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Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues,Lewis Black

- Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues
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Lewis Black
Released 2005

Superbowl Redux
03:50
18,548 plays

Gay Marriage
06:25
17,576 plays

Halftime '04
03:03
17,461 plays

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- 1
- Superbowl Redux
- 03:50
- 18,548 plays

- 2
- MTV
- 03:44
- 17,442 plays

- 3
- Halftime '04
- 03:03
- 17,461 plays

- 4
- What Sex? ...Are They?
- 02:17
- 17,312 plays

- 5
- Gay Marriage
- 06:25
- 17,576 plays

- 6
- Justin And Janet
- 03:59
- 16,913 plays

- 7
- America Loses It's Mind
- 04:29
- 17,406 plays

- 8
- Nipple Clamps
- 02:46
- 16,356 plays

- 9
- One Nation Under God
- 03:52
- 16,608 plays

- 10
- Michael Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger And Ronald Reagan
- 04:04
- 16,547 plays

- 11
- Voting
- 03:32
- 15,980 plays

- 12
- Iraq, An Idiots Delight
- 16:23
- 16,064 plays

album review

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. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide