We don’t have a new episode week, so let’s go back a year. In July of 2014, the wonderful Brendon Small stopped by his own place to talk about Steve Martin’s “Let Get Small.”
You can check out the original episode here: http://goo.gl/eLyBS4.
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Episode 144 – Justin Michael on The Muppets – The Muppet Show Album
He co-hosts the Before You Were Funny podcast and Batman: The Animated Podcast. Turns out, he’s also the first person to bring The Muppets to the show. Another surprise first turns out to be a brilliant piece of work, especially given that we’re supposed to imagine animated felt for 45 minutes. Not only are the voice characterizations typically great, but the sound design and the joke choices are spot-on, especially the kind you need to see for full effect. It really holds up as it’s own piece of comedy work outside of The Muppet Show itself, and was a lot of fun to talk about.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Justin Michael
Before You Were Funny
Batman: The Animated Podcast
Buy “The Muppet Show” Album
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 143 – Eban Schletter on Spike Jones – Thank You Music Lovers
Podcast listeners will know the sounds of his nimble fingers from the background of many a Paul F. Tompkins podcast, and sketch comedy fans will know his music from Mr. Show. Eban Schletter is not only a great musical improviser, but a guy who maybe, sort of, fell into comedy as a genre. Although, on reflection, it kind of seems inevitable. In this episode, we talk about how Eban’s dad introduced him to Spike Jones at the age of 21, and how that may or may not have changed his career trajectory.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guest: Eban Schletter
EbanSchletter.com
Buy “Thank You Music Lovers”
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 142 – Janet Varney on Albert Brooks – Comedy Minus One
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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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 141 – James Bladon and Jeremy Guskin on Monty Python – The Holy Grail Soundtrack
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
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
Buy “A Great Gift Idea”
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…
Of 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
PhilHendrieShow.com
Buy “How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All”
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 138 – Dr. Demento
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
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
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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