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Albums

You Can Now Pre-Order the Stand-Up Album 'Holy Fuck' Featuring Rory Scovel, James Adomian, and Tons More

by | May 21st, 2013

Since it was founded in 2009, the live comedy show Holy Fuck has become a staple of LA's stand-up scene, and now, the show is being immortalized with a new two-disc album that you can pre-order from Rooftop Comedy. The Holy Fuck album, set for a May 29th release, features some of the best comedians going doing five minutes of their best material. A nice mix of established stand-ups and up-and-comers, the album features sets from James Adomian, Kyle Kinane, Rory Scovel, Natasha Leggero, Jackie Kashian, Eric Andre, T.J. Miller, and tons more. The only reason to skip this one would be if you hate comedy and/or profanity.

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Awards

The Grammys Snub Tig Notaro and a Lot of Other Great Comedians

by | December 6th, 2012

Look, the Grammys have always been sort of out of touch when it comes to comedy, often choosing safe, unchallenging stand-up albums over cutting edge great ones. Occasionally, outstanding stuff seeps through (like Louis C.K.'s Hilarious, which won the prize last year), but it's pretty rare. The 2013 Grammy nominees were announced today, and in the category of Best Comedy Album, voters played it pretty safe and proved to be woefully ignorant of some amazing work done by comedians this past year. Here are this year's nominees for Best Comedy Album:

Lewis Black – In God We Rust

Margaret Cho – Cho Dependent (Live in Concert)

Jimmy Fallon – [...]

Musical Comedy

Jimmy Fallon Will Release a Rockin' Comedy Album Next Summer

by | December 2nd, 2011

Jimmy Fallon's new album, set for release this summer, will surely be chock full o' the songs and parodies that populated 2002's The Bathroom Wall. And hopefully this announcement means he'll be premiering some new music videos on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in the next few months, because it is a crime to lock away moves this killer, Jimmy. You hear me? A CRIME.

stand-up

Tig Notaro Is Releasing an Expanded Version of Her Largo 'LIVE' Set

by | May 17th, 2013

Record label Secretly Canadian announced today that they're releasing an expanded CD version of Tig Notaro's acclaimed Largo performance from last year, during which she discussed her cancer diagnosis and a number of personal tragedies that had befallen her during that year in an emotional, raw, and funny set. The performance achieved acclaim from Notaro's peers Ed Helms (who called it "One of the most amazing stand-up sets I've ever seen"), Bill Burr ("made me feel like I was an open miker. Absolute genius!"), and Louis C.K. ("in 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night [...]

Spending Dollars

Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: 'It's OK to Do Stuff,' A Comedy Album Featuring Lizzy Caplan, Andy Richter, and Fred Willard

by | November 20th, 2012

Longtime Daily Show and Conan writer Rob Kutner has masterminded a new comedy album called It's OK to Do Stuff that drops today on Rooftop Comedy. It's a comedic homage to the 1972 feminist album Free to Be… You and Me by Marlo Thomas and Friends, arriving on the 40th anniversary of that album. It's OK to Do Stuff features tracks from Lizzy Caplan, Fred Willard, Eugene Mirman, Andy Richter, Colin Hanks, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Eddie Pepitone, James Urbaniak, Fred Stoller, Megan Amram, and more. Here's a sample track called "Boy Meets Girl" featuring Fred Willard and Lizzy Caplan:

Girl Meets Boy (Skit) by Lizzy Caplan and Fred Willard

Interviews

Talking to Marc Maron about WTF, the Guests He Hasn’t Been Able to Book, and His New Album This Has to Be Funny

by | August 15th, 2011

The podcasting world is still very much in its Wild West days with a clear-cut way to monetize the medium yet to emerge, despite the glut of new shows that seem to constantly be springing up.  Since launching his show WTF in 2009, stand-up comedian Marc Maron has become one of the biggest players in the podcast game – and deservedly so. WTF allows regular listeners to gain an intimate connection to the host that few other podcasts can replicate. The program has become a must-listen for comedy fans and fans of human conversation, as well. In an era where our attention spans are dwindling and communication is being reduced [...]

Spending Dollars

Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: Maria Bamford's 'The Burning Bridges Tour'

by | March 14th, 2013

Yesterday we ran a piece on comedian Maria Bamford's struggle with mental illness and her use of comedy to overcome it. Bamford's 2003 debut album The Burning Bridges Tour, recorded at the Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis, MN in October of 2002, showcases the comedian's honesty and unique creativity that have found themselves fully realized in material like last year's Special Special Special. Bamford's revolution has been long in the making, and it's nice to hear her coming into her own unconventional style in her earlier material.

Interviews

Talking with Taylor Williamson about Stand-up, His New Album, and Jokes vs. Storytelling

by | October 31st, 2012

Los Angeles-based stand-up Taylor Williamson has been at it for nine years now, and he just put out his first comedy album, Laughter? I Hardly Know Her!, earlier this week. Since starting in comedy at age 17, Williamson has found a great deal of success, having performed on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, as a finalist on Last Comic Standing, and as the youngest stand-up ever on Craig Ferguson. His debut album, which presents an hour of Williamson's best material, is a great introduction to the comedian and his precisely-crafted jokes for those who aren't familiar with him, but it's also full of plenty of new stuff for hardcore [...]

Standup

The Comedy Album is Dead! Long Live the Comedy Album!

by | September 29th, 2010

Like a lot of you, some of my earliest childhood memories involve a beat-up boom box and a shoebox filled with worn-out cassette tapes. My brother and I would spend countless hours in our room listening to these tapes, mouthing along to the words and choreographing complicated routines that pantomimed the performers’ descriptions. But while most kids were banging their heads to crappy glam-metal or perfecting their dance moves to the tunes of the day’s reigning pop princesses, we were memorizing stand-up comedy routines as we worshipped at the altar of the comedy album.

Those albums were the soundtrack to my childhood. Richard Pryor basically taught me how to [...]

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