National Lampoon That's Not Funny, That's Sick
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National Lampoon That's Not Funny, That's Sick is a American album of sketch comedy
that was first released as a vinyl record in 1975. It was a spin-off from National Lampoon magazine. The album is a collection of sketches from the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a radio show that was broadcast on 600 radio stations and ran from from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974.
The sketches on That's Not Funny, That's Sick feature numerous National Lampoon performers including Richard Belzer
, Christopher Guest
, Bill Murray
, Mel Brooks
, and Paul Schaffer.
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
that was first released as a vinyl record in 1975. It was a spin-off from National Lampoon magazine. The album is a collection of sketches from the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a radio show that was broadcast on 600 radio stations and ran from from November 17, 1973 to December 28, 1974.
The sketches on That's Not Funny, That's Sick feature numerous National Lampoon performers including Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer is an American stand-up comedian, author, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as John Munch, which he has portrayed as a regular cast member on the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as in guest...
, Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest
Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest , better known as Christopher Guest, is an American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that...
, Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live in which he earned an Emmy Award and later went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films, including Caddyshack , Ghostbusters , and...
, Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows...
, and Paul Schaffer.
List of tracks
- The Squalor Show
- Confession
- Dick Ballantine Phone Show #1
- Disco Hotline
- Dick Ballantine Phone Show #2
- Love Birds / Flashnova
- Listener Sponsored Radio #1
- For $25,000
- Gymnasty
- Dick Ballantine Phone Show #3
- Yidishco
- Listener Sponsored Radio #2
- Pulp
- For $15,000
- Rapeline
- Mr. Roberts #1
- Stereos and Such
- Listener Sponsored Radio #3
- Height Report Disco
- Mr. Roberts #1
- Dial-A-Curse
- Humpback Whales
- Listener Sponsored Radio #4
- 2,015 Year Old Man
- Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Listener Sponsored Radio #5
- Monolithic Oil