HARLAND WILLIAMS
Har-Larious!
Comedy Central Records

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“You ever get up at 3 in the morning and smash your grandma in the face with a canoe?

You know Harland Williams, right? He was the axe-maniac hitchhiker in There’s Something About Mary. Yeah, that guy. So here’s an hour’s worth of his A-list material, recorded live in September of last year in St. Louis. Harland’s shtick is playing the semi-retarded hipsterbilly who occasionally hiccups a flash of lucidity or two, and he does it better than just about anybody, because, well, he’s pretty much playing himself. No wonder there’s a gaggle of Arby’s Roast Beef workers in the front row. Paper hat wearers are, after all, Harland’s people.

“If a girl’s wearing a thong, and she accidentally shits her pants, does it cut it in two?”

That one got a guffaw, believe it. Besides the shit jokes, there’s terrorism jokes, Arby’s jokes, jokes about not having a chin (“I tried to grow a goatee last week, it looked like a big greasy pussy was growing out of my shirt”) tribal tattoo jokes (“You still with the Starbucks warriors, then?”) , animal jokes, food jokes (“My doctor said I can eat all the eggs I want, I just to have to stick to the white parts. Is anybody else cutting their mouth all to hell on these shells?”), sex jokes, etc. The usual, really, but Harland’s loony cartoony delivery manages to keep the momentum rolling, and even if you don’t ‘get’ what the fuck he’s talking about half the time (“cole slaw twat”?), he’s likable enough to laugh politely during the really stupid parts. Which is only like, half the CD.

I tell ya, though, whoever made Harland over for the CD cover has some weird sense of humor. When’s the last time you saw a goofy cousin kisser like this guy with frosted blonde highlights? ________________________________________________________

-Sleazegrinder