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Woody Allen Standup Comic 1964-1965-1968
“The Stand Up Years,” a new album of 1960s nightclub performances by Woody Allen, is the most complete anthology of Mr. Allen’s stand-up work so far. By including audio of recent interviews, it is a sort of mini-documentary, a worthy package for Woody fans and students of an explosive era in intellectual comedy.
The album offers recordings culled from the three comedy LPs that Mr. Allen released in 1964, 1965, and 1968. Tracks from those records have been collected in two prior double-album anthologies. Both of them (now out of print) used pared-down versions of routines from the original vinyl, with material edited out by Mr. Allen himself.
“I kept saying, ‘I’m not a comic,’” Mr. Allen explains in one interview. “I don’t like the hours. I’m shy. I don’t like standing in front of an audience. I mean, there was nothing about it I liked. I kept succeeding in spite of myself….I would go into a club, and they would want to book me in six other clubs.
- Vodka Ad
- Vegas
- Second Marriage
- Great Renaldo
- Mechanical Objects
- Moose
- Kidnapped
- Unhappy Childhood
- Science Fiction Film
- Effs Benedict
- Oral Contraception
- European Trip
- Lost Generation
- Private Life
- Brooklyn
- Army
- Pets
- My Grandfather
- My Marriage
- Bullet in My Breast Pocket
- N.Y.U.
- Love Story
- Police
- Down South
- Summing Up
