• 'Sounds like equal parts Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Lou Reed. Shapiro is currently New York City's most lurid funnyman - A real star.'
  - New York Press
• '...Poised for the big leagues...searingly honest, the most transgressive comedian in America today....He's the toast of New York's Lower East Side underground scene.'
  - Penthouse Magazine
• 'Downtown New York provocateur Rick Shapiro debuts with an CD of hard-edged, uncompromising stand-up comedy. As far from the mainstream as it is, 'Unconditional Love' still manages to speak universal truths and expose many of our follies.'
  - Billboard
• '...an explosive comedic talent, a sort of punk-rock, white Richard Pryor with a literary bent, part Iggy Pop, part Philip Roth.'
  - New York Observer
• 'His pointed observations on pop culture are pure brilliance.'
  - Time Out New York
• 'Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.'
  - Howard Stern
• 'Dubbed the 'James Joyce of Stand-up' because of his brilliant stream-of-consciousness comedy, Rick Shapiro is a walking, talking op-ed page, spewing forth wit, grit, and the real shit. If you like comics who take risks, you're gonna love this guy.'
  - Paper Magazine
• 'Rick Shapiro is bound for glory. He delivers an onslaught of ideas at breakneck pace that will leave your synapses spinning.'
  - The Toronto Star
• 'A surly quick-witted monologist - Aggressive, Manic, Brilliant!'
  - Icon Magazine
• 'A frenzied, fanatically hilarious stage rant that borders on miraculous.'
  - Now Magazine
• 'The funniest, scariest, most verbally gifted human I have ever seen.'
  - The Daily Glyph
• 'New York's greatest underground comic.'
  - Bowery Poetry Club