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Title: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 09, 2009, 09:34:42 AM This is an offshoot of the "Songs/Albums that Take You Back" thread. Before home video, before whole TV channels devoted to comedy, before national comedy club chains with locations all over the place, before the public got onto the internet, the way we usually got our standup comedy fix was off a good old-fashioned comedy record. This is how many of us got acquainted with the likes of George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, and Bill Cosby. I had them, and others, on vinyl, on cassette and to a lesser extent, on CD. By the early 90s, with so many more comedy options, the day of the comedy album was more or less over. But I'm sure many of us have fond memories of sitting for hours playing those funny records and tapes.
So, which albums did you own and what were your favourite tracks? Let's post clips if we can, and try to keep it to one per post. Here's one to get it started. Bill Cosby, from "Wonderfullness." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Hds19eAh4&feature=related Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: The Burgomaster on December 09, 2009, 09:40:27 AM I have many comedy albums on my iPod, including:
* George Carlin's most popular albums from the 1970s, plus a few of his later ones * Rodney Dangerfield: No respect and Son of No Respect * Don Rickles * Pat Cooper * A couple of Monty Python albums * Jerry Seinfeld * Bill Cosby Maybe some others I can't remember right now. I almost went WAY over the top and downloaded some 1960s Rusty Warren stuff from iTunes . . . and I'm sure I will eventually. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 09, 2009, 10:09:04 AM I've got several comedy cd's. The likes of:
Cheech and Chong Mitch Hedberg Lewis Black Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner- they had a few of those 2000 Year Old Man things Stephen Lynch Evan Wecksell Jeff Foxworthy as well as a few others. I also have some cd's with guys like Spike Jones, Adam Sandler, and Weird Al Yankovic. Some of em are stand-up cd's, others like Jones and Yankovic are of the 'musical comedy' variety. I don't have many of the 'classic' stand-up guys like Carlin, Dangerfield or Cosby. Not cause I dislike them, but because I've seen the bits on tv so much, that buying them on a cd or for iTunes seems rather redundant. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: lester1/2jr on December 09, 2009, 10:49:23 AM I have Jimmy Walker one that is hilarious. the guy from good times.
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: Mr. DS on December 09, 2009, 12:35:05 PM Eddie Murphy Delirious. I actually was a latecomer into this album and was introduced around 1993. I was over my friend's house playing Sega and he put this on. By the end of the BBQ routine, I could hardly breathe from laughing so hard.
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: WingedSerpent on December 09, 2009, 01:11:49 PM I have most of Eddie Izzard's CDs.
Others I have include Patton Oswalt Mitch Hedberg Jim Gaggigan Lewis Black Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: Psycho Circus on December 09, 2009, 02:11:22 PM I have all Bill Hick's comedy CDs. I must have listened to each of them a hundred or more times. I find him theraputic, educational, inspirational and spookily prophetic...
NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIErA5wInI&feature=related Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 09, 2009, 04:56:37 PM Eddie Murphy Delirious. I actually was a latecomer into this album and was introduced around 1993. I was over my friend's house playing Sega and he put this on. By the end of the BBQ routine, I could hardly breathe from laughing so hard. Oh man. I could recite that one from beginning to end when I was in high school. So many funny bits. "Hey boy! Ya look mighty cute in them jeans!" It's weird to look back at classic Eddie Murphy since he's been doing family comedies. NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_n5JWzj6yU Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: SPazzo on December 09, 2009, 06:14:33 PM I have a few Bill Cosby records: Wonderfulness, Why is there Air?, To Russell My Brother Whom I Slept With, and 8:15 12:15.
I enjoy buying $2 records from the thrift store. :teddyr: Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: Allhallowsday on December 09, 2009, 08:59:55 PM ...I enjoy buying $2 records from the thrift store. :teddyr: :thumbup:Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: InformationGeek on December 09, 2009, 10:38:55 PM I own a couple. I have a bunch of Bill Engvall and Jeff Foxworthy. They are pretty good.
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: indianasmith on December 09, 2009, 11:40:15 PM When I was a kid, I owned two Bill Cosby comedy albums. One had the Chicken Heart and Tonsillectomy routines; the other included Fat Albert's Hernia and My Brother Russell. I had every story memorized and could imitate most of his sound effects. Oh, my gosh, the GO-Kart race is still perhaps the funniest thing ever recorded. And he did it all without uttering a single profanity.
