Disc: 1
1. The Blood Donor Pt1 - Tony Hancock
2. Song Of The Australian Outlaw - Kenneth Williams
3. One Leg Too Few - Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore
4. Liberty Bell - Monty Python
5. Parrot Sketch - Monty Python
6. The Hippopotamus Song (Mud) - Flanders & Swann
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Disc: 2
1. T.V.P.M - Peter Cook
2. Camelot Song - Monty Python
3. Bring Out Your Dead (From The Holy Grail) - Monty Python
4. Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman
5. Les Patterson Cultural Attache - Barry Humphries
6. Penis Song (Not The Noel Coward Song) - Monty Python
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Disc: 3
1. The Q 5 Piano Tune - Spike Milligan
2. The Radio Ham (Excerpt) - Tony Hancock
3. Boom Oo Yata-Ta-Ta - Morecambe & Wise
4. Take A Pew - Alan Bennett
5. Lumberjack Song - Monty Python
6. Furniture Payment - Laurel & Hardy
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2.0 out of 5 stars A staggering disappointment, 7 Mar 2001

By	Stephen Sadler (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There is so much potential in the title of this triple-CD, that one can only be disappointed by the content. Just think how much humour you could cram into three hours? Then discover how well the compiler of this CD hides a half-hour of comedy in three CDs. It is sad that the compiler's definition of "comedy" does not include 'humorous entertainment'. These three CDs contain some absolute comedy gems, witness the futile attempts of Mr Spiggott, a unidexter, to apply for the role of Tarzan. Morecambe and Wise's wonderful "Boom OOOh Yatatata" and some great Max Miller which I hadn't heard before. Despite this, there is the shockingly disappointing realisation that the compiler has simply said to himself "we must have some of this" without checking the quality. "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" is Laurel and Hardy, granted, but is it comedy? "The Intro and the Outro" is Bonzo Dog filling space on their record - why does it fill space on this? Where, I ask you is the "Urban Spaceman"? I like Roy Hudd, but is the bus driver really his best work? Does it even come close? I hope that the compiler of the sequel realises that just because a comedian or comedy writer has been involved in the production, it doesn't make it 'comedy'. "Big Girl" has got Harry Enfield in it, but that doesn't make it funny. Unlike Ronseal's Wood Preserver, it doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Comedy Album.....yes; Best ever .... No, 29 Nov 2001

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This contains some absolute gems from Mr. Spiggott the one-legged Tarzan, classic Hancock, classic Goons, Bob Newhart, The Big Yin's casual vomit to Jasper Carrot's mole. However, there is just too much blandness in between and these tend to be the songs. Spike Milligan is an undoubted comedy genious, but the theme tune to Q5 does not make me laugh; neither does Morecombe and Wise's "bring me sunshine". Don't get me wrong not all the songs are unfunny, listen to Victoria Wood's contribution, Peter Sellers singing George Gershwin and Kenneth Williams' "Nadgers". However, what this album really lacked was more spoken comedy sketches and one liners from our best stand-up comics. Some contributions could have been better selected. Roy Hudd is an incredibly funny comic but his sketch was nowhere near his best. It was also notable for its absence of some of our comedy greats, e.g where was Tommy Cooper, Dave Allen, Al Read, Rik Mayal Paul Whitehouse? Also absent were clips from well loved series like The Navy Lark, Dad's Army, Men from the Minstry, I'm sorry I haven't a clue, The Yound Ones, The Fast Show and countless others. This album is worth having purely for the sheer brilliance of the best bits of the album, but be prepared to realise that these could have been put on just one CD.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great - yes, Greatest - perhaps not, 24 Jan 2004

By	Mr. R. B. Ager "Ronald Ager" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Comedy CDs are a niche market, that is, they don't sell. Apart from the BBC's extensive catalogue of radio comedy shows most of the classic comedy stars' material is either out of print or hard to track down, and expensive. And when you do find and buy something you play it once and file it, being disillusioned by the fact that 90% of it is unfunny stuff which pads out the 10% that everyone remembers.

This glorious collection brings together a lot of that 10%, covering a vast range of comedy and humourous songs over the last 60 odd years, from Laurel & Hardy, through Hancock and Monty Python, to Kevin and Perry.

Inevitably, in trying to cover such a wide range, some selections will not be to everyone's taste (I always found Spike Milligan, outside of the Goons, supremely unfunny) but there is plenty here for those of us over, say 40, to remember with a smile, and for those younger to broaden their education.

Highlights for me are the Bob Newhart and Joyce Grenfell monologues, Allan Sherman's peerless "Hello Muddah, Hello Fuddah", Pete & Dud's unidexter and Alan Bennet's sermon. On the minus side the long excerpts from Tony Hancocks "Blood Donor/Radio Ham" sound odd and out of context - the complete recordings of both are available on one budget CD and it's well worth looking up. And I could have done without some of the Monty Python stuff.

One other point of note - Morecambe & Wise's "Grieg Piano Concerto" is NOT the classic BBC-TV sketch with Andre Previn, but an earlier incarnation of it.

All in all, a great summary of mostly British comic sketches and songs of the last sixty years; perhaps not the greatest but well worth investigation.

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