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I have a long road trip coming up next weekend and I've decided that I'm going to buy a bunch of comedy cds to keep me awake. A friend burned me a David Cross cd for the drive back from Minneapolis last week and even though I wasn't actually laughing much, it really did the trick better than music and audio books. So, what should I get?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Believe it or not, the old Woody Allen Standup Comic was really funny.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe it!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

some of the bill hicks ones.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Mitch Hedberg has a couple cds out. It will lessen the risk of crashing because you don't have to follow sustained jokes to their punchlines over several minutes.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Which Bill Hicks ones? It seems like there are a ton of them these days.

I was also thinking Richard Pryor and possibly Neil Hamburger.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Eddie Izzard

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Monday, 29 November 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed on the Woody Allen. Also, of course, all the classic Firesign Theater albums.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

as many Bill Cosby ones as you can get; I have 15!!!

Rhino put out a Richard Pryor Box set a while ago. Very recommended

and Derek & Clive

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

90's George Carlin

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, of course, all the classic Firesign Theater albums.

Tell me more.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Richard Pryor box set, if you can afford it. Any of the individual albums if you can't.

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― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't Crush That Dwarf, Bring Me the Pliers (or something like that) is my favorite Firesign Theater disk.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you get Derek & Clive in the US?

I bought a relatively recent (pre-millennial) Firesign Theater album and it was good too.

And Derek & Clive reminds me that you might want to get some Monty Python. I had the Matching Tie and Handkerchief LP- it had three sides!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

>Also, of course, all the classic Firesign Theater albums.

Start with Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers. If you like that, How Can You Be In Two Places At Once & Everything You Know Is Wrong, and if you like those, everything else (though things get really patchy after about 1976, the first wave of solo albums are all great).

― (Jon L), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can't spring for the box set, the 2CD Pryor anthology (also on Rhino) is tasty too.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you get Derek & Clive in the US?

dunno, you can pick it up in second hand shops in the UK; Music & Video Exchange in London always has some Bill Cosby in.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All", by the Firesign Theater, is one of the best records ever, and the 2nd side, "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye", is one of the funniest half hours ever.

"Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers", "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus", "Waiting For The Electrician (Or Someone Like Him)", and the selected "Dear Friends" album are also great. If you check AMG I believe our own Sean Crudders wrote the blurbs for those albums.

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― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Patton Oswalt's CD is good

how about crank calls? Just Farr A Laugh - highly recommended.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate crank call recordings. They make me tense.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hah, I reviewed a good chunk of the Firesign Theatre albums on AMG, and of course I'd say go for it, but with a caveat: they're definitely of the 60s school of drugs and grooviness, but with fantastic wordplay and pretty cool ideas in many cases. Bottom line is they're great to sink your teeth into if you're looking for something fun to decode but if you're looking for the "hey, what's the deal with airplane food anyhow?" kinda thing, you're not going to like it much. I'd say start with Don't Crush That Dwarf or How Can You Be Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All...the latter for the fantastic side-long detective radio show parody.

Also agreed on Bill Cosby. As annoying as he could be in his mid-80s phase, the early early stuff was fantastic. And I've got a thing for Carlin too, and of course his spiritual godfather Lenny Bruce.

If you're really looking for something to chew on, check out some Dick Gregory stuff. It's not funny haha in some cases, but it really does give some great food for thought on the state of race relations in this society, and how little some things have changed in 30 or 40 years. He's definitely one of the foundations for Pryor or Chris Rock.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Woody Allen: the nightclub years 1964 - 1968

by and large Destroy: that Cheech & Chong college radio record (save the bit where Mr T visits the studio)

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'd actually advise against starting with the box set, since it takes a lot of things out of context and it doesn't really show quite how brilliant many of the bits are. But it does have the complete "Nick Danger" I mentioned, so it's not that bad.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Sean. I hope I can find some old Bill Cosby, I do think that he can be brilliant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

xposted with Chris, thus a bit of duplication there.

If you're in the mood for something a bit more dry and intellectual, by all means also check out the early albums by Bob Newhart, and if you're really feeling generous to yr record store there's also the box set of Tom Lehrer stuff, but that can often be a bit too 60's-centric with the political stuff.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have Bruce McCullough's album? I've never been able to find it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to have it a while ago, but I got rid of it...there's apparently another newer one that's not so funny. I should try to get the first one again. It's good for the song "My Answering Machine" at the very least!

