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"Prank Phone Calls Volume II [Digipak]" (01/04/2005) Comedy Smiley, Rickey, Breakwind Entertainment

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"Box Set [Box]" (02/28/2006) Comedy Stevens, Ray, Curb Records (USA)Recording information: 1966 - 2000.

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"Live at Carnegie Hall" (10/02/2001) Comedy Romano, Ray, Columbia (USA)Solo performer: Ray Romano (spoken vocals). Producers include: Bob Stein, Rory Rosegarten, John Kalodner. Recorded live at The Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware and Carnegie Hall, New York, New York from June 6-9, 1999. LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album.

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"Live From Hell [PA] [Remaster]" (03/25/2003) Comedy Kinison, Sam, Priority Records (USA)Solo performer: Sam Kinison (spoken vocals). Producers: Bill Kinison, Sherry Kinison, Daniel Harris, Constantino Magnatta. Includes liner notes by David Wild. LIVE FROM HELL won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.m

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"Dr. Demento's 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000" (02/29/2000) Comedy Various Artists, Rhino Records (USA)Includes liner notes by Barry Hansen & Richard Foos. Digitally remastered by Bob Fisher.

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"Big Bambu" (01/29/1991) Comedy Cheech & Chong, Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)Cheech & Chong: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin (spoken vocals). Cheech & Chong's second album made the Billboard Top 5 and cemented Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong alongside George Carlin as the preeminent comedians of the stoner generation. Designed to resemble the packaging for a popular brand of rolling papers, BIG BAMBU laid its allegiances bare from the outset. (The record was initially packaged with a rolling paper the size of an LP cover, and every high-school kid of the day claimed to know this one dude who actually used it.) However, the funniest material on the disc may be its least drug-oriented. In particular, the hysterical "Sister Mary Elephant," a reminiscence of Catholic-school youth, and the lengthy "television medley" (originally one whole side of the record) includes pothead jokes in the context of a broader satire of American pop culture. Overall, BIG BAMBU is Cheech & Chong's funniest and most consistent album.

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"Robert Schimmel "Comes Clean"" (10/08/1996) Comedy Schimmel, Robert, Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)ROBERT SCHIMMEL "COMES CLEAN" contains a full audio program as well as CD-ROM files for both Windows and Macintosh systems. Solo performer: Robert Schimmel (spoken vocals). This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

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"If You Buy This CD, I Can Get This Car" (10/20/1998) Comedy Schimmel, Robert, Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

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"Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) [PA] *" (02/01/2005) Comedy Pryor, Richard, Rhino Records (USA)Recording information: 1966 - 1974. This two-disc Rhino set compiles recordings from the formative years in the career of one of standup comedy's most important and influential figures. The set, entitled EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION, divides Richard Pryor's material into two distinct camps. The EVOLUTION disc covers 1966-1968, and shows the comedian still finding his voice and style. Pryor was much safer on these early outings, and borrows many of his cadences and sound effects from his successful contemporary, Bill Cosby. The material is enjoyable, and Pryor's delivery dynamic, but the real juice is saved for Disc Two. Pryor's performances changed radically in the 1970s. REVOLUTION shows him dispensing with conventional standup altogether, and unleashing a new persona that knew no limits or taboos. Much like that of Lenny Bruce before him, Pryor's act was profane and brutally honest, probing mercilessly at issues like racism, drugs, sexuality, and social injustice. As much a social critic as a laugh man, Pryor's was confrontational and timely, and his '70s work holds up very well as a document of the era. Extended character improvisations, like "Wino & Junkie," are biting, hilarious, and poignant at once, and prove, with the rest of this excellent set, the growth and range of Pryor's genius.

