A lot of confused faces last night...

Why did Michael Jackson get a vasectomy?

Because he was worried the 12 year olds might get pregnant.




Maybe the humor is in the delivery, but that to me is not funny.

Maybe one joke in three is genuinely funny (why did Madonna feed her child alpo? She couldn't help it! that's just what came out of her breast) - though maybe not everyone's idea of funny; one in three is mildly funny, and one in three is not funny at all, just perplexing. But then, when people are looking perplexed, he says "please, people! I have cancer!" And to deal with a heckler, he finds someone else in the audience who has a drink, and someone with a lighter, and has them pour the drink on the heckler and light him/her on fire. Plus, he's continually clearing his throat through the microphone. Plus, there are long periods of awkward silence.

I guess it's in the delivery. But still, not crap!

C'mon, no one's heard of Andy Kaufman? I mean, there was that Jim Carey movie and everything!

NOT CRAP, for still being able to confuse people, and get on Jimmy Kimmel twice.

I loved his "timeless political jokes"

NOT CRAP

Not crap. I love his work and have a ton of his CDs. Not many buy the whole: "It's funny because he's not funny -- how avant garde!" shtick. As a friend of mine said, "I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing at the idea that these are supposed to be jokes." I think you might need to have a love of terrible jokes in order to appreciate the whole deal, maybe?

"I went to see an aromatherapist, and she had bad breath!"

Not crap, though definitely a lot funnier when he performs with bands than when he tours on his own and everyone knows the deal. The Trans Am/Fucking Champs/Laddio Bolocko/Neil Hamburger show in Minneapolis a few years ago will forever be one of my favorite shows ever.

Lots of really subtle, funny shit on his records, and I like how he mixes it up (the "DiPresa's Pizza House" record last year has maybe 5 regular "jokes", the rest of it is a doc(mock?)umentary and is really funny, IMO).

I hope my band gets to share a bill with him someday.

I like Neil Hamburger's comedy. What does he call it? Gee-gah? Not Crap.

-Why did Catherine Zeta Jones rub shit in to her pussy?

-Because she was horny!

NOT CRAP.

Neil Hamburger at the Casbah?

Confusing...but far from crap.