So what's your favorite comedy CD/album?

[OSUFan]

I'm looking for something different to listen to while working out -- some comedy. I have two George Carlin CDs (Class Clown and FM & AM) and a Bill Cosby album (Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow Right!) that I guess I could purchase off of itunes but I know it. Any suggestions?

[Roman Craig]

Denis Leary

[bleedorange]

Cheech & Chong - Los Cochinos
Steve Martin - Wild and Crazy Guy

[Pokes_Rock]

Roy D Mercer
Jerry Clower

[Verb]

Anything at all by Richard Pryor (IF you are NOT offended by profanity!)

I think he may be the funniest person who ever lived.

[bremmel]

Rodney Carrington
Christopher Titus

They are two of my favorites.

[BigBadBen]

Ron White is absolutely hillarious.

http://www.rhapsody.com/ronwhite/293116_drunkinpublic

[Lewis the Pike]

Anything by carlin is great. He's got a new standup coming out. I saw his show in Hermosa Beach, where he's perfecting it. All new stuff.

But my favorite all time is probably Chris Rock, Bring the Pain!!!!!!

Close follow ups-
Lewis Black
Denis Leary
Joe Rogan
Dave Chappelle
and
Jim Norton

[cactusjack]

Richard Pryor hands down.

[snuffy]

Bill Cosby's Chicken Heart' and " Ice Cream" You will hurt you laugh so hard.

[CowboyJD]

My absolute favorite comic albums are: "The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart" and the "The Button Down Mind Strikes Back". These are two of the earlier standup act albums. They are brilliant. Not a single "blue" bits on them at all.

My favorite Cosby album is "To My Brother Russel, Whom I Slept With".

Two other guys not mentioned in this thread I would highly recommend are Bill Hicks (I'd go with "Arizona Bay" or "Philosophy: The Best of") and Henry Rollins' spoken word albums. Bill Hicks is just great and would have been a huge star if he hadn't been taken from us early by cancer. Henry Rollins is the former lead singer for the LA punk band Black Flag and presently sings in the Rollins Band. His spoken word CDs aren't necessarily stand up (though they are funny), but are more observations on life from a unique mind and guy that has led a unique life. From Rollins, I'd recommend "Sweatbox", "Get in the Van", and "The Boxed Life".

[Erick]

You gotta listen to Mitch Hedberg. Like a lot of comedians, he is gone way before his time.

http://www.amazon.com/Strategic-Grill-Locations-Explicit/dp/B000X71KAY/ref=pd_sim_dmt_dmusic_title_1

[Poke John I]

"Faulty Towers" a British Comedy. They only made 12 episodes before a young John Cleese burned out. Basil Faulty, John Cleese, owns and manages a small hotel in England. However, he does not have the personality to deal with the general public nor the wierd and ecentric types they have in Britain.

Opps, sorry this is a video.

[Lewis the Pike]

"Faulty Towers" a British Comedy. They only made 12 episodes before a young John Cleese burned out. Basil Faulty, John Cleese, owns and manages a small hotel in England. However, he does not have the personality to deal with the general public nor the wierd and ecentric types they have in Britain.

Were you ever a fan of "The Young Ones" one of very few Brit comedies I liked

[bremmel]

My absolute favorite comic albums are: "The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart" and the "The Button Down Mind Strikes Back". These are two of the earlier standup act albums. They are brilliant. Not a single "blue" bits on them at all.

My favorite Cosby album is "To My Brother Russel, Whom I Slept With".

Two other guys not mentioned in this thread I would highly recommend are Bill Hicks (I'd go with "Arizona Bay" or "Philosophy: The Best of") and Henry Rollins' spoken word albums. Bill Hicks is just great and would have been a huge star if he hadn't been taken from us early by cancer. Henry Rollins is the former lead singer for the LA punk band Black Flag and presently sings in the Rollins Band. His spoken word CDs aren't necessarily stand up (though they are funny), but are more observations on life from a unique mind and guy that has led a unique life. From Rollins, I'd recommend "Sweatbox", "Get in the Van", and "The Boxed Life".
I watched a Henry Rollins special on IFC. It was very funny he does have a unique view of things.

[CowboyJD]

I watched a Henry Rollins special on IFC. It was very funny he does have a unique view of things.

Henry has a regular show on IFC. Good stuff.