Good times, good times. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 10, 2009, 12:50:15 AM When I was a kid, I owned two Bill Cosby comedy albums. One had the Chicken Heart and Tonsillectomy routines; the other included Fat Albert's Hernia and My Brother Russell. I had every story memorized and could imitate most of his sound effects. Oh, my gosh, the GO-Kart race is still perhaps the funniest thing ever recorded. And he did it all without uttering a single profanity. Good times, good times. I love the Go Kart Race bit, but my vote for the funniest Cosby routine has to go to Fat Albert's Car. The first time I heard that, I laughed so hard I was gasping for breath. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Erp4ScMYE Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: BoyScoutKevin on December 10, 2009, 07:52:09 PM Do I remember comedy albums?
Oh, yes. When I was in junior high and high school, we had to be there for the last day of the school year, no cutting, but the teachers, being merciful, wouldn't have any lessons for us, so they bring out the comedy albums. And I think almost everyone's favorite would be the comedy albums of Bill Cosby. The Chicken Heart Fat Albert Old Wierd Harold Why is there air? Another favorite would be the comedy albums of Bob Newhart. The comedy skit that I remembeer from those would be the one he did of a school for bus drivers. Looking back, in some ways, those were the good old days. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: Allhallowsday on December 10, 2009, 09:25:46 PM Do I remember comedy albums? Nope. I remember FIRESIGN THEATRE had a bunch of albums, but were they comedy? (Maybe NSFW due to language):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-4YF7S7rHo Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 10, 2009, 09:50:51 PM You Have No Rights- George Carlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E&feature=related I love this bit from Carlin's final comedy album, which ended up winning a Grammy. Might not be safe for work... Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: retrorussell on December 11, 2009, 12:12:50 AM My family used to have Robin Williams' "Reality.. What a Concept" album. Some funny stuff, some stupid stuff. I never have liked Robin Williams but a couple tracks were good.
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 12:01:19 AM NOT Safe for Work!
"I'm on A Boat" by The Lonely Island, featuring T-Pain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU So, these guys did a comedy album, and they asked this rapper T-Pain to collaborate. It's sort of a parody of rap songs about guys describing their cars, but these guys rap about being on a boat and sleeping with mermaids. Recently was nominated for a Grammy. "Ji** in My Pants" by The Lonely Island http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4&feature=related Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: retrorussell on December 12, 2009, 12:23:11 AM NOT Safe for Work! "I'm on A Boat" by The Lonely Island, featuring T-Pain [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU[/url] So, these guys did a comedy album, and they asked this rapper T-Pain to collaborate. It's sort of a parody of rap songs about guys describing their cars, but these guys rap about being on a boat and sleeping with mermaids. Recently was nominated for a Grammy. "Ji** in My Pants" by The Lonely Island [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4&feature=related[/url] 'Pants' is awesome.. so is "Like A Boss". Maybe I or you can post that one later, I can't see or post vids at work. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: fortunato on December 12, 2009, 01:01:32 AM I own all of Weird Al's albums on either cassette or CD. I have Tom Lehrer's first two albums (they're on the same CD Songs and More Songs). I also have several of Dr. Demento's compilation albums and two of Bill Hicks' albums. I do like Carlin as well.
