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Title: Cancel My Subscription: The Worst of NPR
Subtitle: Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters Perform the Funniest Songs and Nonsense That NPR Has to Offer
Author: Moe Moskowitz, The Punsters
Narrator: Moe Moskowitz, The Punsters
Format: Original Recording
Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-16-16
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Genres: Radio & TV, Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
Moe Moskowitz is back! And this time, he's joined by NPR's Bob Edwards, Alex Chadwick, Terry Gross, Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Robert Siegel, Carl Kasell, Frank Tavares, and an outstanding array of people. The Punsters join him to perform the funniest songs and nonsense that NPR has to offer.
Critic Reviews:
"sweeping satire these comic musicians and their ever-scheming manager, Moe Moskowitz, draw on the spirit as well as the sounds of the very best rock to energize their absurdist vision of life in the 21st century." (Chicago Sun Times)
Members Reviews:
I found it to be amusing with just a couple of truly funny moments.
Originally published by Phoenix Books in April of 2001
Re-published in 2016
Multicast performance
Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes
Moe Moskowitz used to be a semi-regular feature on NPR in the morning. He is a character created by author and high school English teacher Robert Kaplow.
NPR is not known for its humor. In fact, I listened to one of their compilation CDs that was supposed to be funny and found it to be even less funny than the normal types of stories that NPR covers during a normal morning. Great news stories but, aside from the weekend stuff, they're not particularly funny.
Moe Moskowitz must have been like the proverbial bull in the China shop when his bits were played. He is quick, clever and non-stop. His attention ranges all over the place. He sings, he pitches new product ideas, he pitches new story ideas, he parodies everything from Alvin and the Chipmunks to Cokie Roberts.
The collection is sort of a recounting the amazing career of Moskowitz. The style is very much in the style of Spike Jones and the City Slickers, a group that was pretty much the Weird Al Yankovic of the 1940s and 1950s.
Was it funny? For NPR this is a knee-slapper. I found it to be amusing with just a couple of truly funny moments. I listened, enjoyed it well enough but I have no plans to go back and listen again. Lots of parody songs, lots of clever lines but nothing that really nailed it for me.
Oh God. So horrible.
This collection of silly little songs and gags makes me gag. I'm not sure what Moe Moskowitz is doing on NPR, but his material is just horrible. It is worse when NPR celebs (with their wooden cadences and serious personas) join in the "fun." Moe's songs -- like "The Palimony Song" (throw in the VCR!) -- are vapid and stupid. The humor must be heavy irony, because there is little that is genuinely funny on this album. Maybe clever, maybe manic, but always painful -- wwith jokes at the level of a 1950s Dean Martin roast. Unbearable.
Thinks it's funnier than most of it is
This is worth listening to for a couple of absolute gems, but the hour-plus of uneven material needed a much more ruthless editor. I loved the punk sendups of "This was a real nice clambake" and "Do you love me," the do-it-yourself hit record, and a couple of other bits. The musical quality and the mimicking of artist styles is dead-on throughout. But pervading the whole thing was a sensation that its creators thought that everything was way funnier than I found much of it. Parodies of things already parodies themselves, like the Prarie Home Companion bit and the WB cartoon bit, added nothing to the wit of the originals.
