Ross Noble Goes Global Series 2 Audio CD – Unabridged, 4 July 2005

I Like Ross Noble. He is intelligent, observant and very funny. And this offering contains all 3 virtues but only for about 20% of the 2 cd`s. The rest is a stumbling travelogue which after a while becomes annoying .It is interspersed with the humour expected from Ross extracted from dialogue with locals encountered on his travels and then expanded on in short extacts from his live shows.All in all it ends up being neither one thing or the other. It is not a funny cd nor is it an informed travelogue, but a mish mash of both with such a small ammount of worthwhile material as to make the whole thing rather pointless.Which is a shame really. I will buy other Ross Noble cd`s but fully expect this to be the duff one of the collection.

Ross Noble is a pure genius, great to hear some earlier work (also produced by Danny Wallace - Great Suprise!) especially since I came late to his pure comic genius!

Save your money. This is a rambling, boring trip to nowhere. Most of the dialogue sounds like an unfunny drunk annoying the locals and the background sounds, far from giving you a flavour of the city, just sounds like droning traffic and make it hard to hear any dialog, although that's probably for the best.The intermittent comedy sketches are plain awful, no the concept of a museum made entirely of waffles is not funny.Even if a comedian is bad I'll often get a couple of smiles but this was just plain appalling. A waste of money and frankly I feel a cheaply made, badly produced insult to the consumer. I think BBC listeners license fees could be better spent.

This is an excellent CD. Ross displays his talents as a global tourguide, and he's good at it too! At each location you hear Ross as he wanders round the local area meeting, greeting and sightseeing, interspersed with clips from the shows he did while he was there. As you would expect for someone with an imagination as wild as Ross', his travels do not tend to lead him to the most 'normal' or touristy places, and once you've listened to an episode you will almost feel like a local in that area. Needless to say, the comedy is as quirky and hillarious as ever.If you need anything more to convince you to buy this CD, you might be interested to know that Danny Wallace (Join Me, How to start your own country) is the producer!

I listend to this series on the BBC Website, and have been searching for this series on CD ever since, but to no avail. But I log onto Amazon today and here it is!! This is classic Ross Noble. Absolute comedy genious, the Belgium episode is the funniest with his veiws on a museum made entirely of waffles!!! If ou like this CD dont forget, Ross Noble Goes Global Series 1 and of course his DVD, Unrealtime!

What can I say about this CD? It really is pure class. The fascinating incite into the local cultures of South Africa,Ireland,China and Singapore are funny but at the same time informative. And the little bits of standup wedged inbetween are equally as funny.I urge anyone with a love of comedy to buy this CD, you will not be disapointed! And if you ever have the chance to see him live, DO IT!! I saw him at the B'ham Alexandria and he was absolutly superb!! I'm sure if a DVD was to be released then it would be equally as successful as this CD.Unleash the dairy based anger.........

Michael Palin without the television, research, education value, or Michael Palin. Noble devotees and the unitiated alike will love this offering- his trademark rambling, a kung-fu obsession and a helping of those rather tactless comments we all would make in a foreign country but for the fear that some of the locals speak English. 'Tis a glorious mix of badly-researched travelogue and excerpts from the live performances that the series follows Ross Noble to in China, Singapore, Budapest, South Africa and Ireland. It bears listening to again and again and is not just for mature tastes- it'll eat up the miles on long family drives, or just have it on the background for this pleasant fellows Geordie accent. If y'like that sort of thing. In these days of the global village, when the romantic days of exploring the true unknown with Professor Challenger, Uncle Lidenbrock and the (less fictitious) Dr Livingstones and Shackletons, it might be argued that the magic has gone from traveling purely for the sake of it- but with comedians like Ross Noble, it's been given a new take- irreverant, fantastically funny and occasioanlly, quite bizzare. So buy it, and discover duck tongues, donkeys and how far taxis in China'll take ya. All from the comfort of your setee.

This was not the best Ross Noble that I have purchased but worth a listen. Good for car journeys.