Remember Comedy Albums?

[AndyC]

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
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[The Burgomaster]

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.

[HappyGilmore]

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.

[lester1/2jr]

I have  Jimmy Walker one that is hilarious. the guy from good times.

[Mr. DS]

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.

[WingedSerpent]

I have most of Eddie Izzard's CDs.
Others I have include
Patton Oswalt
Mitch Hedberg
Jim Gaggigan
Lewis Black

[Psycho Circus]

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
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[AndyC]

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
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[SPazzo]

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.

[Allhallowsday]

...I enjoy buying $2 records from the thrift store.

 

[InformationGeek]

I own a couple.  I have a bunch of Bill Engvall and Jeff Foxworthy.  They are pretty good.

[indianasmith]

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.

[AndyC]

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
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[BoyScoutKevin]

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.

[Allhallowsday]

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
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