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Aug 8, 2023 · The 40 best comedy albums of all time, ranked These landmark records capture legends like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, and Joan Rivers at their laugh-out-loud best
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Live On The Sunset Strip. Richard Pryor. 36 copies from. (1982) Live On The Sunset Strip is at the foundation of the idea that stand-up needs to be cathartic, for both artist and audience alike.
- Class Clown. George Carlin. 12 copies from. (1972) Years after his death, George Carlin retains a prominent position in American culture as the avatar of free speech.
- The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart. Bob Newhart. 98 copies from. (1960) The granddaddy of comedy albums, The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart was a sensation in 1960, such a success that it earned Newhart the Grammy for Best New Artist.
- A Night At The Met. Robin Williams. 4 copies from. (1986) Effectively Robin Williams’ farewell to stand-up—he finally became a movie star the following year with the release of Good Morning, Vietnam!—
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine. These landmark records capture legends like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, and Joan Rivers at their laugh-out-loud best. The dirty secret about comedy albums is that not every great comedian can record a great album.
Album, Stereo, Mono. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1997 CD release of "Greatest Comedy Hits" on Discogs.
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- Andrew “Dice” Clay – The Day The Laughter Died
- The Smothers Brothers – at The Purple Onion
- Robin Williams – A Night at The Met
- Bobcat Goldthwait – Meat Bob
- Martin Mull – Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room!
- Mike Nichols and Elaine May – An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
- Redd Foxx – Uncensored
- Stan Freberg – The Very Best of
- Dick Gregory – in Living Black & White
- Sam Kinison – Louder Than Hell
The free-associative filth masquerading as jokes on the Diceman’s two-disc debut is one step below bathroom graffiti. But the unique production, mostly perpetrated by master “reducer” Rick Rubin, makes this an immortal document of raw humanity: small club, small crowd, unsuspecting victims, the day-after-Christmas malaise. Swinging from “juvenile” ...
When it comes to lambasting the preciousness of folkies, A Mighty Wind gets all the accolades, but the Smothers Brothers deserve most of the credit. While remaining astonishingly family-friendly, Dick and Tom’s points of interest were ribbing the newly birthed counterculture: beatniks, jazzbos, drugs, women’s lib, and generally those who grew their...
Mork unbound! Two nights in New York, one of which aired as a comparatively sedate HBO special, boiled down to 65 minutes of borderline-Tourettesian short-attention-span theater, with Williams fast-forwarding from substance abuse to sobriety to fatherhood to Reagan (“Don’t you see? He was Disney’s last wish!”) like his chest hair was on fire — and ...
By the late ’80s, Goldthwait’s vocal tic of careening between fragile Emo Phillips manchild and mid-sentence death-metal growls was as much albatross as calling card. Yes, the voice was earning him that Police Academy and Hot to Trot money and fulfilling two-drink minimums in comedy clubs, but it was also at odds with his junior Bill Hicks, self-de...
The joke is that it’s milquetoast Mull — whom you may remember (depending on your age) from Fernwood 2-Night or Roseanne or Arrested Development — stage-bantering like a terminally laidback rock star who’s just slunk down from Laurel Canyon in a haze of earnest self-satisfaction, name-dropping “Elton” and blathering about the blues. The bigger joke...
“Alternative” comedy from an era when anything slightly to the left of Ozzie Nelson’s starched suit jacket was considered out-there, Mike Nichols and Elaine May were a surprise mainstream hit that lit up Broadway, earned a Grammy, and found their way into millions of pretty starchy American homes. Nichols and May looked like nice enough kids and st...
Foxx was the godfather of “blue” humor, taking frank sex talk out of the clubs and into American living rooms on dozens of his gleefully profane “party records.” That wasn’t all of Foxx, though, and Uncensored is a document of the don’t-give-a-fuck freedom that African-American comedians were exploring in the’70s, where politics and anger bounced a...
More than a comedian, Freberg was an author, musician, voice actor, puppeteer and, yes, even ad man. The multi-talented Freberg wore all of those hats starting in the late ’40s (and still wears them today) and this smartly compiled hodgepodge naturally runs the gamut between song parodies and sketches, hitting Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, Elvis, vaudev...
If you had to point to one comedian who had the TNT that blasted down the door for Foxx, Pryor, Murphy, Rock, Chappelle and, er, Sinbad, that man would be Dick Gregory. In a time when comedy was as segregated as the clubs that hosted comedians, the politically charged Gregory shared stages with Lenny Bruce and inspired George Carlin’s future direct...
On which the most notorious fallen Pentecostal preacher of the ’80s (save Jimmy Swaggart) pokes holes in the story of Jesus’s resurrection, critiques Charles Manson’s logic, and wails like he’s already roasting in Hell… which he figures won’t be half as bad as the institution of marriage. His eventual forays into novelty-metal seemed redundant beca...
May 27, 1997 · Greatest Comedy Hits by Eddie Murphy released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Eddie Murphy is an American actor, comedian, singer, producer and screenwriter. The following is his complete discography.
