Christmas Flashback - 2011

As we prepare for the holiday break (new episodes will return in January), we invite you to listen to our first-ever Christmas episode featuring Zero Mostel reading The Grinch!

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Episode 121 - Thanksgiving Crossover Special

This week, the Comedy on Vinyl podcast and the Dan and Jay's Comedy Hour podcast cross paths.  Right in the middle of wrapping up their latest sketch comedy album Ho, Christmas Tree!, an increasingly drunk Jay (Jason to you vinyl folks) and Dan discuss the creation of this, the SMALLEST C ...
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Jason's Christmas Comedy Album Is Out Today - and FREE

Jason's first comedy album in 13 years, with his sketch group, Dan and Jay’s Comedy Hour, comes out today.  Yes, today, Dan Gomiller and Jason give you Ho, Christmas Tree! as a free download.

Filled with Christmas-themed comedy sketches, the album features guest performances by James Urbaniak ...
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Episode 119 - Jimmy Pardo on Richard Lewis - Im In Pain

Oh, this guy's the best.  Jimmy Pardo wanted to talk about Richard Lewis's TV special "I'm In Pain," so we discuss the influence of Richard and a slew of other comedians on Jimmy's style, as well as Jimmy's jump out of the square world of the music industry to do comedy full-time.  We also talk ...
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Episode 118 - Steve Stajich on Welcome to the LBJ Ranch

Steve Stajich is a satirist, musician, sitcom writer, former stand-up, and comedy guru to up-and-comers.  He's also one of mycomedy mentors, so it was a blast sitting down with him to talk about an album he has a personal/professional connection with.  The product of a bygone era where cutting i ...
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Episode 117 - Wayne White on Richard Pryor - Wanted

If you don't know Wayne White's name, you owe it to yourself to go watch "Beauty is Embarrassing" immediately and feel bad that his name passed you by the millions of times you've seen it.  Part of Wayne and his work is in Pee Wee's Playhouse, Beakman's World, and the Smashing Pumpkins music ...
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Episode 116 - Carlos Alazraqui on Cheech and Chong - Los Cochinos

The amazing Carlos Alazraqui stops by his own house to discuss Los Cochinos, which comes with a nice personal story involving the one and only Cheech Marin.  We actually recorded this one quite awhile back, but I thought it'd be fun to revisit with a new perspective on the album sooner, ...
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Read Dan Pasternack's great piece about George Carlin

Here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/george-carlin

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Episode 115 - Dan Pasternack on George Carlin - Take Offs and Put Ons

Consummate comedy nerd, comedy vinyl collector and comedian in his own right (yes, he had a song played on Dr. Demento's show when he was 11), Dan Pasternack is here to talk Carlin's "Take Offs and Put Ons," not to mention putting most people's comedy stories to shame with one encounter ...
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Episode 114 - Dave Kloc on Mitch Hedberg - Mitch All Together

That album we're holding is indeed not Mitch Hedberg's "Mitch All Together."  That's because A) It wasn't released on vinyl and B) the gentleman next to Jason, here, is Dave Kloc, the designer of this amazing album cover for Jonah Ray's "Hello Mr. Magic Plane Person, Hello."  Not only that, but ...
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Episode 113 - Roy Wood Jr on Doug Stanhope - Something to Take the Edge Off

Roy Wood, Jr. gives us a look into the world of stand-up, the world of acting on a successful sitcom, and some great perspective on what it's like to work in comedy.  He also talks about one of his favorite albums by the great Doug Stanhope.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This We ...
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Episode 112 - Peter Shickele - aka PDQ Bach

Live via vocal telegraph this week is none other than Peter Shickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach, J.S. Bach's only forgotten son.  We discuss his career, his invention of the hardart, and even go back to the early days of record collecting, where nabbing a bunch of singles was your only option.  It was an ...
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Episode 111 - Jeremy Carter on Bill Cosby - Himself

Jeremy Carter is here to talk Cosby.  Not just Cosby, but Himself.  A seminal album, and one that has stuck with a number of a certain generation maybe more than his earlier work, wonderful as it is.  This is Bill Cosby's dad "character," which is a stretch as a term in this case, as refined as ...
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Baby Episode 8 - Blame the Heat

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Serious apologies while you wait for a full episode.  The heat wave is kicking our editing computer's ass right now.  A new episode featuring Jeremy Carter of Superego is coming up soon!

 
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Episode 110 - Dan Bakkedahl on Cheech and Chong - Los Cochinos

Dan Bakkedahl of "Veep" is back in the studio to talk about Cheech & Chong.  We pitch out the autobiographical stuff and delve into the tracks we remember best, and revisit the ones that didn't stick out.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Dan Bakke ...
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Episode 109 - Paul Provenza on Robert Klein - Mind Over Matter

The host of "The Green Room with Paul Provenza" and "Set List" here in LA, sits down with me to talk about Robert Klein.  Not only is this a slice of the 1970's, it's Klein's progressive voice without entitlement, but with a heavy degree of acceptance that being progressive is just the way it i ...
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Episode 108 - Andres du Bouchet on The SNL Cast Album

Andrés du Bouchet is not only a hilarious stand up, but he writes for the funniest guy ever - Conan.  We talk about a number of albums this episode, but the big one is the SNL Cast Album.  Though I didn't have it in hand the day of, the clips you're hearing in this episode are from a vinyl rip. ...
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Episode 107 - Nate Bargatze on Jerry Seinfeld - Im Telling You For The Last Time

Nate Bargatze is both hilarious and thoughtful, so I was excited to cover Jerry Seinfeld's "I'm Telling You For the Last Time" again with him.  Also, he has a show at Largo in LA tonight.  Go see him!
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Nate Barga ...
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Episode 106 – Mark McConville on This Is Spinal Tap - The Soundtrack

Mark McConville is now the second member of the Superego team to drop by Fort Awesome Studios, and we cover a mutual favorite album - the soundtrack to This Is Spinal Tap.  It's always a special pleasure to not only cut in music clips, but to speak to the musically educated and skilled about ...
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Best of COV on YouTube

The best of our first 17 episodes are now on YouTube, and the playlist below will continually update each time a new episode is uploaded.  Enjoy!


