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whats your favorite?

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

neil's heavy concept album

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like pure-comedy recordings - even the Firesign Theatre things I've heard (and once owned) had only limited appeal. In terms of comedy-MUSIC, however, The Best of The Bonzos and Spike Jones is Murdering The Classics! get a reasonable amount of airplay.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheech and Chong: Los Cochinos @#!!*

That was not as easy as it seems. And, yeah, pure-comedy records are a novelty that I pull out about once every 5 years.

Spike Jones was genius.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

it's hard to choose just one Bill Hicks album

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything but that David Cross album.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously. I had that shit for a day and got rid of it after one listen. I heart Mr. Show but the CD was noxious

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah i forgot to put my fav. Tenacious D

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Cross in sketch or sitcom comedy. As a stand-up, he's terrible.

Bill Hicks, Donna? C'mon.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

what's your prob w/the Hicks?

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Martin - Let's Get Small
Bruce McCulloch - Shame Based Man
Lewis Black - The White Album

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, apart from his name erroneously being brought up in a "comedy" thread, not a thing.

He was about as funny as a toothpick in the eye.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

what about that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Ben Stiller got a toothpick in the eye? That shit was hi-larious

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Another vote for Let's Get Small. That record on weed almost killed me a few years ago. Martin wrote that material w/ Jack Handy, didn't he?

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

what about that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Ben Stiller got a toothpick in the eye? That shit was hi-larious

Point taken.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Woody Allen: 64-68

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Comic Strip lp (Mayall/Edmondsun, French/Saunders, Arnold Brown, Richardson/Planer, and Alexei Sayle as MC)

Man in a Suitcase - Ted Chippington.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd plump for Robin William's 'Wow! Reality, What A Concept', noisy drug fuelled, insanely fast and very funny.

― mzui, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

clue :

"but i'll tell something honestly about drugs, its not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore *but* it is the truth...
i had a GREAT time doing drugs!(huge audience cheer)...sorry! never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids...laughed my ass off, and went about my day"

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill Hicks, pres.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"you don't hear it very often anymore"

Yeah, but you do now. Every US alternatey standup...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want to call Hicks more thna a comedien or something, I'd agree. But not funny? OMG, tell it Bab's pearl necklace...

― John 2, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

National Lampoon's That's Not Funny That's Sick and Monty Python's Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerry Sadowitz - Gobshite

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Pryor... any of them, really. That whole '...and it's big too' box is indispensible.

Love Hicks too - his delivery is killer, even if he's not quite as unquestionably great as some fans would suggest. The David Cross album is awful. National Lampoon's 'Buy This Box Or We'll Shoot The Dog' box is great too.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Pryor ...all of them...
Firesign Theater *Everything You Know is Wrong*
Monty Python *Matching Tie and Hankerchief*
Bill Cosby *Wonderfulness*

― Not That Chuck, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, there's a LOT more of that National Lampoon Radio Hour stuff out there somewhere...I remember listening to it as a young teen - exceptionally morbid and not-for-radio, made for a genuinely cryptic radio experience! Anyone ever come across old tapes of it or anything? The box was great, but just the tip of the iceberg of Michael O'Donaghue's tragic genius.

― stumpyjoe, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a couple of the vinyl LPs, though they're mostly replicated on the box... would love to hear more.

re: Bill Cosby. YES. *amazing* delivery...

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That 'We Are Most Amused' BBC comedy compilation from the 70s is pretty good. When John Pilger comes on the telly we turn him down and put Sir Les Patterson on the stereo. Crazy, I know.

Oh, and Tom Lehrer owns - there was a good thread on him here about six months back

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Also my mate keeps going on about Blaster Bates all the time, but my mate is from the north

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

from my youth:

Derek & Clive - "Come Again"
Peter Sellers - "Songs For Swingin' Sellers"
Pete & Dud - "Not Only...But Also"

Also, any Kevin "Bloody" Wilson, Ben Elton's "Motormouth" (before he came a nasty apologist Tory turncoat cuntbag), and Billy Connolly's "Billy & Albert".

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Sean Cullen is making me happy right now. Damn Canadians

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Donna, you hurt me in my heart.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

except you. You rock. :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Why does Jim Gaffigan strike me funny? His albums (at least, the two I've heard) are really low-key and don't inspire fits of laughter until you remember what you've heard the next day.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the darkness - persmission to land

― Myke Boomnoise, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i love mitch hedberg cd's!
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue24/calendar/community.mhedberg.jpeg

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Mitch Hedberg CDs!!!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Woody Allen Standup Comic

the first Neil Hamburger record

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Great Phone Calls" ???

that one is a fucking classic

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want Mitch Hedberg CDs!
That guy is probably the funniest guy out there right now who has never had his own show.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

gabe kaplan's holes and mellow rolls

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Like TV show. Not like, "hey, I'm Mitch Hedberg, thanks for coming to my show at the Laff-A-Lot Cafe!"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been looking for that Gabe Kaplan album forever! I saw it in a used shop and took a pass on it, planning to buy it on my next visit. When I went back, it was gone.

