Hypocritical Oaf

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Hypocritical Oaf
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 31, 2010
RecordedAcme Comedy Club,
Minneapolis, April 20, 2010
Genre Comedy
Length49:45
Label Comedy Central Records
Doug Benson chronology
Unbalanced Load
(2009)
Hypocritical Oaf
(2010)

Hypocritical Oaf is the third album by comedian Doug Benson, released by Comedy Central Records as a CD/DVD. [1]

Contents

Track listing

CD

  1. "Deets" – 4:36
  2. "Peanut Lady" – 2:44
  3. "The Track with the Stupid Fart Joke" – 5:22
  4. "Breakfast Window" – 3:30
  5. "Time to Go Fred Travalena On Your Asses" – 2:51
  6. "Weak Back Problems" – 4:04
  7. "Pot the Vote" – 2:55
  8. "Sitting There In Your Own Filth" – 3:52
  9. "Booty / Weedy Text" – 5:15
  10. "Follow Me" – 2:56
  11. "Too Trunk to Dweet" – 1:58
  12. "Big Finish" – 9:42

DVD

  1. "Comedy Central Presents" (2004)
  2. "Comedy Central Presents" (2009)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Hypocritical Oaf received positive reviews, mostly praised by fans. Allmusic wrote, "the comedian is highly skilled and can work a lot of sex talk and fart jokes into these topics, as if he was a rambling, baked comedy ninja being cheered on by an equally baked audience. [3]

Chart positions

Chart (2010)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Comedy Album [4] 1

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References

  1. Comedy Central Press, DOUG BENSON’S HYPOCRITICAL OAF" CD AND BONUS DVD TO BE RELEASED ON COMEDY CENTRAL RECORDS ON AUGUST 31.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Allmusic, Hypocritical Oaf.
  4. Billboard Comedy Albums, September 18, 2010.