Another thought if you like musical comedy: Stan Freberg. He was kinda like the Weird Al of his day, doing parodies of hit songs, but he also did extended sketches and radio shows with some of the cast members that ended up on Hanna Barbera shows (June Foray and Daws Butler notably). A lot of his ire was aimed at the advertising industry, which is kind of funny considering he ended up being an award-winning ad writer...though his ads were somewhat subversive. There's a video included in the Freberg box set that has some of those ads, as well as a good chunk of great material, including a lot of songs and a good chunk of the Madison Ave Werewolf piece.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(How can you tell I could give you recommendations all night?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Also agreed on Bill Cosby. As annoying as he could be in his mid-80s phase, the early early stuff was fantastic.

Very OTM. Pretty much up through Himself, the film/album that actually provided the blueprint for The Cosby Show, he was downright genius.

The original half-hour Nick Danger sketch by Firesign is a pinnacle of hilarity. ("I wonder where Ruth is?")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Please do! I'm going to go to sleep later though.

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― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll second the George Carlin stuff, he's great.

I'm also rather fond of "I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again" which was a late 60s BBC radio comedy with members of the Goodies and Python in it. Very silly stuff but great if you like that kind of humour.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, it's music and not spoken word comedy, but The Bonzo Dog Band's "Cornology" box set is worth every penny. Seminal eccentrics, influence on Monty Python yadda yadda yadda.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Daniel otm about Bonzos. The Bonzos also did a detective parody or two, I like the one called "Big Shot."

While you are all here, let me ask a potential threadkiller- is it actually worth owning anything by Weird Al? Also any old National Lampoon stuff?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the Nat Lamp stuff back then, and I have the box set but haven't played it yet. I'd say check it out at least.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone heard the new lenny bruce box set?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, speaking of the Bonzos, I recently got a copy of Viv Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and it is great.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got the new Bruce box set but haven't listened through it yet. I've flipped through the included book though, and it's worth having just because. Go get it!

Ned OTM. Where IS Ruth? Maybe the dog can find her.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If you have USENET access handy, go to any of the oldtime radio groups and grab some of the vintage George & Gracie/Groucho shows posted there. Every so often there's a Goon Show flood too.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ROG OTM

PATTON OSWALT CD = TOTALLY BRUTAL!!

― brock (brock), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I have the words "Porgie Tirebiter, he's a spy and girl-delighter" running through my head.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP SINGING AND FINISH YOUR HOMEWORK!

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

C-c-c-coming Mother!

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost::

(George),
Have you read a book called Brown Harvest, in which Encyclopedia Brown grows up to became a hard-boiled Dashiell Hammett type investigator, come back to his home town to uncover various levels of corruption and rot, including a gang war between computer companies in which one of the combatants is a certain YELLOW HAT software? If you haven't you should.

― I Wear Hat (Yellow) (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That book sounds great! Who wrote it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Guy named Jay Russell. I think I bought it for a dollar in the crappy books pile at my local (good) used bookstore. I tried to get some of the guy's other stuff, but he seems to be kind of ornery or doesn't fit in the publisher pigeonholes or something so he is almost totally out of print. I think you can google his web site.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568582110/qid=1101700046/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/102-7590244-8497760?v=glance&s=books

Ken L, your description makes it sound better than the blurbs at the Amazon listing. Is it really good?

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, there is another Jay Russell who writes more "friend of Dorothy" fiction who is more popular at Amazon, so be forewarned.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is one link: From here there are some links so you can read some of the guy's short stories and essays.

http://www.sff.net/people/jrussell/

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to second the Burns & Allen (radio) Show recommendation -- I have about 100 of them and they're top notch, especially from 1940-45. (I'm still working my way through them. The later, more sitcom-y ones are good too, but not as good as the earlier ones.)

The book on tape version of America: The Book is pretty sweet as well (although I listened to it before the election) and David Sedaris is pretty dang funny on CD as well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it just my imagination, or is this thread a lot more informative than many over on ILM?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I posted it here. It's always seemed odd to me that comedy records get reviewed by music crits, AMG, etc. just because they're on the same medium.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

D: David Cross Shut Up You Fucking Baby, two CDs one funny piece (redneck voice)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pryor box is essential.
Bill Hicks - I'd say plump for Dangerous and Relentless, and maybeArizona Bay or Rant In E Minor. You don't *need* the rest of the posthumous stuff, but its never not funny.
And YES to Bill Cosby.
Also *highly* recommended - the National Lampoon Radio Hour box - Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Chris Guest and the rest of their ilk in savage embryonic form.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Secret Policeman's Ball
Bill Bailey - any
70s Billy Conolly
Flanders and Swann - 'At the drop of a Hat'
Spike Jones - 'Thank you music Lovers'
Tom Lehrer - pretty much any

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 November 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

D: The Rapture - Echoes

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 29 November 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Rollins' "Think Tank" is mostly brilliant.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 November 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ON the question of Bill hicks, my mate burned me a CD called Flying Saucer Tour - it's REALLY good! It's not so much funny as scary - the chap is clearly pissed off with everythign and everyone, and is dyign the comedy death whilst still being funny - the audience just isn't responding. It is truly remarkable stuff - not laugh a minute, but still amazing.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Y'all are about to win the election for the worst audience ever ever EVER!"

