Bill Lawry This Is Your Life [Import]

12th Man | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B00006J4VJ
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,205 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the others, April 19, 2008

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Y2bjs Reviews (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bill Lawry This Is Your Life (Audio CD)

This is not a favorite of mine,while it has some good moments,overall it lacks good jokes.Some of the humor on it is a bit sort of ...yeah,but not funny.While the concept is a good idea,i doubt if he spent as much time on this one as he did with some of the others,or at least it didnt seem like it.

3.0 out of 5 stars "Theres a lot of dead tape on that one." quoth my mother-in-law, May 3, 2009

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bill Lawry This Is Your Life (Audio CD)

And she was right about that one, that's for sure. This release by Australian comedian Billy Birmingham (aka The 12th Man) is a reimagining of the This Is Your Life format of show, and is actually an enactment of what such a show would be like if it was based around Australian sportsman and TV commentator Bill Lawry.

The format allows Birmingham to introduce many of the same characters he has entertained the Australian public with for years and his ability to mimic voices and inflections of these well known Australian identities is quite uncanny. However the humour just isn't there on this one, the idea was OK, but the execution is quite lacklustre. It is, at once, both boring and unfunny in sections. And it faded from the charts but fast.

Not to mention that this release would be totally lost on non Australian audiences. And again, it's The 12th Man so you probably don't want to play it in front of your grandmother.