Woody Allen doing his stand-up act in the early 1960s
We listened to comedy albums by, among others, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Woody Allen (yes, he did stand-up and was good). On one of Allen's records, he talks about driving into Manhattan to audition for a play. The part for which he was auditioning, which he said was "type casting," was God. During his drive, someone cut him off in traffic. Trying to get into character for his audition, he told them "Be fruitful and multiply," only he didn't use those words.
We also found Bob Newhart comedy albums our dads owned. I remember with particular fondness Monty Python's Contractual Obligation album. I still know the words to all the songs on this album, such as "Finland"- "Altogether, Fin-o-philes!" The contents of these albums would certainly never meet with parental approval. Some of the particularly explicit material that felt so transgressive to my relatively naive young self doesn't appeal much to me these days.
In the heyday of Second City Televsion (a.k.a. SCTV), Doug and Bob McKenzie were a treat. Their The Great White North album is hilarious. Just two hose head brohers from Canada, eh. On this Tenth Day of Christmas, therefore, it seems fitting to have the McKenzie brothers' unique take on the Twelve Days of Christmas as our traditio.
While I am at it, as a bonus, I am including their collaboration with Rush bassist, Geddy Lee. The result of this collaboration is the song "Take Off." As Lee says at the beginning: "You know, ten bucks is ten bucks."
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