The Vinyl Countdown # 215

Shelley Berman, A Personal Appearance (1962)

I love listening to old stand-up comedy records – so out of date in so many ways, but find a good one and you can revel in the storytelling, the timing, the performance (even if the material doesn’t stand up). If the material isn’t overtly sexual or political then it will more often than not still stand-up (if…