# Comedy album advice needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 23, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758 "2009-06-23T20:34:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758/41 "2009-06-26T06:11:05Z")

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From the LA comedy scene: the Comedy Death Ray compilation CD, Paul F. Tompkins’s Impersonal, Doug Benson’s Professional Humoredian, and Jen Kirkman’s Self-Help. Trust me on these.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758/42 "2009-06-26T19:29:14Z")

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William Shatner’s “William Shatner Live”.

Andy Griffith’s “[What It Was, Was Football](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_it_Was,_Was_Football)”.

Monty Python’s “The Album of the Sountrack of the Trailer of the Film of _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_”.

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**Author:** ![jormundgondir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jormundgondir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jormundgondir)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758/43 "2009-06-27T00:10:51Z")

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> [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](#):
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> Firesign Theater might provide some yucks. Shoes for Industry. We’re All Just Bozos on This Bus. Actually Big Bambu/Cheech y Chong is pretty good.

I second the Firesign Theater! “How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All” is one of my favorite things to listen to on a road trip. And Cheech and Chong did some funny albums too.

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758/44 "2009-06-27T05:13:15Z")

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What rating can you handle? Richard Pryor’s _ **That Nigger’s Crazy** _ would probably get a hard R, but it remains, to me, the best comedy album ever. It will surprise you - sort of take over your mind.

For something more genteel, Bill Cosby’s old stuff, or Bob and Ray.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-album-advice-needed/500758/45 "2009-06-27T09:01:22Z")

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Denis Leary’s _Why We Suck_ is available as an audio book and is 5 CDs worth of Leary. Very funny stuff.

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