★★★★★
In person, Klein is quick, energetic, nasty, compassionate--very New York. This record captures about half of that, which isn't bad, and I bet the next one is better.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The funniest album by a standup comic since George Carlin's Class Clown leaves behind the grammar-school nostalgia--which although frequently amusing always seemed formulaic when it wasn't--that kept Klein from sounding commercially uncompromised. Unlike Carlin, Klein gets better all the time. Never trivial, never cynical, never lacking a comic purpose for his outrage, he's up there with Pryor and Tomlin.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Less grounded in childhood/adolescent experiences than his previous album, Mind Over Matter. Klein satirizes Jacques Cousteau, Borscht Belt comedians, mysticism, Watergate, and more with hilarious, educated sarcasm. Some of the topical references may have dated, but Klein's savage, knowing wit has not. There are also more brilliant TV commercial spoofs, especially "The Final Record Offer," a must-hear for anyone who's been assaulted by tacky album ads from the small screen.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
As the title indicates, many of the routines here originate from Robert Klein's experiences growing up in New York in the 1950s. He's equally comfortable, however, taking on then-current targets like stoned FM disc jockeys and inane television commercials, or whimsically making fun of late-19th century president James Garfield...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28