The Jerky Tapes
Comedy CD from The Jerky Boys
Review
by: Russ
Ray
It's hard
to tell what the Jerky Boys were thinking when they came up
with their latest prank phone call comedy CD The Jerky
Tapes. For one thing, it seems like they're trying to
put together a concept album. Four of the nine tracks on their
new CD involve the grueling and unfunny harassment of some
shrieking florist who's trying to contact Harry Getsoff. It's
a bunch of yelling and arguing reminiscent of a Jerry Springer
episode. Really, they devote about a half-hour of CD space
to this ignorant runaround.
The thing
I always enjoyed about the Jerky Boys is that they were like
commandoes--they hit and run. They would go three or four
minutes with somebody and come up with much more creative
and colorful situations for their victims than they have here.
The rest of the segments are pretty clever. On one track,
Frank Rizzo pretends to be a baseball player agent and tells
a guy he can get him a spot on the Yankees by starting him
out as a peanut salesman. On another track, Sol Rosenberg
impersonates Gary Dell'Abate's mother and complains about
the way Gary's hair was cut. The other tracks involve the
purchase of an air blower and a log splitter and an angry
black woman who has issues with Howard Stern.
The tracks
that are good seem to pass too quickly (there are only nine
tracks total on this disc compared to 20 or more on the average
Jerky Boys CD), and the Flower Lady segments are skippable.
This CD defines the phrase "mailing one in", and as their
last collaborative effort, it's a rather hollow finale to
some great prank calls. The CD is available for sale on laugh.com
for $16.98.
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