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: retrorussell on December 12, 2009, 05:11:50 AM Here we go.. NSFW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: InformationGeek on December 12, 2009, 08:05:02 AM Bill Envgall: Here's Your Sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvj_acGhbPk Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 12, 2009, 10:12:56 AM You Have No Rights- George Carlin [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E&feature=related[/url] I love this bit from Carlin's final comedy album, which ended up winning a Grammy. Might not be safe for work... Carlin was a big favourite of mine in my teens, although I liked him much better before he got all angry and bitter. He always held institutions, rules and social norms up to ridicule, but he used to do it in a much more playful way. He didn't spend half the time giving heavy-handed lectures. He pointed out the things that didn't make sense, and let the silliness speak for itself. Classic Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 11:42:34 AM You Have No Rights- George Carlin [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E&feature=related[/url] I love this bit from Carlin's final comedy album, which ended up winning a Grammy. Might not be safe for work... Carlin was a big favourite of mine in my teens, although I liked him much better before he got all angry and bitter. He always held institutions, rules and social norms up to ridicule, but he used to do it in a much more playful way. He didn't spend half the time giving heavy-handed lectures. He pointed out the things that didn't make sense, and let the silliness speak for itself. Classic Carlin: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM[/url] True. He did seem to be much more bitter as an older man. But, eh. I still like it although it was a bit preachy. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 11:45:22 AM Holiday Traditions by Jim Gaffigan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJAxRVeKnTE Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 12, 2009, 01:31:47 PM I think the last comedy album I actually bought was in the late 90s. Denis Leary's No Cure for Cancer. Lots of funny stuff on the disc, but very few watchable, embeddable YouTube videos of the performance. So, here's a slide show somebody cut together for Leary's Irish Folk Song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTRrZcEsjFU Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 10:13:06 PM Milk and Water by Lewis Black.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS5GBuk-GQ I have the cd this is on. Dude's hilarious and probably in my top 3 stand-ups. In this bit, he talks about milk, and how as a kid in the '60s, you only had "Moo cow fu*k milk," but now you got soy milk, lactose free milk, etc etc, and nobody knows if milk is good or bad for em. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 12, 2009, 10:39:25 PM George Carlin talks about "Stuff'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac This is the first Carlin standup I've seen. Had known him primarily as an actor (I was born in '84, saw him in movies like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dogma, on tv shows.) Liked it, and peeped out his albums. Funny dude. "Smells Like Nirvana" by "Weird Al" Yankovic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY Not the first Weird Al song I heard (that would be '96's "Amish Paradise"), but it's my favorite Al parody. I like alot of Al's NON-Parody novelty stuff, but this is his best parody, by far. Mainly, cause he hits the nail on the head: Nirvana was a garage band from Seattle that hit big, and they screamed a lot and nobody understood what the dude was singing. Plus, ANY video with a midget AND Dick Van Patten= comedy gold in my mind. Plus, Kurt Cobain seemed really cool about it. Al doesn't HAVE to get permission to do parodies, but makes it a point to call the artist and ask anyway. He called Kurt, and said he had a parody idea. Kurt says: "It's not about food, is it? Like Eat It?" Al goes, "Oh, no. It's about how you scream all the time and nobody understands what you're saying." Kurt was just like, "Oh, that's even better, go for it. Least I know I'm established now, cause you're doing one of my songs." Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: Psycho Circus on December 13, 2009, 06:16:06 AM Milk and Water by Lewis Black. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS5GBuk-GQ[/url] I have the cd this is on. Dude's hilarious and probably in my top 3 stand-ups. In this bit, he talks about milk, and how as a kid in the '60s, you only had "Moo cow fu*k milk," but now you got soy milk, lactose free milk, etc etc, and nobody knows if milk is good or bad for em. Thanks for posting that video Happy. I'd never heard of Lewis Black, that was hilarious and I think he's fantastic! :thumbup: Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 13, 2009, 08:44:07 PM The Aristocrats--NOT SAFE FOR WORK- Gilbert Gottfried
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw10xa_xtNg Definitely one of the most UNDERRATED comics ever, in my opinion. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on December 14, 2009, 09:19:50 AM Was trying to find a clip of Cosby's "Buck Buck" routine, where Fat Albert makes his first appearance. Couldn't find a good clip of that, but I was amazed at how many there are of people playing Buck Buck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPour3uwDqE&feature=related Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 14, 2009, 11:48:41 PM "For the Ladies" by Stephen Lynch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DItLB_aUbA He's a stand-up, who kinda happens to just kinda sing his material. This is his song about abortion, apparently. I'd call his style, "Cringe Humor" to a degree. Patrice O'Neal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pB-4avmAR0 More Patrice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2NTyq8io40 Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on December 15, 2009, 11:13:01 PM "Death To All But Metal" by Steel Panther
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5tl2_K-d-g A very, very funny Metal group. Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: AndyC on June 14, 2011, 08:16:01 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mapN5ZsWdA&feature=related
Title: Re: Remember Comedy Albums? Post by: HappyGilmore on June 14, 2011, 10:40:45 AM Weird Al has a new album out next week called Alpocalypse. These are two of the songs released thus far:
"CNR", a White Stripes style song about Charles Nelson Reilly doing a bunch of bad-ass things. Kind of a "Chuck Norris Facts" for Reilly. :bouncegiggle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnapb-30hA "Craigslist". A Doors themed song, which does in fact feature Doors member Ray Manzarek playing on the song. Kinda odd thinking Jim Morrison is singing about Craigslist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk |