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One of spirit music’s esteemed program guitarists, Tony Drake spent some time working with a number of the genre’s best artists. An associate of blues and R&B rings led by Johnnie Taylor, Ronnie Dyson, and T-Bone Walker in the 1960s, as well as the Checkmates from 1981 until 1985, he …

A tongue-in-jowl method of American politics produced Pat Paulsen probably one of the most influential comedians from the 1960s and ’70s. Most widely known for his zany editorializing for the funny late-’60s television range display, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Paulsen was a five-time applicant for the presidency for the …

So, this is actually the tale — familiar to all or any enthusiasts of Frank Zappa — of Ruben Sano and his ’53 Nash, as well as the music group he left out in 19 when his sweetheart said she’d keep him if he didn’t quit the group. Best? Wrong. …

By fusing the high-concept comic eyesight of Stan Freberg using the expansive studio room experimentation from the Beatles, the Firesign Theatre singlehandedly dragged the humor album in to the psychedelic period. Creating densely split montages of improvisational routines, overheard dialogue, press manipulation, industrial parodies, and sound files, the four-man troupe …

Famed for his landmark “Seven Terms IT IS POSSIBLE TO Never Express on Tv” routine, George Carlin stuffed the void developed by the death of Lenny Bruce, honing a provocative, scathing comic design that bravely explored the restricts of free of charge speech and great flavor. George Dennis Carlin was …

By merging off-the-wall laughter with dry out, deadpan wit, Michael Ian Dark (given birth to Michael Schwartz) rose with the rates of comedy following his debut on MTV’s THEIR STATE. Black joined up with the MTV display during its inaugural calendar year in 1993, having lately left NY University’s Tisch …

Brooks started being a humor article writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Displays of Shows back television’s infancy. What began as a working gag between himself and co-writer/performer Carl Reiner became the foundation for the extremely successful 2000-Year-Old Guy assortment of albums. Brooks, needless to say, has since end up being …

Scatterbrain was created from the remains to be of Ludichrist, when vocalist Tommy Christ and guitarists Glenn Cummings and Paul Nieder got sick and tired of taking part in conventional metallic. They added drummer Mike Boyko and bassist Man Brogna. Scatterbrain’s music is a lot even more wide-ranging than Ludichrist’s; …

Like him or hate him, Howard Stern single-handedly revolutionized the speak radio format within the U.S. Before striking it big within the ’80s and ’90s, chat radio was firmly limited by newscasts, but Stern took it a complete step additional — incorporating humor (frequently sexually billed), sketches, music parodies, superstar …

Joey Medina were able to successfully span two vastly different professions. First he produced a name for himself within the boxing world, where he gained the state light-weight championship in Az before fighting for the 1987 globe championship and finishing with a global rank of amount five. Following a stint …