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Standup Comic [LIVE]

Woody Allen

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Audio CD (April 20, 1999)
Original Release Date: April 20, 1999
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Live
Label: Rhino / Wea
ASIN: B00000IMSB

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,497 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Vodka Ad
2. Vegas
3. Second Marriage
4. Great Renaldo
5. Mechanical Objects
6. Moose
7. Kidnapped
8. Unhappy Childhood
9. Science Fiction Film
10. Eggs Benedict
11. Oral Contraception
12. European Trip
13. Lost Generation
14. Private Life
15. Brooklyn
16. Army
17. Pets
18. My Grandfather
19. My Marriage
20. Bullet in My Breast Pocket
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Compiled from Woody Allen's legendary standup routines of the mid 1960s, Standup Comic is an absolute necessity for any acolyte of the man's solid work from his Casino Royale and New Yorker phase.

"Here's a good example of oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, and she said 'No.'"

Between a youthful stint as a TV gag man and his groundbreaking films of the 1970s, Allen tried his hand at standup. He was, predictably, a success. Taken from nightclub dates in 1964, '65, and '68, Standup Comic shows how stylistically similar he was to contemporaries like Bill Cosby but also how his absurd flights of imagination made him utterly unique.

"I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once. The cops had to come and get me. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickey to the Statue of Liberty."

Now that he's a junior-varsity Ingmar Bergman, it's easy to forget that Allen's first public face was that of a world-class zhlub--a rumpled redhead who shared stories of analysis, sexual frustration, and failure. The long-form tales featured on Standup Comic (including Allen's famous bit featuring a moose) provide plenty of laughs as well as an early glimpse at this protean comic genius. --Mike Gerber

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3.0 out of 5 stars Problematic reissue of classic material, April 4, 2002

By	David Pearlman "sound fanatic" (Arlington, MA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This is a single CD compilation of three albums that Woody
Allen issued on Colpix and Capitol in the timeframe 1964-1968.
It takes half a side each from two of those albums, and
the entirety of the third album. The material itself is
brilliant, as is Allen's timing. He is a natural comedian, and
this stuff stands proudly on the same narrow shelf of timeless
standup as the best of standup greats like Richard Prior,
Bob Newhart, George Carlin and precious few others. To fans
of standup, to fans of Woody Allen the comedian, to fans
of Seinfeld (which drew inspiration from largely the same
well three decades later) and to fans of laughter, this
is deliciciously required listening.

So ends the 5 star review of the shows (partially) documented
on this CD. Now the two problems: 1) As noted, this CD presents
only parts of the original LPs. More significantly, the
individual comedy pieces have been edited here, presumably
to get the running time down below the maximum 80 minutes
a single CD can hold. The problem is that this changes
the pacing of some of these routines, and drops funny lines
from others. That's tragic; 2) This CD has been mastered
from mediocre sources and, in the case of the middle set,
from what is obviously vinyl. This middle set (tracks 6 to
13, from the 1965 show) is particularly
'tinny' sounding, with little midrange or bass, and clearly
no effort to even remove the pops and tics of the vinyl. THIS
PORTION SOUNDS WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL LP!
Rhino is usually dependable, but they dropped the ball on this
one. The mastering of the other material is better, although
far from audiophile quality. The only saving grace is that
this sound quality isn't critical for a spoken word recording.
But it still stinks.

Overall, the material gets 5 stars. The editing and sound
quality get 1 star. 3 stars overall. I suggest you look for the
2CD package Capitol issued as an import in 1990. That contained
a similar distillation of the 3 original LPs but not
as poorly edited. It's now out of print,
but can sometimes be found in second hand shops.

If you are not inclined to do that, well, this package will
have to do. And it IS better than nothing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Buy the imported EMI double CD , February 14, 2006

By	Jizmo (Boston) - See all my reviews

This is excellent material. Woody Allen was a brilliant stand-up comedian before he became a brilliant film-maker.
This single CD, however, is badly edited (sometimes in the middle of a routine) to reduce what was originally a double LP set of 93 minutes down to single CD length.

Search out the EMI import double CD of the same. Amazon has it. I just got mine. It is complete, and funny as hell as well as sophisticated.

Even at really reasonable used prices, you'll be missing too much if you get this single disc.

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5.0 out of 5 stars NAILBITERS AGAINST THE BEDWETTERS, September 19, 2000

By	Johan Adams (Brugge Belgium) - See all my reviews

This CD is a compilation of the 3 LP's Allen released in the 1960's. Having been a very succesful and highly paid television writer, Allen took to being a lowly-paid (at first) stand-up comic. Anyone who is familiar with Woody Allen's comedy movies, will instantly recognize his style of humor on this disc. Psychiatry, his disastrous relationships with women, his relatives, etc., are his favorite topics, and they are treated with the typical Allenesque point-of-view, which somehow manages to put you on the wrong foot every single time. Some of the jokes on this album later turned up in his movies. This CD actually doesn't include all the material that was available on the original LP's, but what it lacks in quantity, it more than makes up for in quality, and, like it or not, this is all we're ever going to get. Somehow I don't think he'll ever go back to standup. It's our loss.

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