Funny/Comedy albums
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Topic: Funny/Comedy albums
Posted By: arkitek
Subject: Funny/Comedy albums
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 08:59
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what is the funniest album you own or have listened to mine are: The best and worst of Judge Dredd Monty Python Sings Monty Python Live at Drury Lane |
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:31
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The all time classic comedy album is Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Viv Stanshall, closely followed by Ivor Cutler's Life in a Scotch Sitting Room. Music and comedy don't always mix that well, but the Bonzos were superb on their first 4 albums and Tom Lehrer proved that at least some Americans understand irony. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: wallace
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 13:55
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Thare were movie made o' Rawlinson End.Wallace tinks tha Camelot guy play'd Sir 'enry, but Wallace noo shure
Wallace gorts baith Sir 'enry lps. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 14:33
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^^^^^^^^^^^ Just for once, I'll ignore the contrived accent and the phony eccentricity: Sir Henry was played by Trevor Howard, though the film was a bit of a disappointment. The second LP, Sir Henry at Ndidi's Kraal, was likewise a sad let down from an otherwise dazzlingly talented individual - it sounded like it was recorded in one take just after closing time, and is best ignored despite the odd flash of comic genius. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 15:23
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Mine: Captain Sensible - Revolution Now! Great songs on that one. Even a 15 minute epic: The Coward Of Treason Cove. Weird audio fragments, though, a bit like on Peter Banks' Instinct. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 15:55
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Robert Calvert: "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters".
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 22:19
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Almost anything done by The Bonzo Dog Band (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band). Ditto for the sublime Tom Lehrer. Oh - just seen Syzygy like 'em both too. I still like some of the Flanders and Swann stuff, even if it is very dated.
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 22:24
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The Rutles (both CD and DVD)
------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 22:56
That stuff is the best! I also like Spinal Tap personally, it just makes me crack up... ------------- 
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bluetailfly wrote:Posted By: Grimm
Date Posted: July 10 2005 at 00:45
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Bill Cosby - Himself ------------- Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be or seem to be self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 10 2005 at 02:39
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Anyone who likes it funny, with a good dose of black humour, and understands German should try Georg Kreisler. His music has nothing to do with prog though, he just accompanies himself on piano (he is an excellent piano player, by the way). Classic songs of his are "Tauben vergiften im Park" ("Let's Go Pidgeon-Poisoning in the Park) or "Zwei alte Damen tanzen Tango" ("Two Old Ladies Dancing Tango"). -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Retrovertigo
Date Posted: July 10 2005 at 03:14
| Bonzo Dog Band helloooo? |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 10 2005 at 04:23
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Lewis Black is great man! Carlin is cool, though he doesn't really know s*ite about politics. Ween is a cool, half-serious, half-comedy band. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: nousommedusolei
Date Posted: July 11 2005 at 02:08
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Mitch Hedburg- Strategic Grill Locations Any Genesis album from the 80s cracks me the hell up. ------------- I don't believe in demons I don't believe in devils I only believe in you |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 11 2005 at 02:18
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Derek and Clive Live, Come Again and Ad Nauseum! Tenacious D |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 11 2005 at 03:49
helloooo yourself! 
If it's still available, I'd recommend the collection 'Cornology'; a three CD set of all the Bonzos' recorded output. To anyone who has never heard them - I can only compare them to... well, nobody, really. A collection of English eccentrics, who just happened to be good musicians & songwriters. Swinging between rock, trad jazz and absurdity (usually in the same song), their like will never be seen again. Anyone who can release tracks with names such as "My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe" are OK by me... ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 11 2005 at 12:17
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THE MAN in stand up comedy...Richard Pryor-Live on the Sunset Strip -------------  |
Posted By: stuartball
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 18:26
Derek & Clive - Come Again. 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 20:21
Red Peters, "I Laughed, I Cried, I Fudged my Undies". What Frank Sinatra would sound like if he got drunk and got up on stage at amateur's night. Hilarious. And Lewis Black, "Rules of Enragement". His take on Iraq and on the state of Minnesota are both totally funny. Not for Norwegians who are easily offended though.  ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 20:44
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Anyone ever listen to Blaster Bates, or Roy Chubby Brown? Funny stuff. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 07:06
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any by STEVEN LYNCH & BRIAN REGAN
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 10:26
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Richard Pryor's "Is it something I said?" He broke down all the boundaries and was just flat out funny. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Hemispheres
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 11:12
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Anything by george carlin ------------- [IMG]http://www.wheresthatfrom.com/avatars/miguelsanchez.gif">[IMG]http://www.rockphiles.com/all_images/Act_Images/TheMothersOfInvention/mothers300.jpg"> |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 11:25
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------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ummagumma08
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 13:15
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Need I say More? Tom Lehrer is perhaps the most brilliant creative genius that America has produced in almost 200 years, as he himself states. I listen to these albums frequently, and have yet to discover something that is able to amuse me more. |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 00:34
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For me it's Billy Connolly, George Carlin and Rodney Dangerfield. I also like Dennis Leary, although he sometimes comes across as a watered down Carlin. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 01:27
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can't believe this thread has gotten so long without the mention of the only "prog" comedy group ever: FIRESIGN THEATRE my old electronic music professor made their albums required listening for the "orchestration" of sound effects, and the overall studio mastery involved in their recording process.
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 01:37
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Bill Hicks Billy Connolly Bill hicks |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 12:05
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Monty Python albums are brilliant! fave is matching tie & handkerchief,holy grail soundtrack
Morecambe & Wise also ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 12:25
I agree, but they fly over a lot of people's heads. We are literally all Bozos on this bus and not even Reebus Kaneebus can save us from ourselves. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 17:19
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the Tenacious D album? That was funny as hell ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Bodins/?chartstyle=DarkSide5Big"> 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:10
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Frank Zappa - "Billy The Mountain" ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 07:33
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 10:37
Interesting to see the official Firesign Theatre website was (one of) the first in the USA to produce a obituary for the Godfather of Python Spike Milligan - and said thmeselve to be influenced by Milligan and 50's Goon humour.
In passing, I think Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - the original radio recordings - are essential. perhaps to catchup: I see Amazon.UK are doing some ridiculously cheap offers on the BBC CD sets: Primary Secondary and Tertiary HHGTTG . Most recently (Hitchhikers crossed with Screwtape Letters) Andy Hamilton's Old Harry's Game (Volume 1 and 2) have been released on BBC each as 3 CD sets, and strongly recomended.
And of course I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - probably everyone of the BBC CD releases, e.g.
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Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 10:45
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Dane Cook Stephen Wright Bill Hicks Monty Python |
Posted By: blazno
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 09:32
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I konw nobody heard of them and they sing in slovene but if can understand them it's just sooooooooooooooo funny or Slon in Sadež (=an Elephant and a Fruit)
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Posted By: blazno
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 09:35
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How could I forgot? FRANK ZAPPA
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