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Episode 142 – Janet Varney on Albert Brooks – Comedy Minus One

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Janet Varney stops by her own home to delve into Albert Brooks’ classic “Comedy Minus One” for our second go-round with this album.  This time, we get a picture of an entirely new experience – namely, someone who grew up without the script to the act-along segment!  This made for an excessively surreal experience with this already experimental album.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Janet Varney

JanetVarney.com
SF Sketch Fest
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Episode 141 – James Bladon and Jeremy Guskin on Monty Python – The Holy Grail Soundtrack

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This week I’m joined by the amazingly talented James Bladon (the music for Superego and their alter-egos The Journeymen and the music editor for countless TV shows) and my great friend and talented person in his own right Jeremy Guskin to discuss (deep breath) “The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail.”  It would’ve been worth talking about it even if it was 50 minutes of movie clips, but the fact that this is a great album on its own is actually quite a spectacular feat.  They took the time to make this album seem like it was a tossed-off (bad choice of words, I know), last-minute money-grab, when in fact it’s filled with solid sketches.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: James Bladon and Jeremy Guskin

Buy the “Holy Grail” Soundtrack
James on IMDB
Buy “Mount Us More” by The Journeymen

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.

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Episode 140 – Greg Benson on The Credibility Gap – A Great Gift Idea

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The awesome Greg Benson breaks down the first Credibility Gap album we’ve covered, track-by-track.  It’s his favorite, and it’s not hard to see why.  Irreverent, razor-sharp satire with the kind of production values anyone would be jealous of.  It’s a shame they made so few records together, but this one is of great value, loaded with pop culture satire without leaning on any kind of gimmick to make it accessible – it just is.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Greg Benson

Mediocre Films
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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.

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Episode 139 – Phil Hendrie on Firesign – How Can You Be in Two Places at Once…

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Hendrie_SDOf course, the full title is “How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All,” and it’s one of the great Firesign albums.  One half Firesign fever dream, and the other half a long-form Nick Danger adventure, this is the first album that ever exposed Firesign to me as a kid who totally didn’t get it.  It would be awhile before I delved back into Firesign, and it took the good Mr. Phil Hendrie to come back to this album in particular.  We talk Firesign, his other influences, the evolution of radio, and we deconstruct some comedy, for lack of a better word.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Phil Hendrie

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Episode 138 – Dr. Demento

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He inspired the guy who inspired this podcast.  He’s the ultimate curator of novelty music, a music historian, an expert on the history of recorded sound and of comedy, and he was the sound of a generation of comedy lovers.  He might have invented what it means to be a comedy nerd, whether you grew up listening to him on terrestrial radio, or not.  We sat down to talk about his personal history with music and with comedy.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Dr. Demento

DrDemento.com
The Demented Music Database

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.

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Episode 137 – Alex Salem on The First Family

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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, another option – listen to something you haven’t heard.  This week, friend of the show Alex Salem stops by and we both discuss our first dedicated listening experience with the one-time vinyl record sales holder.  Not only that, but because of its ubiquity, it can easily be tossed aside as a bi-product of a political comedy trope it helped popularize – the presidential impression – when, in fact, it was ground-breaking.  Give it a listen, and go buy it, because I guarantee you can find yourself a cheap copy.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Alex Salem

Viewers Like You (Alex’s sketch group)
Buy “The First Family”

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.

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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.

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Episode 135 – Josia Elliott on David Cross – Shut Up, You Fucking Baby

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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 Stand Up! Records.  Josia also talks with Jason about growing up in a rural area and how this album helped her break out of that bubble.

Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Josia Elliott

JosiaElliott.com
Buy “Shut Up, You Fucking Baby”

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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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