Stop Staring at Me!

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Stop Staring at Me!
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Studio album by The Jerky Boys
Released May 18, 1999
Recorded 19981999
Genre Comedy, prank calls
Length55:09
Label Mercury
Producer The Jerky Boys
The Jerky Boys chronology
Jerky Boys 4
(1997) Jerky Boys 41997
Stop Staring at Me!
(1999)
The Jerky Tapes
(2001) The Jerky Tapes2001
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Stop Staring at Me! is the fifth comedy album released by prank call artists, the Jerky Boys. It was released on May 18, 1999, and was the final Jerky Boys album released by Mercury Records.

Comedy genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous

In a modern sense, comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment. The origins of the term are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance which pits two groups or societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old." A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse in ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.

A prank call is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

Track listing

  1. "Special Delivery"
  2. "Willie The Jackass"
  3. "1000 Chickens Trilogy (Part 1)"
  4. "Nuts To You"
  5. "Tarbash's Cab Trouble"
  6. "Masturbation Box"
  7. "Rosine Likes Balloons"
  8. "1000 Chickens Trilogy (Part 2)"
  9. "Hucklebuck"
  10. "Duck Cleaning"
  11. "Super Gay"
  12. "I Pickle They"
  13. "Pork Fried Rice"
  14. "Hair Vitamins"
  15. "Burial Vaults"
  16. "Marriage Insurance"
  17. "Nam Hu?"
  18. "Send A Salami To Your Boy In The Army"
  19. "Pick Up Pie"
  20. "Big Hock"
  21. "Synchronized Swimming"
  22. "Frank's Pickles"
  23. "You Wanna Scrap?"
  24. "1000 Chickens Trilogy (Part 3)"

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References

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Review: Jerky Boys - Stop Staring at Me!". Allmusic . Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. Doyle, Tom. "Review: Jerky Boys - Stop Staring at Me!". Q . EMAP Metro Ltd (July 1999): 118.