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"Spinach is deadly, Popeye's a lying bastard," Christopher Titus says on his new comedy release "The 5th Annual End of the World Tour," in reference to the E.coli contamination last September.
When I popped the first CD from the dual-disc album into my laptop, I was cynical. I thought it would be a last-ditch effort from some has-been who's probably trying to keep his comedy career alive since his FOX TV show "Titus" was cut a few years back.
However, I found the opposite. When listening to the album, I realized Titus proves he's talented in standup comedy, especially with his opening statement, on the first track "August 25th, 2001," about it being the end of the world because vegetables are killing us.
Titus had me chuckling when he said, "Terrorism, war, diseases, hurricanes, tsunamis, spinach and France" are contributing to an "armageddon checklist."
The release doesn't differ much from other standup comedy performances because Titus bases much of his material on his wife and their first child's birth.
Although not deviating too far from the norm, Titus does have some humorous analogies, one of which was comparing his wife, when she received an epidural for the labor pain, to a crack head threatened at rehab.
Also, he had an interesting way of describing his child's birth by saying the baby popped out so fast it was like a "Cambodian lap dancer at the ping pong championships."
Titus didn't stop with cracking jokes at his own family. He also joked on all the diseases in the news since 9/11 and the anti-depressant Paxil. One of the funnier snippets dealt with the United States struggling to capture Osama Bin Laden, yet the government "nailed" Barry Bonds and Martha Stewart "to the wall."
Titus also compares America to the state of anarchy in Iraq since the war, stating how we can't trust people here either.
"I was stopped by a homeless guy for $1, he was a 22-year-old Vietnam veteran," he said on his disc.
He doesn't stop with major issues in the news. Titus also said how it's confusing that Tupac has been dead for a while now yet he "still puts out better records than Justin Timberlake."
Basically, there's no subject Titus leaves unscathed, which is what makes a good comedian.
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