HOT DOGS + DONUTS

 

Carl Oglio is a huge Howard Stern Show fan, and in 1996 he asked me to record a CD for his Oglio Records. I'm still smiling about turning him down. I mean, saying yes, I'd love to.

Since the girls wouldn't say "Sgt. Pecker," I told the crowds at the tapings for the next CD that I decided to make it a bit more cryptic and call the next one "Hot Dogs & Donuts," figuring if somebody made something sexual of it that it was as much them as it was me.

Nancy Sirianni, my production partner & wife, came up with the photo ideas and spelling out the name with hot dogs & donuts.

I recorded "Hot Dogs & Donuts" at "The Comedy Palace" in Andover, Massachusetts. Yes, it was in Andover. No, it wasn't a palace. I had second billing, under "Prime Rib" on the rolling sign that graced the front of the restaurant, where you could read it from I-93 North of Boston.

Ron Sava's club had three different-sized rooms that were always booked, and the place always had the kind of buzz that I could only always count on in a few places. One of the others was "Rascals" in West Orange, where they taped the "Stump The Joke Man" footage that's on the DVD we included with snart.

I had edited almost the entire "Hot Dogs & Donuts" CD when I performed at "The Comedy Palace" again. From listening for hours and hours as I edited, the jokes were even more deeply & perfectly engrained in my little head, so I blasted away at those crowds like never before. The tapes from that weekend pushed the older tapes off the shelf and I started editing again. But that editing was minimal. The finished product is pretty funny.

This CD is a healthy leap dirtier than the first two CD's. Not by design, it just is.
I guarantee that more than a few of the blogs I'm doing with Red Peters will be devoted to Tales From The Palace.

- Jackie Martling

HOT DOGS + DONUTS

Tracks:

• Poops & Probes
• Jammers & Geniuses
• Smooches & Stammers
• Munchers & Mares
• Nips & Necklaces
• Odors & Officers
• Eaters & Errors
• Contemplators & Calculators
• Astainers & Architects
• Condiments & Compliments
• Barf & Breadwinners
• Humpers & Holders
• Clammers & Chubbies
• Turds & Trims
• Chasers & Cruisers
• Pullers & Puppets
• Gamblers & Grunters
• Pooches & Perverts
• Semen & Showmen
• Gigolos & Gourmets
• Pharmacists & Fishes
• Polin' The Colon
• Squirters & Soilers
• Siblings & Surprises
• Leches & Lures
• Tears & Trades