Dropping Anchors

Harry Shearer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Courgette Records
• ASIN: B000E6GC5M
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #495,395 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This comedy album boasts a satirical salute and final farewell to the era of the TV news anchor. Koppel, Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, Aaron Brown, even Barbara Walters have all left the anchor chair in the past few months. On "Dropping Anchors", satirist and voice-man extraordinaire Harry Shearer pays them the tribute they deserve. In savagely incisive, satirical strokes, he portrays Koppel's agonies at ABC, Rather's dialogues with colleagues dead and alive, Brokaw's new projects - including a CD of "Songs In The Key Of L" - , and Walters' impassioned denial that she's had 82 facelifts. Shearer writes and performs all the comedy and music, much of it based on material from his nationally (and internationally) syndicated weekly radio hour, "Le Show", but adapted, re-recorded, and remastered specifically for this CD.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly funny, but too short and too narrow a focus, March 27, 2006

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This review is from: Dropping Anchors (Audio CD)

Harry Shearer's "Le Show" on NPR (now in its 22nd year of disservice) is a one-man wonder of a thing, featuring the sharpest, smartest satire around. Through marvelous editing, Harry conducts interviews and does sketches, performing all the voices himself. Harry and wife Judith Owen are launching their new Courgette Records label with this release. It's a shame this CD clocks in at just over 40 minutes, and is limited to TV news topics only. Harry's last LS compliation, "It Must Have Been Something I Said," is far superior, and holds up to repeated listening, even over a decade later. I'm still a huge fan of Le Show, I just wished there was more to sink one's teeth into here!