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The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement in comedy."[ 1]
History There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:
From 1959 to 1967 it was Best Comedy Performance
From 1968 to 1991 it was known as Best Comedy Recording
From 1992 to 1993 and from 2004 to the present day it was awarded as Best Comedy Album In 1960 and 1961 two separate awards were presented for the best spoken and for the best musical comedy performance.
In 1994, after four consecutive years of wins by classical music comedy albums, the award was restricted to spoken word comedy albums and moved into the "spoken" field. From then through 2003, it was awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album .
In 2004 the award was reinstated within the comedy field as the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, once again allowing musical comedy works to be considered.
Bill Cosby holds the record for most consecutive wins, with six earned between 1965 and 1970. Peter Schickele (of P.D.Q. Bach fame) is the runner-up, with four wins between 1990 and 1993.
Recipients File:Ross Bagdasarian 1972.jpg Ross Bagdasarian Sr. was the first recipient of the award for "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) " (1959).File:Homer and Jethro (cropped).jpg Homer and Jethro won in 1960File:Shelley berman 1960s.jpg Shelley Berman won in 1960File:Bob Newhart crop.jpg Bob Newhart won for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! File:May and Nichols-1.jpg Elaine May & Mike Nichols won in 1962File:Woody Allen - Kup.JPG Woody Allen was nominated for his self-titled album in 1965.File:Allen Sherman the Loner 1965.JPG Allen Sherman won for "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp) " in 1964.File:Bill Cosby 1965.JPG Bill Cosby holds the record of most wins in the category with seven, six of them being consecutive from 1965 to 1970.File:Bob Hope Flip Wilson 1969.JPG Flip Wilson won for The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress File:Lilly Tomlin Edith Ann 1975.JPG Lily Tomlin won for This Is a Recording File:CheechChong1979.jpg Cheech and Chong won for Los Cochinos File:George Carlin 1975 (Little David Records) Publicity.jpg 16-time nominee George Carlin won five times for FM & AM Jammin' in New York Brain Droppings Napalm and Silly Putty It's Bad for Ya File:Richard Pryor 1973 (cropped).jpg 10-time nominee Richard Pryor won five times for That Nigger's Crazy ...Is It Something I Said? Bicentennial Nigger Rev. Du Rite (1982), and Live n the Sunset Strip File:Steve Martin, 120th Anniversary Of Carnegie Hall (cropped).jpg 5-time nominee Steve Martin won twice for Let's Get Small A Wild and Crazy Guy File:Robin Williams Happy Feet premiere.jpg 6-time nominee Robin Williams won four times for Reality...What a Concept (1980), A Night at the Met Good Morning, Vietnam Live on Broadway (2003). File:Rodney Dangerfield 1972-1.jpg Three-time nominee Rodney Dangerfield won for No Respect in 1980 File:Eddie Murphy by David Shankbone.jpg Eddie Murphy won for Comedian File:Whoopi Goldberg (2011).jpg Whoopi Goldberg won for Whoopi: Original Broadway Show Recording in 1986.File:Weird Al Yankovic 21 August 2016 (cropped).jpg Three-time winner "Weird Al" Yankovic won for Eat It Poodle Hat Mandatory Fun File:Peter Schickele in Milwaukee, February 24, 1981.jpg Four-time winner Peter Schickele won for 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion File:Jonathan Winters - publicity.jpg 8-time nominee Jonathan Winters won for Crank(y) Calls in 1996 File:Al Franken, official portrait, 114th Congress.jpg Al Franken won for You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like You! in 1997File:MelBrooksApr10.jpg Mel Brooks won alongside Carl Reiner for 2000 Year Old Man File:CarlReinerHWOFSept2011.jpg Carl Reiner won alongside Mel Brooks for 2000 Year Old Man File:Chris Rock 2014.jpg Three-time winner Chris Rock won for Roll with the New Bigger & Blacker Never Scared File:Lewis Black Aviano 2.jpg Two-time winner Lewis Black . File:Flight Of The Conchords - Soho Theatre - Sunday 