Search - Hudson and Landry :: 70's Rare Comedy: Hollyweird Squares & The Comedy Album

Mixed review

R. A. Williams | Albuquerque, NM USA | 09/03/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This is a CD with two albums in one. The second album, with Landry and Biener, is actually funny. It's got several amusing tracks that were well timed, cheeky, and internally consistent. Although it appears to have been recorded in the 1980's, the humor and social commentary are still pretty relevant. "No Smoking" and "Pledge Break" in particular would not have been out of place on a Hudson and Landry album.



I can't be as positive on the Hudson and Pickett collaboration which for reasons I will never understand is presented first. This dreck should never have made it out of the recording studio and I'm surprised they wasted a recording engineer's time. There are several musical tracks, but the mix is done so poorly that it's hard to hear the vocals. But that's a good thing. On several songs, Hudson stumbles over the words. Pickett, who was at least a musician, displays a bit more skill, but still they're both frequently out of tune and not in a funny way. The only mildly amusing tracks are #6, #7, and possibly #8. I didn't actually laugh, but someone, somewhere, might find it funny. On these tracks, Hudson essentially rips off his Bruiser LaRue, redneck, and drunk characters developed during his sketches with Landry. Sky High Market and The Apprentice Vampire showes signs of not being completely improvised, but they fall flat. It looks to me as though one or both of these gentlemen made the record to get out of a bad contract. That's the only possible explanation as to how this got put on wax."