Have you got it digitized by any chance?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't (I can't really digitize vinyl right now), but if you search on Google you can probably find it used for pretty cheap.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I don't have a functioning turntable/stereo setup at the moment. Bummer.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you ever see his Groucho one-man-show?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

single greatest performance on wax: side two of Bill Cosby's To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With: 20 minutes of ghetto heaven.

favorite comedy album: Firesign Theater's Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers...although I'm not sure if I like it for the jokes or for the mind-fuck aspect.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the David Cross CD.

Also this, the best Chris Rock album, which was stolen from me:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d135/d13532913q0.jpg

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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"Dirty Fan Male" on Trunk - it's Jonny Trunk's mate Wisby reading out genuine letters to the Sunday Sport porn section. He gets into some great characters with them, although you do feel like you're laughing at sad, lonely, semi-retarded men a lot of the time.

"My special message - penis."

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as I live, I will NEVER understand the appeal of Firesign Theatre OR Bill Hicks. They're NOT FUNNY!!

Best comedy album ever: Monty Pyhon: The Final Ripoff "What a senseless waste of human life."

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any people out there who enjoy David Cross stand-up but hate Bill Hicks? (That concept might make my head explode)

I can't get past Bill Cosby as being Dr. Huxtable to even try his albums.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoy Bill Hicks and David Cross. My favorites Hicks CD is Rant in E Minor. I like the David Cross CD, especially the bits about growing up a Jew in the south. Another comedy CD that is amusing if not quite hilarious is Richard Belzer's Another Lone Nut.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 April 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh OF COURSE HOW COULD I FORGET Dirty Fan Male... classic stuff. My girlfriend and I tried to guess how many of the letter writers had committed some form of sexual assault at some point in their lives. I guess about 70%.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Louis CK is like the comedian David Cross (of Mr Show fame) should be.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonzo Dog Band - Cornology box set
Vivian Stanshall - Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
Billy Connolly - Solo Concert (1973)
Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head

Only some of this is funny tho. 'Tis a great album tho, a kind of English Serge Gainsbourg - with all that may imply.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, the track "Rape" is in unbelievably bad taste, even by 1970 standards, yet listening to it always cracks me up ("with some gas thrown in to get rid of the stinky").

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes comedy songs about rape by ageing homosexuals? C/D?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

With comedy foreign accents to boot! Actually I had that Wyngarde chap in my clinic not so long ago. He stamped his feet and made a fuss because his "darling dishy Doctor David" had left our department and therefore couldn't see him. I had to go out there and officially advise him not to try it, but on the quiet asked whether there was any chance of a follow-up album. His reply: "Dear boy, I'd love to make another record, but who'd have enough guts to work with me?" He wants to do a concept album about shooting.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart Peter Wyngarde

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as I live, I will NEVER understand the appeal of Firesign Theatre OR Bill Hicks. They're NOT FUNNY!!

Sez you! I can understand why you'd think that in both cases though, but with Firesign Theatre the humour takes a lot of work sometimes to get anything out of, and you have to be a fan of wordplay, I suspect, to really find it amusing after that. Don't Crush That Dwarf... is just so well put together on so many layers, and while the laughs aren't belly laughs one right after the other, for some reason it has an enduring appeal for me that standup-style comedy just doesn't a lot of times.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Homer & Jethro At The Country Club no only features the wizardry of a mandolin-player extraordinare, their lampooning of Tin Pan Alley is accented by dialogue like "I'll quit drinking as soon as find another way to get it down".

Shelly Berman In Concert is a great showcase of the infallable diction of this Lenny Bruce-esque comedian. "I took two cigarettes, i placed them both in my lips, i lit them both at once -- and i forgot to hand her one".

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Louis CK=classic just for making "Pootie Tang"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Also for being really fucking funny.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

that too :)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

marcello that's a great story! i fckng love that album.
not a comedy record i'd have said as such.
'once again (flight number 10)' is the track that ended every compilation i made for aout 4 years.
what, he stamped his feet and made a fuss? who'd have thought.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"No Cure for Cancer" doesn't hold up well :(

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 8 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Luke Haines's "The Oliver Twist Manifesto".

Concur on Bonzo Dog Band, and especially as there's a bleakness in their work too, right from "I Am Bored" through to the very underrated last contractual album.

Stanshall's "Teddy Boys Don't Knit" is also pretty good, though not as all-out comedic as "Sir Henry...". "The Cracks Are Showing" is magnificent; so concise and final. "Possibly an Armchair" is his sequel to "Sport (The Odd Boy)", with the tragedy behind the jokes made clear.

