 "Having Fun with Elvis on Stage" has been described as the worst album of Elvis Presley's career.Critics felt that the album's material was spliced in a manner lacking any continuity and nearly devoid of comprehensibility, let alone humor.Mark Deming of AllMusic states that "some have called "Having Fun with Elvis on Stage" thoroughly unlistenable, but actually it's worse than that; hearing it is like witnessing an auto wreck that somehow plowed into a carnival freak show, leaving onlookers at once too horrified and too baffled to turn away."