Favorite Comedy Albums & Videos

Steven Wright, "I Have A Pony"

George Carlin - "Back In Town" & "You Are All Diseased"
Dane Cook - "Harmful If Swallowed"
Lewis Black - "The End Of The Universe"
Mitch Hedberg - "Strategic Grill Locations"
Stephen Lynch - "Just A Little Bit Special"

BTW - my current sig is from Mitch Hedberg, for anyone who doesn't know what his material is like.

Eddie Murphy -- Delirious
Chris Rock -- Bring the Pain
Bill Cosby -- Himself
Richard Pryor -- Live on the Sunset Strip
Dana Carvey -- Critics' Choice
Ellen Degeneres -- Here and Now (?)
Margaret Cho -- Notorious C.H.O.

There's so many more. But these are the ones I've seen dozens of times. I love stand up.

One of my personal favorites too.
"Mega toe, mega tie, mega tee, mega tooooo. Every time I click my finger it's $9.95 to yoooooou."

He's fairly new to the scene. He only has the one album out, AFAIK. He's been on Comedy Central a few times on various stand-up shows, and has his own 'Comedy Central Presents' show. I highly recommend his CD. It never gets old for me. Stand-out parts for me are his bit on the Kool-Aid mascot, Monopoly, death by bees, and being late for work. Good stuff.

Bill Hicks - Relentless
Bill Hicks - Dangerous

Dane Cook's CD is a Comedy Central CD. it comes with a DVD of his CC show, along with a few of his other CC appearances, Premium Blend, etc.)

The Biggest. I was at the 'You Are All Diseased' HBO taping, and met him before the show. He actually came up to me, since I was wearing a GC shirt. He autographed 'Brain Droppings' (one of his books) for me.

I even got a George Carlin calendar for X-Mas.

Eddie Izzard -- Dress to Kill

...period.

David Cross - Shut up you fucking baby.

Man, that's some funny shit.

George Carlin - Live in New York
Eddie Murphy - Raw & Delirious

Emo Phillips - Live at the Hasty Pudding Theater.

If you can get past his annoying delivery (which I eventually started to find amusing) he has some great stuff, and the CD was just re-released. I have an older VHS copy that I won off Ebay and I don't think it's been re-released since.

I was just searching the thread to see if anybody had mentioned Emo! I saw this on Showtime as a lad and had never seen anything like it. Funny, funny stuff. Very oddball humor, and I loved it.

Of course on the annoying delivery part, I'm kinda partial to Bobcat Golthwaite's "Share the Warmth," but I'm just saying that to be off the beaten path...

Jimmy Fallon's "Idiot Boyfriend" video. Damn, I wish MTV would run that more often. I also liked the MTV VMA'S '02 spot where Rod "Hot Sex" Rory competes on "American Idol" singing Motorhead's "Ace of Spades". Freakin' classic.

Dave Attell- "Skanks for the memories" is fuckin great. his stuff id extrememly graphic and downright offensive and i love it. highly reccomend it

Dave Chappelle - Killing Them Softly
Dave Chappelle - For What It's Worth
Louis C.K. - HBO One Night Stand
Robert Schimmel - Unprotected
Chris Rock - Bring the Pain

Love him. Is that the one where he advises acting crazier when someone flips out and starts blowing their horn in traffic?

My favorite comedy album has been, for years, George Carlin's Class Clown. And back in 1992, I was fortunate enough to meet the man and tell him that to his face. My then-boyfriend, a friend of ours and myself had gone to the Museum of Television and Radio to attend "An Evening With George Carlin", which celebrated his, at that time, 33 years in show biz. After it was over, he was signing autographs and talking to people. My boyfriend, our friend and myself were huddled across the room, just gawking at him like three little mice. All of a sudden, he crossed the room, held out his hand to me, and said, "Hi - I 'm George Carlin. Thank you so much for coming tonight." As I shook his hand, all three of us stood there with our mouths hanging open. So when I finally composed myself, I said, "I swore that if I got the chance to meet you tonight, that I wouldn't gush, and I know you must hear this all the time, but 'Class Clown' is absolutley the greatest comedy album in the world. No matter how many times I listen to it, I crack up like it was the first time." He still had my hand in his, and he smiled very warmly and said, "Well, that's very nice of you, and no, actually, I don't hear that all the time." So he chatted with us for a couple more minutes, and then thanked us and moved along to the next bunch of fans. To this day, when people talk about celebs they've met and whether or not they were nice, the first person I think of is George Carlin. Such an utter sweetheart, you'd never guess he'd been in show biz for 33 years at that time.

Caught Demetri Martin: Person on Comedy Central last night. Even though I'd seen quite a bit of it before, there were more LOLZ in that 21 minutes than in most featur-length comedies I've seen.

Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker

Chris Rock - Never Scared

Paul Mooney - Jesus Was Black.... So Was Cleopatra

Robin Harris - Be-Be's Kids

Also I'll echo the love for Dave Attell. Skanks for the Memories is great.

That's the one I was going to mention. Really good, off-the-wall stuff that wasn't what I expected from his Daily Show appearances.

And if you like off-the-wall, check out Zach Galifiniakis. Really, really strange delivery style. He has a special on Netflix's "Watch it Instantly" service.

I second all the Louis CK mentions above, and wanted to add that the fact that his Pulp Comics: Filthy Stupid Talent Show has never been released is a crime against humanity.

I've been really interested in Zach Galifiniakis since I saw bits of his act in The Comedians of Comedy(film version) and then his video for Kayne West's "Stronger." Anyone have recommendations for any of his CDs or specials (I don't have Netflix)?

Zach Galifianakis: Live (the one that's on Netflix) is also available on DVD. It contains concert footage and behind the scenes stuff, along with interviews with his "twin brother".

Fugees and Funyuns.

All things Izzard.
I have a huge man-crush on that man.

Bill Cosby Wonderfulness.

Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, died Friday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 72.

He had complications from leukemia said David Ossman, who, along with Phil Austin, Phil Proctor and Mr. Bergman made up the foursome that was Firesign Theatre.