Comedy

Vingt ans apr?s, or Twenty Years After, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The story follows a series of events in France during the childhood...

Vincent Giraud, philosopher and professor at the University of Doshisha, invites us to approach Latin medieval thought from the angle of the fundamental concept of creation. The creation of all things was the basis of medieval reflections on many topics...

Victor L. Kaplan reads a selection from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Although Middle English is hardly understandable to the modern ear, Chaucer was in his time considered a champion of the English Language (rather than Latin or French)...

Victor Hugo stands as one of the giants of French literature. Though his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables are his most famous works, Hugo also wrote in many other genres. Featured here is the religious epic The End of Satan, which he...

Using the roots opus "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music" as a template, Neal and Cosmonauts (Jon Langford of Waco Brothers, Mekons) Kelly Hogan and Sally Timss. Using the roots opus Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as a...

UNRELEASED is a one-hour compilation of unheard bits from the DC Improv in which Patrice O'Neal recorded his chart topping posthumous album Mr P. in serving to keep his voice alive, UNRELEASED gives the fans a few more precious moments with Patrice...

Uncle Dick, as he was known to all of us, was the man who mined the rich "Jack Tale" lode that flourished in oral tradition on Beech Mountain in North Carolina. These are Appalachian versions of the old stories once collected in Europe, recast to fit the...

Unavailable for more than 20 years the Boutique Label is pleased to make available once more one of the most fascinating yet undervalued aural documents from the punk era. In August 1977 Fred & Judy Vermorel conducted candid interviews with the...

UK reissue. Written by Spike Milligan as a parody of the film The Bridge On The River Kwai, the recording was based around an earlier Goon Show entitled The African Incident. Shortly before the album was due for release, the distributors of the film...

UK reissue of the 1953 debut album from the song satirist (and longtime comedy favorite). Something of a reluctant performer, retiring from touring less than 10 years after commencing his career, Tom Lehrer achieved a degree of popularity even he could...

UK four CD box-set featuring material taken from the golden age of radio comedy. Artists include Abbott & Costello, the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, & Bob Hope. Includes 56-page booklet with full background stories behind the lives of the stars. Proper...

UK double CD set that combines two of the acclaimed gender-bending comic's albums, Glorious (1997) and the one-off charity performance recorded at Wembley, Dressed to Kill (1998). Two standard jewelcases with individual artwork, housed together in a...