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100 Years, 100 Stories/Love, Groucho (Great American Humorists)

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Books on tape are great for someone whose car CD player is broken. Just pop in a tape and you're intertained with stuff you'll never hear on the radio. This tape is a tribute to two men who made a deep impact on American humor.

First is George Burns, a man whose radio program with Gracie Allan encouraged a new type of spousal relationship to come forward. This book is sort of like a joke book; it is a succession of stories from Burns' life with punchlines at the end. Not all of them are funny, and you can't beleive all of them, but they're fun to listen to. Milton Berle opens the tape with some comments about his friend.

The second side is an interesting look at Groucho Marx. It is a collection of letters written to his daughter Miriam. She provides commentary for the letters as well as clarification on certain events or lapses of time. The man who reads the letters does so in a Marxish way so it feels as if Marx is actually reading these letters himself. This side of the tape is a gem.