Another Live On Broadway DVD. This is the origin of American Standup Comedy, folks. If you have not seen THIS man, you have never seen stand up.

***NOTE*** - I will be uploading the ripped data as a separate torrent shortly, so that you can burn a DVD at higher quality. I used to work as a public school teacher, and I know just about any English Teacher would give their right arm for this DVD. The description below is from amazon.com


Come meet Mark Twain. OK, true, the humorist has been dead for more years than we care to remember, and not many of us around today were alive to hear what he sounded like. But Hal Holbrook is so spectacular in his one-man performance that you could swear you were listening to Twain himself. The gravelly voice, the lined face, the slow shuffle, and cigar-induced throat clearings seem so natural that you'll have difficulty recognizing Holbrook beneath the white suit, the gray hair, and the handlebar mustache. 
Mark Twain Tonight! began as a Broadway show in the 1960s and was filmed as a CBS special in 1967. Yet you'd never know it, because the humor, which is more than a century old, is still laugh-out-loud funny today. Twain--I mean, Holbrook--gives a monologue that is rambling, intelligent, and humorous as he culls together commentary from a variety of Twain sources. From dachshund hounds, politics, and patriotism to cigar smoking, memory loss, and religion, this 90-minute video leaps from subject to subject as we're entertained by material that's as fresh today as it was when it was written in the 1800s. --Jenny Brown 

Review
By the time Hal Holbrook made his big-screen debut in 1966's The Group, a lot of people were curious to see what he really looked like. This is because the now-veteran actor had spent more than a dozen years under white hair and latex touring as Mark Twain in a one-man show that remains an institution. 
Always a busy big-screen actor in subordinate roles, Holbrook is probably best known as Twain (an Emmy and a Tony all but cemented that status), but he also played Abraham Lincoln in a series of TV specials and in the miniseries North and South, John Adams in the miniseries George Washington and World War II Gen. George C. Marshall in the Emmy-winning Los Alamos drama Day One. 
His other work on the small screen has been ubiquitous across the decades, from The Ed Sullivan Show in the '50s to Disneyland in the early '70s to The West Wing and The Sopranos. A Holbrook character can align with the forces of good (the kindly mentor type in Wall Street) or evil (he headed the conglomerate of shady lawyers in The Firm). But in terms of career benchmarks, the must-sees include Mark Twain Tonight! (1967, Kultur, unrated, $30): An American classic preserved. --Mike Clark, USA Today 
 
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Tonight-Hal-Holbrook/dp/B00003M5G9
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204468/

Chapter 01 â?? Program Start
Chapter 02 â?? Whiskey Train Long Dog
Chapter 03 â?? Smoke Rings
Chapter 04 â?? Half a Gallon
Chapter 05 â?? The Water Closet
Chapter 06 â?? Reporter & Congress
Chapter 07 â?? Grandfathers Old Ram
Chapter 08 â?? A Hymn Book
Chapter 09 â?? The Silent Lie
Chapter 10 â?? Huck & Jim
Chapter 11 â?? Lower Than The Angels
Chapter 12 - Lynching
Chapter 13 â?? The Creators Pet
Chapter 14 â?? Ghost Story (Golden Arm)
Chapter 15 â?? Hannibal Boyhood
Chapter 16 â?? Piloting At Sunrise
Chapter 17 â?? Gold Rush
Chapter 18 â?? 70th Escape & Satan
Chapter 19 â?? Mary Ann
Chapter 20 â?? End Credits