Jerry Lewis - Live

Jerry Lewis	Joseph Levitch aka Le Roi du Crazy Picchiatello	Newark, New Jersey, USA
Mar 16 1926 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

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Jerry Lewis - The Nagger 1960

Jerry Lewis	Joseph Levitch aka Le Roi du Crazy Picchiatello	Newark, New Jersey, USA
Mar 16 1926 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

 
01 The Noisy Eater
02 The Puppy Dog Dream
03 The Nagger
04 Never Smile At A Crocodile
05 Following The Leader
 

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Bill Hicks - I'm Sorry Folks 1991

Bill Hicks	William Melvin Hicks	Valdosta, Georgia, USA
Dec 16 1961 - Feb 26 1994 age 32

 

* Bootleg recording of the legendary show where Bill Hicks goes off on a drunken female audience member.
Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy, and personal issues. Hicks' material was often controversial and steeped in dark comedy. In both his stand-up performances and during interviews, he often criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity, and banality within the media and popular culture, describing them as oppressive tools of the ruling class, meant to "keep people stupid and apathetic".
Hicks was 16 years old when he started performing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas, in 1978. During the 1980s he toured America extensively and performed a number of high profile television appearances. It was in the UK, however, where Hicks first amassed a significant fan base, packing large venues with his 1991 tour. Hicks died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 at the age of 32. In the years after his death, his work and legacy achieved acclaim in creative circles. In 2007 he was voted the fourth-greatest stand-up comic on the UK's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, and appeared again in the updated 2010 list as the fourth-greatest comic.  Source: Wikipedia

 

01 The Courage Of My Own Beliefs

02 You Suck

03 That's A Nice Fella Back

04 Peeing On The Dead

05 I Do Suck

06 Oklahoma

07 Almost Broke My Back

08 Filthy Boy

09 This Is Comedy Hell

10 The Anti-Christ

10 Theanti-Christ

11 You're Proving My Point

11 Youreprovingmypoint

12 Freebird

13 You Will Be The First To Leave

14 This Is My Second Show

15 Uncle

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Henry Rollins - Talking From The Box 1993

Henry Rollins	Henry Lawrence Garfield	Washington, DC, USA
Feb 13 1961	Official Site	Wikipedia

A "no frills" presentation of Henry Rollins doing "the talking thing", in which he projects himself as a kind of hardcore drill instructor of righteousness and self improvement: a tattooed Anthony Robbins if you will. As with most populist commentators, he can claim to simplify the message through the use of aphorism and anecdotes in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. Often though, this is really symptomatic of a consistent inability to relate individual experience to a wider social context in an indepth and interesting way. One gets the disturbing impression that this stage act cannot maintain its illusion of spontaneity and loosening up. It seems carefully contrived, like Henry's weight lifting and rigorous work schedule, to render his responses automatic so as to eliminate any anxiety associated with uncertainty. This might explain the perfunctory character of this performance and its effect on the viewer. Regardless of what Rollins recalls in his anecdotes, there is a curious equivalency which renders them indistinguishable. While not without its charms, the main impression "Talking Out the Box" leaves behind is simply that Henry was there and lived to tell another tale.

01 Bun-Bun
02 Fish Dinner
03 Intro
04 Part Of You Dies
05 Rhon-duh!
06 The ,,,, Is On Fire Show
07 The Break-Up
08 The L.A. Riots Part II
09 The Story Of Two Boys
10 Withstanding The Ramones

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Brett Butler - Sold Out 1995

Brett Butler	Brett Ashley Anderson	Montgomery, Alabama, USA
January 30, 1958 -	Official Site	Wikipedia

Brett Butler is best-known for her stint as Grace Kelly in the hit sitcom Grace Under Fire, in which she starred and for which she acted as executive consultant from 1993 to 1998. As the title of the show implies, Grace struggles with the everyday pressures of a life less-than-charmed and still manages to bring some dignity to it. Brought to you by the same people who created the smash series Roseanne, Ms. Butler's show takes the blue-collar bit even further, working in an oil refinery and single-handedly raising her three kids. Grace is a recovering alcoholic recently divorced from an abusive husband. For these aspects of the character, Butler drew on her own life, her struggle with substances and abusive relationships and her ability to cope with life through the use of humor. Her authenticity and willingness to appear as the not-so-perfect family on TV won her the loyalty of many viewers. The show was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. In 1995 the show won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New Comedy, with Brett Butler also winning the award Favorite Female in a New Comedy. Brett Butler got her television break appearing on Dolly Parton's musical variety show Dolly in 1987. After that first appearance, she took a position as a writer on the show. She made over 70 other appearances on television before finally being offered her own Showtime standup comedy special: Showtime Comedy Superstars: Brett Butler -- the Child Ain't Right. She later had another Showtime special, Showtime Comedy Superstars: Brett Butler -- Sold Out. Brett Butler's rigorously touring nightclub act (where she was pegged as the "Southern Lenny Bruce") served to sharpen her comedic skills. There Butler fired searing one-liners to the audience, delivered with all with the grace and charm of a smart-aleck deep-voiced Southern belle. Her humor hit hard -- politicians, rednecks, and the man who'd hit her -- former husband, "Mr. Right Hook." Born Brett Anderson, after Lady Brette Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, the literary Ms. Butler got her coincidental last name from her stepfather. She endured a hectic home life, and finished high school through taking night classes. After marrying and divorcing her first husband, Brett Butler waited tables in Texas and was convinced by a comedy-club owning customer she should go onstage. Comedian Robert Klein later convinced her she should be in New York. She packed up her 1969 Grand Prix, and never looked back. Ms. Butler wrote her autobiography Knee Deep in Paradise in 1997. She married and divorced her second husband during the span of career. She likes to write stories and poems in her spare time, and continues to make television and onscreen appearances. Source: AllMusic

