![]() You probably think the order is wrong, and that so and so should be higher. To that I added information like record sales, chart positions, and Grammys won and I came up with an informal list of what is influential. Instead I asked the comedy performers, from the Smothers Brothers, down to open mikers what influenced them. Notice I didn't go for "Best Comedy Albums," or "Funniest Comedy Albums " that would be subjective. These are the albums that influenced the people who make America laugh today. ![]() Moms Mabley and company were replaced by Newhart, and Lenny Bruce, then by Pryor and Carlin, and just about every comedian of note between the late 50's and the early 80's. If you're reading this you probably listened to them every chance you got.Įventually the albums gained respectability, as did the comics who recorded them. If you're of a certain age your parents probably had a stash of these records, held under lock and key, that you were never supposed to listen to. Long before comedy central, before HBO, or even before the first comic did a spot on the Steve Allen Show, there were the comedy albums.įor the most part they started out as "party records" with Belle Barth, Moms Mabley, or Skillet & Leroy saying all those wonderfully naughty things that you weren't supposed to say in public.
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