Whether you know him from VH1's "Best Week Ever," NBC's "Last Comic Standing" or his documentary "Super High Me," chances are Doug Benson has made you laugh before. Now he will make you laugh again, repeatedly, with his first full-length solo comedy album, "Doug Benson: Professional Humoredian." Recorded live at the world-famous Hollywood Improv, "Professional Humoredian" catches Doug at his loosest, silliest and most hilarious. Playing to a rowdy sold-out house on 4/20, Doug tears through his set with wild abandon, delivering material on such wide-ranging topics as movies, politics, relationships, anti-drug campaigns and the miracle of modern science known as McGriddles. A perennial favorite among comedy aficionados, Doug placed sixth on Season Five of "Last Comic Standing" and was named "Stoner of the Year" by High Times Magazine in 2006. Patton Oswalt calls him "prolific ... a resin-scented miracle." One listen and you'll understand why Doug has won such acclaim: witty, charming, relentless and irrepressible, Doug Benson is a Professional Humoredian.

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The Sklar Brothers
"Sklar Maps"

ASPECIALTHING RECORDS is delighted to announce the release of their next stand-up comedy album: THE SKLAR BROTHERS' "SKLAR MAPS." Randy and Jason Sklar, the St. Louis-born twins best known for their work on ESPN's "Cheap Seats" and more recently seen on HBO's "Entourage" and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," have developed a distinctive two-man comedy style that blurs the line between traditional stand-up, sketch and improv, honing a give-and-go interplay that Neil Strauss of the New York Times described as "[reminiscent of] the Beastie Boys." On "Sklar Maps," the brothers explore their relationship with and feelings about their adopted home of Los Angeles and the entertainment industry in which they work. From nightmare club performance stories to tales of twin auditions, Randy and Jason marvel at the strange path they've traveled through show business, but they also take time out to appreciate the uniquely weird cultural accoutrements of the City of Angels, like knock-off supermarket Jons and the new real estate ad fad of "sign-flipping." As they put it, "This is a CD about what it is like for us to be us, in this business, in Los Angeles, in 2007." For the listener, it is a fast-paced, strikingly honest and hilarious ride.

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ASPECIALTHING RECORDS is thrilled to announce the release of comedian Paul F. Tompkins’ debut album, “Impersonal.” In a hysterical set recorded live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, Paul F. Tompkins delivers forty-five minutes of classic material culled from a stand-up career spanning two decades. With fan favorites such as “Elegant Balloons” and “Peanut Brittle,” Paul delicately treads the line between the intellectual and the absurd, striking a highbrow yet playful connection with his audience. Whether he’s explaining how jazz is a “genre of music that is defying you to like it” or regaling us with a chilling tale about a very strange stromboli, Paul leaves little room to wonder why he is one of the most beloved performers working today.

For more on Paul F. Tompkins, visit his MySpace page

Every week, comedian and TV personality Jimmy Pardo sits down with comic Mike Schmidt and producer Matt Belknap to share stories and laugh at life. The result is "Never Not Funny," the hit show that was named one of the Best Comedy Podcasts of 2006 by the iTunes Staff. Now, for the first time ever, Jimmy, Mike and Matt's favorite moments from the first twenty episodes have been collected on one CD: "Never Not Funny Volume One." You'll hear classic stories like "Rainbow Bridge," "Mike's Mom," "Golf Team" and "Howie," all in uncompressed, CD-quality sound. Also included is the full version of daver's "Mad at the World," the Never Not Funny theme song. There might even be some never-before-heard bonus material! Relive the magic of the first twenty episodes and learn to laugh again with "Never Not Funny."

For more Never Not Funny, visit pardcast.com