Comedy Is Not Pretty!

Comedy Is Not Pretty! Artist: Steve Martin
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 093624688723
EAN: 0093624688723
ASIN: B0000062TO


Release Date: 1998-04-28

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Listmania:

  1. Greatest Comedy Albums
  2. Best of Steve Martin
  3. Some Great Comedy Albums
  4. Some great comedy
  5. Steve Martin, 1980
  6. Steve Martin -- A Thinking Man's Genius
  7. Best Comedy Albums Ever
  8. The Best Comedy Albums Ever....In No Particular Order
  9. Great comedy albums
  10. Proof Steve Martin is God

Tracks:

  1. Born To Be Wild
  2. The All Being
  3. McDonald's/Men's Underwear
  4. Drop Thumb Medley
  5. Googlephonics
  6. Hostages
  7. Cruel Shoes (From The Book 'Cruel Shoes')
  8. Comedy Is Not Pretty
  9. How To Meet A Girl
  10. Rubberhead
  11. Jackie O. And Farrah F.
  12. You Can Be A Millionaire

Similar Items:

  1. Let's Get Small
  2. A Wild and Crazy Guy
  3. The Steve Martin Brothers
  4. Saturday Night Live - The Best of Steve Martin
  5. No Respect

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars sort of funny but..............2006-06-09

Steve Martin was marketed/managed VERY well in the mid 1970's. His first album "Let's Get Small" came out of nowhere and inspired many. His follow up "Wild and Crazy Guy" went a step down...some outtakes from the original album, and some more recent live stuff (see my reviews of those if you wish).

Then came this cd...which appears to be everything left on the cutting room floor...that should have remained there perhaps. If you are a fan, this is worth having as a collector...so we can hear when his comedy did NOT work.

So, if you want to have everything of Martin's...get this. If you only want something funny...then stay away...far away...from this cd, which could have been titled "Comedy is not Here"

4 out of 5 stars It May Not Be Pretty, But It's Still Funny.......2001-02-24

For 1979 Steve Martin returned to The Boardinghouse nightclub in San Francisco for his third comedy LP, even though according to Steve when they got the tape they took to to the studio and erased it.

Comedy Is Not Pretty, and admittedly this third LP isn't quite as good as Let's Get Small and Wild & Crazy Guy, in part because at points it is cruder, particularly in Steve's somewhat embarassing sketch on Jackie Onassis. It nonetheless does hold up well, from his accident with a drinking glass onward. His Sound Effects gag is quite funny, and he brings out his Wild & Crazy trademark when he growls that the audience thinks he's A Rubberhead.

Googlephonics, dealing with a subject one usually doesn't think about for comedy (stereo systems), is the most interesting track, in large part because it is almost a botch. Steve blows his lines repeatedly during the sketch, and it is here that the laughs come.

Steve's banjo gets work in two tracks. Cruel Shoes is the title story from the contemporaneous book he authored, while his deft deployment of the banjo shines brightest in the delightful Drop Thumb Medley.

From the taking of histages (the Iran hostage crisis gave the album an eerie topicality at the time of its 1979 release) through Steve's tips on becoming a millionaire, Comedy may not be Pretty, but it is still funny.

3 out of 5 stars Steve's been Prettier and Funnier.......2000-08-10

All of Steve Martin's comedy albums are funny. It's just a question of which of the four are the funniest. If you're looking for his best, they are "Let's Get Small" and "A Wild and Crazy Guy" (in that order). On his final comedy album, "The Steve Martin Brothers", a full side of the album is just Steve's banjo playing (the other half obviously comedy). You'll only get half the comedy you expected on that one.

5 out of 5 stars Steve Martin Classic.......1999-05-18

I first listened to this on 8 track when I was a kid and found this a classic rightaway. Martin shows that his witty humor can last into the ages. I highly recomend this to anyone looking for a good laugh. I've gone through some of my old comedy tapes and some were not as funny as I remembered, but Steves comedy is timeless and sophistication of the 90's can't ruin this. a definate must get, humor that doesn't requiring swearing and all the other acts today in order to be funny.

5 out of 5 stars Wow!.......1999-04-08

I bought the c.d. a year ago from a local record store. They had it playing and I asked what it was. Luckily, I found the only copy they had. I bought it, took it home, and I was amazed. I laughed my butt off. I haven't heard his other albums, but I just thought this one was hillarious!! If you enjoy comedy, BUY THIS RECORD NOW!

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  1. Authentic Sound Effects, Vol. 4 ~ Various Artists
  2. Christmas Comedy 1 ~ American Comedy Network
  3. 2000 Years With... ~ Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
  4. Knockers Up/Songs for Sinners ~ Rusty Warren
  5. The Phantom Of The Opera ~ Various Artists
  6. Authentic Sound Effects, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  7. Monty Python's Instant Record Collection ~ Monty Python's Flying Circus
  8. Hilarious Comical Effect, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists
  9. Rudy Ray Moore - Greatest Hits ~ Rudy Ray Moore
  10. The Best of Redd Foxx ~ Redd Foxx

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Brazilian Folk Festivities ~ Various Artists

Cien Por Ciento Norteño ~ Bronco

Comedy Is Not Pretty! ~ Steve Martin

Thunder Bay ~ Kurt Kunzat

Un Ballo in Maschera ~ Verdi, Callas, Gavazzeni

Through the Fire ~ Peabo Bryson

Tal y Como Somos ~ Los Elegidos

Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Vol. 2 ~ Jose Alfredo Jimenez

Grandes Corridos ~ Vagon Chicano

Cuba Social Club, Vol. 10: La Sonora Matancera ~ La Sonora Matancera