Inside the Archive: The Firesign Theatre (Documentary Short)

Presenting the first short film from Comedy on Vinyl and The Comedy Archive. It’s the story of Taylor Jessen prepping the Firesign Theatre archive to be shipped off to the Library of Congress. Also, don’t forget to visit Taylor’s blog at taylorjessen.blogspot.com.  

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Growing The NewsRadio Archive

A couple of weeks ago, I posted an unusual episode of the “Dispatches from Fort Awesome” podcast (here), in which I interviewed Holly Haber, who runs reelclothes.com.  Dispatches is normally a podcast about the sitcom NewsRadio, covering it episode by episode, but this was a fun exception.  Holly has worked selling costumes from film and TV for more than thirty years, after inheriting the business from her mother, who started…

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Two Dick Davy Records Uncovered on the Comedy on Vinyl Podcast

We invite you to listen to the fourth Dick Davy episode of The Comedy on Vinyl Podcast, in which Jason Klamm and Firesign Theatre archivist Taylor Jessen discuss the discovery of two Dick Davy records recorded almost sixty years ago.  They discuss the digitizing process and what the future might hold for the records.  Listen here.

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Welcome to The Comedy Archive

Hello and welcome to The Comedy Archive from StolenDress Entertainment. We’re dedicated to preserving comedy and making available the comedy archives that exist, whether through links or through direct hosting of the content ourselves. While many historical and artistic archives are often started and maintained by those with archive-specific degrees, the archiving of comedy works often falls to dedicated fans and family members, who spend their time preserving scripts, recordings,…

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