Presenting the first short film from Comedy on Vinyl and The Comedy Archive. It’s the story of Taylor Jessen prepping the Firesign Theatre archive to be shipped off to the Library of Congress.
Also, don’t forget to visit Taylor’s blog at taylorjessen.blogspot.com.
This week, I talk with one of the producers of the Back to the Future documentary “Back in Time,” Lee Leshen, who brings up Howie Mandel’s insane crowdwork comedy for the first time on the show. Give it a listen, and go see the movie, which comes out the same day as The Million McFly March to Benefit Parkinson’s.
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Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Lee Leshen
Back In Time
MillionMcFlyMarch.com
Buy “Fits Like a Glove”
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 provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.
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How has it taken this long to get to what might be the most famous comedy album of all time? Simple: not one guest has requested it. So this week, we start changing the format up. Starting soon, we’re going to be giving guests who don’t have an album in mind, or who pick a CD or a cassette, another option – listen to something you haven’t heard. This week, friend of the show Alex Salem stops by and we both discuss our first dedicated listening experience with the one-time vinyl record sales holder. Not only that, but because of its ubiquity, it can easily be tossed aside as a bi-product of a political comedy trope it helped popularize – the presidential impression – when, in fact, it was ground-breaking. Give it a listen, and go buy it, because I guarantee you can find yourself a cheap copy.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Alex Salem
Viewers Like You (Alex’s sketch group)
Buy “The First Family”
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 provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.
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This week’s episode is not really about one comedy album, but about the strange case of a burned commune, the family that lived there, and the man who has been studying the site for thirty-plus years, using vinyl found at the scene as one of his tools. Among them, one comedy album (a Cosby album, as it happens). We talk about what that means and what it’s like to work on a site that’s younger than you are, but at the same time millennia older.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Breck Parkman & Maura McCoy
Breck’s state bio
The BoingBoing article that turned me on to the story
Olompali: A California Story
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 provisions of fair use for the sake of commentary, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy. Please subscribe to us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks.
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