Monday, February 1, 2010
Cream Calendar Neil Hamburger Tonight at The End
Posted by Steve Haruch on Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM
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Guess who was watching the Grammys last night, aside from Adam Gold? America's Funny Man, of course. Neil Hamburger posted this pic zing after Kings of Leon were crowned for Record of the Year. If that's your kind of humor, read onward and head to Elliston Place this evening:
As the only Drag City Records artist to have played Madison Square Garden, Neil Hamburger is a unique figure on the landscape of rock 'n' roll comedians. Unlike contemporaries such as David Cross or Patton Oswalt, whose routines usually entail long soliloquies, Hamburger -- a persona created and portrayed by post-punk luminary Gregg Turkington -- takes a more traditionalist approach. A master of the anti-joke, Hamburger -- with an ill-fitting tux, pomade-laden comb-over and glass of scotch in hand -- doles out zingers haranguing everyone from Terri Schiavo to Nickelback, like a rat-pack-reject from another dimension, or more simply, Don Rickles for hipsters. His timing is terrible, his delivery strident and his references dated. But, unlike the Blue Collar Comedy crew, in Hamburger's case that's exactly the point. What's truly impressive about Hamburger is that, between jokes mocking Julia Roberts' vagina or The Red Chili Peppers on-again-off-again relationship with heroin, he manages to infuse a healthy amount of social commentary into the confines of the one-liner, taking on subjects such as the American diet, the Iraq War and the country's obsession with celebutards.
Chris Crofton opens tonight at The End; 9 p.m., $10. And here's even more Hamburger humor.
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