Cure for the Cable Guy (with Bonus DVD)

Steve Hofstetter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000EJ9VK2
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #450,528 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Reason I Have a Sense of Humor

2. The Reason Some of You Are Offended

3. The Reason You Take a Date to See Me

4. The Reason You Break Up Afterwards

5. The Reason You Get Back Together

6. The Reason I'm Not President

7. The Reason More of You are Offended

8. The Reason I Can't Run for President

9. The Reason Your'e A Fatty

10. The Reason I Recorded This Album

11. The Reason Your Kid Is A Fatty

12. The Reason You Bought This Album

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, intelligent humor, April 25, 2006

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HellinaLunchbox - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cure for the Cable Guy (with Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

If you enjoy Larry the Cable Guy, chances are you won't enjoy Steve Hofstetter.

Then again, if you enjoy Larry the Cable Guy, chances are you live in a trailer park with a Confederate flag over your doorway. Steve Hoffstetter doesn't appeal to such a broad lowest-common-denominator audience, but he largely succeeds in his vein of sometimes dry and usually wry sociopolitical humor. He can be raunchy and politically incorrect, but it's always with satire in mind, recalling greats such as Bill Hicks and David Cross. It's safe to say that Hicks and Cross needn't make room on their hall of fame platform yet - Hofstetter occasionally descends into mediocre rants and rambles between the album's high points, and lacks the glowing originality of his influences - but the album is worth a listen, and not just out of spite for Larry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nay Sayers Aside, May 6, 2006

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Jay Thomas (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cure for the Cable Guy (with Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

Having seen Steve Hofstetter live, and having been one of the (many)people in the audience laughing, I have to say that this is one of the better comedic talents out there today. Is all of his material original? No. But it's not the crude, in-poor-taste comedy that we've simply come to accept from comedy today. And no, Steve Hofstetter is no Bill Hicks, but who is? That's like saying Tool or Radiohead are no Beatles. The comparision is unfair. But let's put it this way: he's funnier than Jerry Seinfeld. His cd really doesn't capture his ability to really play to an audience. This recording is, I'll admit, not his best. However the jokes are all there, and I still think they're funny. Even the second time around. He may not have the edge of Hicks or the avante garde style of Hedberg, but give the man a chance. He's young, and this is his first cd. I give him plaudits on his Freshman effort, even if it's not what you've come to expect from a comedy cd in terms of quality. Keep an eye on this guy.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hack Attack, June 26, 2006

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Eric Weiss "mediafrog" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cure for the Cable Guy (with Bonus DVD) (Audio CD)

How much money did this guy's mom pay to have this thing made? Steve is a decent comic - he'd be an OK middle act on a cruise ship and maybe even a closing act in the Pocono's - but not a headliner worth filming. Not yet.

After watching his DVD for twenty minutes I shut it off in disgust. This is a badly directed shooting of an open mic quality act. His "edgy wit" amounts to "racism is bad." Wow. Talk about taking chances! How about some more "thinking man's" humor?

"The French can hold their liquor, just not their territory." Pah-dump-bump. Get it? It's a WWII reference. I think Rush Limbaugh told that one. Two years ago. And it wasn't funny then.

He steps on his own jokes, doesn't connect with his audience and has nothing to say. For all his spouting about artistic integrity you'd expect more than pandering.
Please don't compare him to Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Dennis Leary or Lewis Black - unless you say, in comparison - he's not worthy of comparison.