
UPC: 706442384424
EAN: 9781929243549
ASIN: B0000C0FA4
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Amazon.com
Though it ran for only a year in the early 70's, The National Lampoon Radio Hour remains one of the most influential--and consistently hilarious--efforts at audio sketch comedy. The core of that show became the inaugural class of SNL's "Not Ready For Primetime Players," and many of the performers on this 1977 album (that recycles some material from the radio show to great effect) also went on to fame there, as well as SCTV. The material here is as rapid-fire as it is pointed, ranging from recurring installments of Richard Belzer's prophetic, acid-tongued radio talk show host Dick Ballantine and Christopher Guest's unsettling Mr. Roberts (a dead-on, way-too-kid-friendly take on the late Fred Rogers) to Bill Murray's obnoxiously whining public radio fundraiser and jabs at Nadia Comaneci, mindless radio fodder, hotlines, Mel Brooks' 2000-year old man, and even a Paul Shaffer-produced musical epic, "The Height Report Disco." Though not quite reaching the sublime level of some of the radio show's more surreal moments, it's consistently irreverent, wildly funny, and delivered with machine-gun efficiency, remaining one of the troupe's best satirical collections. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 That's not funny, that's sick! June 7, 2008
Hue G
I think the name says it all. Accept it's funny
"you pathetic cringing little milk sop"
Best Comedy Album Ever! February 9, 2008
Stephen D. Dryden (Southeast US)
If you like vulgar humor, this is for you. It has many of the Saturday Night Live folks on it -- you gotta buy this one.
National Lampoon August 23, 2007
D. Todd (Germany)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I heard this album in college, back when it was an LP (yeah, I'm old). I spent the next 20 years, off and on, trying find it, either on LP or CD. I finally went on line and found it on Amazon. Listen to the Olympic gymnast (little Nadia Commaneci) or the Mr. Rogers skits.
Awesome. Classic. Old school comedy.
 national lampoon's "that's not funny, that's sick" July 31, 2006
Mark J. Gallagher
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this CD, new, on July 17th,2006. It is a great collection of classic comedy, however, Amazon is still shipping the copies made before 2005, mastered from vinyl with scratches, hisses and all. I solely wanted to listen to 'Mr. Roberts 1" with the egg-a-muffin' skit and it skips over most of this skit. The promise by Mr. David Drozen to replace it, rings hollow. Neither from him or Amazon can I get a 'clean, remastered', 2005 version. So, I'll send it back for a refund. It's a shame because the material is so classic. I was going to buy the box set, next. Oh, well.
 Hilarious album / Poor quailty recording January 9, 2006
Christopher Johnson (Bay Area, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If the title of this album doesn't serve as an adequate admonition of what's in store, the first track will: "Hey, look out for that s%#t on the floor... Whoops! Ha ha ha... Well, we've got a filthy show for you tonight!" If you're easily offended, deeply religious, or have an otherwise sensitive disposition, you may want to steer clear. However, If you're a real sicko, like me, you'll not only find this album laugh-out-loud funny on your first listen, you'll enjoy listening again and again as you discover its many subtleties. Some of the tracks, like Christopher Guest's spoof on Mr. Rogers, I simply never grow tired of listening to.
I must however, express my disappointment with the quality of this recording. When this album was released in 1977, it only existed on vinyl. (I don't believe that it was ever released on cassette or 8-track.) Since then, fans have tolerated the crackles and pops. I was thrilled to see that this album was finally released on CD. Unfortunately, not only is it NOT digitally re-mastered, its source material is a vinyl record, complete with the same old crackles, pops, and surface noise! While the source vinyl is in pretty good condition no one even bothered to go back and remove the pops. I spent about an hour doing so with some inexpensive software and it made a real difference. Another disappointment with this CD is that the tack markers aren't accurate. When you rip this CD to your computer for listening on your portable device, you'll notice that at the beginning of each track there's a little chunk of the end of the previous track... very annoying but fixable with basic audio editing software.
More info about this album:
Starring Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest and featuring Richard Belzer, Rhonda Coullet, Gracie Whitebread, Pat Bright, Bob Dryden, George Agoglia, Tony Hendra, Sid Davis, Larraine Newman, Anna Uppstrom, John Dunn, and John Weidman. Written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Richard Belzer, Christopher Guest, John Weidman, Bob Tischler, Tony Hendra, Harold Ramis, Doug Kenney, and Bruce McCall. Produced and engineered by Bob Tischler. Cover illustration by Sam Gross.
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