Best of

Lewis Grizzard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Southern Tracks
• ASIN: B00000154P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,050 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Indie Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy & Spoken Word

Track Listings

1. R.C. And a Moon Pie

2. Introduction

3. For My Little Brother Joey

4. The Gay Movement

5. The Women's Movement

6. Ex-Wives

7. Women Will Do the Darndest Things

8. Six Hours to Live

9. Talkin' About the South: God Talks Like We Do

10. Naked/Nekkid

11. Grizzard Family Name

12. The Last Confederate Soldier

13. Lucky Joe's Reptile Farm

14. Weyman C. Wannamaker Jr. And Uncle Clave

15. How About Them Dogs

16. It's a Ho-Ax

17. That Dog Will Bite You

18. Dog Tails

19. Black Labs

20. They Tore My Heart Out and Stomped That Sucker Flat

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Compilation of Many Great Bits from Moreland, Georgia's Favorite Son, July 8, 2006

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Mark J. Fowler "Let's Play Two!" (Jacksonville, Florida) - See all my reviews
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Lewis, may he rest in peace, was the only person from Moreland, Georgia to have books show up on the New York Times Bestseller list. As he said - he was also the only person from Moreland, Georgia who ever HEARD of the New York Times Bestseller list.

He was unashamedly Southern and just as proudly a graduate of the University of Georgia - and he wasn't afraid to bash things non-Southern or even just non-UGA. Today much of his material sounds homophobic, misogynistic, and hateful of Yankees, Doctors and other things outside his sphere. I think from his perspective he would have said that he was only proud of his heritage - although it is the same perspective that makes some Southerners waive their Confederate Flags to celebrate their "heritage" which simultaneously looking to non-Southerners as racist, homophobic, misogynistic, etc.

Wow - I didn't start this review to bash Lewis Grizzard, who I thought was a brilliantly funny man, but I thought it was worth mentioning for folks who might be offended.

His stories on this CD are funny - some of them hilarious. He saves some of his best barbs for himself. He corrects a feminist who thought he was against Women's Liberation: "Au Contraire, Madame, I've given three of them their freedom myself!" On his piece regarding his open heart surgery: "Heart surgery will make you reconsider your position on narcotics!"

So - if you don't mind hearing stories from a distinctly pre-PC Southern perspective, you can't get much funnier than Lewis Grizzard.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There Should Be More, January 30, 2010

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S. Partridge "Lewis Lover" (The South) - See all my reviews
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Grizzard lovers must have it. My only criticism is that it should be longer and feature more "classic" Grizzard moments - ie the 'Nutty "butty"' visit to Russia.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a dear man to be remembered., January 7, 2002

By 

Randal Gerdes (Jonesboro, Arkansas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

A great tribute to the dear late Lewis Grizzard. The best of says it all. a great son of the south.
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