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- Date Released: September 12, 2006
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Comedy
- Label: Comedy Central Records
Sophomoric sketch comedy that's smarter than it lets on.
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We Say...
This former Saturday Night Live news anchor — famously canned by NBC brass — is a terrible actor and a so-so stand-up. Given the right format, however, he adds a strange and often dark edge to what can seem like beer-swilling-guy material. Ridiculous consists almost entirely of sketch comedy, performed with guests including Artie Lange, Tim Meadows and Will Ferrell. As with Adam Sandler's underrated recorded oeuvre, the album is unapologetically sophomoric — gay sex is a persistent punch line — but it's smarter than it lets on. MacDonald has always seemed older than his years, a leftover piece of '50s culture. No surprise, then, that the best bit here may be "Stan & Lois," a great Superman parody in which MacDonald's sportswriter tries to bed Lois Lane by convincing the brunette that he, not Clark Kent, is Superman. "Actually," he tells Lois, "the Fortress of Solitude is in a room at the Y."
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They Say...
Norm MacDonald is a funny guy but he's had a hard time finding an ideal medium for his humor outside of standup or Saturday Night Live. Try as he might to work himself into films and sitcoms, it often was an uneasy fit as likely to succeed (Dirty Work or at least the first season of Norm) as it did not (Screwed and The Norm MacDonald Show) . Just a little over a year after his Comedy Central sketch show was unceremoniously dumped, Norm got around to releasing his first comedy album, Ridiculous. Recorded over several years and featuring several of his friends and colleagues, including Will Ferrell and Artie Lange, Ridiculous is a collection of sketches that adds up to a fitfully funny affair. The problem with the record is a perennial Norm problem -- he's funniest when he's just being himself, commenting on situations and throwing out quips, not when he's playing a role, which he is throughout the record. Some of the situations are funny, as are the executions, but this is funniest when he throws out an aside -- and since an entire album can't consist of nothing but asides, this is more amusing than laugh-out-loud funny, which may qualify it as a bit of a disappointment for fans who have been waiting for years to hear a Norm comedy album. Even so, mediocre Norm is better than no Norm -- and given his sporadic working schedule of late, it's been years with no Norm in the 2000s -- so fans should check this out since it has just enough good moments to make it worthwhile.
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| 01. |  |
The Fantastic Four |
5:46 |
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| 02. | |
Tex Hooper |
19:14 |
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| 03. | |
Gambling Sportscaster |
4:55 |
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| 04. | |
World's First Two Gay Guys |
5:04 |
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| 05. | |
The Twelve Days of Christmas |
3:56 |
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| 06. | |
Stan & Lois |
6:15 |
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| 07. | |
Half-Time |
4:17 |
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| 08. | |
A Wonderful Afternoon Gone Awry |
2:06 |
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| 09. | |
Burning Bed |
3:38 |
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| 10. | |
Girls, Girls, Girls |
8:00 |
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| 11. | |
Two-Minute Warning |
3:26 |
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| 12. | |
Do You Want a Sandwich or Anything? |
1:33 |
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| 13. | |
Hidden Track |
6:19 |
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13 Total Tracks, 74:29 Total Length
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- Peter Erskine - Drums // Peter Erskine - Drums // Peter Erskine - Drums // Peter Erskine - Drums // Peter Erskine - Drums // Peter Erskine - Bells // Peter Erskine - Bells // Peter Erskine - Bells // Peter Erskine - Bells // Peter Erskine - Bells // Mike Garson - Performer // Mike Garson - Performer // Brooks Arthur - Vocals (Background) // Brooks Arthur - Producer // Brooks Arthur - Photography // Steve Lawrence - Vocals // Gary Owens - Announcer // Gary Owens - Guest Appearance // Chuck Berghofer - Bass (Upright) // Teddy Castellucci - Guitar (Electric) // Betsy Hammer - Vocals (Background) // Stephen Marcussen - Mastering // Lorne Michaels - Executive Producer // Dean Parks - Guitar // Dean Parks - Soloist // Gabe Veltri - Vocals (Background) // Gabe Veltri - Producer // Gabe Veltri - Engineer // Gabe Veltri - Mixing // Billy Watts - Guitar (Rhythm) // Stewart Whitmore - Digital Editing // Jolie Jones Levine - Production Coordination // Ted Lobinger - Sound Effects // Ted Lobinger - Engineer // Ted Lobinger - Mixing // Rich Breen - Engineer // Mike Lang - Piano // Mike Lang - Celeste // Jack Sullivan - Executive in Charge of Music // Jack Vaughn - Executive in Charge of Music // Jon Lovitz - Performer // Tim Meadows - Performer // Molly Shannon - Performer // Steve Davis - Assistant Engineer // Will Ferrell - Performer // William Malina - Engineer // Alan Schlaifer - Sound Effects // Jim Lampley - Performer // Fred Stoller - Performer // Dave "Gruber" Allen - Performer // Louisette Geiss - Vocals (Background) // Steve Higgins - Performer // Lori Jo Hoekstra - Vocals (Background) // Lori Jo Hoekstra - Producer // Lori Jo Hoekstra - Performer // Daniela Pastre - Graphic Design // Jodelle Reed Devaney - Creative Director // Elmo Weber - Sound Effects // Elmo Weber - Performer // Elmo Weber - Mixing // Elmo Weber - Sound Design // Mimi Zora - Vocals (Background)
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