The Comedy On Vinyl Podcast

Jason talks about his new book, We're Not Worthy, the history of '90s sketch comedy, which comes out September 12. You can find pre-order info at SketchComedyBook.com, and you can see Jason do a reading at Toadvine Books in Berkley, MI … Continue reading →

It's time to celebrate!  Episode 200 brings us a guest I've been hoping to speak with for years upon years – the fantastic Harry Shearer.  I was honored when he agreed to do the show, and excited to talk a … Continue reading →

Weird Al stops by, and Jason says goodbye. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Weird Al Yankovic Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

My best friend Dan Gomiller returns to the show to talk about his exposure to Weird Al through “Polka Party!” and slowly discovering the jokes he missed. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Dan Gomiller Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us … Continue reading →

Two of the founding members of The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band, aka Ogden Edsl, join me to talk about their careers, as well as to perform an improvised song. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guests: Bill Frenzer … Continue reading →

Ben Hoffnung stops by to talk about his father's work, as well as the upcoming archival website for that work. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Ben Hoffnung Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress … Continue reading →

Unboxing the Mouse Rat record “The Awesome Album,” from Parks and Rec, originally streamed at twitch.tv/jasonklamm. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Joe Blevins and I talk about the trucker comedy genre. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Joe Blevins Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Eddie Schmidt returns to round out the McKenzie Bros oeuvre with the soundtrack to Strange Brew which, as you can imagine, is equally as meta as Great White North. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Eddie Schmidt Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow … Continue reading →

The show's benefactor and great supporter, Dan Schlissel, returns one final time to discuss the show, Dan's love of the record-making process, and the project they've been working on together – a new Dick Davy album! Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden … Continue reading →

This week I'm joined by Ahir Shah to talk about the classic record Beyond the Fringe, the Footlights experience, the Fringe, and his comedy life in general. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Ahir Shah Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us … Continue reading →

This week, Katie returns and does me the honor of interviewing me about 10 albums that mean even more to me now that the podcast exists. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Katie Mears Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and … Continue reading →

Some of my first meaningful internet interactions were with Adam Koford, as a result of my love for his comics.  He even let me sell a sculpture of one of his cartoons so I wouldn't lose my apartment several years … Continue reading →

Alex Salem has been waiting a full decade for this to come out so he could discuss it on this very show.  He returns to walk me through an album that I needed a little bit of context for.  We … Continue reading →

Lew Irwin talks about the origins of The Credibility Gap as a news satire show, and how Len Chandler composed 1,000 songs in one year alone for the program. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Lew Irwin Please subscribe to us on Apple … Continue reading →

Ned Hastings returns to help me round out the Steve Martin discography, with The Steve Martin Brothers, as well as Comedy is Not Pretty. Also, please join me this weekend to fundraise for a sick kitty in a live 20th … Continue reading →

Dr. Ian Brodie joins me to talk about folklore, using Carlin's A Place for My Stuff as a way in to talking about how he examines stand-up through the folklore lens. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Ian Brodie Please subscribe to us … Continue reading →

Jordan Young joins me this week to talk about the latest (and possibly final) edition of his book Spike Jones Off the Record (hardback): The Man Who Murdered Music.  Our starting point is an outrageous bit of meta comedy album … Continue reading →

Spike Jones, Jr tells the story of his father's career, as well as filling in for his dad near the end of his dad's life. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Spike Jones, Jr. Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and … Continue reading →

Family Albums returns, and we talk with Karen Knotts about her father, Don Knotts, as well as his 1961 comedy album, An Evening with Me. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Karen Knotts Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like … Continue reading →

Josh Gondelman is back, and we finally get to talk about Jimmy Pardo on the show. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Josh Gondelman Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Nic Robes returns, this time to talk about Tim Heidecker's 2016 album In Glendale. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Nic Robes Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

I'm joined this week by the fantastic singer and actress DeEtta West, to talk about the work and legacy of her brother, the late Cleavon Little. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: DeEtta West Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and … Continue reading →

You've seen her on I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters.  This week, I speak with delightful Shawntay Dalon about Whoopi Goldberg's one-woman show recording. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Shawntay Dalon Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us … Continue reading →

When I first met Taylor, he was the archivist for The Firesign Theatre only.  Now, he also handles the archived of Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre, and he's here to talk about their first record. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Taylor Jessen … Continue reading →

Legendary broadcaster Mort Crim joins Jason to talk about some of the comedy he grew up with and how he became the inspiration for Anchorman, and how humor has shaped his world view. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Mort Crim Please subscribe … Continue reading →

Bermuda Schwartz returns to talk more comedy archiving, as well as his book featuring photos from the early years with Al, Black & White & Weird All Over. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Bermuda Schwartz Please subscribe to us on Apple … Continue reading →

