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Comedy albums may feature <a href="/wiki/Sketch_comedy" title="Sketch comedy">skits</a>, humorous songs, and/or live recording of <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedy" title="Stand-up comedy">stand-up comedy</a> performances, but the most common type of comedy albums are <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedy" title="Stand-up comedy">stand up</a>, and are often made in conjunction with a DVD with recorded video of a particular comedy show. </p><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg/200px-Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg/300px-Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg/400px-Cal_Stewart_with_paper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="431" data-file-height="581"></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cal_Stewart" title="Cal Stewart">Cal Stewart</a> released comedy records as early as 1898.</figcaption></figure> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Description"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Description</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Party_records"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Party records</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Comedy_album&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>Some of the earliest albums recorded for popular commercial distribution were comedy albums. For example, various collections of humorous short stories recited by vaudeville comedian <a href="/wiki/Cal_Stewart" title="Cal Stewart">Cal Stewart</a> were released by <a href="/wiki/Edison_Records" title="Edison Records">Edison Records</a> as early as 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of <a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">record labels</a> specialize in the comedy genre, including <a href="/wiki/Aspecialthing_Records" title="Aspecialthing Records">Aspecialthing Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comedy_Central_Records" title="Comedy Central Records">Comedy Central Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Partee_Records" title="Partee Records">Partee Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stand_Up!_Records" title="Stand Up! Records">Stand Up! Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stereolaffs" title="Stereolaffs">Stereolaffs</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Celery_Sound_Records&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Celery Sound Records (page does not exist)">Celery Sound Records</a>. </p><p>Comedy albums have won the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album">Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album</a> on several occasions, including <i>America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> (2014) and <i>If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't)</i> by <a href="/wiki/Betty_White" title="Betty White">Betty White</a> (2012). The first album to win this honor was <i>The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows</i> by <a href="/wiki/Stan_Freberg" title="Stan Freberg">Stan Freberg</a> (1959), a variety album including comedy bits. </p><p>There is also a podcast that covers the history and influence of comedy albums, primarily on vinyl, titled <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Comedy_on_Vinyl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Comedy on Vinyl (page does not exist)">Comedy on Vinyl</a></i>, which also premiered a 50-year-old lost <a href="/wiki/Bob_Newhart" title="Bob Newhart">Bob Newhart</a> track in 2015. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Comedy_album&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>Cal Stewart recorded monologues of jokes as the rustic "Uncle Josh" in the late 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stewart included some of the earliest recorded <a href="/wiki/Banana_peel" title="Banana peel">banana peel</a> jokes on the record <i>Uncle Josh in a Department Store</i> in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another notable early example is <a href="/wiki/Joe_Hayman" title="Joe Hayman">Joe Hayman</a>'s 1913 <a href="/wiki/Cohen_on_the_Telephone" title="Cohen on the Telephone">Cohen on the Telephone</a>, part of a series of routines about a <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_States#Jewish_immigration" title="History of the Jews in the United States">Jewish immigrant</a> besieged by technology.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Okeh_Laughing_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="The Okeh Laughing Record">The Okeh Laughing Record</a>, a record of a man and a woman simply laughing for three minutes, was a best-seller in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Records of comedy songs became popular, with vaudeville and musical comedy stars such as <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" title="Eddie Cantor">Eddie Cantor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fanny_Brice" title="Fanny Brice">Fanny Brice</a> releasing their own.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, when radio became popular with higher-<a href="/wiki/Fidelity" title="Fidelity">fidelity</a> <a href="/wiki/FM_broadcasting" title="FM broadcasting">FM broadcasting</a> in the early 1930s, sales of records dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Spike_Jones" title="Spike Jones">Spike Jones</a> had some successes in the late 1940s. Comedy albums were held back by the technology of the time only allowing for short recordings, but when longer-duration <a href="/wiki/LP_record" title="LP record">LP records</a> were introduced in 1948, it allowed artists such as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Buckley" title="Lord Buckley">Lord Buckley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Freberg" title="Stan Freberg">Stan Freberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tom_Lehrer" title="Tom Lehrer">Tom Lehrer</a> to record material close to modern comedy albums.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The one album to possibly be considered the first modern comedy album is <a href="/wiki/Mort_Sahl" title="Mort Sahl">Mort Sahl</a>'s 1958 <i>The Future Lies Ahead</i>, which was a recording of his comedy routine in front of a live audience, organized by jazz record producer <a href="/wiki/Norman_Granz" title="Norman Granz">Norman Granz</a>. Sahl's records sold well and he is said by <a href="/wiki/Shelley_Berman" title="Shelley Berman">Shelley Berman</a> to have directly influenced him.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also the same year's <i>The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows</i>, a recording of collected material from Stan Freberg's comedy radio show <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stan_Freberg_Show" title="The Stan Freberg Show">The Stan Freberg Show</a></i>, won the first 1959 <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album">Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nachman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nachman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shelley Berman's own 1959 album <i>Inside Shelley Berman</i> is regarded as the first actual hit and was the first to win a Grammy in the subcategory Spoken Comedy of the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album">Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album</a> in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following it was a much bigger hit, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Button-Down_Mind_of_Bob_Newhart" title="The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart">The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart</a></i> in early 1960. It hit number one on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200">Mono Action Albums chart</a> (Billboard 200) for all recordings, including music. It stayed at the top for 14 weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-cleancomedians_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cleancomedians-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was only dethroned later the same year by the rushed out sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Button-Down_Mind_Strikes_Back" class="mw-redirect" title="The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back">The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!