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Greatest Comedy Hits

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Whilst I love Eddie Murphy's work I found this to be one of the most frustrating CD's I have ever purchased. Not so much because of the content of the gags but more a result of the quality of the recording. The first half of the CD is great, primarily focusing on the hilarious Delirious stand Up Routine. However the latter part of the CD was barely audible. I exchanged the CD twice in the vain hope that I had a defective copy. Unfortunately it was not to be. With a superior recording I have no doubt that this would have been a worthwhile CD for any commedy lover, however I will think twice before purchasing another Eddie Murphy CD in the future if his record company deems such a recording as satisfactory.

I bought this CD sight unseen, and for the most part, it is good. However, since I grew up listening to Murphy's first two comedy albums, I was disappointed that this CD did not feature more of his great stuff. Some of it is just mediocre. I ended up selling this CD and buying the first two comedy albums on disc so I could have ALL the great routines I remember.

I grew up wanting to "Party All The Time" and chasing "The Ice Cream Man". I had the complete version of "Bar-B-Que" and "Drunk Fathers" memorized. But, tell me this....where is my "Shoe Throwin' Mother"? That is a classic Murphy bit and it was greatly missed on this CD. This CD could have been better...but I still got my kicks!!! Eddie Murphy.....wierd to see him in Daddy Daycare and Klumps and think of how he used to be. I give the CD about a 8 out of 10.

The first 6 or 7 tracks of this CD are classic Eddie Murphy that all of us fans have come to know and love. BBQ, Drunk Fathers, and the Ice Cream Man are all tracks that do not disappoint. An absolutely side splitting impression of Larry Homes is also a wonderuful addition. Unfortunately, the last 5 or 6 tracks on the CD are very hard to understand, as if they were recorded from the back of a large and noisy club. I cannot make anything out on them, so I havent listened to all of them. It supprises me they realeased the tracks, because they are impossible to understand. All in all, this is a great CD, but should have been produced better.

This is a great collection of previously unreleased tracks as well as some tracks from his other two albums Comedian and Self Titled. There's twelve new (well still recorded in the 80's) tracks and six from the other albums. In my opinion the funniest tracks are still on the other albums. The Mr T jokes you have probably heard of are not on this album. The hilarious tracks Talking Cars, Myths/A Little Chinese and Black Movie Theatres are also absent and should really be on a greatest hits Eddie Murphy album.

Still this album is worthwhile listening to but I think you will definitely buy the other two once you have this. If you are buying this for your kids because they love donkey from Shrek or the Nutty Professor or something just be aware it has a fair bit of swearing on it. I prefer the other albums (they also have better sound quality) but you won't really go wrong with this.

The Cd was in good condition. The cd started out well but then the recording was not good quality, I would recommend a different eddie murphy cd. However I would buy from this seller again.

I loved getting this for Christmas, I really did! I had never listened to any of Eddie Murphy's stand up before and this was a great introduction for me.

The first half of the CD had me laughing like crazy, I couldn't believe how funny he could make something as simple as a BBQ, or kids chasing after the ice cream man!

However toward the end of the CD it became hard to hear. I thought maybe I had to turn up my CD player, but I fiddled with it for a few minutes, but to no avail. It sounded like many of the tracks on the end of the album were recorded on someone's cell phone that was sitting at the back of a comedy club while Eddie was performing. I could barely hear what he was saying.

It was kinda a let down that I could only hear part of the album, but what you can hear is pure comedy gold!

This is a good CD if you need some Eddie in your life. However, being a die-hard fan of Eddie's since his SNL days, I was disappointed to discover the first track is not the entire "Barbeque" bit that was on the "Comedian" album ("Delirious" VHS). It was chopped off and only contained Uncle Gus setting Charlie on fire, "Roll Charlie around, he'll be alright." Then it fades off into track 2, the rest of the "Barbeque" bit ("Goony-Goo-Goo" "Your wife is a big foot, isn't she Gus?") which is titled, "Drinking Fathers." Huh? This is the way it should have been: the first track should have been "The Barbeque" in its entirety, then track 2 should have been the actual "Drinking Fathers" which was released on Eddie's very first CD. It is just hiliarious. Also left out from the first CD was Eddie's bit about his senile grandmother always asking, "What time is it?" and "Why it's so cold in here?" Hiliarious. The song "Enough Is Enough" featuring Buckwheat and Little Richard was also left out. The first CD is out of print so it's usually expensive when you do find it. Luckily, my brother has the tape so I copied his.

The rest of the CD is fine but they could have left off "Old Jew", "Buckwheat", and "Grandma Klump" and replaced them with one of the bits I mentioned above. I wish "Raw" was available on CD but unfortunately, it's not. They do have "C----' Hard" from "Raw" on this CD but that's it. It sounds as if it was recorded at a club maybe because it is not the exact same, word-for-word bit that's on "Raw." However, it is very funny, maybe even funnier than the one used on the VHS version.

Like all greatest hits compilations, they always seem to leave some good stuff out. Whenever you pick up a greatest hits package, why is it that "your song" is never on there but the one you weren't so crazy about is? These are really not Eddie Murphy's greatest hits, but they are great and well worth the purchase.

this is a great collection of some of his greatest comedy skits. i love all of these bits he does on this album it really rocks. eddie has always been my favorite stand up comedian. like i said he is the one and only he is one of a kind. like a few others i to wonder why they left some of his other hits of of this album? there were some more i feel should have been on here aswell. like the shoe throwing mother. and some others. well all in all im still happy with it. its worth the buy if you are into eddie murphy style comedy. this is the one for you. thanks for your time. hillybilly katz.

If you have not been aware of Eddie Murphy's comic talent, this album will be a big revelantion; if you know him as a comedian, you will enjoy this disc immensely.

Other reviewers rightly noted that the album suffers from a poor recording quality. That is very true - however, after you listen to it over and over again, you will stop noticing this. You will appreciate fine and precise delivery (and in this sense, Murphy is with the best of them, comparable with Seinfield's incredibly polished act).

Probably, by today's standards, you will find Eddie Murphie quite mellow compared to the no-boundaries giants of African-American comedy like Chris Rock: other comedians pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable and how offensive you can be very, very far. Apart from off four-letter words, this is practically the stuff for family listening. Well, maybe not, but it still very fine comedy.

The "Drinking Fathers" and "Barbecue" tracks are probably the best on this CD.

It is a shame that they could not put the whole shown on a disk - shows taped live and reproduced end-to-end always sound better than "Greatest Hits", but what the heck, we have to enjoy what we have. This CD is worth every penny.