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  Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1960 and 1961 two separate awards were presented for the best spoken and for the best musical comedy performance.
In 1994 the award was restricted to spoken word comedy albums and moved into the "spoken" field.
In 2004 the award was reinstated within the comedy field as the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
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 ABC.com: George Lopez
It was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
He is a two-time host of the Latin Grammy Awards and a co-host of the Emmy Awards.
The award was presented by the president and dean of Harvard University in a day-long celebration with the student body, and honored Lopez's artistic work and charitable endeavors.
abc.go.com /primetime/georgelopez/en/bios/george_lopez.html   (589 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance : Best Comedy Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical has been awarded since 1958.
Grammy Awards of 2002: George Carlin for Napalm & Sillyputty
Grammy Awards of 2001: George Carlin for Braindroppings
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 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
From 1994 to 1993 and in 2004 it was awarded as Best Comedy Album In 1960 and 1961 two separate awards were presented for the best spoken and for the best musical comedy performance.
Leslie's Grammy Picks Leslie Berman reveals her Grammy picks for 2003.
Beatles Widows Accept Award Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison accept a special Grammy award on behalf of the 'Fab Four' to mark the 40th anniversary of their explosion on to the US music scene.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Grammy_Award_for_Best_Comedy_Album.html   (744 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1994 the award was restricted to word comedy albums and moved into the field.
From then through 2003 it was as the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album.
In 2004 the award was reinstated within comedy field as the Grammy Award for Comedy Album.
www.freeglossary.com /Best_Comedy_Album   (340 words)

  
 44th Annual Grammy Awards Nominations Coverage at Digital Hit Entertainment (2002)
Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.
Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s), and Principal Soloists.
Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.
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 George Lopez | Biography Photos Pics News Show |
Comedy was his way out — helping him to face his many problems.
He also has three comedy albums out including his latest, "Team Leader" which was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award and received spectacular ratings.
Along with his success on stage, on television, on the bookshelves and with his comedy albums, Lopez is as much about giving back to his community as he is about trying to make them laugh.
www.mytelevision.com /tv_stars/george_lopez.html   (1906 words)

  
 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance : Best Comedy Album   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Grammy Awards of 1982: Richard Pryor for Rev.
Grammy Awards of 1977: Richard Pryor for Bicentennial Nigger (Album)
Grammy Awards of 1972: Lily Tomlin for This Is A Recording (Album)
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 MSN Encarta - Franken, Al
Franken, Al, born in 1951, American writer and political humorist, best known for his liberal views and for satirizing conservatives and their political beliefs.
The audio version of the book won a Grammy Award for best comedy album.
In 1998 Franken wrote and starred in the television comedy series Lateline, but the show was canceled after one year.
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 CNN.com - The Genius triumphs again - Feb 14, 2005
Charles and his album were represented on eight Grammy awards, including three prizes that went to the album's engineers, producers and arrangers.
U2, upon winning best rock performance for a duo or group with vocal for "Vertigo," praised the other nominees -- "This may be the best Grammys ever," said Bono -- and took time to pay tribute to its fans, who had hoped to see the band on tour.
The trio won the first Grammy of the night -- for best performance by a pop duo or group with vocals -- for the song "Heaven." The group had performed the tune a few minutes earlier in the Grammy Awards ceremony's opening segment.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/13/grammy.night   (1215 words)

  
 The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Ellen's Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In addition, DeGeneres was nominated for a 2004 MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance for her work in the film.
She was also named "Best Female Stand-Up" at the 1991 American Comedy Awards.
In 1997 DeGeneres was the recipient of the coveted Peabody Award as well as earning an Emmy for writing the critically acclaimed "Puppy Episode" when her character came out as a gay woman to a record 46 million viewers.
ellen.warnerbros.com /showinfo/bio.html   (890 words)

  
 Lily Tomlin Awards
Lily won a Grammy award (for Best Comedy Album) from NARAS for her 1971 album called "This is a Recording".
Lily won two Emmys for that special, one for Best Writing for a comedy, varity, or music special and the other was for Best comedy, varity, or music special.
Most recently Tomlin was awarded a Daytime Emmy for her performance as Ms.
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 Latino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He is the co-creator, writer, producer and star of the top-rated sitcom, George Lopez, on the ABC Television Network, and stars in The George Lopez Christmas Movie, airing this season on ABC.
He received the 2003 Imagen Vision Award, the 2003 Latino Spirit Award for Excellence in Television and the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award.
The band's self-titled debut album is packed so tightly, it's hard to believe all of this music was created by a trio.
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 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
He was a two time host of the Latin Grammys telecast and a co-host of the Emmy Awards in 2003.
Best known for his stand-up comedy, Lopez set an attendance record in December 2004 at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles with seven consecutive sold out performances and more than 42,000 in attendance.
In addition, Lopez' Team Leader CD was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Comedy album.
www.emmys.org /news/2005/august/rel_cartsemmlopez.php   (575 words)

  
 Mediajonez.com: MUSIC - Chris Rock Releases "Never Scared", His First New Comedy Album Since 2000
Culled from his HBO comedy concert special of the same name, the new CD features Rock at his most hilarious, salacious and scandalous.
The new album is was released February 15.
From this came a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Spoken or Comedy Album.
www.mediajonez.com /music/chris_rock0205.html   (507 words)

  
 International Documentary Association
Hosted by Grammy and Emmy Award-winning humorist and best-selling author Al Franken, the program delivers fearlessly irreverent commentary on the political events of the day, as well as interviews and comedy segments.
Al Franken is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, best-selling author and Grammy Award-winning comedian.
He received three Emmy Awards for his writing on “SNL,” and a fourth for producing.
www.documentary.org /news/detail.php?news_id=20   (568 words)

