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" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:54 am
by Mayfair_Archive
SecondEdition wrote:Neil Hamburger IS actually Gregg Turkington...
...isn't he?
Yes.
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:33 am
by B_M_L_Archive
My favorite Hamburger joke...
Why did the members of Metallica cut off their hair?
ARRRRRCOUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHH [you have to do the clearing throat noise]
Because their hairdresser told them it was the only way to remove all the matted sperm.
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:58 pm
by mega therion_Archive
BUMP for this:
Go to tomgreen.com (yeah, yeah), then click "On Demand", then click "Poolside Chats With Neil Hamburger" for a disastrous hour-long call-in show with America's funnyman and special guest King Buzzo. It is the best thing I've seen on the internet this year.
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:59 pm
by Chapter Two_Archive
mega therion wrote:BUMP for this:
Go to tomgreen.com (yeah, yeah), then click "On Demand", then click "Poolside Chats With Neil Hamburger" for a disastrous hour-long call-in show with America's funnyman and special guest King Buzzo. It is the best thing I've seen on the internet this year.
It won't open...
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:54 pm
by mega therion_Archive
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:49 pm
by Chapter Two_Archive
I'm clicking the 'high bandwidth' link and it's doing nothing, man.
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:08 pm
by robert thefamilyghost_Archive
a button that's on my messenger bag wrote:I LAUGHED AT NEIL HAMBUERGER
in the background on the same button surrounding the primary text wrote:HEE HEE HAR HAR TEE HEE HAW HAW
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:38 pm
by mega therion_Archive
Chapter Two wrote:I'm clicking the 'high bandwidth' link and it's doing nothing, man.
I'm watching it for the third or fourth time right now so I'm not sure what the problem is over there. The site feeds have been rife with technical problems though (which is why Hamburger's show becomes such a great train wreck).
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:34 am
by John W_Archive
Uh, anyone going to see him at Madison Square Garden tonight? $30 bucks! Sheesh!
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: December 1, 2006
NEIL HAMBURGER The biggest joke in Neil Hamburger’s career may be playing Madison Square Garden tonight. He is, after all, one of the world’s greatest bad comedians, having perfected a brilliantly awful persona of an old-school, C-list funny man — the kind with an ill-fitting tuxedo and an enormous, greasy comb-over — on a very bad night. His timing is terrible, he breaks into coughing fits, and the few punchlines that he doesn’t flub are simply tasteless. But this is the genius of Neil Hamburger, in reality a character played by Gregg Turkington, left, a veteran of the snarky underground culture of zines and weird rock bands like Zip Code Rapists and Faxed Head. Like Andy Kaufman before him, Neil Hamburger toys with an audience’s expectations (and patience), and indeed his act is a kind of rude commentary on stand-up comedy altogether. Since the early ’90s this entertainment has taken place on a very small scale, on albums released by indie labels like Drag City and in occasional performances at tiny clubs. But good comedy always finds an audience, and lately Neil Hamburger has been gaining a previously unthinkable exposure. He has been on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” three times and, thanks to Jack Black, he has landed this gig opening for Tenacious D on its nationwide tour. He also has a bit part in the band’s new film, “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.” Delivering his signature line, “But thaaat’s my life!” to a half-empty club, he appears for all of about five seconds. But it is enough. (Tonight at 8, 212-465-6741, thegarden.com; $29.50 to $54.50.) BEN SISARIO
" Comedian" : Neil Hamburger
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:21 pm
by Flaneur_Archive
The New York
Times reviewing Neil Hamburger at Madison Square Garden 12/3/06:
Like Borat, the anticomedian Neil Hamburger, the evening's opening act, has a timely knack for baiting a crowd and confounding expectations. A hunched lounge lizard with a combover and a dour expression, he told outdated (and offensive) jokes about the Jackson Five and Jar Jar Binks with a painfully inept delivery. But he was too nasty and vain to be pitied. Soon the crowd erupted with roaring, nonstop boos. ''Oh, come on -- I have cancer,'' he protested.
The alter ego of the avant-garde musician Gregg Turkington, Neil Hamburger has striven to be America's least-funny funnyman since the early 90s. (On ''Great Phone Calls,'' a 1992 compilation of prank calls, he tries to persuade comedy club employees to dump their headliners and book him instead.) He ingeniously underscores the latent superiority complex of the paying customer. He denies people the right to laugh, earning their ire and disgust instead.
Recently Mr. Turkington has received some mainstream attention, appearing on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' and, very briefly, in ''The Pick of Destiny.'' But it is safe to assume some hecklers weren't in on the joke Friday night. When an elderly usher sat a couple, he warned, ''The show already started, but you're not missing anything with this guy -- yeesh.''
Mr. Turkington, nearly drowned out by jeers, threatened to tell 10 more jokes. But when the entire arena seemed to chant an unprintable insult, he finally called it quits. ''Good night,'' he said. ''I hate you all.'' It was probably the greatest night of his career.