Neil Hamburger: Sings Country Winners

Anti-comedian Neil Hamburger is adept at finding

new ways to be horrible. Unfortunately, those ways are often designed more to

be annoying than exciting. After albums like 2002's Laugh Out Lord (a mix of clean Christian

comedy and dirty jokes) and 1998's earnest Tribute To Diana, Princess Of

Wales EP,

the only conceivable way the audience-baiting, obnoxiously throat-clearing

Hamburger can alienate his audience further is with a straight-faced country

album—and terrible singing. He dons a Texas toupee and bolo tie, but the

shtick is essentially the same. Though it succeeds at being boring, unbearable,

and cookie-cutter Music Row fare, there are scattered moments that make the

bumpy ride worthwhile, like a diatribe against idiots who recycle too much

("The Recycle Bin"), in which he booms, "Stop tainting the waste stream with

pieces of wood and old underwear!" and the obligatory patriotic song, "How Can I Still Be Patriotic (When They've Taken Away My

Right To Cry)."