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The Stand-Up Comic Who Had the Highest-Selling Comedy Album

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18.11.2025
Mort Sahl’s 1958 album The Future Lies Ahead has been cited as the first “modern” stand-up comedy album. Why that is a bit of a mystery, considering that Redd Foxx released an album called Laff of the Party Volume 1 in 1956, consisting entirely of him doing stand-up. Whatever the cause of this confusion, everyone agrees that stand-up albums […] The post The Stand-Up Comic Who Had the Highest-Selling Comedy Album appeared first on VICE.

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