Tag: film
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 144 – Justin Michael on The Muppets – The Muppet Show Album
He co-hosts the Before You Were Funny podcast and Batman: The Animated Podcast. Turns out, he’s also the first person to bring The Muppets to the show. Another surprise first turns out to be a brilliant piece of work, especially given that we’re supposed to imagine animated felt for 45 minutes. Not only are the voice…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 143 – Eban Schletter on Spike Jones – Thank You Music Lovers
Podcast listeners will know the sounds of his nimble fingers from the background of many a Paul F. Tompkins podcast, and sketch comedy fans will know his music from Mr. Show. Eban Schletter is not only a great musical improviser, but a guy who maybe, sort of, fell into comedy as a genre. Although, on…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 142 – Janet Varney on Albert Brooks – Comedy Minus One
Janet Varney stops by her own home to delve into Albert Brooks’ classic “Comedy Minus One” for our second go-round with this album. This time, we get a picture of an entirely new experience – namely, someone who grew up without the script to the act-along segment! This made for an e View Original Post…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 141 – James Bladon and Jeremy Guskin on Monty Python – The Holy Grail Soundtrack
This week I’m joined by the amazingly talented James Bladon (the music for Superego and their alter-egos The Journeymen and the music editor for countless TV shows) and my great friend and talented person in his own right Jeremy Guskin to discuss (deep breath) “The Album Of The Soundtrack Of View Original Post and Listen…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 140 – Greg Benson on The Credibility Gap – A Great Gift Idea
The awesome Greg Benson breaks down the first Credibility Gap album we’ve covered, track-by-track. It’s his favorite, and it’s not hard to see why. Irreverent, razor-sharp satire with the kind of production values anyone would be jealous of. It’s a shame they made so few records together, bu View Original Post and Listen to Episode…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 139 – Phil Hendrie on Firesign – How Can You Be in Two Places at Once…
Of course, the full title is “How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All,” and it’s one of the great Firesign albums. One half Firesign fever dream, and the other half a long-form Nick Danger adventure, this is the first album that ever exposed Firesign to me as…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 138 – Dr. Demento
He inspired the guy who inspired this podcast. He’s the ultimate curator of novelty music, a music historian, an expert on the history of recorded sound and of comedy, and he was the sound of a generation of comedy lovers. He might have invented what it means to be a comedy nerd, whether you View…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 137 – Alex Salem on The First Family
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…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 136 – Breck Parkman and Maura McCoy on Vinyl and Archaeology
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 View…
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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 135 – Josia Elliott on David Cross – Shut Up, You Fucking Baby
Buzzfeed’s own Josia Elliott comes on the show to talk about David Cross’s emotionally-charged “Shut Up, You Fucking Baby.” Replete with track titles from some imaginary stand-up set, this album is a great time capsule, and still really relevant. It also had a vinyl re-release, courtesy of S View Original Post and Listen to Episode…