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 29 November 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Flying Saucer Tour *is* pretty killer, actually. the comic equivalent of 'sister ray', perhaps.

also, big props to the Alan Partridge / On The Hour tapes.

there is *nothing* better than a *hot* bath, some weed and a richard pryor LP.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Except possibly for Hooray For The Salvation Army Band by Bill Cosby and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band - stoner funk and stonier ramblings circa 1969, at least a quarter of a century ahead of its (Mo' Wax) time.

Oh and Blue Jam by Chris Morris, though it's a pity that the whole series couldn't come out on the BBC label a la Partridge/On The Hour (music copyright issues, I guess).

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 29 November 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, i really want to hear that Cos album - there was a small blurb on it in the last Mojo.

and the whole On The Hour series needs to be rereleased soon. Is out of print now.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

have been meaning to check out Dick Gregory for years - any good albums to look for? and any easy-to-find moms mabley records or redd foxx CDs? what about Cedric The Entertainer? he makes me wet myself everytime i watch the barbershop movies...

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I like The Goons and David Gunson's What Goes Up Might Come Down, but there again I'm probably a bit strange.

― C J (C J), Monday, 29 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

louis ck, live in houston. he has free standup videos on his site too.

― :| (....), Monday, 29 November 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

D: Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again -- Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, Ron White.
For some reason I recently recieved a free copy of this CD. Includes potential laff-riots with titles like "Differences Between Men and Women," "The Chinese Space Program and Other Musings on Life," "Oreo Generation," "Courtesy Sniff," "Vasectomies Fat Girls and Monopoly Money."
Since I'm a loyal liberal elitist I will literally destroy this.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

crucially, its just so *unfunny*, starski. caught a bit of foxworthy on Comedy Central when i was out in LA recently, and it was just so tame and woefully uninspired. he makes tim allen look like lenny bruce.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and photograph the destruction! maybe its time liberals took to ceremonially burning the books of Limbaugh et al (of course i don't mean that)

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Redd Foxx records are pretty good. His Republican Party slogan, circa 1960: "Nobody can lick our Dick."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

any i should search out? any CD reissues?

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a long series of LPs on Dooto that sold tons. Many had the same cover, in different colors for the various albums. Most of the stuff on CD is on no-name labels for cheap prices. I have a couple of volumes of 'Live and Dirty' that I like. It can be pretty silly stuff, but his voice and attitude alone can be pretty funny.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Best ones not yet mentioned: "Wild and Crazy Guy" and "Let's Get Small" by Steve Martin. I love love love Martin's stand-up, pure intelligent absurdness. Some of the bits don't make sense on record without the visual aspect, but these are mostly the adlibs, so the records are still great and you can usually find them on vinyl for a buck or two. I found Let's Get Small on cd for like $5. CLASSIC.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's Get Small is fucking GENIUS. I've got it on vinyl.

For Cosby recordings, I think I would recommend Wonderfulness first off. I'm pretty sure it's the one with the story about the game called "buck buck" and is one of the first appearances of the Fat Albert character in his work. GNARL.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A really surprisingly funny modern one is Skanks For The Memories by Dave Attell. For some reason, all it takes is a format in which he can cuss up a storm, and he's one of the funniest motherfuckers ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Dane Cook, "Harmful If Swallowed".

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Scharpling and Wurster, Best Show on WFMU. Buy the 3 releases NOW (2 of them are double-cds).
"Hey Gorch, we've got an email from Nebraska."
"That's God's country out there."
"You've been to Nebraska, Gorch?"
"No, it seems cool though. REAL people."

― San Carlos, Monday, 29 November 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I think there are a few Negativland releases that would qualify -- I'm blanking on the name of the one with the bit about squant on it, but that's a great album.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT STEVE MARTIN!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll second Steve Martin, and suggest Coyle and Sharpe:

http://www.coyleandsharpe.com/

― Nemo (JND), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh, yeah!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The only Bill Hicks disc you really need is "Rant In E Minor".

