Comedy on Vinyl
By Jason Klamm
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Podcast Description
Comedy on Vinyl is what happens when comedy nerds talk about the greatest vinyl comedy albums of all time.
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ExplicitEpisode 33 – Live! With David Anthony Higgins and James Urbaniak on The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief | I will remember Memorial Day 2012 as a night of nerddom. Look at that picture. Even Jeremy is wearing thick-rimmed glasses in spirit. This week, we talk with two of my favorite character actors of all time, David Anthony Higgins and James Urbaniak. | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 32 – Jonah Ray on Emo Philips – E Equals MO Squared | - It's been a long time coming, but Jonah Ray is finally on the podcast. It's highly unlikely you've never heard of The Nerdist, but if you haven't, it's pretty much the best podcast out there. As a standup, vinyl comedy was part of his education, | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 31 – Scott Aukerman on Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival | Improvised interviews. They're nothing new, but Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks perfected it as an art form. They made a number of albums as interviewer and interviewee, and the current generation of podcasters owes them a huge debt. - This week, | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 30 – Cole Stratton on Albert Brooks – A Star is Bought | This week we talk about a new favorite - Albert Brooks' "A Star is Bought." Meta before people were using that term to describe the brilliantly, intentionally redundant and self-referential kind of work you find on this album. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 29 – Dave Holmes on National Lampoon’s “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick” | National Lampoon was, in its heyday, on the forefront of sketch comedy. This album proves it, and for many it was the first time hearing some of these up-and-coming comedians who are now household names - Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, Richard Belzer, | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 28 – Matt Knudsen on Andrew Dice Clay – Dice Rules | If it were any other album, I'd apologize for there being only one clip in this episode. But this album is not what you might call the greatest of the great. But it has a special place in Matt Knudsen's heart. - | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 27 – Amy Phillips on Dana Carvey | This week we talk impressions with the awesome Amy Phillips. We take some liberties with the vinyl aspect to talk about one of her greatest influences - and one of ours - Dana Carvey. - Whether you're an SNL fan or not, | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 26 – Jordan Morris on TMBG – Flood | They may not be comedians, but the biting wit of They Might Be Giants makes them the perfect subject for this latest episode. Talk of dark humor abounds in this episode, featuring the great Jordan Morris, who holds one of the Fort Awesome cats, Raine, | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBaby Episode #3 | As we work to get you some more great guests (and get some of our side projects going) we bring you a quick episode outlining some stuff that is coming up for Comedy on Vinyl. Below, you'll find a gallery of album covers for some records we might cover. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 25 – Die Hard, A Drinking Game | Once a month, I'm part of an undeniably awesome theater experience. Since November of 2011, "A Drinking Game" has taken live stage readings of the best films of the 80s and combined them with a custom drinking game for each film. | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 24 – The Replacements – Let it Be – With Brian Stack | It's another first for Comedy on Vinyl - a non-comedy album. Long-considered an unappreciated classic, The Replacements' "Let it Be," a punk album equally well-written as it is irreverent was hugely influential on this week's guest. - | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 23 – Weird Al – Even Worse – With Rachel Bloom | Yes, he's a God. He's the nicest man on the planet, and I've shaken his hand. Yes, you needed to know that. This is one of his tightest albums, containing some of his best originals. - She makes funny songs like "F**k Me, | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 22 – Bill Cosby – To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With | Storytelling comedy at its best. In this episode, we discuss our own sibling adventures along with this album, named for the 20-minute track that is side 2. It is so true-to-life in terms of family that just about anyone can relate. - | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 21 – Lenny Bruce – I Am Not a Nut, Elect Me! – With Matt Besser | If you think of Lenny Bruce, you probably think of the guy who took on censorship and was a martyr for the cause of free speech. Maybe you've seen the movie "Lenny" and associate him with Dustin Hoffman's huggable heroin addict. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 20 – Woody Allen – Standup Comic | Before he was Alvy Singer - before he was Woody Allen, even - he was still a writer named simply Woody Allen. He was turning his behind-the-scenes skills from writing on "Your Show of Shows" and for the stage into a persona to accompany his work. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 19 – Eddie Murphy – Self-Titled | It's about time we discuss an album none of us are familiar with and then turns out to be not nearly as good as we hoped. It's not going to be a regular feature, but this week I figured why not get a little perspective? | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 18 – Tom Lehrer – That Was The Year That Was | Happy New Year and happy satire. Sure, that's an expression. One of the great, energetic musical comedians, Tom Lehrer is a must-listen (again, another real expression) for those bent on listening to comedy made by intelligent people. Until recently, | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 17 – Zero Mostel – How the Grinch Stole Christmas | ...I have no words. Except Merry Christmas. This special episode features the one and only Zero Mostel at possibly his most insane, reading Dr. Seuss's timeless "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." There are SO many things going on here, | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 16 – George Carlin – Class Clown | We waited too long to get to this album, since its among the first albums I ever listened to, and it simply blew my mind. What's disappointing is its the first one I simply have not been able to find locally on vinyl - despite having it in the secret .. