While I was at the Cincinnati meet, Drakino played some fake commercials from a cd which came with You Don't Know Jack 4. It reminded me that the radio station I listened to in better days used to play comedy clips during breaks. Some were from Firesign Theater, but most I never recognized the source of.

Anyone have any collections of such they recommend? Anyone excerpting other sources to put on their player?

You have to get that Delta Airlines thing on your player. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll put it up on my server.

Delta Airlines thing? I don't know what you mean, so if you can put whatever up, I'd love to hear it.

While we're at it, PacBell had a bunch of funny "nice neighborhood gone bad" TV ads (against sharing cable capacity) a couple of years ago. I remember seeing them on the net, but can't find them anymore (not even with google ).
Anyone have a pointer?

The Real American Heroes and Real Men of Genius commercials by Bud can be found on the web.

Some Firesign Theater is always good. National Lampoon also has some terrific radio spots for fake commercials and public (dis)service announcements.

Hugo had some hysterical Onion Radio News clips at Amersfoort. I found a couple on the web but not near as funny as the ones that he had.

This site is great for short little clips: Daily WAV. I've used them for years. They specialize in TV, Movie and Geeky clips (plenty of Star Trek and Simpsons for you.)

They also link to this site, Earthstation . This one is an odd collection of rare historical recordings. Everything from propaganda to Elvis freaking out during an interview. I like the UK children's program that tells kids to run around looking for their balls "Are your balls high up, or down low?" Here.

Detroit area people might like Drew and Mike clips. It is a popular morning "shock jock" show that ranks really high nationally. I think 2nd actually. A fan has posted stuff here: Drew and Mike Fan Site Some funny stuff they've done: Tampax Ad.. Temptation Island Ad. Many fake Barbara Walters interviews here: Justin Timberlake, Tom Cruise and Robert Blake. Ray and Pete is good too.

I havn't checked any of these in years, so I'm about to go download some myself!

I feel like a dirty tramp giving away all my sources! I won't have the coolest empeg anymore! Okay, I'm over it. Here's the Delta Ad I promised (still makes me cry with laughter after all of these years).

PS - One thing I noticed in the past, was that some of these WAV's were not recorded properly and I'd get audible "pops" on my empeg. I had to fix them in Cool Edit by correcting the "Zero Crossing". It's been so long that I just looked at my Cool Edit Pro 1.2 and it's not the same as Cool Edit Pro 1.1 - can't remember how to do it...

Edit, these prank calls are pure genius! They take real sound clips of celebrities, call people and make them think they are taling to a real person!

My favorite.

Hijacking this thread to ask if anyone knows about a specific comedy album that a friend of mine had in high school.

He only had a copied cassette of it, and handwritten on the cassette were the words "Congress of Wonders". I do not know if that is the name of the comedy troupe or the name of the album. Neither did he, if I recall correctly. Stylistically, it sounded a lot like Firesign, but I don't think it was firesign (the voices were different if I recall correctly). It had a lot of fake commercials on it that were very funny.

Typing that name into www.allmusic.com (either as artist or album) does not result in anything that looks like the album I remember.

For all I know, the handwriting on the tape could have been totally bogus and incorrect. As a subject matter reference, one of the fake commercials on the tape was a parody of Green Giant vegetables called "Green Ogre", and it contained the one liner "Now to take care of those picket lines!" (different voice) "If you pick it, it'll never heal."

Anyone know about this one?

I believe these are the same guys.

At least, I've found a reference to green ogre by Congress of Wonders.

I haven't found the album though with it on it. I would imagine your best chance it the San Francisco area at a vinyl records shop.

http://www.thestraight.com/gallerycongress.html

Hmm. You could be right. Perhaps the album "Revolting" is in fact the one I was thinking of. The track titles did not ring a bell at first when I read them. But I now have a vague recollection of a Trek parody sketch in there somewhere, and that track list does in fact seem to include a Trek parody.

Who did that "Spock and Captain Kirk in Love" bit with real audio from episodes? Was that a Dr. Demento thing? I seem to remember a tape with that and Fishheads on it.

Who did that "Spock and Captain Kirk in Love" bit with real audio from episodes?

I think I had at one time found the people who did it on the web somewhere. If you do a google on "treklove" some sites will come up, I don't know if any of them are the original creators or not. It certainly wasn't Dr. D., he doesn't do stuff like that as far as I know. I think that the people who did it would kind of like to lay low a bit, since I'm sure Paramount isn't happy with them over it.

The first time I heard it was on one of those morning radio shows. I nearly had a wreck laughing. I've got .RA versions, but I'd love to find higher quality versions somewhere.

This sounds like it was made from the RA...

TrekLove.WAV

Reviving an old thread, I stumbled across this the other day. Tony did you ever get this?

http://thecongressofwonders.com/

Whoa. Very cool. THANK YOU.

Actually I think that this is the album you are looking for but I don't know what it is called. I've got a couple emails out. Will let you know what I find.

http://www.skylinemastering.com/music_catalog.pdf

Congress Of Wonders - A-Bomb Calling (0:25)
Congress Of Wonders - Big Job Cotton Swabs (0:30)
Congress Of Wonders - Buster Crabs (0:08)
Congress Of Wonders - Corn Fakes (0:24)
Congress Of Wonders - Dammitol (0:26)
Congress Of Wonders - Ghoul Cigarettes (0:24)
Congress Of Wonders - Giddy City Used Cars (0:47)
Congress Of Wonders - Granny Bifco’s Corrective Knees (0:14)
Congress Of Wonders - Obscene Green Ogre (0:32)
Congress Of Wonders - Pig Beer (0:11)
Congress Of Wonders - Sweeties, Breakfast Of Symeons (0:10)
Congress Of Wonders - Tasteless Garbage (0:26)
Congress Of Wonders - Tower Of Crud Stores (0:38)

Yeah, that's the one. The old casette I remember actually was a combination of that album, and the "Revolting!" album.

Hmmm... going through the chain of links, the RecordRescuers are using our competition's digital turntables to do the conversion.

Needless to say, ours (the TTX ) is better, and we have 24-bit recorders here.....

The contact guy from the website says that the radio ad tracks (green ogre) are Radio Phil, the first track on Revolting. Case closed....book'em Danno.