| Left for Dead in Malaysia | ||||
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| Released | January 25, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | July 22, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 39:31 | |||
| Label | Drag City | |||
| Producer | Neil Hamburger | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.5/10 [2] |
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The A.V. Club wrote: "Like Hamburger's first two albums, Left For Dead mercilessly exposes, exaggerates, and satirizes the unnatural, formalized conventions of stand-up comedy: the forced joviality, the manufactured intimacy, the contrived nature of joke-telling, and the sort of theatrical masochism of an art form that requires its participants to confess their failures as human beings, then derive humor from their own shortcomings." [6]
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