See also: Bill Cosby, "For Russell, My Brother, Who I Slept With". If you EVER had to share a bed with either a sibling or cousin as a kid, then this is priceless.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Tantrum OTM,
"Russell My Brother" the best
album of all time.

Jordan I have this,
and four Firesign discs with me...
meet somewhere this week?

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah! That would be great. Even though I never had any brothers.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill Cosby: Revenge
Bill Cosby: My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? What Must I Do?
Bill Cosby: To Russell, My Brother, Who I Slept With
Bill Cosby: Why Is There Air?
Bill Cosby: 8.15 /12.15
Bill Cosby: The Best Of (there seems to be two, both on Warner Bros.)
Bill Cosby: More of the Best of.
Bill Cosby: Oh, Baby
Bill Cosby: When I Was a Kid
Bill Cosby: Wonderfulness

Of the above, I'd go for "Wonderfulness" Why is there Air" and "To Russell, ny brother..." as essential.

Any yeah, "Wonderfulness" has the buck buck game.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I also like Bill's album 200 MPH, mostly for the side-long piece about him getting a sportscar specially designed for him.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Picked up Steve Martin's 'Comedy Is Not Pretty' for a coupla squid in a Glasgow record store two years ago and it's pretty damned funny. Best listened to with others. A friend played me the one before it (maybe Wild And Crazy Guy) and we were falling about laughing. It's not comedy you can really quote (unless you want to sound like Colin Hunt) but Martin's relentless energy and absurdity is a wonder to behold. And he's a better banjo player than Billy Connolly.

As for Hicks - Dangerous is my least favourite. Relentless is probably the best way in. There was an interview with Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite!) in Grand Royal #6 and he talks about Red Foxx in great detail. And that mag also covered Neil Hamburger if I recall correctly. Some of you guys have bound to have copies of that mag.

― stew, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and the whole On The Hour series needs to be rereleased soon. Is out of print now.

Was it ever released in its entirety? Just a double-cassette/CD of highlights, wasn't it? All the Lee/Herring material airbrushed out of history thanks to a certain celebrated playwright. I think I've probably downloaded the lot now (from people recording the 2003 reruns from Radio 7 and bunging them up on the web as MP3s - entirely justified in this case, I think).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no yr right there never was anything but that one tape of ON THE HR. the BBC 7 repeats last yr proved once and for all, that they were way funnier than either the day today or the brass eye stuff.

check the cookd and bombd site and the soulseek room of theirs for a *mountain* of comedy genius (and some rubbish).

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

dl'd the series off cookd and bombd and its much better than the bbc cassette...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I need another copy of Bicentennial Nigger by Richard Pryor. I love that album. I've been listening to a lot of old Firesign lately. I love all the old ones. and even though i'll sound like a hippy for saying this: they are great "headphones" albums, man. they even made some quad records, no? alas, i am not set up for quad.

i still love that national lampoon lennon bit (harry shearer?). the magical misery tour one.

oh, and albert brooks records are really funny.

and i still listen to jonathan winters and nichols & may records. which is kinda quaint or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

not shearer. it was tony hendra.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I RESENT performing for you fuckers
Tell me, what do you know?
A lot of faggot middle-class kids wearing long hair
and trendy clothes
Look, I'm not your fucking parents,
And I'm sick of uptight hippies coming knocking at me door
With a fucking peace symbol
Get lit, fuck that, I don't owe you fuckers anything
And all I got to say is FUCK YOUUUUUU
The sky is bluuuuue

Paul said he hated Yoko
Tell me, why should Yoko have to take that kind of shit?
Shit from those fucking sons of bitches?
George said she gave off evil vibes
I should have beat the fucking shit right out of him,
Him with his fucking Hare Krishnas

Me auntie, she tore up me fucking poems
She just threw the bastards out
I can't forgive her, 'cause she didn't treat me like a fucking genius--

Look, you bastards, I'm a genius, like Shakespeare and Beethoven and Van Gogh! Don't you DARE criticize my work! Don't Worry Kyoko was one of the fucking BEST rock and roll records ever made! I'm a fucking ARTIST! I'm sensitive as shit! I throw up before I go onstage! I can make a guitar SPEAK! If I could be a fisherman I would, but I can't, because I'm a FUCKING GENIUS! I was the Walrus! PAUL wasn't the Walrus! I was just saying that to be nice, but I was actually the Walrus! Him and that RUBBISH he's been singing! Eastman was an ANIMAL!! A FUCKING STUPID MIDDLE-CLASS PIG!! I won't let fucking animals like that near me!! Yoko is a SUPREME INTELLECTUAL! I'll tell you why nobody likes her music--because she's a woman and she's Oriental, that's why! WHERE ARE YOU, MOTHER?! THEY'RE TRYING TO CRUCIFY ME!!

