Ladies and Gentleman Lenny Bruce!!  

“This was the age of the comedy album. No longer a dumb ‘party record’--a couple of little bits squeezed onto a ten-inch 78--the new comedy LP’s were heavy-selling home entertainment. Served up on platters, Jonathan Winters, Nichols and May, Tom Lehrer, and Shelley Berman found a vast new livingroom hi-fi audience… Records were really great because they got you into places where no comic could ever stretch. They let you work the middle-class living room, the college dorm, the Bohemian-Beatnik pad. People played them over and over again, until they really heard what you had to say. Records were the greatest advance publicity and audience-building device that had ever been invented.”--Ladies and Gentleman Lenny Bruce!! by Albert Goldman, p. 205-6.