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Jerky Boys - s/t
The Jerky Boys - 2

― billstevejim, Friday, 9 April 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

I know there are some comedy fans on ILX. Hopefully one of you will be able to help me with this question. I'm working on a paper on comedy sound recordings and I'm trying to figure out who has written about them before, and where I can find a good archive (or maybe just a good list?) or historical comedy sound recordings.

― Mordy, Monday, 9 November 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

Are you anywhere near Boston? There's an archive at Emerson: http://www.emerson.edu/comedy/collection/upload/Debenham-finding-aid_final.pdf

― dad a, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 04:04 (fifteen years ago)

This is awesome. Thanks.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

Re Marcello's story:

I [...] asked whether there was any chance of a follow-up album. His reply: "Dear boy, I'd love to make another record, but who'd have enough guts to work with me?"

Morrissey?

He wants to do a concept album about shooting.

Ah.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 15:22 (ten years ago)

No, it wasn't that, I was idly pondering if there was enough juice to add "Comedy Albums" to the list of ballot / poll items forthcoming.

I know it's not exactly "music" in most cases, but.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 15:23 (ten years ago)

As long as I live, I will NEVER understand the appeal of Firesign Theatre OR Bill Hicks. They're NOT FUNNY!!

Arguing with Mr. Snrub a decade after the fact, you either understand the appeal or you don't; it's all subjective. I think the "funniness" of Firesign is less joeks and more puns, wordplay, surreal situations and references to literature, music and film. They are really radio plays on LP, not comedy records.

― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 16:54 (ten years ago)

I'd vote in a comedy album poll

― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 16:55 (ten years ago)

11 years later, I still think Bill Hicks was lame. Definitely have a harder time reconciling a lifetime of loving Bill Cosby's records.

Anyway, Bob Newhart should rightfully win any comedy album poll we engage in.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:00 (ten years ago)

I'd vote

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:44 (ten years ago)

Me too.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:48 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

I should have done that "Comedy" alBumpollballot, but thesedays I don't got time.

― Mark G, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:03 (eight years ago)

Hall & Kramer - Real Men

Not only does it have some really funny parts it's also filled with impressive sample works and even some psychedelic and "avant" tones through the whole thing. Probably the only comedy album I own which has replay value for me.

If you speak spanish Tres Patines (Cuba) and Polo Polo (Mexico) are classics.

― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:30 (eight years ago)

I'd vote

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:44 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:56 (eight years ago)

Despite the hype, Tig Notaro Live! is brilliant.

― dinnerboat, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:12 (eight years ago)

Also Fred Durst's album of guitar solos is hilarious.

― Moka, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:24 (eight years ago)

This seems like a good place to ask a question no one in my life has thus far been able to answer: Can anyone explain the appeal of owning stand-up comedy albums on vinyl?

― Wimmels, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:41 (eight years ago)

...

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:43 (eight years ago)

because they are funny and fun to listen to?

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:43 (eight years ago)

especially pre-internet in some cases it was the only way to become familiar with the history of the medium - there was literally no other way to be exposed to the standup work of Richard Pryor, or Bob Newhart, or any number of classic people

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:44 (eight years ago)

Right, but I mean, the local shop here sells Bill Burr and Patton Oswalt vinyl for like >$30. Should have specified new stand up comedy albums

― Wimmels, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:48 (eight years ago)

ah. yeah that I can't explain. I would never buy a new comedy album. I might buy used/old stuff I haven't heard/seen before.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:50 (eight years ago)

i went to high school with this guy! his album is hilarious. i think you can even get it on vinyl.
http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music49/v4/c9/43/41/c9434199-3cf2-0f0b-03fa-d79d520a0e62/source/170x170bb.jpg
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/laughing-crying-at-same-time/id1093610830

― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:51 (eight years ago)

oh yeah I've seen that, excellent cover

― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:54 (eight years ago)

haha yeah. he's great.

― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:55 (eight years ago)

Can anyone explain the appeal of owning ~~stand-up comedy~~ albums on vinyl?

― everything, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:59 (eight years ago)

well, touche

― Wimmels, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:25 (eight years ago)

Can anyone explain the appeal of owning stand-up comedy albums on vinyl?

― everything

You can buy frames and use the ones with cool covers as artwork to decorate your walls while subtly boasting to your guests about your exquisite music taste.

Also:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFdnhx8W8AExTjm.png

― Moka, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:43 (eight years ago)

A few that haven't been mentioned:

Albert Brooks - Comedy Minus One / A Star Is Bought
George Carlin - Jammin' in New York (The best of his '90s era)
Derek & Clive - Ad Nauseum
Firesign Theatre - Dear Friends
Eddie Izzard - Glorious / Dress to Kill (But watching the videos is better. Interestingly, the CDs are taken from different performances than the videos)
Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks - 2000 and Thirteen

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:55 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

LMAO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKT7cJGpY4

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:19 (four years ago)

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