Genius is pain
GENIUS IS PAIN!!!
AAAAGGGGH!! AAAAAGGGHHHH!!!! YOKO!!! MOTHER!!!
FUCK! FUCK! AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

(The dream is over)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it's silly, but it always makes me giggle when i hear it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

and melissa manchester plays yoko!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what in the name of GOD is that from??!

i hope it sounds funnier than it reads.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Shout out again to the Woody Allen standup stuff. It really is ridiculously funny, though you should be warned that the material DOES NOT survive retelling unless you are actually Woody Allen, 40 years ago.

Rant in E-Minor is the core Bill Hicks album, it's funny and angry and hippy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"i hope it sounds funnier than it reads."

it sounds like a john lennon song. it's just silly is all. maybe it was rad in 1972 to make fun of lennon, i dunno.

yeah, everyone needs to own that double woody standup album. it's godlike.

i like all the hicks records, but i never listen to them. maybe i have to forget them a little and they will sound fresh again. i wanna see the movie that is coming out of him live. i don't know how i feel about people making him the next lenny who died for our sins though. he was funny anyway. (and i only really like those old lenny records on fantasy. once the court stuff started showing up in his act is when i get bored.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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Scott, is that the John Lennon thing from National Lampoon? Didn't he also says something about Mick Jagger, "I think Mick is a joke with all that dancing"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

he might have. i got the text off of the internet. it was on some michael o'donahue message board. maybe that is dr.mike's original lyric sheet or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It was on the Radio Dinner album and one of the best of albums.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean Mr.Mike.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh, that mr mike book is great!!

there are albert brooks records???

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, you need this one:

http://members.aol.com/shmuggs/cmo.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill Hicks live movie???!!! Tell me more! Is it pieced together from random clips, or is it a new version of Sane Man or what?
Rant is his masterpiece. The Rush Limbaugh skat routine takes comedy to another level.

― stew, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And *A Star Is Bought*. You need that one too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This one:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bill_hicks_live_satirist_social_critic_stand_up_comedian/

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a bill hicks concert video fron 1989 that i've never seen too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Get any Moms Mabley record!!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

amazon has the new one for 15 bucks. i'll probably just buy it there. or have my record store order it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

Maria Bamford - The Burning Bridges Tour

Very funny stuff. Speaking of which, has anyone seen The Comedians of Comedy? It's a documentary featuring Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, and Brian Posehm. Totally hilarious. I don't think it had much distribution, but it comes out on Netflix in November.

― darin (darin), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I just posted about this as part of my Fall 2005 Fucking Ten: Matt Besser's May I Help You, Dumbass? The premise is that a Bluelight free internet CD-ROM was given away in NYC a few years ago with the telephone number to the apartment of Mr. Besser (Adair from the Upright Citizens Brigade) mistakenly printed as the tech support line. So he's basically sitting in his kitchen, high, eating cereal or something and playing the role of a disinterested, easily distracted moronic tech support worker making minimum wage in Houston. The NY callers are irritated expecting some help on how to "get their modems connected to the internet."

http://www.uprightcitizens.org/18/

― ath (ath), Friday, 30 September 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for LORD BUCKLEY?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Robin Harris' Bebe's Kids. FUCK.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Rodney Dangerfield's No Respect

― a picture of a fat girl hugging Rick Perry, awesome (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

The John Lennon thing ("Magical Misery Tour") is indeed excruciatingly funny on record--produced in the vein of Plastic Ono Band, with text taken almost entirely from early-'70s Lennon interviews. (The "genius is pain" bit is sung to the tune of "mama don't go/daddy come home" from "Mother.")

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 30 September 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

i've never liked comedy records (tho i love stand up), but i love this disc, which i just got:

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Personal/Hobbies/MusicReviews/Only.the.Truth.is.Funny.cover.jpg

it's rick reynolds, only the truth is funny. it's actually very sad and wrenching, for being a comedy disc.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:22 (sixteen years ago)

Eugene Mirman is one of my favorites and he's got three albums out now, all of which are great imo

― Andrew Kornfan, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

Gang Of Seven put out a great Andrei Codrescu tape, very funny in parts.

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 05:43 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqZhadwvG0

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 January 2012 17:50 (fourteen years ago)

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