Modified On February 15, 2005
A reader, Stuart McAllister, writes:
The Grammies were just a few days ago and I saw Jon Stewart won the Comedy category. I haven’t seen the Daily Show cd in stores so it made me wonder who else was nominated. Do you have any idea? I know I much prefer some standup comedy to the bits that Jon does. Thanks
Well, Stuart, here are the 2005 nominees in Category 77 (Best Comedy Album– For comedy recordings, spoken or musical):
* Come Poop With Me
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog
[Warner Bros.]* The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents…America: A Citizen’s Guide To Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart And The Cast Of The Daily Show
[Time Warner Audiobooks]* The Funny Thing Is…
Ellen DeGeneres
[Simon & Schuster Audio]* Live At Carnegie Hall
David Sedaris
[Time Warner Audiobooks]* The O’Franken Factor Factor – The Very Best Of The O’Franken Factor
Al Franken
[Artemis Records]
We took this opportunity to research and dig up the names of the winners of past comedy album awards. It it interesting to note that Shelley Berman is owed our undying gratitude for rescuing us from mediocrity– his win in 1959 followed the very first award for a comedy album by Ross Bagdasarian, better known as Dave Seville, the man who perpetrated that hellish phenomenon known as Alvin and the Chipmunks.
2004 Jon Stewart
2003 Weird Al Yankovic
2002 Robin Williams
2001 George Carlin
2000 Geroge Carlin
1999 Chris Rock
1998 Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
1997 Chris Rock
1996 Al Franken
1995 Jonathan Winters
1994 Sam Kinison
1993 George Carlin
1992 Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach)
1991 Peter Schickele
1990 Peter Schickele
1989 Peter Schickele
1988 Robin Williams
1987 Robin Williams
1986 Bill Cosby
1985 Whoopi Goldberg
1984 Weird Al Yankovic
1983 Eddie Murphy
1982 Richard Pryor
1981 Richard Pryor
1980 Rodney Dangerfield
1979 Robin Williams
1978 Steve Martin
1977 Steve Martin
1976 Richard Pryor
1975 Richard Pror
1974 Richard Pryor
1973 Cheech & Chong
1972 George Carlin
1971 Lily Tomlin
1970 Flip Wilson
1969 Bill Cosby
1968 Bill Cosby
1967 Bill Cosby
1966 Bill Cosby
1965 Bill Cosby
1964 Bill Cosby
1963 Allan Sherman
1962 Vaughn Meader
1961 Elaine May & Mike Nichols
1960 Bob Newhart
1959 Shelly Berman
1958 Ross Bagdasarian (The Chipmunk Song)