The Comedy On Vinyl Podcast

Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Marc Hershon MarcHershon.com Buy  Radio Dinner  on vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at LookingForwardMovie.com. 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 provisio...

You’ve seen her on a commercial, guaranteed.  She picked Carol Burnett’s album of Broadway songs so we’d have an excuse to talk about our mutual hero. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Jesse Meriwether Jesse’s Site Buy  Carol Burnett Remembers How They Stopped the Show  on vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at Looki...

Maximum Fun’s Colin Anderson drops by to discuss a Record Store Day 2016 release – two episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series Knowing Me, Knowing You , starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Colin Anderson colinanderson.info Buy  Knowing Me, Knowing You on vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at Lo...

Phil Baron is a Cantor at Valley Beth Shalom.  He’s one half of the comedy music duo Willio and Phillio.  He’s the voice of Teddy Ruxpin.  And he brings us Allan Sherman on the podcast for the first time. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Cantor Phil Baron Buy My Son, The Folk Singer  on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at Lo...

Grant Baciocco talks Stan Freberg’s work and getting to work with Freberg, and a number of other comedy legends. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Grant Baciocco MrGrant.com Buy A Child’s Garden of Freberg   on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at LookingForwardMovie.com. Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in...

Part 2 of Part 2 of The History of Firesign.  There’s also video of the whole conversation, which you can watch below, and find at youtube.com/comedyonvinyl . Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guests:  Phil Proctor , Taylor Jessen and Jeremy Guskin FiresignTheatre.com PlanetProctor.com Buy  Waiting for the Electrician… on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, d...

The incomparable Mary Birdsong brings us Lily Tomlin for the first time on the show. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Mary Birdsong MaryBirdsong.com Buy Lily Tomlin On Stage   on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at LookingForwardMovie.com. Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples pla...

Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guests:  Bob Bledsoe BobBledsoe.com Buy  Dr. Demento Presents: Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Vol. 4: 1970’s  on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at LookingForwardMovie.com. Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The samples played in these non-commercial...

Phil Proctor is back, with the history of the Firesign Theatre!  This time, we’re joined by Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen and Jeremy Guskin to talk about  Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him .  It was a good, long conversation, so I cut it into two parts.  There’s also video of the whole conversation, which you can watch below, and find at youtube.com/comedyonvinyl . Hos...

Your middlest brother, Travis McElroy, joins me this week ostensibly to talk about an admittedly great and not-often-enough-spoken-of-hyphen album, but we get off on a tangent when we discover Blazing Saddles is both of our favorite film.  But we come back.  I promise. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Travis McElroy TravisMcElroy.com McElroyShows.com Buy  2000 and One...

  Dr. Demento’s archivist, memory acrobat and comedy lover, Jeff Morris picked a US re-release of an album by the UK “group” Bad News, featuring two members of  The Young Ones  and two other English comedians in an early-80s rock music parody that paralleled  This Is Spinal Tap . Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest: Jeff Morris DMDB.org Info about  Ba...

Okay, so I give my guests the options of some things that aren’t strictly comedy, when those things inspired them and at least have some comedic elements to them.  Aline Brosh McKenna ( The Devils Wears Prada, 27 Dresses  AND co-creator of friend of the show Rachel Bloom’s wonderful show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) took me up on the challenge and picked Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel.  ...

You’ve seen Billy Merritt on numerous shows.  If you’re lucky enough (like our own producer, Mike), Billy has taught you improv at UCB.  We had a great time talking about the mind-changing effect Carlin and this album had on how Billy thought about comedy. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Billy Merritt Billy’s UCB Profile Buy Take-Offs & Put-Ons  ...

Jensen Karp joins me this week to talk about my favorite subject – Weird Al.  The more we talk about this album the more I love it.  Jensen also has a new book, Kanye West Owes Me $300,  coming out June 7th, which you can pre-order via links on his site (link to his site below). Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Jensen Karp JensenKarp.com Buy Dare to Be Stupid  on...

Chris White is a self-described “recovering standup comic,” and he picked the perfect album to discuss – an album by a standup who quit while he was ahead.  Chris also hosts DC Improv’s The Other Side podcast on which he is currently helping the country find out who the funniest president of all time is. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Chris Wh...

We’re covering Don’t Crush That Dwarf… for the second time in the show’s history, and this time we’re speaking with Tommy Edison, also known as the Blind Film Critic.  Tommy has an infectious sense of humor, so he was a blast to have on the show.  Blind since birth, Tommy’s experience with comedy albums is something we’ve never been able to explore on the...

Sandy Danto is funny, a great actor and wonderful impressionist.  It shouldn’t have surprised me that he threw a curveball my way.  It’s an album that doesn’t hold up, in terms of what’s socially acceptable, even from a comic, but as Sandy points out, it has it’s place, in terms of studying comedy.  We have a challenging conversation about being PC, lazy comedy and ma...

It’s part 2 of 2 of my discussion with Richard Levinson (composer and performer of our theme song,  Smile for the Camera)  about National Lampoon’s  Gold Turkey , and National Lampoon in general. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Richard Levinson Buy Gold Turkey  on Vinyl Watch my new film  Looking Forward: 2016 unfold, day-by-day at LookingForwardMovie.com. Comed...

Not only does he have a history of comedy writing, including comedy song writing, but Richard Levinson is also the composer and performer of our theme song,  Smile for the Camera .  This is part 1 of 2 episodes talking about National Lampoon’s  Gold Turkey , and National Lampoon in general.  Part 2 comes next week! Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Richard Levinso...

Watch Wayne Federman do stand-up and the first thing you think is not Victor Borge.  Look anywhere and Victor Borge probably won’t be your first thought.  But Wayne made a compelling case to listen to  Borge’s Back! and it was worth the listen.  It’s a ton of fun – like a clean Rodney Dangerfield, without the dirty words. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’...

He’s your own Dr. Katz.  He’s a musician.  He gave us some of our most interesting comic minds.  And he wanted to discuss two of the early kings of improv.  It was a lot of fun. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Jonathan Katz JonathanKatz.com Buy “In One Head and Out the Other” on Vinyl Buy my latest book,  Post-Modem: The Interwebs Explained today! Comedy o...

It’s time to send the little ones to dreamland… Not really, this is a pretty clean episode, especially given the album we’re covering.  The Thrilling Adventure Hour’s own narrator, Hal Lublin, joins us to discuss Robin Williams’ great live album. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Hal Lublin HalLublin.com Buy “A Night At the Met” on Vinyl Bu...

Giulia Rozzi’s next album, True Love , comes out this Friday, February 12.  She’s hilarious and wanted to not only discuss Rodney Dangerfield, but an Italian kids song about having to take a pee.  It’s a fun time. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Giulia Rozzi GiuliaRozzi.com Buy “No Respect” on Vinyl Buy my latest book,  Post-Modem: The In...

Arnie Kogen has written for so many of our greatest comedic minds and voices, but perhaps the one that screeches loudest is MAD Magazine.  Patric Verrone helped give us Futurama and returns to the show as an expert who owns every issue of MAD Magazine.  This week, we use the MAD Magazine insert record “It’s A Gas” to discuss the history of MAD itself. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:...

André Jacquemin has not  only produced almost every Monty Python album, he’s also written some of their music.  We have a blast talking about great Monty Python moments, as well as some album packaging concepts that never quite materialized. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  André Jacquemin Redwood Studios MontyPython.com Buy my latest book,  Post-Modem: The Inter...