Stephen mentioned the finest in comedy albums:
   
  The Firesign Theater.
   
  Oh yeah...those guys were fantastic.  Great choice.
   
   
  Marty added:
   
  I'm reminded of the great era of comedy albums that seems now to be a 
thing of the past.  From my earliest recollection of Allen Sherman 
and Bob Newhart, The Smothers Brothers, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Firesign Theatre, Steve Martin and Albert Brooks.  Thems were the days...
   
   
  Maybe it was my age but I embraced these albums before the music in lot of cases.  My first two comedy albums were from Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby.  When the early seventies rolled around...George Carlin's albums were a joy.  His humor was so different from his television comedy in the sixties which was like night and day.  Both versions of Carlin were funny but the seventies albums were highly influential to these young ears.  The same could be said for Richard Pryor's albums too.  Albert Brooks was such a treat to hear on vinyl.  I love how he had a script to one of his bits that included the listener.  Can you imagine?  You got to be in a comedy skit with Albert Brooks and George Jessel. :=)
   
  Steve Martin, Cheech and Chong, Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx, Woody Woodbury, David Steinberg, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Woody Allen...there were so many albums that had me in stitches growing up and still make me laugh today even though I know the punchline.  Comedy was more rock and roll in spirit to me as a kid than rock and roll was as music.  I was in bliss when I heard Dr. Demento for the first time hit the radio airwaves in my town and when that first episode of SNL beamed out of my television I was forever warped.  As Marty said,  "thems were the days..."
   
   
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