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"Bipolar and Proud" (08/24/2004) Comedy Judd, Cledus T., Koch Records (USA)This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel include: Cledus T. Judd (vocals); Scotty Emerick, Toby Keith (vocals); Mike Severs (guitar); Pat Flynn (acoustic guitar); Russ Pahl (electric guitar, steel guitar); Troy Lancaster (electric guitar); Glen Duncan (mandolin, fiddle); Gary Smith (keyboards); Larry Paxton (bass guitar); Paul Scholten (drums, percussion). Known far and wide as the Weird Al Yankovic of country music, Cledus T. Judd has carved out a successful recording career by parodying hit country songs. Hardly the shy, retiring type, Judd attacks his subjects with all the subtlety of a Mack truck, and that's just the way his considerable fanbase likes it. Judd pulls no punches on BIPOLAR AND PROUD, going after some of the biggest stars in Nashville. In his hands, Toby Keith's "I Love This Bar" becomes the goofy car-racing ode "I Love NASCAR." Gretchen Wilson's rowdy breakout smash "Redneck Woman" is transmuted into "Paycheck Woman," in which Judd demands that his mate bring home the bacon. Playing up to the conservative quotient of the country audience, Judd uses one of the Dixie Chicks' own songs as the template for a satire of their outspoken anti-George W. Bush statements. Those who aren't ready to stop laughing when Judd turns serious on the non-satirical, tears-of-a-clown ballad "Funny Man" can just head back to track one and start all over again.

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"Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" (05/06/1997) Comedy Lehrer, Tom, Rhino Records (USA)SONGS & MORE SONGS BY TOM LEHRER contains the two albums SONGS BY TOM LEHRER and MORE OF TOM LEHRER on one CD. Originally released in 1953 and 1959. Includes liner notes by Dr. Demento.

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"The Best of Bill Cosby" (03/01/2005) Comedy Cosby, Bill, Rhino Records (USA)

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"Nut Sack [PA]" (02/11/2003) Comedy Carrington, Rodney, Liberty (USA)Personnel: Rodney Carrington, Lisa Cochran (vocals); Michael Clark (acoustic & electric guitars); Sandy Williams, Mike Noble, Michael Spriggs (acoustic guitar); Pat Buchanan (electric guitar); Robby Turner (steel guitar); Larry Franklin (fiddle); Tony Harrell (strings); Jim Farrelly (flute, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Tom Meyer (clarinet, alto & tenor saxophones); Joey Tartell, Jeff Conrad (trumpet); Jared Rodin (trombone); Bob Hoban, Steve Allee (piano); Frank Smith (acoustic bass); Dave Pomeroy (bass); Milton Sledge, Dane Clark (drums); Kevin Kaiser (percussion); The Ordinaires (background vocals). Producers: Rodney Carrington, Tom Griswold, Steve Allee. Recorded at Emerald Entertainment, Nashville, Tennessee; Saga Studios, Indianapolis, Indiana and The Victory Theatre, Evansville, Indiana. Coming on like some kind of cross between the hick satire of Jeff Foxworthy and the country music parodies of Cledus T. Judd, Rodney Carrington connected to the down-home comedy audience in a big way with the not-so-subtly titled NUT SACK. The album is split evenly between live stand-up routines and music. On the stand-up half, Carrington tackles familiar subjects like marriage, work, and medicine, but with a southern twist. The musical numbers aren't parodies of existing songs a la Cledus, but highly comical original compositions. Ironically, the music backing Carrington's uproarious lyrics is more traditional honky-tonk than almost anything coming out of mainstream Nashville; many of these tracks could be outtakes from, say, an old Moe Bandy album. Lyrically, the songs are redolent of vintage Ray Stevens, or of the material Shel Silverstein wrote for Bobby Bare in the '70s.

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"The Ledbetter Olympics!" (08/01/1995) Comedy Clower, Jerry, Universal Special Products

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"All-Time Greatest Hits" (04/03/2001) Comedy Stevens, Ray, Varese Sarabande (USA)Producers: Ray Stevens, Fred Foster, Jim Malloy. Compilation producer: Cary E. Mansfield. Recorded between 1960 & 1976. Includes liner notes by Brian Mansfield. Digitally remastered by Evren Goknar & Marty Wekser (Capitol Mastering, Hollywood, California).

