Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?

[Rick in Salt Lake]

Nat Lamp - I think i'd probably want to find a best of complilation b/c I'd bet I couldn't take some of the bits anymore, but some of them I still remember probably word for word!

The fake John Lennon song (I think it's called "Genius Is Pain") from the Radio Dinner LP (I think...) is unbelievably funny, especially if you're familiar with some of the early Lennon solo stuff.

There's a  great box set called "Buy This Box Set or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of 'The National Lampoon Radio Hour'" that killer. The ongoing bit about screening times for "The Ryan O'Neal Story" always kills me...

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I've listened to John Mulaney's "New In Town" a whole lot lately, very funny album.   

[dave from knoxville]

Here's a link to "Genius is Pain" from the WFMU blog http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0512/Magical_Misery_Tour.mp3

[akaJudge]

I'll back up the Maria Bamford recommendations, I listen to her albums over and over.  The first John Mulaney is great, Nine Sweaters is Magnificent, the Hannibal Burress is great.  If you get "Feelin' Kind of Patton" try to get the 222 version, which is the whole show the album was made from.  Amazing.  It's out of print, but there are some used copies available on Amazon. 

I think the only thing that hasn't been recommended so far that I enjoyed a lot are Mike Birbiglia's albums.  Two Drink Mike and My Secret Public Journal are really good.

[masterofsparks]

I'll back up the Maria Bamford recommendations, I listen to her albums over and over.  The first John Mulaney is great, Nine Sweaters is Magnificent, the Hannibal Burress is great.  If you get "Feelin' Kind of Patton" try to get the 222 version, which is the whole show the album was made from.  Amazing.  It's out of print, but there are some used copies available on Amazon. 

I think the only thing that hasn't been recommended so far that I enjoyed a lot are Mike Birbiglia's albums.  Two Drink Mike and My Secret Public Journal are really good.

I'm pretty sure you can still buy 222 at the Chunklet website.

[Gilly]

Who's new, and maybe a little bit under the radar? There's a lot of great recommendations here, but they're the old favorites for the most part and I haven't been keeping up the past couple years.

[masterofsparks]

Who's new, and maybe a little bit under the radar? There's a lot of great recommendations here, but they're the old favorites for the most part and I haven't been keeping up the past couple years.

The Rory Scovel and Pete Holmes albums will probably fit the bill.

[fonpr]

Don't Crush That dwarf; Hand Me The Pliers

[dave from knoxville]

Don't Crush That dwarf; Hand Me The Pliers

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