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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

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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] The award was awarded yearly from 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day.

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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.

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Recipients

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Ross Bagdasarian Sr. was the first recipient of the award for "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" (1959).
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Homer and Jethro won in 1960
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Shelley Berman won in 1960
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Bob Newhart won for The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! in 1961
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Elaine May & Mike Nichols won in 1962
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Woody Allen was nominated for his self-titled album in 1965.
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Allen Sherman won for "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" in 1964.
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Bill Cosby holds the record of most wins in the category with seven, six of them being consecutive from 1965 to 1970.
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Flip Wilson won for The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress in 1971
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Lily Tomlin won for This Is a Recording in 1972
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Cheech and Chong won for Los Cochinos in 1974
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16 time nominee George Carlin won five times for FM & AM (1973), Jammin' in New York (1994), Brain Droppings (2001), Napalm and Silly Putty (2002), and It's Bad for Ya (2009), the last of which was posthumous.
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10-time nominee Richard Pryor won five times for That Nigger's Crazy (1975), ...Is It Something I Said? (1976), Bicentennial Nigger (1977), Rev. Du Rite (1982), and Live n the Sunset Strip (1983).
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5-time nominee Steve Martin won twice for Let's Get Small (1978) and A Wild and Crazy Guy (1979).
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6-time nominee Robin Williams won four times for Reality...What a Concept (1980), A Night at the Met (1988), Good Morning, Vietnam (1989), and Live on Broadway (2003).
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Three-time nominee Rodney Dangerfield won for No Respect in 1980
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Eddie Murphy won for Comedian in 1984.
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Whoopi Goldberg won for Whoopi: Original Broadway Show Recording in 1986.
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Three-time winner "Weird Al" Yankovic won for Eat It (1985), Poodle Hat (2004), and Mandatory Fun (2015).
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Four-time winner Peter Schickele won for 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1990), Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1991), WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1992), and Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1993).
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8-time nominee Jonathan Winters won for Crank(y) Calls in 1996
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Al Franken won for You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like You! in 1997
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Mel Brooks won alongside Carl Reiner for 2000 Year Old Man in 1999
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Carl Reiner won alongside Mel Brooks for 2000 Year Old Man in 1999.
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Three-time winner Chris Rock won for Roll with the New (1998), Bigger & Blacker (2000), and Never Scared (2006).
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Two-time winner Lewis Black.
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Flight of the Conchords won for The Distant Future in 2008.
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Jon Stewart won for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction in 2005.
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Stephen Colbert won for A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! in 2010.
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Jimmy Fallon won for Blow Your Pants Off in 2013.
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Kathy Griffin won for Calm Down Gurrl (2014).
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Tiffany Haddish won for Black Mitzvah (2021).
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Patton Oswalt won for Talking for Clapping (2017).
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5-time nominee Louis C.K. won thrice for Hilarious (2012), Live at Madison Square Garden (2016), and Sincerely Louis CK (2022).
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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 (2020), The Closer (2023), What's In A Name? (2024), and The Dreamer (2025).

The winner is the first-named artist and work for each year, or, for 1960 and 1961, category.

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Artists with multiple wins

Artists with multiple nominations

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