A couple weeks ago, author, actor, and humorist John Hodgman was the guest on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” As I listened to John and host Peter Sagal, John’s simple, polite, and deadpan delivery of often ludicrous responses to Peter’s questions reminded me very strongly of an old comedy album of my dad’s that I listened to time and time again growing up, where ABC television announcer Ernie Anderson plays straight man to comedian Tim Conway in a series of interviews.
Here, then, is that album, recorded to .mp3 from the very album that I grew up listening to. You can listen to or download the tracks individually or grab the full album as a 47Mb .zip file. Enjoy! The whole album is quite funny and worth downloading, but if you want to sample, my particular favorites are “Do You Fly Much?”, “Boy”, and “The Baseball Coordinator”.
- Do You Fly Much? (3.8Mb .mp3)
- Boy (5.1Mb .mp3)
- Dr. Herford (6.3Mb .mp3)
- Matchmaker (5.8Mb .mp3)
- Race Car Driver (6.8Mb .mp3)
- King Anderson of Parma (4.7Mb .mp3)
- The Warden (5.1Mb .mp3)
- The Baseball Coordinator (4.7Mb .mp3)
- The Swiss Astronaut (4.8Mb .mp3)
As a bonus: this is one of the funniest Tim Conway bits I’ve ever seen. An outtake from the Carol Burnett Show, Tim won’t let the sketch go on until he’s done telling his elephant stories…
Liner notes for the ‘Are We On?’ album after the jump: