Album Review: Keith Pedro, Trillipino

It’s a gangster ass title for a comedy album. No punchline pulled and no feelings are spared in this 10 track album from the good people at Comedy Records. 

Trillipino is Keith Pedro’s follow up to this summer’s The Vaccine, a timely collection of pandemic material that was written, polished and recorded with breakneck speed. It demonstrated Predo’s skill as a comic. Pandemic jokes are a gamble, and a hard sell because not everyone is able to find the humour in horror. Pedro did and cashed out. Even getting a mention in Complex Canada’s 2020 gift guide for those who love weed. 

If The Vaccine was the mix tape, Trillipino is the Album. It was recorded at the iconic Nubian Show, the long running night hosted by Kenny Robinson. The Nubian show is a notoriously honest comedy room. If you can kill there, you know you are doing something right. 

If you can get laughs loud enough to show up on your album . . . you're Keith Pedro. Trillipino opens up with Pedro laying waste to a heckler; it is a warning shot of what's to come. The material has an aggressive energy to its hilarity. Shattering the ivory towers and puritanical standards comedy is so often subjected to.

This album is not safe for work. If you easily offend I encourage you to challenge your discomfort and listen to this album for it’s craft and truth. If you are a listener who needs a healthy shock with your laughs I encourage you to see the beautiful punctuation in how Pedro takes it there without getting booed off stage. 

On Trillipino Keith Pedro came to put on a show . . . but he wants you to know he’s calling all the shots. 

Trillipino was released February 26, 2021 on Comedy Records.
Listen to it here.