Margie Mintz is funny, insightful, and organizes some great shows in LA.  This is a wonderful episode where we talk about her influences and her personal approach to comedy.  We also talk about Mike Birbiglia for the first time on the show, and while w

He's been a voice in everything you've ever liked, and this week he exposes us to a record by Peter Ustinov that is nothing if not incredibly ambitious.  Ustinov uses his vocal versatility to portray every character and EVERY CAR in this one-hour record.

When you first saw him as Langly on The X-Files, you had no idea that behind that facade was a man who has heard Swedish comedians covering George Carlin.  Yes, covering a Carlin bit.  Dean Haglund talks about his early comedy influences, his first albu

He directed the first and final episodes (and much in between) of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show.  His show business career started on I Love Lucy.  He directed the pilots for The Bob Newhart Show and Golden Girls, to name only two.  This

Cole Stratton weirds it up this week with one of my new favorite comedy albums.  Albert Brooks again bends the concept of the comedy record back when it was a medium you could still do that with and confuse people to their delight.  It ends with a track

This week, the Comedy on Vinyl podcast and the Dan and Jay's Comedy Hour podcast cross paths.  Right in the middle of wrapping up their latest sketch comedy album Ho, Christmas Tree!, an increasingly drunk Jay (Jason to you vinyl folks) and Dan discuss

For her second time around on the show, the hilarious Andie Bolt talks about the soundtrack to a great movie, "Ghostbusters," and tells us about her own film, "WowMom," which is about her mom coping with cancer by playing World of Warcraft, which you can

Oh, this guy's the best.  Jimmy Pardo wanted to talk about Richard Lewis's TV special "I'm In Pain," so we discuss the influence of Richard and a slew of other comedians on Jimmy's style, as well as Jimmy's jump out of the square world of the music indu

Steve Stajich is a satirist, musician, sitcom writer, former stand-up, and comedy guru to up-and-comers.  He's also one of mycomedy mentors, so it was a blast sitting down with him to talk about an album he has a personal/professional connection with. Â

If you don't know Wayne White's name, you owe it to yourself to go watch "Beauty is Embarrassing" immediately and feel bad that his name passed you by the millions of times you've seen it.  Part of Wayne and his work is in Pee Wee's Playhouse, Beakman's