Episode 136 – Breck Parkman and Maura McCoy on Vinyl and Archaeology


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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 album, as it happens).  We talk about what that means and what it’s like to work on a site that’s younger than you are, but at the same time millennia older.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Breck Parkman & Maura McCoy

Breck’s state bio
The BoingBoing article that turned me on to the story
Olompali: A California Story

Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission under the provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy.  Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.

Episode 134 – Jim Hamilton on Woody Allen – Stand Up Comic

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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 of the show Dave Kloc and the entirety of which was released by other friend of the show Matt Belknap’s AST Records), and he wanted to talk about one of his earliest favorite albums that not only influenced him, but caught him by surprise.  No shock, but we talk about The Moose joke again, because it’s the best.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Jim Hamilton

JimHamilton.com
Buy “Standup Comic”

Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission under the provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy.  Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.

Episode 133 – Jackie Kashian on Lenny Bruce – American

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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 couple bits.  Jackie talks first hearing this album and how Sam Kinison screaming at her got her interested in stand up.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Jackie Kashian

JackieKashian.com
The Dork Forest Podcast
Buy “American”

Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission under the provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy.  Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.