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2008 collection consists of the best comedy moments from the national Stan Freberg Show (broadcast in 1957), an elaborately produced program boasting high production values, daring scripts, and cutting edge satire. It's originality was dazzling as it created a surreal world of interviews (such as the Abdominal Snowman and Miss Jupiter), parodies of Madison Avenue advertising (foreshadowing his future advertising success in the 60's), the spoofing of popular TV and radio genres as well as cutting edge and daring political satire. Hip and irreverent, Stan Freberg was the last network radio comic, a trailblazing satirist whose work greatly expanded the vocabulary of the comedy form. While most postwar comedians used radio and records merely as a springboard for more lucrative film and television gigs, Freberg pushed the envelope in both mediums, creating high-concept musical comedies and sound collages which revolutionized the audio format while setting the stage for the hallucinatory sonic visions of the Firesign Theater and the National Lampoon troupe. EMI Gold.