Norm MacDonald’s “Ridiculous” 65/100
Remember when Norm Macdonald was fired from “Saturday Night Live” as the “Weekend Update” anchorman a while back because he wasn’t funny, only to return the following season as the guest host—did he suddenly become funny? That question remains to be answered, but if you’re a fan of Macdonald’s, then you’re sure to love his new sketch comedy album “Ridiculous.”
Some notable comedians to lend a hand, or should I say their voices to this album are fellow SNL alumnae Will Ferrell, Fred Stoller, Tim Meadows, Jon Lovitz, and Molly Shannon.
With tracks like “The World’s First Two Gay Guys” and “Girls, Girls, Girls,” this album is definitely not rated PG. In the latter, Macdonald plays a psychiatrist whose schizophrenic patient played by funny girl, Molly Shannon, is not at all shy about expressing her sexual attraction to the good doctor by using the “f” word as a verb, as well as the words
cock,” “mouth,” “lick,” and “ass.” That should be enough for you to fill in the blanks. In “The World’s First Two Gay Guys,” Ferrell and Macdonald play two beer-drinking buddies who decide to have sex with each other while watching the all-time masculine American sport, no other than football, in the mid 1950’s.
“The World’s First Two Gay Guys” isn’t the first time Macdonald pokes fun at homosexuality. In fact, it’s an on-going theme found in four of the twelve tracks, one of which is the nineteen-minute sketch “Tex Hooper,” where a former country singer who often sang about loose women resurfaces after a long absence only to come out of the closet.
Comic book junkies will enjoy how Macdonald ridicules the secret identities of superheroes in the first track “The Fantastic Four” and later in “Stan & Lois.” In the CD’s opener, Mr. Fantastic gets some heat from his fellow colleagues for naming himself after the group while the remaining three members are named as a result of their powers. In “Stan & Lois,” Macdonald plays Stan, a sports reporter at The Daily Planet, who tries to get Lois in bed by convincing her that he in fact is Superman.
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