Episode 9 – Steve Martin: Let’s Get Small

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09/09/11 • -1 min

(Originally posted 9/7:)
Every once in a great while, you come across a comedy album that changes comedy. Maybe it doesn’t change the nature of comedy, but it changes your understanding of what comedy can be. Rarely can a stand-up do that on his own. But then, it’s arguable that Steve Martin wasn’t just a stand-up, and that “Let’s Get Small” might not be a comedy album at all. Which is fine. Because it is ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS YOU WILL EVER HEAR. Period.

For the uninitiated, you might look at the album art and turn away. But do yourself a favor – think of what you might already know about Steve Martin, and then look at this album cover again. Think about why that guy would ever put a balloon on his head. Then throw that assumption out, because there’s no pretension here. It’s JUST COMEDY. Pure and simple. On that note: enjoy.

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Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guests: Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin

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Official Steve Martin Site: http://www.stevemartin.com/

Steve Martin’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/stevemartintogo

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Comedy on Vinyl Live! A Tribute to Phil Hartman! A FREE show is on Saturday, September 17 in Hollywood – http://goo.gl/99yRb

Jeremy plays a bad guy in the upcoming NBC mini-series “Blackout” soon!

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Thank you,

Jason Klamm

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Subscribe on iTunes (And please leave your comments and rate us. We need to know if you think we are sexy or not.)

Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guests: Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin

Official Steve Martin Site: http://www.stevemartin.com/

Steve Martin’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/stevemartintogo

Buy “Let’s Get Small” on vinyl: http://goo.gl/wPlig

Comedy on Vinyl Live! A Tribute to Phil Hartman! A FREE show is on Saturday, September 17 in Hollywood – http://goo.gl/99yRb

Jeremy plays a bad guy in the upcoming NBC mini-series “Blackout” soon!

The official COV site is finally up at ComedyonVinyl.com

Here’s how I find our weekly theme music: http://goo.gl/S1f1r

Thank you,

Jason Klamm

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Previous Episode

Episode 8 – Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (w/Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin)

It didn’t take long for Richard Pryor’s work to crop back up on Comedy on Vinyl, which is mostly due to popular demand. Not only is “...Is it Something I Said?” still our most-downloaded episode, but two of my favorite comedic minds specifically said they needed to talk to me about this one. And I do mean to me, folks, as Live on the Sunset Strip is, sadly, fairly new to me. But not to my detriment – there are some amazing moments on this album, and it clearly had an impact on this week’s guests – Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin.

It’s an interesting change of pace for Richard Pryor, if only spurred on by what he took as the necessity to talk about a very public drug problem. But by 1982, and this album, he’s clearly learned a lot, and his comedy shows it. Equally mature and child-like (as all of his stories have some innocence peeking through, Live on the Sunset Strip takes is also of a rare breed of film, given the popularity of the concert movie of the same name. It’s a brilliant piece of work that you need to listen to. But first, listen to us tell you why.

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Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guests: Mike Preister and Jeremy Guskin

Official Richard Pryor Site: http://www.richardpryor.com/

Buy “Live on the Sunset Strip” on vinyl: http://goo.gl/pNC0x

Comedy on Vinyl Live! A Tribute to Phil Hartman! A FREE show is on Saturday, September 17 in Hollywood – http://goo.gl/99yRb

Jeremy plays a bad guy in the upcoming NBC mini-series “Blackout” soon!

Thank you,

Jason Klamm

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Next Episode

Episode 10 – Live Phil Hartman Tribute with Vicki Lewis, Mike Preister & Jeremy Guskin

He was Troy McClure. He was Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer. He was Bill McNeil. Most importantly, he was a brilliant comedic actor, and loved by everyone he worked with. He also inspired some of us to do what it is we do. That was reason enough to make our first live episode a tribute to him.

This week we were honored to be joined by Vicki Lewis, whose love for Phil Hartman made this one big, amazing Phil-Hartman-lovefest. Vicki let us in on who Phil Hartman was – and what he still means – to her as a person and a creative person. In this episode, Jeremy also reads a wonderful message from Melanie Hutsell, and we speak with Paul Hartmann, Phil’s brother, and Angel Rosenthal, organizer of the “Phil Hartman for the Walk of Fame” movement on Facebook – both of whom kindly sat around for a long time waiting for a call.

We also talk about a Poco album called “Legends,” which matters only because Phil Hartman designed the album cover, and it was his favorite piece. Phil Hartman was a genius and renaissance man, and deserves to be celebrated. His 63rd birthday would have been next week, so celebrate as you will – watch Houseguest for the millionth time, perhaps. Or listen to this episode again. That’s what I’ll be doing.

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Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guests: Mike Preister, Jeremy Guskin and Vicki Lewis

Comedy on Vinyl was recorded this week at the Zephyr Theatre. The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission, and are intended to sell more albums, (and spread the word of wonderful work) not to endorse Vinyl Piracy. Follow us on Twitter or at the Facebooks.

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The Lovely Vicki Lewis: http://vickilewis.com/

Thank you!

Jason Klamm

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