10 Comedy Albums To Buy // Various

Whether you’re shopping for a loved one that’s a giant comedy nerd or you’re fulfilling your own comedy fix this holiday season, there are more than plenty of comedy albums to sort through. It is December, so you should have picked up John Mulaney’s New In Town already or Hannibal Buress’ Animal Furnace by now, but since the beginning of summer there have been hours of comedy brilliance released that are worth getting as a gift or listening to while you’re figuring out what gifts to get for all the difficult to buy for people on your list.

Also, this list is in no particular order because they’re all worth your time and money.

Kyle Kinane
Whiskey Icarus

The comedy world has been waiting for Kinane’s second hour of hardy, eloquent, populist stand-up to be released ever since the fantastic debut of Death of the Party and the comedy world and definitely more have gotten that with ‘Icarus’.
Buy | Website

Brent Weinbach
Mostly Live

Though this latest release from Weinbach is a departure for Brent to the more traditional comedy album with a majority of it being recorded in front of a live audience, there’s still plenty of his wondrous trademark experimental absurdity on display to make you want to stop what you’re doing and laugh.
Buy | Website

James Adomian
Low Hanging Fruit

James Adomian’s dead-on impressions, the jokes he does while in those impressions, and the deftness in which he handles political humor and his homosexuality made this one hell of a great debut comedy album.
Buy | Website

Nate Bargatze
Yelled At By a Clown

Nate Bargatze’s understated-ness in his delivery brings his stories of actually being yelled at by a clown and arguing with his wife to a whole other level of gratification making it seem like an hour has barely passed while you’ve been laughing.
Buy | Website

Tig Notaro
Live

Tig Notaro proved unequivocally that cancer, death, heartbreak, and more can be made funny all at the same time in her magical evening at Largo at the Coronet Theatre in LA, a performance that was not even meant to be an album.
Buy | Website

Jim Hamilton
Poems About the Ocean

If you’re worried about the set-up, punch style dying in stand-up in turn for more organic storytelling, worry not as Jim Hamilton’s superb jokes on Poems About The Ocean keeps the tradition alive along with his great drawn-out pausing cadence.
Buy | Website

Glenn Wool
I’ll Ask Her

Glenn Wool proves how universal his comedy is as a touring, nomadic, Canadian ex-pat comedian by recording this album in a bar in Alaska and killing it.
Buy | Website

Sean Patton
Standard Operating Procedure

Patton is definitely one of the comedians we’ll watch grow into something to be marveled at. Anyone from the most critical of comedy fans to someone enjoying a few brewskis in a bar will be able to tell you why Standard Operating Procedure is a winner.
Buy | Website

Taylor Williamson
Laughter? I Hardly Know Her

First introduced to America on Last Comic Standing, Taylor Williamson independently distributed his own collection of ultra clever, delightful jokes on this first album.
Buy | Website

Paul F. Tompkins
Laboring Under Delusions: Live in Brooklyn

This is a special edition of Tompkins’ awesome Comedy Central storytelling hour of the same name in an extended and uncut version including a nice chunk of wonderful riffing.
Buy | Website

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Jake Kroeger curates The Comedy Bureau, writes for The Nerdist, Serial Optimist, and several others, does stand-up, and, obviously, hates sleeping..

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