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Ed is shorts: Check the neck

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20 May 2010 - 4:32pm

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Ahhh the 1950's no decade will ever quite top its whackyness (Barring the 1470's those turks were nuts) Your pal Ed takes a good hard look at the 50's and the miricale surgery of the time, the larangectamy....Keep in mind i dont think people getting cancer is funny i just think everything involving the 50's is hilarious.

First the good: There are some very good jokes in there, and got a few laughs from me. Delivery was lacking, but that's nothing a bit more rehearsal wouldn't fix. As to the "Explicit Content" tag... The F-Bomb is only dropped once, and I think it was unnecessary. The joke (a fairly good one) would not have been hurt by using another word like "damn" or some other alternative.

BUT now to the bad: the sound quality of the riffing is worse than the movie itself. It sounds as if it were recorded over a cheap speaker phone, and there were constant hits and pops against the mic. It was enough to distract from the funny parts.

For the riff itself I'd give it a solid 3 stars, but I feel it's necessary to mark down for the technical problems, so I give this one 2 stars.

Honestly thats the most honest review i could get...For future reference im got a new mic step up now so there should be no more audio atrocities...nonetheless thats no excuse for the audio problems this riff admittedly has and i apologize to anyone that finds the product inferior.