[bremmel]

Henry has a regular show on IFC. Good stuff.I try and watch it when I can. They have been playin his show on the Fuse channel too.

[OSUFan]

Thanks for your suggestions, all! I downloaded "A Wild & Crazy Guy" (I think I had that on 8-track at one point in my life) and John Heffron's "The Better Half". I will check into some of your other suggestions but Dane Cook, Richard Pryor and some of the other more "colorful language" comedians I'm going to have to pass on.

[Pokit N]

I saw Rollins live in stillwater back in 01' I think. It was pretty cool. My favorite comedy CD is Adam Sandler's "They're all gonna laugh at you!" I honestly think I peed in my pants the 1st time I heard it. Of course I was in the 8th grade at the time.

[CowboyJD]

Thanks for your suggestions, all! I downloaded "A Wild & Crazy Guy" (I think I had that on 8-track at one point in my life) and John Heffron's "The Better Half". I will check into some of your other suggestions but Dane Cook, Richard Pryor and some of the other more "colorful language" comedians I'm going to have to pass on.

Disregard my Bill Hicks and Henry Rollins suggestions then. :D

[CanadianCowboy]

I'm kind of shamed and embarrassed by the OSS contingent.....what COWBOY fan would not think of the best living COWBOY poet and comedian, BAXTER BLACK?!?

If you've ever earned a paycheck working cattle on horseback, or been around horses, cattle, horsemen, and cattlemen (and horsewomen!), or spent any significant time helping out your local large animal veterinarian, some of the humor this guy records will make you split your ribs. :D

[OSU Sig]

Bill Engvall-"here's your sign" It's classic.

[Uberpoke]

Even though the profanity-laced ones have been omitted from OSUFan's preference, I have to give props to some of Adam Sandler's CDs. "They're All Going to Laugh At You" and "What the Hell Happened To Me" are especially great.

The first time I heard "They're all Going..." I thought I was going to throw up my stomach from laughing so hard. Raunchy, wrong, and vulgar, it was perfect for my college years. "Medium Pace" and "Toll-booth Willie" in particular had me in stitches.

[arfer0384]

I recently bought Jim Gaffigan's "Beyond the Pale"...great stuff. Gaffigan's not a vulgar guy; he's just hilarious.

[bremmel]

I recently bought Jim Gaffigan's "Beyond the Pale"...great stuff. Gaffigan's not a vulgar guy; he's just hilarious.I was trying to remember his name after OSUfan didn't want anything vulgar. I just couldn't remember his name until I read your post.

[cactusjack]

I love Jim Gafigan....hot pockets

bibbedy, bobbedy, bacon! He's on the bob and tom show alot. I want to see him live.

[BigBadBen]

Do any of you listen to Ron White?
He uses some profanity, not near the level of a Sandler or Pryor, but is absolutely Hillarious.

If you havent heard him, give it a shot.



You can listen to most of the folks you have listed for free on Rhapsody.com.

[DCPokeFan]

You didn't specify exactly what you meant by "comedy" so here's some "further out" ideas, if you want to try something really different:

Stan Freeburg's "The United States of America" vol. 1, the Early Years

Madison Avenue, Broadway and US History combined in a fractured series of loosely connected sketchs with songs, really hilarious if you remember any H.S. US history, and much better than vol. 2.

Anything by Peter Schikele as P.D.Q.Bach, if you ever listen to classical music, and even if you don't you should get a kick out of "PDQ Bach On the Air" which sends up the small college ultra-serious Classical Music playing student-run radio station (WOOF, from the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople). It has the magnificent piece "New Horizons in Music Appreciation," Beethoven's 5th Symphony First Movement, commentated as if it were a Sports Contest (think Bob Barry Sr. & Merv meet the Boston Pops or something like that...)

GO POKES!!!

[Lewis the Pike]

I am embarassed that I forgot this one, but one of the greatest stand-up videos I have seen since "Bring the Pain" was Doug Stanhope (formerly of the Man Show and Girls Gone Wild videos) most recent special, "No refunds" it went completely under the radar, I recommend it to all who don't get too fussy when someone uses a few "naughty" words.

[snuffy]

lewis just reminded of a great one through his post: Robin Williams, an evening at the Met. It was his first big show right after he got clean and will make you pee your pants.