4Cheese Omelette’ would be funnier on video
By Michael Deeds
Senior Editor_
Jeff Altman
“I’ll Flip You Like A Cheese
Omelette”
Polygram Records
Funny men Sam Kinison and
Andrew “Dice” Clay finished the
’80s power-style.
Kinison is guesl-starring in music
videos, movies, and anything else he
can scream in. Clay made a couple of
small movie appearances, got thrown
off MTV forever and lost his ABC
television scries — but everybody
knows about him.
So it’s no surprise that anothei
comedian is trying to cash in on the
popularity of the funny man.
His name is Jeff Altman. He looks
like a geek. He dresses like a geek. He
talks about butt steak a lot.
Altman has been around for a while
And he is a smart guy - the comic ha‘
a degree from John Hopkins Univer
sity.
It’s safe to say it isn’t a Bachelor ol
Comedy Albums.
Altman is funny. That’s a fact. He
is one of the most frequent guests or
“Late Night With David Lettemian.’
His film credits include “Easy Money'
and “Soul Man.”
But, on record, he has a problem
Altman is a talented writer ant
tells jokes in a goofy style. But mucl
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of his comedy is quite dependent on
his look - when he depicts “Leonard
Moon,” the man who will knock out
Mike Tyson, he gets by, because the
humor is in the speech. But when he
docs more diverse comedy, seeing
him becomes important because his
actions reinforce what he says.
Listening to the crowd laugh at
Altman while he makes faces and
gets weird becomes frustrating be
' cause, as the listener, you sec nothing.
Altman covers the typical array of
comedy material - sex, dating, women
vs. men - and he docs come up with
some original stuff.
But looks arc important to some
comedians, and Alunan is one of them.
. He comes on stage looking like a
nerdy family attorney and transforms
into a schizo of multi-faceted charac
ters. Allman is a gcxxl impressionist,
^ and even resorts to imitations of the
I legendary Rodney Dangerficld. But
| again, it would be nice to sec the bug
■ eyes.
“I’ll Flip You Like A Cheese
I Omelette” is a decent release for a
| comedian. But maybe Allman had
. better do what “Dice” did - release
I an album AND a video cassette.
That way, the audience will really
flip.
Courtesy of Polygram Records
| The Big F’s ‘Big Flop’ album starts off
j as a big treat and ends in boredom
By Brian Meves
Staff Reporter
The Big F
“The Big F“
Flektra
What docs the 4 *F’ * in the The Big
F’s debut album stand for?
It could be The Big Flop,
On the band’s self-titled album,
the Los Angeles-based trio introduce
a hard, elementary sound which is
actually pretty boring. “The Big F”
relies primarily on basic, heavy gui
tar, drowned-out bass and pounding
drum beats.
The most interesting part of the
album is the lead singer’s Ian Ast
bury-like voice and hiscxcellcnt yell
ing ability. At times, it sounds like he
is auditioning for a stereotypical heavy
metal band with meaningful lyrics or
he has just swallowed a mouthful of
gravel.
After listening to the first two songs
on ‘The Big F” you may be led into
believing that you are in for a real
treat. Unfortunately, aside from two
bright spots, the rest of the album is
long, monotonous boredom that starts
to wear on you after awhile.
The opening song, Killing lime,
begins with loud guitars and tribal
drum beats that shoot straight at your
ears. The lyrics arc ground out as if
they were extracted from a dead man
inexcruciatingpain. And, as an added
bonus, the band includes a long, catchy
instrumental mixed in the middle.
The next song “Kill The Cow
boy,’ ’ is by far the best of the rest. The
tribal drum beats are still here, but the
guitars are toned down for a harmo
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