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Here's what people are really saying about the Telephone Solicitor's Nightmare...

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Imbala riola!
author: Robert Handcock
Imba la qua la sio ba la! Mia la brakla rasamla tolma sa! My friend here says he loves it!

5 out of 5 starsYou are my hero
Reviewer: R. Vanasse
After hearing you on the radio I was inspired. Now when ever I get a call from a T.M. I have so much fun with them. I think my best call was with a carpet cleaner. I had him checking to see if he could put sued on all 4 walls of my den & the floor & how much it would cost to clean them. My Wife & Son get a hoot out of listening to me. I should really start recording them. Thank You.

5 out of 5 stars I love you man this is good good good.
Reviewer: C. Wall
Man i got this tape at a thrift store and dlove it to death. I ride in my car and just laugh. i have allowed it to be used at a party for my grandchildren and we all just cracked our sides.YOu a stupid and good.I tried to call the number on the tape and it was cut off.Do you have any other tapes? Do you do Prank Calls? i would love for you to do some prank calls to people that i know, Rickey Smiley does them too. This is too funny. Why is it not known? I have been told by peole that i let hear it they want to buy it. Do you have others? I really could push these. Keep up the good work.Good Gift


5 out of 5 stars Brilliant and hilarious!
Reviewer: Cassendre Xavier, CD Baby Artist   (click for website)
you crazy fool! i'm getting this for my clinically depressed boyfriend. this oughta cheer the blues right outta him... i'm still laughing and my eyes are watering!


4 out of 5 stars I laughed until I cried on this one!
Reviewer: Carmen Lawrence
A couple of years ago I became extremely frustrated when one particular solicitor (the recorded type) kept calling me every day! After obtaining their office number and requesting numerous times for them to stop calling, I gave my children the number and let them have a little fun repeatedly calling them. Still, the calls kept coming. I got on the internet and started searching for a way to fight back and that's when I came across your cd. I simply want to know when you are going to make another one! I laughed until I cried on this one! It was very theraputic! My only complaint is that it is a little hard to hear the callers.


5 out of 5 stars 
Reviewer: CD Baby
This album not only made my day (and probably the next few to come) but aroused strange looks from my co-workers. Them: slaving away at their computers. Me: rolling on the floor with laugher, wheezing and pounding the floor, practically ready to bust a gut or two. If you've ever had not-so-nice fantasies about what you would like to do to those annoying telemarketers that always seem to interrupt the most cherished moments of your peace, let this album requite those impulses. Ahh! Revenge, sweet revenge!!!!!!

 Truely funny...especially for those of us in the business!!!!
Reviewer: kathy
Even the folks who are in the telemarketing business can get a good laugh out of this one. Truth be told, we don't like those bothersome phone calls either. Michael's approach is so much "kinder and gentler" then most. Thanks Again for the laugh and "ideas".

5 out of 5 stars yikes
Reviewer: jane
I laughed so hard I coughed up a big wad of phlegm. In fact I laughed so hard I was catapulted to another quantum level in the space/time continuum. The thing that makes this CD nice compared to other phone prank CDs is that Michael Gross is obviously well brought up and even though he is pulling the telemarkter's leg 6 ways from Sunday, he is always respectful, polite and never insulting. Which is probably why he can string them along as well as he can. My favorite track is the one called Noise. Tears are starting to well up in my eyes just thinking about it....


4 out of 5 stars Truly hilarious
Reviewer: Rob Lavona
I can honestly say I haven't laughed so much in my life. This is true comic genius that works on many levels. First, it's just funny to hear Mike dupe these hapless telemarketers with bits that are incredibly clever. Mike played these telemarketers like a fiddle. While all good, my favorites were the "Sick guy" (pretends to be incredibly ill, vomit sounds, but Telemarketer just keeps on going), "Slow Down" (annoyed the heck out of an annoying telemarketer), "Foreign man" (perplexing the Telemarketer with an imaginary friend speaking in a made up language), and "Alien" (he's a completely bizarre, off-the-wall alien). Just writing about these now is making me laugh. On another level, the telemarketers become humanized in almost touching ways (see "Paranoid"). And finally, there is a certain satisfaction in that us non-telemarketers are giving these annoying callers a little come-uppance. I ordered some of these CDs for Christmas presents,and everyone I gave it to had the same reaction as me. This CD would make a great present for any occaision. Thanks Mike for making me laugh so hard.


5 out of 5 stars I laughed until I cried
Reviewer: Julie
This is really a kick. My whole family sat around and listened to it over the Thanksgiving holiday and laughed histerically. Big fun!


5 out of 5 stars Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewer: Bill Cuevas-Music Director-KZSU
Comedy: prank phone call genre except that this time it’s the caller that’s being pranked, the callers in this case being the universally hated telemarketer. Brilliant and side-splittingly hilarious most of the time as Michael Gross takes on various personas and drives the telemarketers to the brink. But in the end its easy to feel for the callers, realizing that they do indeed have a shit job. At one point a caller thanks Gross for being “the most interesting call I’ve had all day”. Its then that you realize how many of the callers are probably on to Gross but are so jaded that they seem oblivious. Regardless, some of these rank up there with the best of the jerky boys etc. Noted tracks: 1) drives the telemarketer nuts by continuing to say “slow down” 2) feigns illness including horrific barfing sounds 4) this one (along with take 2, track 19) is the best: Gross pretends to consult his “friend” in a foreign language that is so hilariously false and made up 7) pretends to be from france, complete with stereotypes and a genuinely duped hic telemarketer 9) rather abstract: the telemarketer asks various questions to which Gross answers with Shakespeare text, strange 11) pretends to be a “songwriter” and ad libs a song based on the telemarketer’s pitch 18) makes annoying sounds and drives the caller crazy 19) see number 4

4 out of 5 starsExtremely Funny!
Reviewer: Robert Hellmann
I don't think I've ever laughed so hard. Gross is truly funny, and I get a real satisfaction from hearing these solicitors get some of their own medicine after annoying me so frequently at home! I'm planning on buying this CD and send it to friends/relatives for the holiday season. The only reason this CD is a 4 and not a 5 is that the sound quality is uneven from bit to bit, requiring volume adjustments. Hopefully he will get better equipment to record his next CD (please make another one!).

 

 

5 out of 5 starsI love your CD...
Reviewer: Jeff - Marlborough,  MA
I love your CD... My favorite one is the "Alien'" clip... I was rolling on the floor laughing!!! (And practically still do every time I play it for somebody else...)

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