25th February 2018 ConchordsSoho250218-7 (38761512730) (cropped).jpg Flight of the Conchords won for The Distant Future File:Jon Stewart MFF 2016.jpg Jon Stewart won for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction File:Stephen Colbert December 2019.jpg Stephen Colbert won for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! File:Jimmy Fallon, Montclair Film Festival, 2013.jpg Jimmy Fallon won for Blow Your Pants Off File:Kathy Griffin 2015 TCA Press Tour (cropped).jpg Kathy Griffin won for Calm Down Gurrl (2014).File:Tiffany Haddish at Incirlik (cropped 2).jpg Tiffany Haddish won for Black Mitzvah (2021).File:Patton Oswalt by Gage Skidmore 3 (cropped).jpg Patton Oswalt won for Talking for Clapping (2017).File:Louis CK 2012 Shankbone.JPG 5-time nominee Louis C.K. won thrice for Hilarious Live at Madison Square Garden (2016), and Sincerely Louis CK File:Dave Chappelle (42791297960) (cropped).jpg Dave Chappelle has been nominated for and won six awards winning for The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas (2018), Equanimity & The Bird Revelation (2019), Sticks & Stones The Closer What's In A Name? (2024), and The Dreamer The winner is the first-named artist and work for each year, or, for 1960 and 1961, category.
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Year[I]
Performing Artist
Work
2000 [ 43] Chris Rock Bigger & Blacker
George Carlin You Are All Diseased
Garrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion – 25th Anniversary Collection
Carl Reiner How Paul Robeson Saved My Life and Other Mostly Happy Stories
Adam Sandler Stan and Judy's Kid
2001 [ 44] George Carlin Brain Droppings
Jeff Foxworthy Big Funny
Dennis Miller I Rant, Therefore, I Am
Steve Harvey , Bernie Mac , Cedric the Entertainer & D. L. Hughley The Original Kings of Comedy
Richard Dreyfuss & Marsha Mason The Prisoner of Second Avenue
2002 [ 45] George Carlin Napalm & Silly Putty
Margaret Cho I'm the One That I Want
Ray Romano Live at Carnegie Hall
The Firesign Theatre Bride of Firesign
Adele Givens , Laura Hayes, Mo'Nique , and Sommore The Queens of Comedy
2003 [ 46] Robin Williams Robin Williams: Live on Broadway
George Carlin Complaints and Grievances
Jimmy Fallon The Bathroom Wall
Al Franken Oh, the Things I Know!
Dennis Miller The Rant Zone
2004 [ 47] "Weird Al" Yankovic Poodle Hat
Margaret Cho Revolution
David Cross Shut Up You Fucking Baby!
Garrison Keillor A Life in Comedy
George Lopez Team Leader
2005 [ 48] Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Ellen DeGeneres The Funny Thing Is...
Al Franken The O'Franken Factor Factor — The Best of the O'Franken Factor
David Sedaris Live At Carnegie Hall
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Robert Smigel )Come Poop with Me
2006 [ 49] Chris Rock Never Scared
Lewis Black Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues
Seth MacFarlane & Walter Murphy Family Guy: Live in Vegas
Rick Moranis The Agoraphobic Cowboy
Larry the Cable Guy The Right to Bare Arms
2007 [ 50] Lewis Black The Carnegie Hall Performance
George Carlin Life Is Worth Losing
Bill Engvall , Ron White , Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy Blue Collar Comedy Tour — One For The Road
"Weird Al" Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood
Ron White You Can't Fix Stupid
2008 [ 51] Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future
Harry Shearer Songs Pointed & Pointless
Lisa Lampanelli Dirty Girl
George Lopez America's Mexican
Steven Wright I Still Have a Pony
2009 [ 52] George Carlin It's Bad for Ya [I]
Lewis Black Anticipation
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords
Kathy Griffin For Your Consideration
Harry Shearer Songs of the Bushmen
2010s 2020s Artists with multiple wins
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6 wins
5 wins
4 wins
3 wins
2 wins
Artists with multiple nominations
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16 nominations 13 nominations 10 nominations 8 nominations 7 nominations
6 nominations 5 nominations 4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
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