Ralphie May: Risqué as Ever
Ralphie May: Risqué as Ever by Roxanne McDonald
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The runner-up favorite of “Last Comic Standing” 3 continues to bring the giggles and the grudges. |
Ralphie May got my vote all the way through the third season of “Last Comic Standing”. He makes no apologies for his appearance, his style, or his un-politically correct inclusion of subjects which include midgets, retards, and races…including white–though he gets great laughs for all of the above.
That’s what makes his humor work.
In his solo show, “Girth of a Nation,” for instance, Ralphie kills with comments about retardation as a goal for all of
us–who drink and do dope to “get retarded,” really. But he was censored, he tells us, for wanting to use such skits on Jay Leno (I think…. One of the talk shows, anyway.)
With just as much iconoclastic, bombastic wit, Ralphie also rags on the pope followers/mourners, who are to him silly for being shocked that the man died—for, he reminds us, the pope was old and old people, that’s what they do, they die. He kicks around gangs, plays on street lingo, and just brings irreverence and truth to every bit, using as an extender his wide-eyed facial expressions and laid back stance to drive audiences wild with shocked guffaws.
And despite his being censored, ridiculed, and dismissed for being fat, racist, and a rip-off (when all art is a take-off of sorts anyway, has to be…), Ralphie May is likely chuckling his way to the stage, the bank, and the bedroom with his beautiful (Lahna Turner) bride.
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