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You'd have to go back to the golden age of American songwriting (Frank Loesser, etc) to find the kind of rarefied wit that flows in abundance out of this recording. I listened for an hour with a smile on my face.

My brother and I listened to this recording. I thought it was hilarious; a great pop-culture send-up. He didn't get a word of it. But I think his cultural references ended with Tommy Dorsey. If you're a little hipper than that, you'll love this! It shreds everything: including NPR. Delicious satire!

Anyone who is tired of the sanctimoniousness of NPR will find this recording a superb surprise. Here are all those voices we know and love, but they're actually being funny and satirical and spontaneous! Who knew that Alex Chadwick and Cokie Roberts could sing! A witty collection of sketches and songs: clever, smart, and sly.

If you're a fan of Firesign Theatre or the Goon Show : fast, verbal, surreal humor, this is a great recording. It's a slickly produced pop-culture parody that takes on everybody. It's tuneful and genuinely hilarious. "Jive in Jersey" is worth the price of the compact disk. "The Do-It-Yourself Big Hit Record" is also a five-star track.

This is worth listening to for a couple of absolute gems, but the hour-plus of uneven material needed a much more ruthless editor. I loved the punk sendups of "This was a real nice clambake" and "Do you love me," the do-it-yourself hit record, and a couple of other bits. The musical quality and the mimicking of artist styles is dead-on throughout. But pervading the whole thing was a sensation that its creators thought that everything was way funnier than I found much of it. Parodies of things already parodies themselves, like the Prarie Home Companion bit and the WB cartoon bit, added nothing to the wit of the originals. The other reviewer who compared this to the Firesign Theater I believe was accurate (and I'm not a big FT fan); if you like them, you will enjoy this.

Moe, get punk Rogers n Hammerstein and DIY Hit Record onto iTunes, and I will gladly download them.

Sorry, an hours worth of comedy and I only laughed once.