</a></i>. The two albums occupied the top two spots for nearly 30 weeks, a record not surpassed until 1991 by <a href="/wiki/Guns_N%E2%80%99Roses" class="mw-redirect" title="Guns N’Roses">Guns N’Roses</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vulture_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vulture-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1960s saw a comedy album phenomenon with the likes of <a href="/wiki/Nichols_and_May" title="Nichols and May">Nichols and May</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smothers_Brothers" title="Smothers Brothers">Smothers Brothers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Winters" title="Jonathan Winters">Jonathan Winters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Gregory" title="Dick Gregory">Dick Gregory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Reiner" title="Carl Reiner">Carl Reiner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a>, Tom Lehrer, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Bruce" title="Lenny Bruce">Lenny Bruce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redd_Foxx" title="Redd Foxx">Redd Foxx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Allan_Sherman" title="Allan Sherman">Allan Sherman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vaughn_Meader" title="Vaughn Meader">Vaughn Meader</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-metv_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metv-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1970s, comedy albums developed a reputation for being targeted towards college students, being <a href="/wiki/Countercultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Countercultural">countercultural</a> and not being allowed on TV. Notable artists were among others <a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheech_and_Chong" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheech and Chong">Cheech and Chong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Klein" title="Robert Klein">Robert Klein</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Steinberg" title="David Steinberg">David Steinberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)" title="National Lampoon (magazine)">National Lampoon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vmp_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vmp-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Firesign_Theatre" title="The Firesign Theatre">The Firesign Theatre</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Improvisational_theatre" title="Improvisational theatre">improvisational</a> <a href="/wiki/Surreal_humor" class="mw-redirect" title="Surreal humor">surreal</a> radio comedy troupe formed on Los Angeles <a href="/wiki/KPFK" title="KPFK">KPFK</a> FM on November 6, 1966, released in January 1968 a tightly-scripted comedy album <i><a href="/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Electrician_or_Someone_Like_Him" title="Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him">Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia Records</a>. Side 1 consists of a trilogy of extended audio plays: "Temporarily Humboldt County" (9:14), which satirizes the Europeans' displacement of the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">indigenous peoples of the Americas</a>; "W.C. Fields Forever" (7:39), which satirizes the 1960s <a href="/wiki/Hippie_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippie culture">hippie culture</a>, and "Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde (Returned For Regrooving)" (7:19) which imagined a projected future in which the roles of the <a href="/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">hippie counterculture</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Establishment" title="The Establishment">the Establishment</a> culture have reversed roles. Side 2 (17:48) is the title track, a stream-of-consciousness play about an American tourist to an <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> country, who ends up in prison and is rescued by the <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>. The Firesign Theatre produced fifteen albums designed for FM air play under two five-year recording contracts, and spawned an underground comedy cult. They won the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation</a> by the <a href="/wiki/World_Science_Fiction_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="World Science Fiction Society">World Science Fiction Society</a> for two of their albums in 1971 and 1972. They continued recording on other labels as late as 2011, and three of their albums received nominations for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album">Best Comedy Album Grammy</a> in 1984, 1988, and 2001.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="I could only find a part of this information on their own website but not anywhere else, notably in secondary sources, so their notability is left up in the air. The revolution was immediately easy to cast out by the lack of any coverage. (June 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_records">Party records</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Comedy_album&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Party records" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Party records were a genre of <a href="/wiki/Blue_comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue comedy">blue comedy</a> albums in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s that were notable for their raunchy adult content and often featured <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> comedians. Due to obscenity laws, party records were typically not displayed on record store shelves but were kept under the counter, sold by request, and promoted by word of mouth. <a href="/wiki/Laff_Records" title="Laff Records">Laff Records</a> was a notable producer of party records. Comedians who became known due to party records include <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redd_Foxx" title="Redd Foxx">Redd Foxx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lawanda_Page" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawanda Page">Lawanda Page</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moms_Mabley" title="Moms Mabley">Moms Mabley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Ray_Moore" title="Rudy Ray Moore">Rudy Ray Moore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tina_Dixon" title="Tina Dixon">Tina Dixon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belle_Barth" title="Belle Barth">Belle Barth</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Skillet_%26_Leroy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Skillet & Leroy (page does not exist)">Skillet & Leroy</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_%26_Willie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard & Willie (page does not exist)">Richard & Willie</a>. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Comedy_album&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ronald L. Smith, <i>Comedy on Record: The Complete Critical Discography</i> (1988), p. 624.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-maslonkantor-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-maslonkantor_2-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMaslonKantor2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Maslon" title="Laurence Maslon">Maslon, Laurence</a>; Kantor, Michael (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/comedys-evolution/history-comedy-lps/38/"><i>Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America</i></a> (1st ed.). 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