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Child of the 50's - Robert Klein
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  1. Civil Defense (No Talking)
  2. Public School
  3. School Lunch
  4. The Sex Impulse
  5. "Fabulous 50's"
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  1. Civil Defense (No Talking)
  2. Public School
  3. School Lunch
  4. The Sex Impulse
  5. "Fabulous 50's"
  6. Substitute School Teacher
  7. Starting Your Car
  8. F.M. Disc Jockey
  9. New York City Animals
  10. All Night Groceries
  11. The Panhandler
  12. The Foreigner
  13. Public Service Commercials
  14. My Little Margie
  15. Commercials
  16. Our Gang
  17. Musical Instruments
  18. Athletics
  19. Words
  20. My Last Movie
  21. Childhood Myth
  22. "Middle Class Educated Blues"
  23. School Assembly
  24. James Abram Garfield
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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. Because so many of his sources are so common to the American experience -- neurotic schoolteachers, the idiocy of mainstream media, and starting your car in the dead of winter -- the jokes remain ...

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