Watching him open for Tenacious D in a packed Madison Square Garden was one of the best comedy sets I’ve ever seen. Nobody (including me) had any idea who he was and by the time he finished the boos were deafening. Cried laughing on the drive home thinking about it.
I got to see Neil Hamburger before people were in on the bit, and he opened with "HEY GANG, how is Harriet Tubman ... like the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Well you see, Harriet Tubman was a heroine to the slaves ... and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are slaves to heroin"