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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Album Review: Rodney Rude - Live (1984)

The first, and probably the most iconic comedy album by legendary Aussie comedian Rodney Rude, Live is probably his most tame, and yet one of the funniest albums in his catalog.  The swearing here is nothing compared to his later stuff - the C word is everywhere on anything post Not Guilty, but it still manages to pull off some piss funny gags, notably that referring to the Rambo movie First Blood as a story about a 12 year old girl, and of course, the foreign-sounding bloke who'd just fallen off the balcony at the movie theatre.  This is Rodney Rude in a more traditional stand-up style, and there isn't much in the way of shutting down hecklers, which forms the basis of most of the humor of the latter albums.  Either way, it's piss funny and bloody good.  And despite being long out of the touring scene, Rude is still the most potent antidote for whatever depressing aspect of modern society ails you.  Unfortunately, thanks to political correctness and the power afforded to the thin-skinned by the social justice brigade, you are unlikely to encounter a comedian like this ever again, for fear that the cancel culture will quickly render them without a career.  And that's a shame, for sure.  A great comedy record, by an Aussie national treasure.  A


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