Surprising no one, Rizzo seems to live his life constantly on the precipice of an expletive-laced tirade. Bridge-and-tunnel New Yorker Frank Rizzo is a little beat up from base jumping and needs leg braces on the album’s opening track and looking for pipe bombs on another. Jack Tors is in the market for an aggressively large kettle drum to get groovy and out-of-sight with. Sol Rosenberg is the album’s MVP standouts include an unfortunate mishap with a stair climber and his side hustle teaching yoga with goats. What hasn’t changed is Brennan’s commitment to the bits. 1 on the comedy charts on Apple Music and Amazon Music. The album is available on Spotify and anywhere music can be streamed these days. The landscape for releasing a record has changed in nearly every conceivable way since The Jerky Boys 4, and the release strategy for Brennan’s new set of calls reflects that. 27 by Comedy Dynamics, a budding powerhouse in the comedy album business after earning all five Grammy nominations in the comedy category in 2019 (the company has 17 nominations and four wins overall). The new record, titled The Jerky Boys, was released on Nov. Though Brennan became the sole steward of the Jerky Boys brand, it sat mostly dormant through the 2010s as he continued his voiceover work as the recurring character Mort Goldman on Family Guy. Ahmed officially left The Jerky Boys in 2000. The comedic group released four records from 1993 to 1997, and two additional records (1999’s Stop Staring At Me and 2001’s The Jerky Tapes) from previously recorded material. The Jerky Boys started in 1989 with Brennan and his childhood friend Kamal Ahmed. I can’t believe how awesome the characters just flowed right into 2020.’ It’s a good feeling.” They’re saying, ‘Johnny, I can’t believe it. “You gotta do it for yourself,” Brennan tells Den of Geek about his desire to revive The Jerky Boys. But the 59-year-old Brennan entered the studio again to make one person in particular laugh. For years fans showed an appetite for new material. The reverence fans showed for the crank call albums, including reciting back even the most obscure details from the recordings, convinced him it was time to dust off voice characters like Frank Rizzo, Sol Rosenberg, and Jack Tors.
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After a nearly 25-year hiatus from recording original material, the comedian and co-creator of The Jerky Boys is making a comeback with a new self-titled record featuring his classic characters.īrennan’s return was in part inspired by a series of successful live shows over the past few years. Hell, “texting” was virtually nonexistent.
The last time Johnny Brennan picked up a phone to make a prank call, Apple was a decade away from releasing the iPhone.
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