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Rick in Salt Lake

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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #45 on: May 12, 2012, 09:16:32 PM »
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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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #46 on: May 12, 2012, 09:51:44 PM »
I've listened to John Mulaney's "New In Town" a whole lot lately, very funny album.   

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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #47 on: May 13, 2012, 12:14:14 AM »
Here's a link to "Genius is Pain" from the WFMU blog http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0512/Magical_Misery_Tour.mp3

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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2012, 11:16:40 AM »
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.
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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2012, 11:41:03 AM »
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.
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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #50 on: May 22, 2012, 12:55:40 AM »
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.

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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2012, 08:24:59 AM »
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.
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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2012, 10:14:37 AM »
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Re: Comedy album recommendations? Which ones are your favorites?
« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2012, 11:48:51 AM »
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