2000 Year Old Man, The[CD] - Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. Newly remastered for the 50th anniversary of the birth of The 2000 Year Old Man. The DVD features a brand-new exclusive interview with Reiner and Brooks discussing the history of the routine, the 1975 animated 2000 Year Old Man TV special, and vintage clips of the two appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show and The New Steve Allen Show. The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History also includes extensive liner notes, rare photos and tributes from some of the biggest names in comedy. Contains all five 2000 Year Old Man albums on three CDs as well as a 32-page book with rare photos and new essays by Dick Cavett and comedy historian Gerald Nachman.
How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties - Lenny Bruce
Lima, Ohio - Lenny Bruce
Comic at the Palladium - Lenny Bruce
In Which the Artist Discusses ...The Philadelphia Hotel Room Raid - Lenny Bruce
Internet Archive: Audio Archive - This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black[CD] - Eighth album by comedian Lewis Black, released through Comedy Central Records. Awarded the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
Shot at the historic Fillmore Theatre in Detroit, Stark Raving Black features Lewis Black serving up his blistering social and political commentary on current events. The movie is a culmination of his very best material from his sold out shots throughout North America and Europe in 2009.
Expectations
Democrats & Republicans
Mainstream Comedian
Vince Gill, Amy Grant, & Me
Hitting 60
Birth & Death
Parents
The Economy
Greed
Alternative Energy
Hope
Mike Nichols and Elaine May: In Retrospect[CD] - Chicago is a town known for its improv, and, in the beginning, back in the 1950s, there was the Playwrights Theatre Club, which gave rise to a crop of talent and troupes like the Second City. Original members Mike Nichols and Elaine May after honing their talents with the Playwrights Theatre went on to superb careers, May on Broadway and Nichols in Hollywood where he directed such classic films as The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Dubbed "the world's fastest humans" for their whip-smart, lightning-fast lines, Nichols and May are funny, but they are stunning when you realize their sketches were unscripted. Entirely improvised, this collection of 12 of their best efforts showcases their superb timing and ability to develop character depth. Alternating straight and set-up roles, they take the audience in one direction and then suddenly change directions with amusing results. Able to assume accents and characters like a second skin, Nichols and May are the real thing, amusing, acerbic, and clever, and this album is a thing of comedic history.
Telephone
Adultery
Disc Jockey
Mother and Son
A Little More Gauze
Morning Rounds
Merry Christmas, Doctor
Physical
Cocktail Piano
Bach to Bach
Second Piano Concerto (The Dentist)
Nichols and May at Work
Mort Sahl: At the Hungry I[CD] - Mort Sahl got his start at the Hungry I, and this album, mostly recorded at that club, shows Sahl doing what he does best: attacking anyone and everyone, from the president to Khrushchev, from New Yorkers to the Germans.
Inside Shelley Berman[CD] - The material is split between Berman's trademark one-sided phone conversations ("Department Store," "The Morning After," and "Dedicated to Parents") and more traditional observational humor ("Airlines," "Buttermilk," and "Embarrassing Moments"). Because the humor transcends genre, race, and to some degree generation, Berman is able to incorporate the audience's natural reaction into "A Little Game" that he calls Nostalgics. The game commences when a word or phrase is said that conjures up definitive "sweet" memories that recall a specifically good time or period in one's life."Go to jail...go directly to jail...do not pass go...do not collect $200," is given as a timeless example. Equally as enlightened are the telephone bits, which again rely on the comedy of reaction. Arguably the best known of these is the "Department Store" sketch -- which gained national exposure via both Jack Paar and Steve Allen's Tonight Show in 1958 and 1959, respectively. Here an office worker -- presumably located in a metropolitan skyscraper -- attempts to rescue a woman who is hanging from the window ledge across the street. The series of well-meaning conversations that eventually lead to the woman's safe return inside the store are equally hilarious and thought-provokingly poignant.
Child Psychologist
Airlines
Stewardess
Department Store
Buttermilk
A Little Game
The Morning After
Embarrassing Moments
Dedicated to Parents
On Location with Shelley Berman[DVD] - Berman's onstage persona in this 80-minute performance at the Chicago Playboy Club is dark, cynical, more than slightly neurotic and characterized by mood swings fluctuating between self-deprecation and egotism. Berman keeps the audience off guard, alternately flattering, insulting, confusing and amusing them. Filmed at the Playboy Club in 1977, Berman presents some of his best known routines such as, "The Department Store", "The Mechanical Heart", "Language Barrier" and "Little Embarrassing Moments", plus a moving tribute to his father.
Tom Lehrer Collection[CD] -
"Witty, condescending, intellectual, elitist, satirical, educator, stuffy, wordsmith: Depending on whom you ask, all these apply to Tom Lehrer to greater and lesser degrees, but everyone has to admit the last title holds true."
Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Lobachevsky
The Irish Ballad
When You Are Old and Grey
Be Prepared
The Elements
We All Go Together When We Go
National Brotherhood Week
Pollution
So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
New Math
Who's Next?
Smut
Wernher von Braun
The Vatican Rag
I Got It From Agnes
That's Mathematics
L-Y
Silent E
O-U (The Hound Song)
S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
N Apostrophe T
Selling Out
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
The Masochism Tango
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