George Carlin - Class Clown

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Class Clown is the third comedy album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded May 27, 1972 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, and released in September.


At the time he was relatively well-known for tame satirical routines about the entertainment industry. His previous album FM & AM released the same year, showed that he was already drifting towards counter-culture icon, but Class Clown proved a landmark. Besides musings about his youth, the album featured strongly directed remarks against the Vietnam War and his attachment to taboo topics. The album contains "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", which became the focus of government harassment in the year that followed, and, perhaps not coincidentally, Carlin's most famous calling card. Carlin would continue to explore the use of profanity for the rest of his career. Apart from this segment, Class Clown is Carlin's only profanity-free album since 1971.

Gotta love Carlin.

Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay

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Arizona Bay is an album by comedian Bill Hicks, posthumously released in 1997. It was released alongside Rant in E-Minor, marking three years since his death. The album's title refers to the hope that Los Angeles will one day fall into the ocean due to a major earthquake. Hicks contends that the world will be better off in L.A.'s absence:

Ahhh, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone...All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it...leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called Arizona Bay. That's right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona Bay.

Several of Hicks's albums are unique in that they feature background music, meant to enhance the album's mood. Such additions were made well after the initial recordings and are the product of Hicks's own musicianship.

According to Kevin Booth, in the BBC documentary Dark Poet, it was during the early recording sessions for Arizona Bay, around Christmas 1992, that Hicks first started suffering from the pains in his side, which would later be diagnosed as pancreatic cancer. Upon learning that he had developed cancer, Hicks used his time to mix music into Rant in E-Minor and Arizona Bay, calling it his Dark Side of the Moon.


Bill Hicks - Guitar, Vocals
Kevin Booth - Bass, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer

BBC R4 - The Spike Show - Milligan Remembered

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Made for 4 Extra. Agent and friend Norma Farnes reflects on Spike Milligan, 10 years after his death. Includes clips from classic shows.

Thanks for visiting, a lot of you out there like the history of the British in India, or Spike Milligan, or hopefully both!

BBC R4 Documentary - Swing When You're Laughing

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Humphrey Lyttleton examines the links between
comedy and jazz '... two art forms that have
more in common than you might first imagine.'


The above paragraph tanslated: ZIB BAP BEDOODAP BAY ZIBBIDY BOOPAP!

Another unrelated note, my brother and I can sing all the scat in that jungle book song.

Produced by Stephen Garner
Presented by Humphrey Lyttleton
Broadcast October 21, 2003