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Comedy on Vinyl on YouTube

As a quick reminder, we're on YouTube!  While you can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Blubrry and BeyondPod, among (probably) others, we also have selected episodes on YouTube.  At the time of posting, it's just episodes 1-3 (yes, the weirdest ones), but soon we'll be uploading the best episodes, i ...
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Episode 105 – Dave Waite on George Carlin - A Place for My Stuff

Dave Waite's comedy album Hotdoggin' comes out tomorrow, August 12th on Stand Up! Records.  Today, he talks about one of his favorite albums, chosen at random from a few contenders - George Carlin's A Place for My Stuff, which was a ton of fun to revisit.  Stand up mixed with sketch is hard to d ...
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Episode 104 - Elan Mastai on The McKenzie Bros - The Great White North

His film What If?, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan opens in limited theatres today, and nationwide Friday, August 15.  Elan Mastai is Canadian, and isn't afraid to change his accent to subvert the US and take it over.  Again, his film opens today.

He also picked an awesome, self-r ...
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Episode 103 - Matt Gourley on Monty Python - The Final Rip Off

One-quarter sketch group, one-quarter country band, 2 quarters comedy enthusiast, Matt Gourley joins us this week to talk about Monty Python's The Final Rip Off, an important album for both of us.  We talk improv, sketch, and specifically Monty Python's influence on his work with the amazing p ...
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Episode 102 – Hal Sparks

This might be the first time I've interviewed someone for whom I once thought to honor by parodying their website.  But that was back in 1998, and he's matured since then.  I got to sit down with Hal Sparks this week and talk about his influences, not to mention his unflinchingly high standards ...
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Episode 101 - Brendon Small on Steve Martin - Lets Get Small

Metalocalypse and Home Movies' own Brendon Small drops by at his own place to discuss "Let's Get Small" for, somehow, only the second episode in our show's history to cover it.  This time, we're talking to a musician and comedian, so we discuss both sides of the Steve Martin coin, and also c ...
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Episode 100 - Matt Lieberman Interviews about his 1999 album Shoestrings - with Guests James Urbaniak and Alex Salem

Matt Lieberman (Sourcefed, Afterbuzz, friend of the show) made the kind offer to interview me for our hundredth episode.  I assumed that meant "talk about my collection," when what Matt had in mind was much more sinister - he wanted me to talk about my own comedy album from 1999.  Talk about m ...
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The Levinson Brothers on Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol 1 - The Early Years

The Levinson Brothers sat down to discuss their fond memories of being introduced to Stan Freberg's albums by their dad, and how that inevitably led to their current album, 2776, created with friend of the show Rob Kutner.  A future history lesson featuring Wil Forte, Aubrey Plaza, Reggie ...
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Episode 98 - Mike Black on Robin Williams - A Night At The Met

The hilarious Mike Black is the first to nab a Robin Williams album.  We not only talk comedy, and Robin Williams, but there's a little bit about film at the beginning, too.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Mike Black
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Episode 97 - Dave Hill on Steve Martin - Wild and Crazy Guy

Dave Hill is on the show this week!  We sat down for "Wild and Crazy Guy" Mark II, and discuss Dave's adventures mixing music and comedy in his act, performing in prisons, and temporarily ditching the comedy for some non-English speakers with some damn good taste in music.

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Episode 96 - Matthew Senreich and Zeb Wells of Robot Chicken on Bill Cosby, Adam Sandler and More

Matthew Senreich & Zeb Wells were kind enough to let me into the inner sanctum of the Robot Chicken production offices for a quick chat about what inspired them (Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Adam Sandler among them), comedy-wise, and what it takes to make sketch comedy your own, even if ...
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Episode 95 - Taylor Jessen on The Credibility Gap - Floats

This week, Jason does his usual stellar job of keeping the show on track.  No, seriously, it gets worse.  Why?  Because Taylor Jessen is not only Firesign's archivist, but he restores comedy vinyl.  All those pops and hisses that can kill a joke or a pause?  Yeah, he can smooth those over and ...
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Welcome to Our New Listeners

Over the last week, our subscriber numbers have more than doubled.  We can't explain it, but that's not what we're here to do.  We're here to thank you for spreading the word.  For a small podcast with no sponsors an no budget to advertise, we're grateful to fans for word of mouth.  More aud ...
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Episode 94 - Rick Overton on Jonathan Winters - The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters

This week we talk with Rick Overton, who you've seen in just about everything, and who hosts the wonderful podcast Overview with Rick Overton.  We talk Jonathan Winters, Rick's early years in entertainment, and a lasting friendship with his mentor and comedy hero.
Host: Jason Kl ...
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Episode 93 - Dan St. Germain on Patton Oswalt - Feelin Kinda Patton

Dan St. Germain takes a trip over the airwaves to say hello and have a chat about the huge influence of Patton Oswalt on his career in comedy.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Dan St. Germain
DanStGermain.net
Buy "Feelin' Kinda Patton"

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Episode 92 - Brandie Posey on Billy Connolly - Big Yin

The awesome Brandie Posey (Lady to Lady Podcast) talks about the man who helped solidify her choice to become a standup Billy Connolly.  Coincidentally, the first comedy album I remember listening to was a Connolly compilation, so it was a ton of fun to talk Billy Connolly and comedy in ...
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