What This Country Needs is the second comedy album by the duo Proctor and Bergman of the Firesign Theatre.

It was recorded from a live performance at The Bottom Line which contained material adapted or re-used from their 1973 studio album TV or Not TV, plus several new sketches.

The title is taken from a song Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman wrote, which parodies Vice President Thomas R. Marshall's famous quote, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar".

The album's cover art mimics a cardboard cigar box lid, with a painting of Proctor dressed as a field worker in jean overalls and a straw hat, with Bergman dressed in a suit as the plantation owner.

The picture provides another joke, as the crop appears to be marijuana (some of which sticks out of Proctor's hip pocket) rather than tobacco.