★★★★★
Tweet 'Dad Jokes' With A Side of Sleaze Listening to Neil Hamburger's First of Dismay is like spending a night on the town with your wildly inappropriate uncle. He makes sometimes anachronistic and silly (and often offensive) jokes that get a bit more ridiculous as the evening progresses. In between these jokes about French mime pioneer Marcel Marceau, bands and artists like Pearl Jam, Limp Bizkit and Eric Clapton, "Uncle" Neil breaks out into song, accompanied inexplicably by a talented...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-07-30
★★★★★
Stand-up Neil Hamburger shares a few things in common with Sir Les Patterson. Both are characters created by Australians (Hamburger by Gregg Turkington and Patterson by Barry Humphries). Also, Hamburger and Patterson are both dishevelled and uncouth, sometimes physically repulsive, but adept with language, and seem to take delight in the act of provocation...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-07-21
★★★★★
Bad things are bound to happen whenever Neil Hamburger, the long-running alter ego of former punk rocker and zine publisher Gregg Turkington, attempts to infringe his bumbling presence upon the mainstream...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-31
★★★★★
I think in my review of Western Music & Variety, I may have been unfair to Neil Hamburger's central concept, as it was colored by my dislike of the DVD. In short, I questioned the target of his irony, deduced it was shitty stand-up, and let it go at that. The Neil Hamburger character has, however, evolved into something much different and much sharper, beyond the Andy Kaufman-esque put-on and the sad Catskills and divorcee schtick...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-12-13
★★★★★
Along a highway somewhere in Michigan there's a burger joint called Speedy Q whose motto is "You gotta eat!" Indeed, whether you be a legend, a myth or an ordinary Neil, when all's said and done, you gotta eat. Slated to be demolished, the 40-year-old Di Presa pizza parlour fed Neil Hamburger for 12 of those years, the comedian providing laughs in exchange for extra saucy pizza...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Neil Hamburger's third comedy release is a desperate affair, even for a sad sack such as America's Funnyman. Hamburger-- aka Gregg Turkington-- takes his routine to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, warming up the locals before karaoke time. Too bad nobody in the audience speaks or understands English. It's a broad setup knocked down with Hamburger's usual patheticness. (Sample joke: "How many Spice Girls does it take to screw in a lightbulb...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Who says there are no second acts in show biz? The same person who claimed there's no crying in comedy, probably -- and Neil Hamburger has proven him wrong once again. Left for dead more than once in a career that has spanned literally decades, Neil is back on top and waiting for that next wave that will supposedly pull him under again...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Following in the footsteps of celebrity Greats such as Telly Savalas and Leonard Nimoy, in 2008 'America's Funnyman' Neil Hamburger temporarily set aside his bag of laughs in order to entertain his audiences through the ancient medium of song...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
On his latest release, here's how long it takes for comedian Neil Hamburger to befuddle an audience that was primed to see Tenacious D: "What did Santa Claus give Paris Hilton for Christmas? Well, he raped her!" "And what did Santa Claus give Gerald Ford for Christmas? Historical revisionism!" Hamburger's is the kind of act that Andy Kaufman would have wished he'd thought of first...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2010-08-16