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...TIGHTWAD JOHN KENNEDY refusing to buy his motorcade gas at a service station that doesn't give green stamps--such was one of the opening shots of liberal political satire in the 1960's. Vaughn Meader's impersonation of Kennedy on his album The First Family embodied two traditional characteristics of humorous caricature and parody. The imitation bore a superficial resemblance to its subject while the content made us aware that the impression was not the original. It felt good to laugh at a caricature that in its own ludicrous way reduced Kennedy to understandable human terms. Yet, we didn...
...satire of the 1970's reflects the disillusionment of the last decade; it transcends the congenial buffoonery which has left Meader already forgotten. The success of these works inevitably leaves us to ponder the price in blood we have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...
...been translated from TV series, such as Sesame Street and Flip Wilson. It also seems to signal a return to the popularity of comedy albums such as those that flourished in the early '60s. Another fast-selling LP is David Frye's Richard Nixon Superstar. Even Vaughan Meader, the man who started the trend in 1962 with The First Family, is back with a satirical vision of Jesus' return to earth titled The Second Coming...
Most of the rest of the cast works hard and well, too, although no one can ever quite overcome the lethargy of the non-musical scenes. David Dunton's sharp and funny portrayal of the devil, Applegate, bristles with cunning and sleek nastiness. While Don Meader's version of Joe Hardy, super baseball star, is essentially unappealing (why does he always scowl?), his singing voice has extraordinary power and expression...
...context, from two separate tapes. The result is a new comedy album, Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch, created by Gag Writer Earle Doud, that in two weeks has sold some 500,000 copies and bids fair to rival Doud's earlier spoof, The First Family (with Vaughn Meader as J.F.K...