 
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This day In Comedy: April 17

Born this day in 1905, Arthur Lake (Arthur Silverlake Jr.) Corbin, Kentucky 6' comic actor “Dagwood Bumstead” in Blondie film, radio and television. He died 01/09/1987 of a heart attack at age 81.
Born this day in 1920, Genevieve (Ginette Marguérite Auger) Paris, France, on Jack Paar’s Tonight Show. She died 03/14/2004 of a stroke at age 83.
Born this day in 1896, Señor Wences (Wenceslao Moreno) Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca, comedian, Ed Sullivan Show, painted faces on his hands and did funny voices. He died 04/20/1999 of natural causes at age 103.		“S'all Right?' S'all Right.” ”Is Easy For You, Is Deefeecult For Me!”
Died this day in 1987, Dick Shawn (Richard Schulefand) aka Richy Shawn, Buffalo, New York, actor The Producers, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Born 12/01/1923, he died of a heart attack while performing on stage at age 63.

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This day In Comedy: April 16

Born this day in 1889, Charlie Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin) Walworth, London, England, United Kingdom 5'4" actor/director “The Tramp” in City Lights. He died 12/25/1977 in his sleep at age 88.
Born this day in 1965, Martin Lawrence (Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence) is 47, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany 5'6" stand-up comedian, actor, producer, in films Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House, TV’s Martin.
Born this day in 1921, Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander Ustinov) London, England 5'10" comic actor, Best Supporting Actor For Spartacus, Topkapi. He died 03/28/2004 from diabetes complications, heart failure at age 82.
Born this day in 1918, Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan) KBE Ahmednagar, British India 5'11" comic, writer "Father Of Modern British Comedy”, created The Goon Show. He died 02/27/2002 of liver disease at age 83.
Born this day in 1917, William Benedict, Haskell, Oklahoma, Bowery Boys comedies The Sting. He died 15/1999 of complications following heart surgery at age 82.
Died this day in 1995, Arthur English (Arthur Leslie Norman English) Aldershot, Hampshire, England comedian, comic actor Malachi's Cove. Born 05/09/1919, he died of emphysema at 75.
Died this day in 1988, Bobby Thompson (Robert Michael Thompson) Penshaw, Sunderland. Born 11/18/1911, he died after suffering from breathing problems at age 76.

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This day In Comedy: April 15

Born this day in 1917, Hans Conried (Hans Georg Conried, Jr.) Baltimore, Maryland comic actor “uncle Tonoose” on TV’s Make Room For Daddy, narrated Horton Hears a Who. He died 01/05/1982 from cardiovascular disease at age 64.
Born this day in 1923, Harvey Lembeck Brooklyn, New York comic actor, Stalag 17, “Eric Von Zipper” '60s beach movies. He died 01/05/1982 of a heart attack at age 58.
Born this day in 1952, Kym Gyngell (Kimberly Gyngel) aka Kim Gyngell is 60, Melbourne, Australia, AFI award winning comedian and film, television and stage actor.
Born this day in 1924, Rikki Fulton (Robert Kerr Fulton) Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland comic actor  UK TV’s Scotch And Wry, films Local Hero, Comfort And Joy. He died from a  MRSA infection, also suffering from Alzheimer’s at age 79.
Died this day in 1988, Kenneth Williams (Kenneth Charles Williams) Islington, London, England comic actor, Carry On films. He died 04/15/1988 at 62 of heart failure, interaction between pain killers / sleeping pills. He doubled antacid dosage without discussing with doctor.		“Everything is so shit, I really can't see the point in anything, it's all so fucking shit.” Kenneth’s last diary entry.
Died this day in 1957, Max Asher, comic actor. Born 05/05/1885, he was 71.
Died this day in 1984, Tommy Cooper (Thomas Frederick Cooper) Caerphilly, Wales comedian, magician. Born 03/19/1921, he collapsed and died on stage, on live TV, as the audience looked on, laughing. He was  63.
Died this day in 1967, Toto (Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi), aka Principe della Risata, Naples, Italy comedian. Born 02/15/1898, he died of a heart attack at age 69.

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