  
 Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music - Gr
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album
Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Choir or Chorus
Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra
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 The Murat Centre
Lopez is a two time host of the Latin Grammy Awards and a co-host of the Emmy Awards.
In 2004, George was honored with the “Spirit of Liberty Award” presented by People for the American Way and the Artist of the Year and Humanitarian Award by Harvard University.
In fact, Lopez has received numerous accolades by his peers for his professional endeavors, as well as various humanitarian awards for the significant time and energy he devotes to his community, and fundraising efforts that benefit those in need in other parts of the world.
www.murat.com /detail.html?eventID=208661   (330 words)

  
 George Lopez : : Biography
Lopez received the 2003 Imagen Vision Award, 2003 Latino Spirit Award for Excellence in Television and the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award.
He has received the Manny Mota Foundation Community Spirit Award and was named Honorary Mayor of Los Angeles for his extensive fundraising efforts benefiting earthquake victims in El Salvador and Guatemala.
The award was presented by the president and dean of Harvard University and honored George’s artistic work and charitable endeavors.
www.georgelopez.com /bio/bioinfo.html   (606 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Richard Pryor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In his writings and comedy, Pryor has gone into detail about his upbringing in his grandmother's whorehouses, such as telling of peeking through keyholes to watch the women with their clients.
However, right before the premiere of that classic comedy film, Pryor was cited for income tax irregularities and after a plea, paid $2,500 and spent ten days in jail.
The event was taped at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and aired in January of 1999, featuring numerous film clips of Pryor's comedy and a range of luminaries talking of their respect for him and his influence on them.
www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/pryor_r.htm   (2569 words)

  
 George Lopez @ Filmbug
One of today's most celebrated comedy stars, George Lopez is the co-creator, writer, producer and star of the ABC network and Warner Bros. Television produced sitcom, George Lopez.
George's current CD Team Leader was released on Oglio Records/Warner Bros. to acclaim and was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
The award was presented by the president and dean of Harvard University in a day long celebration with the student body, and honored George's artistic work and charitable endeavors.
www.filmbug.com /db/4190   (547 words)

  
 Biography for Groucho Marx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He is best known for playing characters who were wisecracking sharpies who always sported a cigar, a mustache made of dark greasepaint and walked with a half crouch.
His double album "An Evening with Groucho" (A&M: 1972), recorded at a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, was a suprise best-seller and a Grammy nominee for Best Comedy Recording.
Although the Marxes' madcap comedy was diluted by liberal splashes of music and romance, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) turned out to be terrific movies and their most successful at the box office.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000050/bio   (2666 words)

  
 Chris Rock's On Bigger & Blacker
Bigger and Blacker is Chris Rock's second album for DreamWorks Records (his first, 1997's Roll With the New, received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Comedy Album).
There are not a lot of comedy albums with love songs.
CR: Actually, comedy's not a really big part of hip-hop culture, but hip-hop culture is so serious that it's ripe for comedy - nothing is more ripe for comedy than hip-hop culture.
www.exodusnews.com /entertainment/Entertain059.htm   (1120 words)

  
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His next album, King of the Road, became a humongous success in England, reaching number five on the album charts; the record was helped immeasurably by its accompanying television advertisements, which sold the record through the mail.
His first album for the label, American Recordings, was produced by the label's founder, Rick Rubin, and was a stark, acoustic collection of songs.
She was awarded the house and their child, as well as half of his future royalties.
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 Listmania! Classic Comedy CDs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This 9-CD boxed set includes his 7 Warner Bros. albums, a disc of previously unreleased material and an interview from 1983.
This Rodney Dangerfield CD won the Grammy Award for best comedy album of the year in 1980.
Robert Klein's reminiscences of the fifties is as relevant and as funny today, as when this album was first released.
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 David Javerbaum and Ken Stone Receive 2005 Kleban Awards
Javerbaum received the award for most promising musical theater lyricist, and Stone received the award for most promising librettist.
The will made provision for two annual Awards, each in the amount of $100,000 payable over two years, to be given to the most promising lyricist and librettist in American Musical Theater.
He also wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book for Suburb, which ran Off-Broadway in 2001 and was nominated as Best Off-Broadway Musical by the Outer Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel Awards, and the Drama League (for which it was nominated as Best Musical, Broadway or Off-).
www.ascap.com /musictheatre/kleban2005.html   (734 words)

  
 Rednecks' backwoods comedy tour comes to BJC
Foxworthy, an Atlanta native, struck a chord in 1994 with his infamous album You Might Be a Redneck If (Warner Bros.) The triple platinum record is the largest selling comedy recording of all time.
The beauty, or embarrassment of it all, however, is the continued growth of Foxworthy's comedic themes.
Texas native Engvall has also gathered a list of major awards for humorous examples of the American I.Q. In 1997 he outsold Adam Sandler and Chris Rock to win the Best Selling Comedy Album at the annual NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) convention.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2001/02/02-02-01tdc/02-02-01darts-2.asp   (618 words)

  
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 Comedy Audio Books, Podcasts, and Videos
The largest publisher of comedy titles on audio is Uproar Entertainment which puts out material by National Lampoon as well as classic and famous current comedians: male and female, latino, urban, and GLBT.
Some comedians that have released numerous comedy titles are Dave Barry, Al Franken, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, and Bill Maher.
The master of sarcasm and irony, taking a break from television and radio, recorded this double album for Laughing Stock over a couple of UK tours....
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 Gale Schools - Black History Month - Biographies - Richard Pryor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Pryor's mother would leave for months at a time, he has said, and left the family for good when he was ten, so his grandmother was left to raise him.
His career was becoming threatened by his habitual cocaine use, though, and he retreated into the counterculture of Berkeley, California, for awhile.
The effort immediately sold a million copies and earned him his first Grammy Award for best comedy album.
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