You can keep your Allan Shermans, your Cheeches (as well as your Chongs), and your Pardon My Bloopers (Volumes 1 through 7). None of them hold a candle to this gem when it comes to determining the worst comedy album of all time. Unkie Dunkie was a butcher who lived right here in Jersey City and was such a cutup that he went and recorded an original LP of his comedic stylings. His material focuses on his no-account nephew Mortimer, but it's the monotonous English-As-An-Unknown-Language delivery and the non-stop laugh track and rimshots that really put this one onto the history books. But hey, this is just my opinion.
We upload, you decide: Unkie Dunkie The Baloney Slicer's LP, Mortimer: Side One | Side Two (MP3s).
And if you enjoyed Unkie Dunkie, don't forget about Aunt Pearl and John Daker.
Thanks to Andru for the original find, Kenny G for the burn and Megan for the scan.
Holy crap, is that bad!
What's up with his bizarre cadence? Is he perhaps an autistic person? He's just begging to be beat-matched with something clever and ironic - if possible. Le the remix projects begin!
Simply amazing.
Posted by: Chardman | October 12, 2006 at 01:42 PM
good god! this is THE BEST COMEDY ALBUM OF ALL TIME!
WOWWOWOW!
it's like he's spewing his delivery to a metronome in a Shaggs-like deadpan!
Posted by: Fatty Jubbo | October 12, 2006 at 03:50 PM
He sorta sounds like Fat Tony from The Simpsons.
If you know what I MEAN!!!
Posted by: jima | October 12, 2006 at 04:45 PM
I wonder if he's reading from a script? It sounds like he's declaiming some epic poem or something.
That persistent woman's laugh in the background reminds me vaguely of Snoopy's laughter from the Peanuts cartoons...
Posted by: folksnake | October 12, 2006 at 07:45 PM
Well, this might be considered an ego record from a third-rate Catskills comedian... but for the production. It's surreal.
During the entire intro, there's a LIVE-AID sized stadium crowd whooping and cheering - I had no idea he was such a draw! As Unkie starts in with his "material," the rimshot drumming and laughter continue unabated regardless of what he's saying, as if his audience and accompanist aren't even listening. Perhaps they're all watching a drunk patron staggering to his seat and wetting himself. Har!
Posted by: Andrew Tonkin | October 12, 2006 at 09:44 PM
I bet he was better live. Comedians are funnnier in person. That probably explains all the laughter, you just can't appreciate it corrrectly coming out of disposable computer speakers. His stage presence must be what is filling the gap between our response and the response of the live audience. I mean, look at the apron anyone could wear a buthcer's apron but it takes an actual butcher to fill it out. Not Having been there clearly we will never know. But c'mon it's universal in its appeal, anyone with a nephew who likes girls can easily put himself behind that apron and see the world through the spectacles of a butcher, a world full of laughter.
Posted by: bartelby | October 13, 2006 at 11:51 AM
I really love the sound effects on this. Gongs, car wrecks...if you're using a sound effects record for the laughter, why not use some of the other tracks too?
Posted by: Reggie | October 13, 2006 at 02:10 PM
i don't know ken, i gotta say - i just got stoned and opened the "side 1" mp3 from this post and damn near fell off the computer chair laughing.
Posted by: b-more stoner | October 14, 2006 at 02:25 AM
Oh my god. Somebody tell me if this is "real" or not. At this point I'm not even sure what I might be referring to when I use the word "real". Unkie Dunkie has turned my world upside down. Was this album recorded in the 1970s? I heard a snippet of "Free Ride" towards the beginning of side One. Edgar Winter. Does Unkie Dunkie really talk like that? And if it's an actor ... did an actor acutally DO THAT for forty-five minutes? That would be astounding enough in itself ... Somebody tell me what's going on, this is freaking me out ...
Posted by: daveB from Oakland CA | October 14, 2006 at 03:25 AM
"Comic sensation of the nation"?
"Free-form station of the nation"?
Coincidence? You decide.
Posted by: Webster Hubble Telescope | October 14, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Good lord. I've just been listening to this in my car, and I half feel like it must be some sort of elaborate conceptual art. Where did you find this thing?
Posted by: Eric | October 14, 2006 at 07:00 PM
Wow. A mix of Jackie Gleason, Redd Foxx and Neil Hamburger. I believe!
Posted by: mike | October 16, 2006 at 09:44 AM
Unkie owned a butcher shop here in Jersey City, and there were a few dozen copies of this LP floating around back in the late 80's / early 90s. I can assure you, he's for real.
-ken
Posted by: Station Manager Ken | October 16, 2006 at 05:02 PM
Wow. Listening to this, I can't help but picture Rupert Pupkin talking to his imaginary audience in The King of Comedy. DeNiro studied Richard Belzer for his delivery style, but maybe Scorsese had a little taste of this for inspiration? Or screenwriter Paul Zimmerman - he did live in Jersey after all.
Posted by: ResidentClinton | October 19, 2006 at 03:34 PM
Truly some of the worst jokes iv ever heard, you couldnt think up unfunnier shit wow
Posted by: | July 13, 2008 at 07:05 AM
This is great, Unkie Dunkie is the best medicine I've had in ages. He sounds like a drunk John Wayne.
Posted by: Richard | December 04, 2008 at 12:45 PM
no. "Fart Proudly" was the worst comedy album of all time. http://sharebee.com/34dac144
Posted by: Professor nono | December 14, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Pretty brutal..I couldn't make it all the way through the first side...it just might be the worst of all time. Unkie's obsession with Mortimer and his girlfriend borders on the creepy.
Posted by: Craig Daniels | March 11, 2010 at 04:55 PM
When was this recorded? It sounds like he has a huge audience, but I never heard of him.
Posted by: MatthewThompsonDalldorf | July 17, 2012 at 06:27 PM
Wait, that isn't a real audience is it?
Posted by: MatthewThompsonDalldorf | July 17, 2012 at 06:40 PM
For optimum effect play over Bergman's "Cries & Whispers".
Posted by: BxC | June 21, 2013 at 03:31 PM
This is what madness sounds like.
Posted by: conrad | June 22, 2013 at 07:20 AM