Getting Ready to Laugh (In)

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Rowan & Martin - The Humor of Rowan & Martin [1968]
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1. The Doctor Interview
2. Girls
3. Camp Sunny Sunshine
4. The Birds And The Bees
5. Mates Inc
6. Introduction Adagio Allegro

The Doctor from Philadelphia

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Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow...Right! [1963]
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1. A Nut In Every Car
2. Toss Of The Coin
3. Little Tiny Hairs
4. Noah: Right
5. Noah: And The Neighbor
6. Noah: Me And You, Lord
7. Superman
8. Hoof And Mouth
9. Greasy Kid Stuff
10. The Difference Between Men And Women
11. The Pep Talk
12. Karate

Bill Cosby - I Started Out As A Child [1964]
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1. Sneakers
2. Street Football
3. The Water Bottle
4. Christmas Time
5. The Giant
6. Oops!
7. The Lone Ranger
8. Ralph Jameson
9. Medic
10. My Pet Rhinoceros
11. Half Man
12. Rigor Mortis
13. The Neanderthal Man
14. T.V. Football
15. Seattle

Bill Cosby - Why Is There Air? [1965]
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1. Kindergarten
2. Personal Hygiene
3. Shop
4. Baby
5. Driving In San Francisco
6. $75 Car
7. The Toothache
8. Hofstra

Bill Cosby - Revenge [1967]
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1. Revenge
2. Two Daughters
3. Two Brothers
4. The Tank
5. Smoking
6. Wives
7. Cool Covers
8. 9th St. Bridge
9. Buck, Buck
10. Planes

Dirty Laffs

Richard Pryor - Craps (After Hours) [1971]
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1. Gettin' High
2. F**k From Memory
3. Big Tits
4. Gettin Some
5. Presiedent Nixon
6. Tryin' To Get Some
7. Cool
8. Cops/The Line-Up
9. Masturbating
10. Religion
11. Black Preachers
12. Being Born
13. Blow Our Image
14. Blackjack
15. I Spy Cops
16. Sugar Ray
17. White Folks
18. Indians
19. Ass Wupin
20. Got A Dollar
21. Pres' Black Baby
22. Dipe/Wino/Panthers
23. After Hours
24. 280 Pound Ass
25. Crap Game
26. Insurance Man
27. Black And Proud
28. Gettin' The Nut
29. Jackin Off
30. Snappin Pussy
31. Fartin

Early Genius

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Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy [1982]
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Eddie does JB! (2:23 min / NSFW)

Contenders & Pretenders

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With his shaggy-bowl haircut, thrift store clothing and indie-pop musical interludes, Demetri Martin has become the comic-du-jour for many twentysomething hipsters. Of course, many in the hip underground (or whatever it's called these days) don't know much about stand-up comedy albums. Quite often, those quick to tell you that "Demetri Martin is an absolute genius" usually only possess a knowledge of stand-up comedy that is limited to a few mp3 files of Bill Hicks on one of his usual "I-Hate-Everything!" rants. Those quick to crown Demetri Martin are probably not familiar with Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor or Sam Kinison. Martin is a smart comic, but he isn't the pioneer of his style.

The talents for which Martin is receiving so many accolades for were first delivered much better more than 20 years ago from Steven Wright. To this day, Wright remains the King of Dead-Pan One-Liners. Strangely enough, Wright has only released one album, I Have A Pony, in 1985. Wright does a good job of showing how the Dead-Pan One-Liners are really done.

