Live From Hell [Live]

Richard Lewis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Grapeshot Records/Live Archive
• ASIN: B000050HY5
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #345,722 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Strangers and Jewish Satellite Dishes

2. Cops

3. The U.S. Mail

4. The Dry Cleaning Conspiracy

5. A Mother's Support?

6. Spitting on the Audience

7. Gig From Hell

8. The Deep South and Delicatessens

9. Nashville and the King

10. The Road

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. "Welcome to Boston" and Christian Science

2. Medication

3. Spilling My Guts

4. Middle Age

5. The Little Tape Recorder Paranoia

6. Alcoholism, the Presidency, Roswell, and My Parents

7. Alcoholism, the Presidency, Roswell, and My Parents

8. Bad Audiences

9. PMS, the Clitoris, Orgasms, and Don Ho

10. The Penis and the Vagina

See all 34 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious Surprise, November 18, 2004

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Gleet (Oak Park, Il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live From Hell (Audio CD)

This is an album with style. There aren't any mainstream comics that have this kind of style, this intellect to just pull things from out of nowhere, a flow of ideas. The first disc is great, and gets even better when you learn by reading the liner notes or listening to his act, this show was a huge deal for him as a comedian, in terms of size and technique. Add onto that his drinking problem, the only problem he doesn't mention in his act. To hear about more personal things, the second CD is a really strange one-time-only interview kind of thing where Richard just goes off on these nervous, off the wall rants. I think it's a good comic's CD, beginning comics that haven't had much experience, the things he talks about on the road and performing, it has an appeal to the few maniacs that want to attempt standup comedy. Even the stilted, catchphrase kind of comedy (I know, "From hell," a catchphrase that's said all over the album, but it's not the joke, it the means to a joke), even this mindless pandering to the audience requires some sort of brain malfunction. I would highly recommend you buy this seemingly unknown comedy gem, turn off Comedy Central and listen to a rare thing...SOMETHING FROM THE EIGHTIES THAT ISN'T UTTER CRAP. THANK YOU RICHARD, THANK YOU.God Bless George Bush And His Fight Against Evolution.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too Good To Be True!, February 13, 2001

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"papacake" (Santa Monica, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live From Hell (Audio CD)

Man..this is really a great package! I have been a Richard Lewis fan since college and never knew why he didn't have CD's (just some monologues from Comic relief)--only videos...well the wait is over and wow-- it was well worth it! It's totally insane! It's the best! The hard-to-find first disk is one of the funniest concerts he ever did but to hear him now free-wheeling with that great writer-interviewer, Bill Zehme, in-studio live,is totally amazing and unlike anything I ever heard from a comedy CD. I mean, it's like the best of the old Lewis and the best of the new Lewis. I just happened to read his first book, "The Other Great Depression" and was blown away at how funny and revealing Mr.Lewis allowed himself to be and this double CD is like the knock-out punch. I can't imagine any fan of the "Prince of Pain" not devouring this CD. Thank God for Live Archive. Long live the "Prince"! Keep knocking out the new riffs, Richard, and stay sober if this new you keeps rockin'! Man, this is like too good to be true!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I laughed and then I didn't, July 30, 2001

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Laura Grello (California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live From Hell (Audio CD)

I liked the first CD a lot. It kicked was hilarious. This is one amazingly disturbed man. But because of that he's so funny. His family stuff is the best. The only reason I didn't give it a 5 was because of the second CD. It wasn't really funny. It was more of an interview. Bill Zehme just kept ... up to him. Although the Sinatra Story on the second CD made me cry it was so funny. Its worth the money. I suggest getting Lewis Black's CD. That is funnier.