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"Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones" (04/12/1994) Comedy Jones, Spike, CatalystSPIKED! is a compilation of various Spike Jones recordings--some previously unreleased--with His City Slickers and with His Other Orchestra. Spike Jones & His City Slickers includes: Spike Jones (drums, percussion); Judie Manners, Red Ingle, Doodles Weaver, Sir Frederick Gas, George Rock, Freddy Morgan, Dick Morgan, The Four Fifths, Jimmy Cassidy, Dr. Horaio Q Birdbath, Gil Bert, Del Porter, The Rhythmaires, Paul Frees, Carl Grayson, The Barefooted Pennsylvanians, Susan Scott (vocals). Additional personnel includes: Homer & Jethro; Spike Jones & His Other Orchestra. Recorded between 1941 and 1961. Includes liner notes by Thomas Pynchon and Tim Page. Spike Jones, probably the only band leader who ever conducted with a starter pistol, was an aural Dadaist years ahead of his time. He brought the art of pop and classical music parody to its absolute apogee. Along with his crack band, the City Slickers, Jones also bequeathed several new instruments to the traditional orchestra, among them the latrineophone (a toilet seat strung with catgut). This Jones anthology, released (oddly or appropriately enough) by BMG's avant-garde classical label, is interestingly programmed, with just a few of Jones' big hits ("Pal-Yat-Chee," "Laura," "Holiday For Strings") surrounded by more obscure sides. But just about everything here is either hysterical or musically brilliant--or both. As a bonus, SPIKED also includes an insightful liner note appreciation of Jones by the normally elusive Thomas Pynchon.

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"Live! C'Mon Laugh You Bastards [PA]" (10/23/2001) Comedy Carrington, Rodney, Capitol/EMI RecordsRecorded at the Comedy Zone, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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"Shoes For Industry! Best of the Firesign Theatre" (08/31/1993) Comedy Firesign Theatre, Legacy RecordingsTHE BEST OF THE FIRESIGN THEATRE... contains two disc's worth of material compiled in honor of the group's 25th anniversary. It includes a 23-page booklet with track annotations, recording information and extensive liner notes. The Firesign Theatre: Peter Bergman, Philip Proctor, David Ossman, Philip Austin. Producers include: Gary Usher, James William Guercio, Philip Austin, Steve Gilmore, David Ossman. Compilation producer: Bob Irwin Recorded between 1967-1975. Includes liner notes by Steve Simels. Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music Studios, New York). The Firesign Theater has been called, with some justification, the Beatles of comedy. Their best work--created in a white heat of inspiration in the late '60s and early '70s-- is a multi-layered and extremely funny mix. Their approach incorporates tropes from old radio drama, literary Magical Realism, aural found objects and collage, the Goon Show, science fiction, topical counter-cultural satire, Lewis Carroll word play, and a complete mastery of the potential of the recording studio. The two-CD "best-of" SHOES FOR INDUSTRY doesn't include all the Firesign's most mind-bending material (their first three albums really should be in everybody's collection), but it's a well-constructed anthology and is gorgeously re-mastered. Highlights include the hilarious hard-boiled detective parody "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" (which originally occupied one side of their second LP), plus the best moments from their masterpiece DON"T CRUSH THAT DWARF, HAND ME THE PLIERS and lots more, including the sui generis "I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama!"

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"Cure For the Cable Guy [PA]" (04/04/2006) Comedy Hofstetter, Steve, Razor & Tie MusicPersonnel: Steve Hofstetter (spoken vocals). Recording information: M-Bar, Hollywood, California.

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"Juddmental" (10/26/1999) Comedy Judd, Cledus T., Razor & Tie MusicPersonnel includes: Cledus T. Judd (vocals); Scott Rouse (guitar, bass, drum programming); Lisa Gregg, Chuck McNeal, Kim Winters (background vocals). Producers: Cledus T. Judd, Chris Clark, Scott Rouse.

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"Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road [Digipak]" (06/06/2006) Comedy Foxworthy, Jeff, Warner Bros. Records (Record Label)Recording information: 2006. The final installment of the phenomenally successful BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR--a tour featuring a group of comedians speaking from, to, and about America's red-state/blue-collar contigency--is entitled ONE FOR THE ROAD. This two-disc set, recorded in Washington D.C. in 2006, marks the show's finale, and features Bill Engvall (who holds forth on "Buying Stuff"), Ron White (who reminds us to "Put the Damn Helmet On!"), Jeff Foxworthy (who offers a series of redneck fashion tips), and Larry the Cable Guy (who discourses on Home Depot).