Jason talks with Dave Thomas about his influences, SCTV, Canadian Content, and a whole lot about Great White North. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Dave Thomas Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Rich Fulcher's improv and sketch roots go back far enough that he was taught by Del Close.  We discuss Rich going to law school and how comedy became his life, as well as growing up listening to The First Family. Host: Jason … Continue reading →

Wayne Federman returns to talk about Gabe Kaplan and a number of other records, and some stories from his new book, The History of Stand-Up. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Wayne Federman Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like … Continue reading →

Allan Mott joins me to talk about the hilarious David Steinberg and to discuss Steinberg's fascinating evolution (including directing the brilliant The Wrong Guy) and, of course, Canadian Content Regulations. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Allan Mott Please subscribe to us on … Continue reading →

Phil Proctor and Taylor Jessen return to discuss the next Firesign album: Not Insane. Here's the video version: Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Phil Proctor and Taylor Jessen Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. … Continue reading →

This coming Record Store Day, you can find a record compiled by Dan Pasternack using existing and recently discovered tracks by Jonathan Winters. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Dan Pasternack Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at … Continue reading →

Corey Ryan Forrester and I start talking about 2000 Years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks and get derailed when it turns out our mutual favorite film is Blazing Saddles.  Also check out the video version on YouTube. Host: Jason Klamm … Continue reading →

Joe Gilford drops by to talk with me about his dad's vinyl work, his stand-up work, and some other seminal comedy albums from his youth. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Joe Gilford Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like … Continue reading →

The delightful Michael Kostroff joins me to talk The Producers, the movie and the stage show. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Michael Kostroff Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Talking Mitch Hedberg with musician Adam Schatz.  (photo by Lisa Schatz) Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Adam Schatz Mitch's Vinyl on Discogs Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us on Twitter and like us at the Facebooks. ©2011-2021 StolenDress Entertainment

Duncan Miller runs Vulcan Records, one of the only places still making brand-new Edison cylinders.  He joins me this week to talk about pre-vinyl recorded comedy. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Duncan Miller Please subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, follow us … Continue reading →

Stand up comic Terry Jones joins me to talk about Franklin Ajaye and a record I've been waiting for an excuse to listen to. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Terry Jones Terry's Links Don't Smoke Dope, Fry Your Hair on Vinyl Please subscribe … Continue reading →

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong wrote the fantastic When Women Invented Television, and we picked TV pioneer Gertrude Berg to discuss, as well as the album she performed toward the end of her career, How to Be A Jewish Mother. Host: Jason Klamm … Continue reading →

Director and Star Trek veteran Robert Duncan McNeill comes on the show to talk Steve Martin's Let's Get Small, and also helps me gently prank my friend Kimberly. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Robert Duncan McNeill Robert's Website Let's Get Small on … Continue reading →

Kliph returns to talk about two of the many fascinating subjects of his latest book, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: Kliph Nesteroff We Had A Little … Continue reading →

Andrew Rea makes food and you can watch him do so.  He's also a huge comedy lover, including the work of Nate Bargatze, making it the first time a guest has picked a former Comedy on Vinyl guest to discuss.  … Continue reading →

You know her from many films with Christopher Guest, to Kids in the Hall, to so much other stuff it's impossible to name it all.  She trained under Del Close, so we talk improv.  She loves Nichols and May, so … Continue reading →

Willie Aron and Marvin Etzioni came together as musicians, but bonded even stronger over a record they had both heard growing up.  This was a record that no one else they knew had ever heard of before, until they met … Continue reading →

Brian Herzlinger directed the delightful documentary My Date With Drew and has gone on to a prolific directing career, including the upcoming High Holiday with the late, great Cloris Leachman.  This week, we finally talk about one of my favorite … Continue reading →

I talked with Hank briefly on a previous episode about Bathtubs Over Broadway, but this time we talk about his entire career, from writing songs traditionally, to writing corporate musicals, to writing his own musicals. Host: Jason Klamm Producer: Mike Worden Guest: … Continue reading →

He is a podcast host, comedy lover, and he's the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen on Doctor Who!  Nicholas Briggs picked Peter Sellers for the first time on the show, and we discuss this fun record as Sellers … Continue reading →

Not even Weird Al knows as much about Weird Al as author and podcaster Nathan Rabin does.  He's written more books on Weird Al than any of us have, and he has many thoughts about In 3-D.  This episode is a … Continue reading →

He's a musician, composer and producer, and busts his butt producing the Rarified Heir Podcast.  This week we talk about the soundtrack to History of the World, Part 1, by Mel Brooks, featuring entire segments of the film, as well … Continue reading →

Lily Sullivan is one of the funniest improvisers I've heard in a long time.  For the first time, we're talking on the show about Nichols & May's attempt to improvise around a single theme: doctors.  There's also a lot of … Continue reading →