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LA's premier comedy show features both veteran stand-up comics as well as new talent every Tuesday night at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Taped during their fourth anniversary all-night show, and in San Francisco during the Comedy Death Ray special SF Sketchfest show, this double CD showcases almost 150 minutes of the best comedians performing today.

Nonsense thoughts about the comedy and tragedy of life brought to you by your host, Ray Roberts. We deep dive into shallow things and gloss over the big stuff. It's not a podcast, it's a cult.

"Rappin' and tappin' is my game" comedian Rudy May Moore introduces himself to an enthusiastic audience in this stand-up performance recorded at a club in the 1980s. Raunchy bedroom and bathroom humor mixes with rhythmic and rhyming stories about archetypal folk heroes, Dolemite and Shine.

David Harmer and Ray Globe are the irrepressible Glummer Twins. Stand-up spoken word comedy and music from the Beat Generation.

Rediscovered and restored by radio enthusiasts, The Radio Circle, it was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on the 10th May 1955, just two days before Tony Hancock’s 31st birthday. Tony Hancock had taken an unscheduled trip to Italy, leaving Hancock Half Hour’s producer to ask Harry Secombe to step in to star for the first three episodes of the second series. The fourth episode saw Tony return, and begrudgingly make ‘A Visit To Swansea’, to thank Harry Secombe for stepping in.

Broadcasting on the BBC Light Programme from December 1950 until July 1952, Calling All Forces was the biggest show of its day, attracting the biggest names of the time. Written by a young Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin, it became a showcase for aspiring young comedians including Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Jimmy Edwards, Cyril Fletcher, Benny Hill, Kenneth Horne, Bill Kerr and Bob Monkhouse himself.

For half a century Ken Dodd has been sending audiences around Britain in to spasms of laughter and at the age of 80 he is still performing. How did this feather duster salesman from Liverpool become one of the greatest comic geniuses of his generation? In this entertaining biography we follow his life from schooldays in Knotty Ash to the top of his profession with the odd excursion through the courts and Shakespeare!