Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy

Various Artists - Miscellaneous - Comedy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032V4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Portsmouth Sinfonia

2. The Dead Parrot

3. The Courtroom - Scene I: "The Charges"

4. Memoirs of a Miner, Pt. 1: "Which One's Marcel Proust?"

5. Protest Song

6. Happy, Darling?

7. The Courtroom - Scene II: "Counsel for the Defence"

8. Psychedelic Baby

9. Crunchy Frog

10. Memoirs of a Miner, Pt. 2: "Sex and Violence Down the Mines"

11. William Tell Overture: Lone Ranger Theme

12. The Courtroom - Scene III: "Police Constable Pan Am"

13. The Audition

14. Top of the Form

15. Transcendental Mastication

16. The Courtroom - Scene IV: "Counsel for the Prosecution"

17. Overture/Pinball Wizard [Live!]

18. The Penultimate Supper?!

19. Take off Your Clothes!

20. The Courtroom - Scene V: "Very Expensive Gaiters"

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absoulutely essential if you are a fan of British comedy., December 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy (Audio CD)

Dead Parrot Society brigns together some of the most outstanding British comics. The selections are superb, from a brilliant rendition of Monty Python's "dead parrot" sketch and the classic "penultimate supper" debate between Michelangelo and the Pope to Peter Cook's hilarious "memoirs of a miner". This album is absolutely essential if you are a fan of British comedy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pining for the fjords?, October 27, 2003

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy (Audio CD)

This CD purports to be the "best" of British comedy, but it doesn't really have enough scope. The recordings here are only taken from three seperate sources. Those sources are Amnesty International concerts, Private Eye magazine and The Portsmouth Sinfonia. So a lot of things were left out. I'm not going to bother mentioning what they could have included, because I'm not an expert on British comedy . Anyway, the majority of the material that is included here is funny. Of course, Monty Python needs no introduction. There is also Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Neil Innes and other comedians. Plus recordings by The Portsmouth Sinfonia, the self described "World's Worst Orchestra". If you are a fan of British humor, you should enjoy this CD, despite it's incompleteness.