If a homosexual tryst involving Don Rickles, Jackie Mason and Ronald McDonald were to produce alcoholic offspring, it just might begin to explain Yucko the Clown — a walking "F@#& YOU!" in floppy shoes and a big red nose.
Best among the Georgia-based sketch comedy troupe’s more than 50 deliriously crude bits is Yucko’s clown-on-the-street report from New York City in which unsuspecting folk are accosted by the acid-tongued jester’s gleeful rain of racial slurs and dirty, dirty words. Perhaps the perverse genius of comedian Roger Black‘s alter ego can be summed up in the split second when a perky coed playfully honks Yucko’s nose and Yucko, ahem, honks her back.
Also among the DAMN! Show citizenry is a homely slice of white trash named Regina Lynn with chronic female problems and an insatiable oral fixation. Then there’s the animated sensation known as Inebriated the Koala who punctuates his beyond-blue antics with the catch phrase: "Eucalyptis!? You can lick THIS!!!"
The NPR crowd will likely bristle at the group’s every excretion, especially those steeped with Southern-influenced race humor such as "The Gooks of Hazzard." But that’s the goldang point! Shock comedy at its gut-busting worst.
