# Favorite Comedy Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012 "2005-10-20T02:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/61 "2005-10-20T23:49:35Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Most of my favorites have been mentioned, I’ll just add: > > **"Stan Freberg presents: the United States of America."** > > Which is, I believe the first musical cmedy produced specifically for record album. And it had the Judd Conlin dancers! for a record! > > I’ve had the whole thing memorized since junior high. Me, too. “Banks all closed today. . . Columbus Day. . .” ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/62 "2005-10-21T00:00:40Z")
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned either of these yet, especially the first: **Tenacious D** (Self Titled). Jack Black and Kyle Gass - this album is amazing. The skits are great, and the songs have such awesome melodramatic hilarity. Surprisingly the music is actually also really good, and the two can harmonize quite well. This is one of my favorite music albums period. **Stephen Lynch** is sort of similar - all of his are songs with acoustic guitar, and he sings with a honey sweet voice, but all the songs have some twisted dark humor to them. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/63 "2005-10-21T05:12:49Z")
Victor Buono - _Heavy_ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/64 "2005-10-21T13:17:16Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > I did! I mentioned that I have all his albums. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard “Little Feets.” I heard some Pryor on XM the other day. He was talking about how his dad told him, “take that bass out yo’ voice when you talk to me.” Such a bitch slap. It reminded me of Chapelle’s Show “Real World” when the black guy made the white guy pee sitting down. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/65 "2005-10-21T20:52:23Z")
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say **George Carlin - Toledo Window Box.** Yes, it’s drug oriented and took place when carling was likely at his height of his coke habit, but some of the bits were absolute revelations for this kid in the repressed, retarded South of the early 70’s. I really do think it’s his best album. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/66 "2005-10-21T21:09:03Z")
> [@VernWinterbottom](#): > > “Banks all closed today. . . Columbus Day. . .” Oh, yeah. Are we going out on that joke? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/67 "2005-10-21T21:55:46Z")
Patton Oswalt, _Feeling Kinda Patton_ “TiVo, NO! No, TiVo!” “But no you like the horsey shows! You said you like the horsies! You were LYING!” And holy shit, the Alvin & the Chipmunks album on low speed. And the Black Angus ads. Genius. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/68 "2005-10-22T01:16:30Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > Patton Oswalt, _Feeling Kinda Patton_ > “TiVo, NO! No, TiVo!” “But no you like the horsey shows! You said you like the horsies! You were LYING!” > And holy shit, the Alvin & the Chipmunks album on low speed. And the Black Angus ads. Genius. I didn’t know PO had an album out; he’s gold, Jerry, **GOLD.** I saw him do a bit on the old Carville Ice Cream commercials and just about shattered my bowels from laughing. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/69 "2005-10-22T02:06:31Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Oh, yeah. Are we going out on that joke? No. We do reprise of song. That help. ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/70 "2005-10-22T03:03:48Z")
From **Good Evening** : You do remember World War 2, don’t you. Yes, yes. I think we all do. Well, I was against it! I think we all were. Yes, but I wrote a letter! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/71 "2005-10-22T04:55:16Z")
I’ve got to plug Robert Klein’s **Child of the 50’s** , for a brilliant, short bit on it, “Starting Your Car,” about trying to start your car on a very cold winter morning, told from the POV of the fearful, weary car. Hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/72 "2005-10-22T11:18:42Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#): > > I’ve got to plug Robert Klein’s **Child of the 50’s** , for a brilliant, short bit on it, “Starting Your Car,” about trying to start your car on a very cold winter morning, told from the POV of the fearful, weary car. Hysterical. _Please_ don’t try to start me. _Please_ don’t try to start me. Leave me a _loo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oone_. Leave me a _loo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oone._ ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/73 "2005-10-22T11:57:59Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I think I heard that **Larry the Cable Guy** ’s recent album was the best selling comedy album ever. > " Hey!!! That’s not funny. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2005, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/74 "2005-10-22T12:02:37Z")
I became an \*\*Emo Phillips \*\* fan when I taped a show of his off TV. He was hilarious. Someone gave me a couple of cassettes of one of his albums that were also great fun. I saw him live and although he looks very different now he was still funny as hell. E=Mo2 was the one I think. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/75 "2005-10-23T17:54:29Z")
> [@VernWinterbottom](#): > > No. We do reprise of song. That help. _all together now…_ “But not much.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/76 "2005-10-23T18:10:07Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Victor Buono - _Heavy_ My father had that album…his physique was similar to Buono’s, and the album is primarily made up of fat jokes. I remember it as a fairly decent comedy album until the shock ending, which was such a downer it made the whole album feel creepy in retrospect. The last track on the album is the diary of a baby in the womb. All very whimsical until it abruptly ends with “My mother killed me today.” ---
**Author:** ![Pan4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@Pan4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pan4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/77 "2005-10-24T01:20:44Z")
Eddie Izzard- Dressed to Kill Eddie Izzard- Glorious …so, yeah… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/78 "2005-10-30T21:57:50Z")
What, you kids never heard of a fella by the name of Woody Allen… “First prize went to the Berkowitzes: a married couple, dressed as a moose. The moose was furious. He and the Berkowitzes lock antlers in the living room…” …or a coupla kids named Mike Nichols and Elaine May? “That was K, as in knife… A, as in aardvark… P, as in pneumonia…” ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/79 "2005-10-31T01:31:30Z")
There is only one CD of Woody Allen’s early stand-uo material. I think it shimmers with brilliance, in terms of both writing and performance, and I wish there were more. I’m not even much of an Allen fan (I think he’s done two movies that I’ve actually _liked_) but this early stand-up stuff is gold. Also, can I add my votes for Bob Newhart, and add Chris Rock (the first two shows… Bring the Pain and Bigger and Blacker). The third one ‘Never scared’ I didn’t think worked as well. I also thought Robin Williams, A Night At The Met, was a phenomenal _tour de force_. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012/80 "2005-10-31T01:50:52Z")
> [@John Corrado](#): > > What? No one else ever liked Rodney Dangerfield’s **No Respect**? > > [loosens tie] I was just about to mention it. I especially love it near the end, when he’s ready to get off the stage, and the audience keeps him going, he does a few more lines, and finally says (something like), “That’s it. I’m done. It’s over.” Not funny, just real. And I’m glad to hear where “Boot to the Head” comes from. I recorded a Dr. Demento tape – literally by holding my portable recorder up to the speaker – from the early '80s, and that routine still holds up. The tape has Spike Jones and the City Slickers doing “By the Sea,” a Lawrence Welk parody that seuges into a Martin Mull bit (“Men men men, it’s a ship all filled with men / So throw your rubbers overboard, there’s no one here but men.”) Which reminds me, “Martin Mull Near Perfect/Perfect” has a number of great bits. I think it’s his best record, with “The Fruit Song” (from the album, “Truck Driving Songs from the 8 Basic Food Groups”), "Pig in a Blanket (e.g. “I Drank Enough Till She Looked Good To Me”), the Bun and Run commercial parodies. Peter Frampton shows up for one song. Mull quote I found on imdb: “I don’t jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-comedy-albums/327012.md?page=3)