Bursting forth with startling alacrity and stirring the incredulity of the ears of the eagerly awaiting public, The Big Tickle leaps like Athena from the head of Zeus only instead of Athena, it’s a comedy record and instead of Zeus, your Victrola… or your iVictrola.
Doffing caps and dropping curtsies to the likes of Nichols & May, Bob Newhart and Monty Python, Karen Forman & Brendan McNamara are the She & Him of the comedy record game, taking old and making it new once more like the dashing retro-futurists they are.
Skipping across genres and characters like stones on Walden Pond (Mr. Thoreau cursing us from the other shore for shattering his tranquil reverie), Forman & McNamara take cowboys to the edge, celebutantes on border patrol and a very special brother-sister siamese twin set where no Noir crime story has ever gone before.
The Big Tickle is a gorgeous record – high-brow and low-class, nostalgiac and prescient, clever and downright goofy.
The Big Tickle is a record excited for the right record label to call home… “a real home… a home where no one’s drunk… or on fire again.”
The Big Tickle. Old time comedy. New school kids.
