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| | Product Details | | Audio CD Release Date: | September 27, 2011 | | Studio: | Comedy Central Rec. | | Number Of Discs: | 1 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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| | Track Listing | | 1. | Intro | | 2. | I Live in NYC | | 3. | Really Warm | | 4. | I Get a Cold | | 5. | Still Smoke | | 6. | Bar Mitzvah | | 7. | Chapel Hill | | 8. | Late '60s/Drugs | | 9. | Forty Now | | 10. | George Bush | | 11. | Exxon Valdez | | 12. | Christmas | | 13. | Gorby | | 14. | Dan Quayle | | 15. | Choices | | 16. | Dick Cheney | | 17. | President Reagan | | 18. | Nancy | |
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26 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing Oct 03, 2011
By William Grasso
"lordbill2"
** Please listen to the audio quality before you buy!!**
I was really disappointed with this "album." I clicked "buy" before I bothered to listening to or even reading the titles any of the tracks, because I'm a huge Lewis Black fan. The result is a small collection of short, poor audio quality outtakes, from several different years, that only made me mad I lost my money. You've heard all these jokes and lines before- only they were more polished and better delivered. "Students of Comedy" might find some insight into Mr. Blacks' style, or joke development, but as an owner of all his previous albums, I found the whole thing a very poor substitute for a "real" Black album.
22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Profit Sep 30, 2011
By Kawika
"honest2u"
Comedy Central money grab. While this disc is good for a few laughs, I'm very disappointed with the sound quality and length of the show. The track titles make it obvious, but Amazon hasn't even described the product yet, to let you know that this is an old show (1990). I'm disappointed that LB would sell this as a basically full priced new CD, since it is so short and sounds like a boot - so make sure to sample the tracks. Who knew Lewis Black hated Christmas 21 years ago? Lewis Black's Web site clearly explains what this disc is about, but I don't recommend this. The title is misleading too, nothing prophetic here, but still entertaining. Expectations...
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Almost unlistenable Nov 05, 2011
By Todd D. Graves
I've honestly heard bootleg cds with better audio. This is unacceptable for 2011. I'm not some weird audio snob but this is terrible.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 you've heard it, better, over AM radio Oct 13, 2011
By J. Harville
Poor audio quality, old clips, about 40 minutes long, and very very deceiving. I'm a huge Lewis Black fan, saw the release date, thought "Hey, that's recent, and i could use a healthy dose of cynicism"... well that's what i got, but not from Lewis Black. It sounds worse than listening to AM radio, as if someone used one of those "note to self" recorders at a few of his shows forever ago before he polished his jokes and decided to release it in the hopes that you don't scroll down and read the reviews. Don't buy it, even if you're a big collector. Go get Patton Oswalt's new album, even if you don't like him, it's worth a listen.
 Understandably underrated Apr 10, 2012
By Benjamin
I'm a big Lewis Black fan, just so you know(not that it really means a thing). I'm here to say that The Prophet is underrated.
This is the only Lewis Black album that is almost universally trash-talked about, and it seems as if nobody wants it. I remember when it was first supposedly released, I couldn't find it on Amazon or anywhere else on the internet to download. Now over a year since it came out, I finally got a listen to The Prophet and I've had a little time to think about it.
Really, it's not that bad. The common reasons why people don't like this album is that the audio quality is poor, which is true, and lots of the jokes aren't evergreen, which is also true. This is an album that was released in 2011, but the political jokes are about George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle, etc. They're kind of funny if you are old enough to understand those jokes/rants, but we've already heard Lewis make the same rants about these people before. However, the reason for this isn't because Lewis is losing his edge(I'd argue the opposite), but that this album is simply a recording of his earlier material.
Also, the majority of what is on the album is material that hasn't been heard yet or unrefined. I own all of Lewis Black's albums, some of which I have autographed, so I've listened to them pretty thoroughly and while the latter half of the album isn't interesting, The Prophet is still worth listening to. I can't find many facts on this album, but this is clearly earlier Lewis Black material and it's interesting to listen to how Lewis Black's act has developed over time.
The Prophet is, in my opinion, for current Lewis Black fans only. This IS NOT a good introduction into Lewis Black, and if you are looking to introduce yourself to his comedy, please listen to his album "Anticipation". While it has very little political comedy in it, I think it is the funniest of his works and it goes to show he's a good enough comedian that he can be funny without always resorting to his same schtick.
My only real complaint is that with the quality of the audio and the datedness of the material, this album should be offered as half-price, or at the very least, it should be included as a bonus disc with a better Lewis Black album.
So I gave this one 4 stars. It's fine if you're a rabid Black fan, but it's pretty stale if you new to him.
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