Here is The Review Artie did an hour of stand up at for Bubbapalooza.  Thank god the show is back live!

ATLANTIC CITY - It was a freak show. A dirty, vulgar, obnoxious, crude and sometimes cruel freak show.

And the audience loved every minute of it more than 210 minutes of it to be exact.

Bubbapalooza - the touring show of Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Bubba the Love Sponge Show” - was more than 3 hours of unadulterated, uncensored ridiculousness. Bubba, aka Todd Clem, called it the “Donny & Marie Show” on crack, and that pretty much sums it up.

For the non-Bubba fan, Saturday’s sold-out show at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort would have been torture. The overlong spectacle was more or less a vehicle for fans to see their favorite Bubba personalities, including Spice Boy, Manson, Ned, 25 Cent and Brent Hadley.

Truth be told - and most of them would probably admit it - the Bubba the Love Sponge gang is much funnier in the confines of a studio. In front of 2,400 people, most of them just rambled on about what it’s like to be on the show, hoping to find a laugh here and there. When things were going bad, they would say stuff like “Smoke pot” to get cheap applause much like a bombing musician will mention the name of the city to wake up a crowd.

At times, Bubbapalooza was an absolute mess. Despite their likable personalities, 25 Cent and Spice Boy had very little to offer.

The outspoken Hadley offered some spoken word about his favorite political topics, namely President Bush, dedicating his performance to spoken-word master Henry Rollins. Hadley had some good things to say but needs to find some humor like Rollins does. The funniest part of Hadley’s routine was a slideshow behind him that showed inane Bush quotes such as, “Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better” and “I’m the master of low expectations.”

One of the highlights of the night was Manson, the show’s head writer and “resident weirdo,” who sang at least a half dozen of his well-known parodies, including “Livin’ with Big Fat Bubba” to the tune of Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca.”

His stand-up wasn’t as impressive, but he had a few stellar moments.

On going to strip clubs: “Why would I want to pay a woman who is repulsed by me to not (have sex) with me? That’s marriage.”

After an unnecessary 15-minute intermission, Bubba finally came out in a retro Mike Schmidt Phillies jersey. Admittedly “messed up” from an Oxycontin that a fan gave him, Bubba slurred his words, picked on an obnoxious fan and later abused show regular Tom the Tree Man for lying to him recently by beating him with a Whiffle ball bat, shocking him with a dog collar and making him bleed on his head and back with “Tater Mitts,” potato peeling gloves.

After Bruce Hamel offered a funny song about Spice Boy wanting to have sex with Bubba’s wife and the mentally challenged B-Fud arriving in a wheelchair and Elvis costume to sing “I’m a Slow Learner,” the lights dimmed for the headliner of the show, Ned.

Obviously Manson with a flannel shirt, sunglasses and Amish beard, Ned offered some more funny parodies, particularly “Acid on My Tongue,” before the audience was treated to two surprise guests: Sal Governale and Artie Lange from “The Howard Stern Show.”

Bubba, who endlessly thanked Stern for bringing him to Sirius, seemed relieved that Stern’s guys were there, almost as if he knew the fans would finally get their money’s worth.

While Governale’s stage personality has morphed into a totally racist pig who’s not that funny, Lange killed.

In fact, Lange got the only standing ovation of the night, and he deserved it. Obviously the most professional and funniest guy to hit the stage all night, the 300-pound comic immediately made fun of his weight.

“I just got back from Afghanistan (entertaining the troops), and as you can see, I lost a bunch of weight,” Lange joked, adding that five Mike Schmidts would have fit into the 318-pound Bubba’s jersey.

Lange mixed old and new material, particularly concentrating on sports. He surprisingly did more than 45 minutes, nearly a complete set for the comic.

“Every time you say Eagles, they have to spell it,” Lange said. “It’s like a spelling bee for retards. Now, let’s use Eagles in a sentence: The Eagles have never won a Super Bowl. If Donovan McNabb wants a ring, he better get married.”

How vulgar was Bubbapalooza? There were more F-bombs than “Scarface.” The dreaded “C” word was used early and often. And common topics included masturbation, drug use, racial jokes, homosexuality, retardation and sex in every way imaginable (or unimaginable, depending how you look at it.)

Despite its ups and downs, “The Bubba Army” was not disappointed, proven by the fact that most of them made it to the end. But if Bubba and his gang comes back, make sure you’re a diehard fan before plunking down cash for Bubbapalooza.