The Comedy On Vinyl Podcast

Steve Stajich is a satirist, musician, sitcom writer, former stand-up, and comedy guru to up-and-comers.  He’s also one of mycomedy mentors, so it was a blast sitting down with him to talk about an album he has a personal/professional connection with.  The product of a bygone era where cutting in the interviews of real political figures with questions by comedians was neither easy nor played...

If you don’t know Wayne White’s name, you owe it to yourself to go watch “Beauty is Embarrassing” immediately and feel bad that his name passed you by the millions of times you’ve seen it.  Part of Wayne and his work is in Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Beakman’s World, and the Smashing Pumpkins music video for “Tonight, Tonight,” just to name the three...

The amazing Carlos Alazraqui stops by his own house to discuss Los Cochinos, which comes with a nice personal story involving the one and only Cheech Marin.  We actually recorded this one quite awhile back, but I thought it’d be fun to revisit with a new perspective on the album sooner, rather than later. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Carlos Alazraqui CarlosAl...

Consummate comedy nerd, comedy vinyl collector and comedian in his own right (yes, he had a song played on Dr. Demento’s show when he was 11), Dan Pasternack is here to talk Carlin’s “Take Offs and Put Ons,” not to mention putting most people’s comedy stories to shame with one encounter involving both George Carlin and Stan Freberg.  Enjoy, and be sure to read his art...

That album we’re holding is indeed not Mitch Hedberg’s “Mitch All Together.”  That’s because A) It wasn’t released on vinyl and B) the gentleman next to Jason, here, is Dave Kloc, the designer of this amazing album cover for Jonah Ray’s “Hello Mr. Magic Plane Person, Hello.”  Not only that, but Dave has designed every single poster for every si...

Roy Wood, Jr. gives us a look into the world of stand-up, the world of acting on a successful sitcom, and some great perspective on what it’s like to work in comedy.  He also talks about one of his favorite albums by the great Doug Stanhope. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:   Roy Wood, Jr. roywoodjr.com Buy “Something to Take the Edge Off” Comedy on Vi...

Live via vocal telegraph this week is none other than Peter Shickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach, J.S. Bach’s only forgotten son.  We discuss his career, his invention of the hardart, and even go back to the early days of record collecting, where nabbing a bunch of singles was your only option.  It was an honor and an insane amount of fun to speak with him. Shickele.com Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at F...

Jeremy Carter is here to talk Cosby.  Not just Cosby, but Himself.  A seminal album, and one that has stuck with a number of a certain generation maybe more than his earlier work, wonderful as it is.  This is Bill Cosby’s dad “character,” which is a stretch as a term in this case, as refined as it ever got.  This is frustrated dad refusing to give up, but still accepting his fate...

  Serious apologies while you wait for a full episode.  The heat wave is kicking our editing computer’s ass right now.  A new episode featuring Jeremy Carter of Superego is coming up soon!  

Dan Bakkedahl of “Veep” is back in the studio to talk about Cheech & Chong.  We pitch out the autobiographical stuff and delve into the tracks we remember best, and revisit the ones that didn’t stick out. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:   Dan Bakkedahl   Buy “Los Cochinos” Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in bea...

The host of “The Green Room with Paul Provenza” and “Set List” here in LA, sits down with me to talk about Robert Klein.  Not only is this a slice of the 1970’s, it’s Klein’s progressive voice without entitlement, but with a heavy degree of acceptance that being progressive is just the way it is.  We also discuss Paul’s first time on stage – at...

Andrés du Bouchet is not only a hilarious stand up, but he writes for the funniest guy ever – Conan.  We talk about a number of albums this episode, but the big one is the SNL Cast Album.  Though I didn’t have it in hand the day of, the clips you’re hearing in this episode are from a vinyl rip.  Go check out his comedy, watch Conan, and definitely listen to this album.  I’v...

Nate Bargatze is both hilarious and thoughtful, so I was excited to cover Jerry Seinfeld’s “I’m Telling You For the Last Time” again with him.  Also, he has a show at Largo in LA tonight.  Go see him! Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest: Nate Bargatze NateBargatze.com Buy “This Is Spinal Tap” the soundtrack Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome...

