Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour [Box set]

National Lampoon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033PY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,905 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Intro (Worldwide Short Wave Radio Motif)

2. "You Don't Have to Look at the Pictures on the Radio"

3. Theatre Times for "The Ryan O'Neal Story", Pt. 1

4. The Lost Glider

5. Marlon Brando Interview

6. Little Miss Muffett (Otis Redding Parody)

See all 35 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Channel Surfing (Cheech & Chong Parody)

2. Intro (Outer Limits)

3. Harry Block: 417 Reasons Why You Should Let Us Do Your Income ...

4. Turtle Woman

5. The Immigrants: The Hillbillies

6. Harry Block: Reason #408

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Disclaimer Intro: "Due to the Explicit Nature..."/National Lampoon ...

2. Flash Bazbo in a Restaurant

3. Bill Bradley of the New York Knicks

4. Flash Bazbo, Space Explorer: The Adventure Continues

5. Bob the Rapist

6. Music Perspective, With Ron Fields, Pt. 1

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely funny stuff, great for the car on long trips, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (Audio CD)

If you are bored with listening to music while driving, get this great 3-CD set! Lots of classic actors in here from the old Saturday Night Live days and some timeless comedy bits. Hard to believe that this was recorded in the 70s. I know all the bits aren't here :) I'm now waiting for Part II to be made (hopefully 3 more CDs!)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is where SNL & SCTV came from... excellent!, January 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (Audio CD)

When the National Lampoon and the Second City came together creatively, hilarious sparks flew. This chemistry was essential in paving the way for "Saturday Night Live" and "SCTV Network." Indeed, many of those show's alumni appear on these discs. Where else can you find an ensemble that includes John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, Richard Belzer, Gilda Radner, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Joe Flaherty, Harold Ramis, & Michael O'Donoghue? No where else, that's where. This box is a must for anyone who loves comedy. All the tracks are great, few are dated, and the performances sparkle with the force of hungry, brilliant comic minds. The writing on this show was also top notch, the scribes going on to pen "Animal House," "Multiplicity," "This Is Spinal Tap!," "Best In Show," "Waiting For Guffman," "SCTV," "Scrooged," and the first years of "SNL." Highlights include Chris Guest's truly bizarre space hero, the stream-of-consciousness spouting Flash Bazbo, Belushi's Brando interview with Chevy, Gilda & Bill Murray's "Evil Santa," and several dead-on musical parodies of such artists as B. B. King & Neil Young. There'll never be this much talent amassed in one single place ever again. Buy it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It just gets better and better, September 29, 2002

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Ron Thibodeau (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon Radio Hour (Audio CD)

This three volume set is so funny. I just with it was longer (that is my only complaint). The funny thing is, the more you listen to it, the funnier it gets.

Not only did I buy a copy for myself, but two months later I got a copy for my sister (we share the same type of humor).

Hearing John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, and alumni doing spoofs of Marlon Brando, Charles Bronson, Joni Mitchell, Clint Eastwood, Gregory Peck, and James Taylor are simply hilarious.

Surprisingly, the jokes have held up very well, and not as out of date as I would have thought. A smart, refreshing, hilarious send up of just about everything, National Lampoon delivers the goods.