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Jackie Mason - World According To Me 1987

On: Saturday, January 3, 2015

Jackie Mason	Yacov Moshe Maza	Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
Jun 09 1936 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 One Man Show: Sex, Hookers, Psychiatry
02 Beverly Hills: Producers, Mercedes
03 The World and Politics: Armies, Nationalities, Reagan and Other Great Men
04 Jews and Gentiles
05 Soliloquy

Artwork by Hirchfeld

Similar Artists: Billy Crystal, Joan Rivers

Political satire, Observational comedy, Improv, Ethnic comedy

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His other material on this blog is "tagged" at the bottom of this post
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Great Moments Of Comedy 1964

David Steinberg - Booga! Booga! 1974

On: Saturday, December 20, 2014

David Steinberg	David Steinberg	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Aug 09 1942 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

01 Take My Wife, Please!
02 Thirty-Three Revisited
03 When You're Right, You're Right By Moliere
04 Critix Redux
05 Guzzler's Gin
06 Guess Who Comin' to Dinner (Or Movies)
07 Remember Pat Boone
08 Prejudice Steinberg
09 Freakin' At The Freaker's Ball
10 Booga Booga

Similar Artists: Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, Dennis Miller, Groucho Marx

Observational comedy, satire, religion, self-deprecation, cerebral humor

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His Other Albums on this blog are tagged at the bottom of this post
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Sit Down Comedy 2005-2007 (VIDEO)

In Concert with John Candy (VIDEO)

Best Of The David Steinberg Show (VIDEO)

David Steinberg Has Quality Balls 2013 (VIDEO)

Kenneth Mars - Henry The First 1974

On: Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Kenneth Mars	Kenneth Mars	Chicago Illinois, USA
Apr 04 1935 - Feb 12 2011 age 75	Official Site	Wikipedia

Rich Little	Richard Caruthers Little	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nov 26 1938 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Mel Blanc, Chuck McCann, Peter Fonda, Jesse White, Marvin Kaplan	Birth name	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

Kenneth Mars was best known for his roles in several Mel Brooks films, the most memorable being the insane Nazi playwright of "Springtime for Hitler", Franz Liebkind, in 1968's The Producers and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein.
Mars had the role of the friendly fireman neighbor Harry Zarakartos on the television sitcom He & She, and has also been featured in a number of small roles in programs such as the Misfits of Science pilot episode, the audio program Adventures in Odyssey, and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Shadowplay". He was cast opposite Bette Davis in Hello Mother, Goodbye!, a 1973 television pilot that was aired by NBC but never added to its schedule.
Mars often played characters with exaggerated accents. He was German in The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and Malcolm in the Middle, and was the Croatian Hugh Simon in What's Up, Doc?. His voice work is most remembered for his role of Ariel's father King Triton in Disney's animated feature The Little Mermaid. ~Fallout wiki page

01 The Message

02 Introduction
03 Interview
04 The Break
05 The Walk
06 TV Talk To The Nation
07 Dinner With The Kissingers
08 The Page
09 Machines
10 Customs
11 Takin' Care Of Business
12 Disneyland
13 United Nations
14 Relaxation
15 The Costume
16 Mediation
17 The Slides
18 The Hucklebuck

Artwork by Al Hirschfeld
His trademark: hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings, 5 places on the cover, 3 on the reverse side.



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His Other Albums on this blog are HERE

Ogden Nash - Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash 1953

On: Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ogden Nash	Birth name	Rye, New York, USA
Aug 19 1902 - May 19 1971 age 68	Official Site	Wikipedia

Ogden Nash Reads Ogden Nash was one of spoken word label Caedmon's earliest (1953), and most successful, releases. Nash reads "Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man," "Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer," and 26 other poems. The cover drawing is by legendary celebrity artist Al Hirschfeld.

Nash reads his poetry in a soft Boston accent, with an even tempo and virtually no theatrics. It would be very easy to over accentuate or telegraph the "bombs" but he just smoothly lets them out.
It's tempting to say Nash's poetry is out of date, belonging to another time, a different sensibility. One of Nash's favorite subjects was women, and while his observations might have been funny 40 years ago, today they would definitely raise the ire of the more correct thinking among us. To some, his menagerie of animal poems, collected on Parents Keep Out, stand up best. These poems show his mastery of puns, wordplay and bizarre rhymes.
Nash worked for the New Yorker (where his poems first appeared) during the '30s. He wrote a number of screenplays, and wrote the lyrics for the musical comedy One Touch of Venus. Ogden Nash died in 1971.

Side 1
01 Kind of an Ode to Duty
02 Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
03 Good-bye, Old Year, You Oaf, or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?
04 Geddondillo
05 Watchman, What of the First First Lady?
06 Song for a Temperature of a Hundred and One
07 Medusa and the Mot Juste
08 A Beginner's guide to the Ocean
09 The Terrible People
10 I Don't Mean Us, Except Occasionally
11 That Reminds Me
12 The Evening Out
13 Don't Grin, or You'll Have to Bear It
14 I Remember Yule

Side 2
15 Spring Song
16 Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
17 I Do, I Will, I Have
18 How Do You Say "Ha-Ha" in French?
19 What to Do Until the Doctor Goes, or It's Tomorrow Than You Think
20 The Polterguest, My Polterguest
21 Piano Tuner, Untune Me That Tune
22 Thoughts Thought After a Bridge Party
23 Mr. Bett's Mind a Kingdom Is
24 Allow Me, Madam, but It Won't Help
25 You and Me and P. B. Shelley
26 The Strange Case of Mr. Ormantude's Bride
27 How to be Married Without a Spouse, or Mr. Kipling, What Have You Done with Mrs. Hauksbee?
28 Spring Comes to Murray Hill


	Poetry	Caedmon TC 1015
Thanks Stephen K!

Alexander King & Margie - Love And Hisses 1961

On: Monday, August 16, 2010

Alexander King	Alexander Koenig	Vienna, Austria
1899 - 1965 ~age 65	Official Site	Wikipedia

Margie King	Birth Name aka Margie Lou Swett	Birthplace
Born/Died	Official Site	Wikipedia

Alexander King was a bestselling humorist, memoirist and media personality of the early television era, based in the United States.
In his late fifties, after becoming a frequent guest on the a Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, King emerged as an incongruous presence in the realm of national celebrity: an aging, irascible raconteur, with elegant mannerisms and trademark bow-tie, who spoke frankly and disarmingly about his bohemian lifestyle, multiple marriages, and years-long struggle with drug addiction. His checkered past led TIME magazine to describe him as "an ex-illustrator, ex-cartoonist, ex-adman, ex-editor, ex-playwright, ex-dope addict. For a quarter-century he was an ex-painter, and by his own bizarre account qualifies as an ex-midwife. He is also an ex-husband to three wives and an ex-Viennese of sufficient age (60) to remember muttonchopped Emperor Franz Joseph. When doctors told him a few years ago that he might soon be an ex-patient (two strokes, serious kidney disease, peptic ulcer, high blood pressure), he sat down to tell gay stories of the life of all these earlier Kings."

He was also the author of several books, including May This House Be Safe from Tigers, Mine Enemy Grows Older, (an account of his addiction to morphine, and his recovery), and I Should Have Kissed Her More, Is There Life After Birth. He illustrated and/or translated numerous editions of classics in the early 20th century as well as a book by Peter Altenberg released as Alexander King Presents Peter Altenberg's Evocations of Love (a collection of sweet memories of the heart from another place and time in history). King's easy conversational recollections of the first part of the 20th century are informative and often hilariously funny. His accounts include many famous names most will recognize.

~wikipedia