Mark McConville is now the second member of the Superego team to drop by Fort Awesome Studios, and we cover a mutual favorite album – the soundtrack to This Is Spinal Tap.  It’s always a special pleasure to not only cut in music clips, but to speak to the musically educated and skilled about mixing music and comedy.   Mark was awesome, and so is special guest Eilon Paz, author of the b...

Dave Waite ‘s comedy album  Hotdoggin’ comes out tomorrow, August 12th on Stand Up! Records.  Today, he talks about one of his favorite albums, chosen at random from a few contenders – George Carlin’s  A Place for My Stuff , which was a ton of fun to revisit.  Stand up mixed with sketch is hard to do right, and while Carlin does, it’s easy to see why few people have d...

His film What If? ,  starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan opens in limited theatres today, and nationwide Friday, August 15.  Elan Mastai is Canadian, and isn’t afraid to change his accent to subvert the US and take it over.  Again, his film opens today. He also picked an awesome, self-referential, super-meta comedy album from 1981 – Bob and Doug McKenzie’s (aka Rick Moranis a...

One-quarter sketch group, one-quarter country band, 2 quarters comedy enthusiast, Matt Gourley joins us this week to talk about Monty Python’s The Final Rip Off, an important album for both of us.  We talk improv, sketch, and specifically Monty Python’s influence on his work with the amazing podcast/improv-sketch group Superego, which you probably already know comes back September 1st...

This might be the first time I’ve interviewed someone for whom I once thought to honor by parodying their website.  But that was back in 1998, and he’s matured since then.  I got to sit down with Hal Sparks this week and talk about his influences, not to mention his unflinchingly high standards for stand-up as an art form and the people who perform it.  It’s refreshing as hell, a...

Metalocalypse  and Home Movies’ own Brendon Small drops by at his own place to discuss “Let’s Get Small” for, somehow, only the second episode in our show’s history to cover it.  This time, we’re talking to a musician and comedian, so we discuss both sides of the Steve Martin coin, and also comedy and music nerdery.  This episode is the second in an unofficial a...

Matt Lieberman ( Sourcefed , Afterbuzz , friend of the show) made the kind offer to interview me for our hundredth episode.  I assumed that meant “talk about my collection,” when what Matt had in mind was much more sinister – he wanted me to talk about my own comedy album from 1999.  Talk about myself though I might like to… do… I was reticent, but it was a fun trip d...

The Levinson Brothers sat down to discuss their fond memories of being introduced to Stan Freberg’s albums by their dad, and how that inevitably led to their current album, 2776 , created with friend of the show Rob Kutner .  A future history lesson featuring Wil Forte, Aubrey Plaza, Reggie Watts, Paul F. Tompkins and basically everyone else you love, 2776 is not just a genuinely great comed...

The hilarious Mike Black is the first to nab a Robin Williams album.  We not only talk comedy, and Robin Williams, but there’s a little bit about film at the beginning, too. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest:  Mike Black Mike Black on Facebook Buy “A Night At The Met” Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank. The...

Dave Hill is on the show this week!  We sat down for “Wild and Crazy Guy” Mark II, and discuss Dave’s adventures mixing music and comedy in his act, performing in prisons, and temporarily ditching the comedy for some non-English speakers with some damn good taste in music. (No clips in this episode, because we’ve discussed the album before, but you can check out the first t...

Matthew Senreich & Zeb Wells were kind enough to let me into the inner sanctum of the Robot Chicken production offices for a quick chat about what inspired them (Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Adam Sandler among them), comedy-wise, and what it takes to make sketch comedy your own, even if it is with someone else’s toys. Host:  Jason Klamm Producer:  Mike Worden This Week’s Guest: Matthew...

This week, Jason does his usual stellar job of keeping the show on track.  No, seriously, it gets worse.  Why?  Because Taylor Jessen is not only Firesign’s archivist, but he restores comedy vinyl.  All those pops and hisses that can kill a joke or a pause?  Yeah, he can smooth those over and then tweak the cover so it looks like it did the day the original owner bought it in the store.  He...