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 15 – Eric Idle and Neil Innes – The Rutles | After Monty Python, Eric Idle continued the sketch comedy television with Rutland Weekend Television, which featured "The Seventh Python," Neil Innes. Best known beyond The Rutles as an amazing absurd satirist, | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 14 – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder – Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks may have made the name he has today with a unique brand of parody, but Young Frankenstein is arguably his masterpiece, and is no doubt the beginning of a brand of pastiche that has informed the work of every great filmmaker of the last four ... | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBaby Episode #2 – Several Albums to Come | To everyone who is awesome: thank you for continuing to listen. Thanks for putting up with this pseudo-sode, as I'm calling it, in the hopes it won't catch on. There are a number of albums coming up, and we're in the planning stages for the second li. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 13 – Cheech and Chong – Greatest Hit | They're back, and this time we cover the second album that made Jason and Dan become best friends while hanging out in a broken Ford Fiesta. Yep, that's Upstate New York for you. This is, in fact, our first quadrilateral New York episode. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 12 – Monty Python – The Instant Record Collection | It's taken much too long to get to Monty Python, given our collective love for the group, perhaps best demonstrated by how many Holy Grail references make their way into this podcast. This is a great primer album, | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 11 – Ernie Kovacs: The Ernie Kovacs Album – with Adam X. Storm | For the first time, I'm going to recommend you actually watch something before listening to this week's album (links are below). Why? Well, because Ernie Kovacs is the godfather of experimental TV. Which is why, as a comedy writer, | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 10 – Live Phil Hartman Tribute with Vicki Lewis, Mike Preister & Jeremy Guskin | He was Troy McClure. He was Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. He was Bill McNeil. Most importantly, he was a brilliant comedic actor, and loved by everyone he worked with. He also inspired some of us to do what it is we do. | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 9 – Steve Martin: Let’s Get Small | (Originally posted 9/7:)Every once in a great while, you come across a comedy album that changes comedy. Maybe it doesn't change the nature of comedy, but it changes your understanding of what comedy can be. Rarely can a stand-up do that on his own. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 8 – Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (w/Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin) | It didn't take long for Richard Pryor's work to crop back up on Comedy on Vinyl, which is mostly due to popular demand. Not only is "...Is it Something I Said?" still our most-downloaded episode, but two of my favorite comedic minds specifically said | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBaby Episode #1 – No Album This Week | Hey Everybody! A big thanks to all of you who have been listening to us comedy nerds as we regale you with our development as comedy people. This week, no album, but for good reason - we're all very busy. That said, | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 7 – Cheech and Chong: Big Bambu (with guest Bob Wiltfong) | If it wasn't for this album, the 70s arguably wouldn't have been the 70s. Before "pot culture" and "pot humor," there were two brilliant sketch comedians who also talked a lot about pot. Those guys were Cheech and Chong. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 6 – The Firesign Theatre: Dont Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (with guest Jeremy Guskin) | Not stand-up. Not sketch. Just pure comedy. The Firesign Theatre are, luckily, indescribable. You owe it to yourself to find any of their comedy. They have released 22 albums since the 70s and this is, frankly, their third. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 5 – Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow Right! | This week we skip back to last week's comedian's (Richard Pryor) biggest influence. Bill Cosby influenced two generations in two entirely different ways. He broke ground with his stand up comedy, became the first black man to star in a TV drama, | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 4 – Richard Pryor – …Is It Something I Said? | This week: three white guys talk about Richard Pryor. In this episode, we're joined by the hilarious and talented Mike Preister. You've seen his work on TV for over a decade, and now he's been kind enough to talk with us about his earliest, | 7/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 3 – The Smothers Brothers – Live at the Purple Onion | Finally! We cover The Smothers Brothers's's first album. This album helped the duo achieve the kind of notoriety that informs the success of every folk comedy... duo... since. Actually, the form was so unique that they cut out a place for themselves | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 2 – Bob Newhart – The Button-Down Mind | EPISODE #2: The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960) In this episode, Jason Klamm, Dan Gomiller and Mike Worden are joined by writer/podcaster Ari Jarvis to discuss 1960s comedy phenomenon Bob Newhart in his premiere album, | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 1 – Weird Al Yankovic – In 3-D | Welcome to the Comedy on Vinyl podcast, where we listen to the great comedy albums on their original medium, and talk about them. Some of these albums were never even made available on cassette, giving us an even better reason to let you know/remind y.. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 36 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Love it!
The hosts are enthusiastic about the comedy albums they future with a kind of joy that's normally reserved for sci-fi fanboys!
Great Podcast
Jason Klamm does a fantastic job reviewing and discussing the influence of these comedy albums. All the guest commentators add different perspectives to the reviews. Count me as a big fan of Comedy on Vinyl. Can't wait to hear the Phil Hartman tribute show.
Wow!
I LOVE this brilliant group. Mr. Klamm uses his friends to review comedy albums that they grew up loving, and sometimes we also hear from well-known comedy personalities as well. They are funny, and they make me want to listen to the albums all over again, as well as trying out the ones i haven't heard yet. What a cool way to learn about comedy that's new (well, to me at least).
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