In your opinion, what is the difference between a Comedy Album, and a Spoken Word album?

My understanding of the difference is this...Spoken Word is basically somewhat like a book on tape. Hilary Clinton won a Grammy for the Spoken Word version of "It Takes A Village". A Comedy Album is an album of a comedy routine or routines by a comic. I have heard ones by Eddie Murphy, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby and others. This is my understanding of the difference between the two.

A comedy album is something like Jimmy Fallon's "The Bathroom Wall" and a spoken word album is some eloquent-sounding dude reading the "Harry Potter" series.

Since I've never heard a Spoken Word album I have no clue. I've heard Comedy albums, but I have no point of comparison between the two.

I have Bobby McFerrin and Jack Nicholson reading Rudyard Kipling tales, it's not comedy. Poetry and lectures aren't comedy either.

Comedy is sometimes sketches, sometimes monologues, and sometimes funny songs. Often it is a combination of the three. The intention is always to be humourous.

Spoken word can be a lot of other things which are not comedy. Political speeches, story-telling, books on tape, old radio shows, monologues of a more serious nature, commentary etc..

i would imagine that comedy albums are actually a subset of the spoken word albums but that it is such a big subset that it is considered it's own category at awards and such. spoken word would also include books, poetry, dramatic albums. that's my guess.

Spoken word albums are not always humorous. Of course, one could argue that neither are some comedy albums. I really like the Jeff Foxworthy comedy albums.

a comedy album is... funny... not necessarily spoken.
a spoken word album is... spoken... not necessarily funny.

I don't think of spoken word as being comedy, generally. Although comedy is usually spoken, spoken word tends to be more serious and dramatic and/or poetic. I think spoken word is kind of pretentious, personally.

Interesting, I don't think of books on tape as spoken word at all.

I don't even know what either of these things are.

hmmm...
one is strictly humor/comedy/jokes
one is other things like stories, tales, soliloquy

Comedy album would involve humor and be funny, aka George Carlin, Adam Sandler, Richard Pryor, etc. Spoken word, I would associate with something like a book on tape. I wouldn't associate a spoken word album with humor.

Spoken words are people talking, comedy albums are usually sketches.

Henry Rollins has some great Spoken words albums!

You're asking the wrong person, I haven't a clue.

Comedy albums are meant to be contiuously funny, whereas spoken word albums typically explore a full range of emotions and a broader palette of social and political commetary.

The backing track. Comedy = Canned(or live) laughter. The spoken word is just the narrator reading.

Comedy is funny.

I'd say a spoken word album would be one that is not music, but someone talking. A comedy album is one that is supposed to be funny. Many comedy albums are spoken word, but some are comedic songs. Many spoken word albums are comedy, but could consist of other stuff, like poetry or recordings of TV or Radio shows.

A Comedy album is something I'd never buy, whereas a Spoken Word album is something I'd never ever buy.

I don't know what the heck a "spoken word album" is. A comedy album I believe is just that... comedy. You know, like Richard Pryor's "Live on Sunset Strip" and Eddie Murphy's "Raw."

A little bitter are we?

Why is it, on most surveys (mine in particular) the majority of people who vote 'bad' are female? What's with all the vindictiveness? I remmebr a little while back another user brought up that on EVERY SINGLE survey whose AdvStats she checked all had at LEAST 2 'bad' votes by women. This one here has 3. This weird negative vibe I give off that makes some women start to loathe and despise me the exact moment I fall in love with them and other women just loathe and despise mke on sight must trnasfer over the internet as well.

Women judge more,that's all.Or you fall in love with the wrong women or you do something bad.
I don't think we loathe more than men,do we?

You have that one too, eh? Mine has evolved to something more complex: We go on dates, exchange gifts, exchange subtle flirtations and sexual innuendoes, but the moment we touch or I throw in the suggestion that we have some sort of relationship they are angered. My advice so far is to drop them if you can't agree on an some honest accessment of where you stand before you waste your heart. In my experience that heart will slowly turn them around if you keep it up, but why force things that apparently weren't meant to be. You are probably running into that strange breed which separates friends and lovers.
In your case though, I think the story is tied into rejection and desperation karma. Go into relationships with smooth acceptance that you have your integrity regardless of being together or not, prepared to let go or enjoy as it comes, and spend your energy on having a good relationship, not casting doubt on whethar you will have one or not.

(rolls his eyes).

There's a HUGE difference. Spoken Word is poetry... art... you know.

Comedy is entertainment.

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The others?
Well, they can just suck it!

That's one way to look at it. Although things are getting a bit wierder in my life now. I work with someone at Pizza Hut who bares a STRIKING resemblance to movie theatre girl (as you know her), except with brown her, no eyebrow piercing, no fish-lip, and not quite as well built (girl looks like she could knocked over by a light wind, while Movoe girl was much more stocky).

Spoken Word can be literature read on tape, as in a book on tape. Comedy Albums are comedy acts only. Well???

The difference is that Comedy albums are sometimes entertaining.

Nothing, for classification purposes.

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I don't know. I've heard comedy albums, but not spoken word albums.