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They're back, and this time we cover the second album that made Jason and Dan become best friends while hanging out in a broken Ford Fiesta.  Yep, that's Upstate New York for you.  This is, in fact, our first quadrilateral New York episode.

The appeal of this album is clear, even to comedy nerds who have never touched marijuana in their lives.  The characters are great, due in large part to Cheech's voice characterizations, and the situations are not, in any way, difficult to understand.  Add the fact that Cheech & Chong were smart and considerate to add production values to something that could easily rely on mere mentions of illegal activity for its laughs, and you have one of the greatest comedy compilations out there.  It outshines the last album we covered, and - for Dan and I at least - rivals Monty Python Sings, which we will surely cover in the future.

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Host: Jason Klamm

Producer: Mike Worden

This Week’s Guests: Jeremy Guskin, Dan Gomiller

Comedy on Vinyl is recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.  The samples played in these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts are used without permission, and are intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy.  Follow us on Twitter or at the Facebooks.

Cheech & Chong Official Site: CheechandChong.com

Buy “Greatest Hit” on vinyl: goo.gl/UCjAG

EPISODE #2: The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960)

In this episode, Jason Klamm, Dan Gomiller and Mike Worden are joined by writer/podcaster Ari Jarvis to discuss 1960s comedy phenomenon Bob Newhart in his premiere album, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart."

Not so much a rarity, this album still serves as a flashback to the days when the proof was really in the pudding.  Small-time, talented no-name gets a break because he liked to entertain at friends' parties.  The tapes got passed around, and Bob Newhart flew into our living rooms, sort of like a confused pigeon.  Forty years before Matt and Trey got their break with a hand-traded animated Christmas card, Bob Newhart changed the face of comedy by making it marketable again.  All, ironically enough, by making fun of advertising and marketing on a regular basis.

Host: Jason Klamm

Guests: Dan Gomiller, Ari Jarvis

Producer/Contributor: Mike Worden

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Comedy on Vinyl was recorded at Fort Awesome Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.  The music played in the background on these non-commercial (see: free) podcasts is used without permission, and is intended to sell more albums, not to endorse Vinyl Piracy.  Follow us on Twitter or at the Facebooks.

The in-between music in this week's episode is "I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself)" by Jack Haley, from 1922, as found at Archive.org.  Last week's was "Wanita (Wanna Eat?  Wanna Eat?) by Allan Cross, also 1922.

Bob Newhart's Site: BobNewhart.com

Bob Newhart's misleading (and unverified) Twitter: @bobnewhart

Buy "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" on Vinyl: http://www.amazon.com/Button-Down-Mind-Bob-Newhart/dp/B000MU3M62

On CD:  http://www.amazon.com/Button-Down-Mind-Bob-Newhart/dp/B000002MSU

Things/entities/people/items/devices that are mentioned in this podcast:

JFK Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio Michael Cera Scott Bakula / Sam Beckett Dane somebody 

Thank you,

Jason Klamm

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