The Comedy Store announces 50th anniversary vinyl box set

Earlier this year, The Comedy Store celebrated their 50th anniversary. Now, the legendary Los Angeles comedy club is commemorating that milestone with a new vinyl box set.

Today, 50 Years of the Comedy Store was announced. It is a limited edition 5-LP vinyl box set that will chronicle 50 years of the Store. Included in the set will be performances never heard before from Robin Williams, Bob Saget, David Letterman, Iliza Schlesinger, Whitney Cummings, Paul Rodriguez, Jimmie Walker, Sandra Bernhard, Howie Mandel, Louie Anderson, Arsenio Hall, Richard Pryor, and Pauly Shore, among many others.

“So much of stand-up comedy – particularly the comedy performed every night at the Comedy Store – is so ephemeral, happening in the moment by a performer who will never say the same thing the same way again, to an audience in attendance who will never be the same again either,” VMP’s Director of Music Andrew Winistorfer, who is releasing the box set, said in a statement.

“In the same way that live jazz albums capture fleeting moments, so do live comedy albums. So it was exciting for us to try to distill 50 years of nights at the Store into one box set, capturing a series of nights on the club’s landmark anniversaries. 50 Years of the Comedy Store preserves these nights forever, and serves as a jumping-off point for the next 50 years on Sunset, with a two-drink minimum.”

Limited to 1,000 copies, additional information can be found here.