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- Date Released: January 25, 2005
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Comedy
- Label: Comedy Central Records
A relaxed and charming side of the perpetually indignant Daily Show correspondent.
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We Say...
"MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken," comedian Lewis Black aptly says on this, his latest spoken-word album. Black is part observational humorist/part defender of virtue — or at least anti-stupidity. Those who know him only from his segments on The Daily Show might wonder how Black's head has managed to not explode considering his extraordinary levels of indignation, but away from the cameras he's much more relaxed and even charming, oozing a we're-all-friends-here vibe and eliciting topical laughs from an eager beaver audience. Certainly not for the overly sensitive, but then again, what is?
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They Say...
The year 2004 provided plenty of reasons for nearly any thinking person to go off on an angry rant, which is good news if you happen to be a fan of comedian Lewis Black, who has raised the venomous screed to the level of high art. Recorded in the summer of 2004, Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues documents Black hilariously going off on such phenomena as Janet Jackson's infamous appearance at the Super Bowl, the controversy over gay marriage, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ascent to the California governor's mansion, and the ongoing disaster of America's presence in Iraq. If you're at all familiar with Black's glowering, eruptive style (which suggests he could go into cardiac arrest at any moment), you probably know what to expect from this stuff, but that's no criticism of the material here -- Black has a distinctive style that he's honed to a fine point, and on this set that point draws blood just as often as it prompts laughter (which is often). Black is one of the best working comedians in America, not to mention one of the least compromised, and Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues shows that his material and delivery remain remarkably strong -- this is darkly funny stuff that's smart and fearless, and a superb antidote to the insanity of our new millennium.
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Superbowl Redux |
3:50 |
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| 02. | |
MTV |
3:44 |
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| 03. | |
Halftime '04 |
3:04 |
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| 04. | |
What Sex......Are They? |
2:17 |
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| 05. | |
Gay Marriage |
6:25 |
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| 06. | |
Justin And Janet |
3:59 |
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| 07. | |
America Loses It's Mind |
4:29 |
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| 08. | |
Nipple Clamps |
2:46 |
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| 09. | |
One Nation Under God |
3:53 |
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| 10. | |
Michael Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger And Ronald Reagan |
4:05 |
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| 11. | |
Voting (A Flashback) |
3:32 |
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| 12. | |
Iraq, An Idiot's Delight |
16:24 |
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12 Total Tracks, 58:28 Total Length
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Credits
- Jack Vaughn - Producer // John Brown - Design // Lewis Black - Main Performer // John Machnik - Editing // John Machnik - Mastering // John Machnik - Mixing // Bjorn Wentlandt - Engineer // Bjorn Wentlandt - Photography // Dan Schlissel - Editing // Dan Schlissel - Mixing
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