A Very Larry Christmas, Larry the Cable Guy (Jack/Warner Bros.)

You "Blue Collar Comedy" fans know all about Larry, whose routine is less suburban everyguy, as his name might suggest, than the redneck humorist he actually is. This is mainly spoken word comedy with just a few short musical interludes that Larry sings a cappella and off-key. So the verdict on this album comes down to whether you find Larry funny in the first place. There are 28 cuts, none of which are more than two and a half minutes long and many that are less than half a minute, so you might want to sprinkle one or two cuts among the songs on your mix tapes and discs. There are some laughs here, mostly of the red-state variety, but there are plenty of universal observations as well. A few of the bits, like the opening "Christmas Commentary," with its overdone pokes at "politically correct" straw men, didn't make me laugh because I've heard people in my community say the exact same things in all seriousness. But Larry gets plenty of screen time nowadays, so you can feel free to make up your own mind about him. UPDATE: For 2007, Larry takes another dip into the Christmas snuff with Christmastime in Larryland. And he's got a couple of holiday DVDs too.