Editing Comedian (section)

===Audio recording===
{{Main|Comedy album}}
Some of the earliest commercial sound recordings were made by standup comedians such as [[Cal Stewart]], who recorded collections of his humorous monologues on [[Edison Records]] as early as 1898, and other labels until his death in 1919.<ref>Ronald L. Smith, ''Comedy on Record: The Complete Critical Discography'' (1988), p. 624.</ref>

Bandleader [[Spike Jones]] recorded 15 musical comedy [[album]]s satirizing popular and [[classical music]] from 1950 to his death in 1965. [[Tom Lehrer]] wrote and recorded five albums of songs [[satire|satirizing]] political and social issues from 1953 to 1965. Musician [[Peter Schickele]], inspired by Jones, parodied [[classical music]] with 17 albums of his music which he presented as written by "[[P.D.Q. Bach]]" (fictional son of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]) from 1965 through 2007.

In 1968, radio [[surreal comedy]] group [[The Firesign Theatre]] revolutionized the concept of the spoken comedy album by writing and recording elaborate radio plays employing [[sound effects]] and [[multitrack recording]], which comedian [[Robin Williams]] called "the audio equivalent of a [[Hieronymous Bosch]] painting." Comedy duo [[Cheech and Chong]] recorded comedy albums in a similar format from 1971 through 1985.