Episode 137 - Alex Salem on The First Family

How has it taken this long to get to what might be the most famous comedy album of all time?  Simple: not one guest has requested it.  So this week, we start changing the format up.  Starting soon, we're going to be giving guests who don't have an album in mind, or who pick a CD or a cassette,
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Episode 136 - Breck Parkman and Maura McCoy on Vinyl and Archaeology

This week's episode is not really about one comedy album, but about the strange case of a burned commune, the family that lived there, and the man who has been studying the site for thirty-plus years, using vinyl found at the scene as one of his tools.  Among them, one comedy album (a Cosby
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Baby Episode 09

No episode this week, because Jason is cutting two long interviews into one.  It'll be worth the wait.  In the meantime, look at the record wall.  For a whole week.

Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial (
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Episode 135 - Josia Elliott on David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby

Buzzfeed's own Josia Elliott comes on the show to talk about David Cross's emotionally-charged "Shut Up, You Fucking Baby."  Replete with track titles from some imaginary stand-up set, this album is a great time capsule, and still really relevant.  It also had a vinyl re-release, courtesy of S
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Episode 134 - Jim Hamilton on Woody Allen - Stand Up Comic

This week, a guy I wish I'd discovered much sooner stops by to discuss a guy I wish was still as funny as he once was.  Jim Hamilton is one of the few consistent one-liner comics out there (you should listen to his album "Poems About the Ocean" ASAP, the cover of which was designed by friend
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Episode 133 - Jackie Kashian on Lenny Bruce - American

The Dork Forest's own Jackie Kashian stops by to talk about Lenny Bruce's hit-and-miss American, that does happen to contain a mutual favorite sketch.  Yes, a stand-up album seemingly mashed together with oddly different-sounding performances and also a sketch.  Still, worth a listen for a c
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Episode 132 – Tess Barker on Katt Williams - Its Pimpin Pimpin

The awesome Tess Barker of the hilarious Lady to Lady Podcast stops by this week (and by this week, I mean several months ago, due to some crappy technical issues) to talk about Katt Williams.  We have a ton of fun talking about how Katt's comedy hits home with Tess and why she quit acting to
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Episode 131 – Mark Miller on Robert Klein - Child of the 50s

This week, with author Mark Miller, we revisit Robert Klein, this time covering the fantastic "Child of the 50s."  Mark talks about his love of comedy, and starting out in stand up in San Francisco, and moving on to writing for Carol Burnett, Jimmy Walker and Dana Carvey, to name a
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Episode 130 - Joseph Scrimshaw on Frank Sinatra - The Tea Break Monologue

Joseph Scrimshaw is an hilarious gentleman with a seemingly odd choice for this week's discussion - Frank Sinatra's "The Tea Break" monologue from the 1966 album "Sinatra At The Sands."  Not only is this Sinatra doling out some well-honed bits, the monologue's honesty and the atmosphere it c
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From Our First Live Show - The Phil Hartman Tribute

Jason Klamm, Jeremy Guskin, Vicki Lewis and Mike Preister at our first live episode taping, a tribute to Phil Hartman.

 
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Episode 128 - Kliph Nesteroff on Dick Davy

Kliph Nesteroff is one of the great comedy historians of today, for the same reason he picked a comedian you haven't heard of.  Dick Davy has all the lasting strength of many of the great comedians from the late 60s you already know, which made this a really fun discussion.  Kliph's book "The C
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Episode 127 - Will Byrne on Billy Crystal - Mahvelous

Will Byrne runs the fantastic Military Moments podcast, and comedy runs in the family (Will was his brother Steve's.stand-in on "Sullivan & Son").  He picked Billy Crystal's only album, a snapshot of the 80s, catch-phrase-comedy, and how a comic mixed stand-up with the most zeitgeisty
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Episode 126 - Margie Mintz on Mike Birbiglia - Two Drink Mike

Margie Mintz is funny, insightful, and organizes some great shows in LA.  This is a wonderful episode where we talk about her influences and her personal approach to comedy.  We also talk about Mike Birbiglia for the first time on the show, and while we tend to resist albums that never got a vi ...
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Episode 125 - Neil Ross on Peter Ustinov - The Grand Prix of Gibraltar

He's been a voice in everything you've ever liked, and this week he exposes us to a record by Peter Ustinov that is nothing if not incredibly ambitious.  Ustinov uses his vocal versatility to portray every character and EVERY CAR in this one-hour record.  It inspired Neil, so was well worth the ...
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Episode 124 - Dean Haglund

When you first saw him as Langly on The X-Files, you had no idea that behind that facade was a man who has heard Swedish comedians covering George Carlin.  Yes, covering a Carlin bit.  Dean Haglund talks about his early comedy influences, his first albums, learning stand-up and studying comedy, ...
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Episode 123 - Jay Sandrich

He directed the first and final episodes (and much in between) of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show.  His show business career started on I Love Lucy.  He directed the pilots for The Bob Newhart Show and Golden Girls, to name only two.  This week, we talk about his storied career ...
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Episode 122 - Cole Stratton on Albert Brooks - Comedy Minus One

Cole Stratton weirds it up this week with one of my new favorite comedy albums.  Albert Brooks again bends the concept of the comedy record back when it was a medium you could still do that with and confuse people to their delight.  It ends with a track where you get to perform a scripted s ...
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