"I'd Rather Eat A Rotten Nectarine"
August, 1961
padded-cell portraits by the superbly nutty comedy team of carl reiner and mel brooksBy now it is Apparent that the wares of all manner of funnymen -- from the hippest routines of a Bruce or a Sahl to the bone-tired material of the dullest hacks -- have found their way onto LPs (Hip Wits Disc Hits, Playboy, September 1960). Some make it big (nine out of the first hundred LPs on a recent best-seller list were comic etchings): most don't get back the cost of the pressing. In at least one instance,...
