Sandwiches & Cats

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Total Tracks: 17   Total Length: 55:45

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It's OK.

Contiveros

It's hipster comedy. It's OK, but don't listen to the music. You'll regret it a little. Not a lot, but a little. And never call Showwalter Screech.

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Why Don't you grab on.. to your thistle milk...

DRawfulMD

Michael Showalter is on the right track with this debut comedy album. I love his stand-up, and his witty narrative 'songs' are creative and make me smile every time I hear them. I hope this is a start to a series of Showalter live comedy albums!

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Vacillating Enjoyment

richard.watson8

Showalter's live standup on this album? Hilarious! The pre-recorded songs, or whatever they are, are boring and at best I just don't get it. I would advise you to listen to the clips and steer away from anything with music in the background.

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all thats left is the smile

jessesg

love it, hilarious. listen to it all the time, especially apartment... just redonc. enjoy! jamby jams

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Michael Showalter

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Michael Showalter has been making the smart-and-silly set laugh for a long time, in various formats. Audiences were first introduced to the lantern-jawed actor with a thick shock of dark hair as a part of The State, the raucous, mid-'90s MTV comedy sketch show (Showalter's most famous role on the show was Doug, the teenager who constantly rebelled against nothing in particular). In 2001, most of The State reunited for the summer camp spoof movie Wet… more »

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Michael Showalter was nothing but sharp and funny with the surreal comedy groups the State and Stella, but then his romantic comedy The Baxter had half of his fans thinking “charming” while the other half thought “pukey.” Some of the best moments on his debut comedy album are truly vulgar and trashy, so this isn’t the charming Baxter, but it shares that film’s pacing problems and likewise wears its smartness on its sleeve. If this were up to Stella’s standards, that latter complaint would be more tolerable. Problem is, Showalter comes off as smug during his lazy and meandering standup act, recorded live in front of an audience that often doesn’t connect with the comedian. While this smirky half of the album does contain one of the greatest moments — when the comedian interacts with an audience member who brought a real live cat to the show — most of the highlights are the sketches and musical numbers recorded in the studio with Showalter’s band the Dollies. Whistling along with “Erotica” — a song where adventure travel and pornography meet — is great fun and “The Mountain” is a six-and-a-half minute epic rich with wit. In the end, Sandwiches & Cats is a good album that should give Stella fanatics a fix, but it’s not the great album Showalter could undoubtedly deliver if he were on his game. – David Jeffries

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