Barneezlebub is yet another original Jerungdu script written by Michael Donahue, Newt Skink and Friends. Don't let the title fool you.

This is a "morality" tale. Many actors passed up roles in this show because of the content. That's only because they didn't plow through to the last page of the script where the moral of the play is encapsulated in one line: "The road to the gates of Hell is paved with shit bricks of bad taste... VERY BAD TASTE."

On the surface, this is easily Jurungdu's most offensive narrative... but it's also our most accessible. Every show we performed was a sell out and every review was glowing. (See link to reviews page.)

The story features a seven headed purple dinosaur based on the beast from Revelations and Barney the Dinosaur. We follow the paths of four children who appear on Barneezlebub's perverted kids show and watch them grow up to become strippers, porn stars, S & M freaks and meat fetishists until they all appear on the popular TV talk show the Jerry Sprung Show.

A FUNNY BUT TRUE STORY: The first performance of Barneezlebub happened at the Art Jones Gallery in Minneapolis in the Spring of 1998. One of the performers (who shall remain nameless) purchased $200 worh of psilocybe mushrooms before the show and gave them to several dozen of the audience members. Imagine half of the audience livid at the content of the show while folks next to them were laughing to the point of tears and the rest not sure what to think. THAT'S JERUNGDU IN A NUT SHELL! Barneezlebub normally produced that sort of reaction without the aid if psychoactive chemicals. The mushrooms only made it's target effect more intense.

Read the script.

TRACKS:

Electric Love Lizards
This particular version explores what a string quartet and a barber shop quartet would sound like on acid and/or Viagra. It is also the first track on Jerungdu's second release "The Pink and Brown Album".

Purple Helmet (Remix)
A gay football anthem by the world's second best homoerotic football band (Queen is #1 in the power ranking). It was described by music writer Jim Meyer as "mad genius". This tune also appeared in Barneezlebub and is track 7 on Pink and Brown. This version is a new mix. I added stadium stomp clap samples from the original Queen song to the intro so it sounds less wimpy (yet somehow more gay).

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