Steven Wright - I Have A Pony [1985]
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Demetri Martin - These Are Jokes [2006]
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The Gipper was a pimp! Who knew? (57 seconds / SFW)

It Means "The Baddest"

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George Lopez - El Mas Chingon [2006]
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1. Si Se Puede 'Oh My God'
2. Different Is Masputo
3. Kids Now Listen
4. Swimming Listen
5. Weenies On A Fork
6. Cider
7. Church Hangover
8. Grandma & The Supremes
9. White Dudes In The Family
10. Going Back Five Times
11. Walk Of Fame
12. Will
13. Who Told You That?
14. Kidney
15. Operation Chorizo

The Last Angry Man

George Carlin - Complaints & Grievances [2001]
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George Carlin - Life Is Worth Losing [2006]
Mp3, Stereo, 320 kbps, 147.4 MB

Baby Boomer Comedy

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Mike Nichols & Elaine May - An Evening with Mike Nichols & Elaine May [1960]
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1. Telephone
2. Adultery
3. Disc Jockey
4. Mother And Son

Woody Allen - Standup Comic [1964-1968]
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(Live at Eugene's, San Francisco, August, 1968)
1. The Vodka Ad
2. Vegas
3. Second Marriage
4. The Great Renaldo
5. Mechanical Objects
(Live at the Shadows, Washington D.C., April, 1965)
6. The Moose
7. Kidnapped
8. Unhappy Childhood
9. The Science Fiction Film
10. Eggs Benedict
11. Oral Contraception
12. European Trip
13. The Lost Generation
(Live at Mr. Kelly's, Chicago, March, 1964)
14. Private Life
15. Brooklyn
16. The Army
17. Pets
18. My Grandfather
19. My Marriage
20. Bullet In My Breast Pocket
21. N.Y.U.
22. A Love Story
23. The Police
24. Down South
25. Summing Up

Comedy Train Wrecks

Andrew 'Dice' Clay's Brooklyn-meathead persona is an acquired taste. His act has always consisted of racist, sexist, homophobic and misogynistic taunts that were surely offensive to many, but ripe for the repression of the Reagan era. Anyone who truly finds Clay some kind of affront to society is taking things too seriously. I am not a great fan of Clay, but this album is an honest and interesting experiment.

The Day the Laughter Died was recorded before Clay achieved mass success. In 1989, Clay asked Rick Rubin from Def American Records to record him performing in a small New York City nightclub where he would try to perform "the worst show possible", which included insulting members of the audience and heckling patrons as they left the club. The Day the Laughter Died presents said show, completely uncut. Another detail to factor in is that Clay performed this show without any prepared material on hand, he made up his act as he went along (something he casually explains at the beginning of the first disc).

The material is standard 'Dice', lots of women-bashing and crude sex humor. No matter how poor the material goes over with the audience, Clay never loses his composure. This is an incredibly intimate evening of stand-up comedy, and a lot quieter than you would expect from Andrew 'Dice' Clay.

Of all the loose-cannon stand-up comedians, no one was more volcanic than the late Bill Hicks. This 1989 bootleg album I'm Sorry, Folks is probably the most volatile example of hearing a man completely come apart in public. Referred to as the "Bill-Loses-It" show, this bootleg consists of a standard Bill Hicks performance, until late in the show where a heckler repeatedly shouts "Freebird", leading Hicks to tear off a misanthropic tirade calling for the end of the world and asking God to wipe out humankind entirely. It culminates with the now-famous quote "Hilter had the right idea, he was just an underachiever!"

I'm not a big fan of Hicks either (he was more angry than funny), but both of these albums prove that some stand-up comedians approached their craft as more than mere entertainment, and didn't mind testing their own audiences.

Andrew 'Dice' Clay - The Day the Laughter Died [1990]
















Disc 1
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Disc 2
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Bill Hicks - I'm Sorry, Folks [1989]
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Comedy from George Lopez

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George Lopez - Right Now, Right Now [2001]
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George Lopez - Team Leader [2003]
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Modern Men of Manners

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David Cross - Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! [2002]
















Disc 1
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Disc 2
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David Cross - It's Not Funny [2004]
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David Cross on Religion (10:06)


Jim Gaffigan - Beyond the Pale [2006]
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Jim Gaffigan - "Hot Pocket!" (4:48)