Please note that pesch and I posted at the same time.
And I don’t know how I so badly screwed up the code–I didn’t even know you could do that stuff. I wonder what I did? (Completely rhetorical question.)
INSIDE SHELLEY BERMAN. There’s not a plane trip that I take, as the plane rolls “and rolls and rolls and rolls” down the runway for take-off, that I don’t think----“well, the hell with science, tonight it’s not gonna make it!”
ANYTHING by GEORGE CARLIN–“you can prick you finger, but; don’t finger your prick!” and DENIS LEARY.
Okay. I agree with almost all of those posted already, but…
I want all you young’uns and Yankees to go out and find a Jerry Clower album.
My stepfather listened to him when we were growing up and I laughed so hard my sides ached. He’s still funny. My daughter discovered some of his tapes at Granpa’s when she was 12 and even she thinks he’s hysterical.
Lily Tomlin, This Is A Recording.
“One ringy-dingy (snort)”
As well as agreeing with all the favourites: Tom Lehrer, Bill Cosby, Bob Newheart, Steven Wright and Bill Hicks, I’d like to nominate some Australian ones, which nobody outside this place have heard of, by local comedians Tony Martin and Mick Molloy. They have 3 double CDs which I listen to all the time, from radio shows they did in the mid-late nineties. It’s all very topical and sometimes a bit too laid back, but it takes the piss out of prank phone calls (to me the least funny comedy device ever), and is great to fall asleep to.
HenrySpencer.
Thank you, Arden Ranger! The Mouth of the South slipped my mind when I was making my first list!
“Mama don’t want you messin’ … with the deal she’s got!”
Rusty Warren was quite the comedienne. Her album Knockers Up! was hysterical.
“Knock him out Joooohhhn! It won’t be long…”
Coon Hunt still cracks me up. Or his rant about canned biscuits. 
My compliments to all of your choices. I too love Firesign, Stan Freburg, Cosby, Newhart, Berman, and Lehrer. Have all of them on vinyl. In addition, I have (on tape) Henny Youngman, Mort Sahl and The Good Shows.
Also have, and enjoy when in a ranchy mood, Woody Woodbury and Red Foxx. Both are very funny.
I would love to get a copy of Andy Griffth’s football routine. I’ve heard bits and pieces of it but never the whole thing.
Finally, I have one that is incredibly funny, but nobody even knows it exists. It is Art Buckwald’s (the columnist)“Sex and the College Boy”. I love it.
TV
If you’re looking for obscure comedy albums, you might try keeping your eye open for Murray Roman’s “Blind Man’s Movie” which features an all-black cover just the opposite of The Beatles White Album.
Among his routines were one it which he stumbles across a Sambos restaurant and in indignation at its “Little Black Sambo” stereotype, pulls out a $100 bill and asks them to make him $100 worth of these pancakes and gets other friends to do the same. The staff is so busy making these hundreds of pancakes for the narrator and his friends that they can’t serve anybody else, which I think was the idea.
Biting stuff in the late 70s
Am I the only person who remembers Robin Williams’ “Reality…What a Concept”? My mom let me get that because, she thought, Mork from Ork wouldn’t have any objectionable stuff on his album. Some of it I didn’t get, being 9 years old at the time (“What does he mean, snorting crushed Tupperware?”), but it had quite an impact on me.
And what was that one Cheech and Chong album that had the Sister Mary Elephant skit on it? “Claaasss…Claaaaaaaaassss…SHUTUP!!!”
Currently I like all three of the Jerky Boys’ albums, and “Bigger and Blacker” by Chris Rock. “What the Hell Happened to Me?” by Adam Sandler is inconsistent, but when it is funny, it’s priceless. Since I played it for Friend, we’ve been signing off by saying, “Good night old man…Goooood night.” Which is, of course, only funny if you know what precedes it.
Just found all three Tom Lerher albums in a local thrift store. .50 each and in PERFECT condition.
RealityChuck…
Wow…someone else actually heard of Chris Rush. The man is hilarious. I loved his oooo you stepped in earth joke. This was way back when they first came out. Damn…Now I gotta go to my wifes’ and get the album and listen again.
You know your drunk when you reach up to brush something off your shoulder and find out its the floor…:).
Lots of great nominations here.
I have to second Jerry Clower, (Rat Killin’) he’s absolutely brilliant.
…and Andy Griffith. He did some priceless stuff back in the day: Anybody remember the insanely funny wordplay of ‘RinderCella’? and how she slopped her dripper?
But unbelievably, it looks like I’m going to be the first to mention SPIKE JONES.
This is stuff to make your face hurt from grinning so hard.
Bill Hicks: Rant in E-Minor
One of Jones’s best is a bit where a musician tries to play “Flight of the Bumblebee” on a tuba. The first time I heard it, I couldn’t breath from laughing so hard.
Another unmentioned…well, not great, but damned good…one is Alan Sherman. One funny/ironic thing about is that Sherman did a song in the early '60s called “It’s the ‘Let’s All Call Up AT&T and Protest to the President’ March”. In that song, Sherman rants about the all the confusion that moving to 7 digit dialing will cause. When Colorado went to 10-digit dialing a couple of years back, people were making exactly the same rants. Some things never change.
Fenris
and speaking of Allen Sherman:
It is vital that we teach our children and allow them to know their cultural heritage, soooooo
back when my son was in 5th grade and the class went on an overnight field trip (our area has this neato little center where elementary schools are able to stay for like 2 - 3 days in a ‘nature center’ type of environment - really cool for some of these inner city kids), I taught them the lyrics to “Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder”. Tho’ my sons teacher thought it was funnier than hell, the other teacher on the other bus was less than amused…
I just noticed, I said “Good Show” not the “Goon Show”.
Sorry…
I agree with most all the post and I adore George Carlin
but if I had to pick just one…
NO DOUBT, HANDS DOWN, THE WINNER would be
The one and only
Jerry Clower
I LOVED THAT MAN!!!
and we surely do miss him.
It seems as though there are a lot of young people on here
and perhaps you havent heard of Jerry Clower, but the next time you’re in the market for a comedy album
Get Jerry’s !!!
Start with some of his earlier albums so you can get to know
the people he talks about.
Gather your friends together for an evening of the best Southern comedy entertainment ever.
A couple from the UK:-
Not Only but Also by Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore
The Peter Sellers Album including “Balham ,Gateway to the South” and “Unchained Melody”