I would not consider this album a comedy album;  that would be giving it too little recognition.  This is a man who lucidly sees (by wiping that third eye painfully clean) all of the distorted and grotesque elements in  contemporary society and states it in a truly shocking (and psyche  altering) fashion.  He called it "my comedic Dark Side of the  Moon" and it truly lives up to that description;  this a dying man who  smashes with wide eyed force and brutal honesty every icon that is held  sacred.  The old saying "there is nothing more dangerous than a man  with nothing to lose" comes to mind here.  Hicks knew he was dying and  did not even attempt to try to placate his audience with the  "jokes" he flung out to his audience in his earlier works.  The  only relevant comedian of the 90s;  and the most obscure.  The vultures  that took the "safe" elements of his act (Denis Leary) are  child's play compared to this album.  I am not exaggerating when I state  this is the best spoken word album of the 1990s.  Shiva the Destroyer he  was, and I miss him greatly.  Any comparison to Lenny Bruce or George  Carlin is a farce;  this man put his lifeforce on the line.  Go to your  karmic reward, brother, you truly deserved it.