| Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album | |
| Awarded For: | Quality comedy albums |
| Presenter: | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1959 |
| Holder: | Dave Chappelle, What's In a Name? (2024) |
| Website: | grammy.com |
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.
There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:
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.
The winner is the first-named artist and work for each year, or, for 1960 and 1961, category. For 2024, no winner has yet been chosen as of the edit date.
| Year | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 [2] | "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" | |
| The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows | ||
| "Green Chri$tma$" | ||
| Improvisations to Music | ||
| The Future Lies Ahead | ||
| Year | Performing Artist | Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 [3] | Musical Comedy | ||
| "The Battle of Kookamonga" | |||
| Cliff Arquette | Charlie Weaver Sings for His People | ||
| A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green | |||
| Monster Rally | |||
| Bernie Green | Musically Mad | ||
| Spoken Comedy | |||
| Inside Shelley Berman | |||
| The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce | |||
| Stan Freberg with Original Cast | |||
| "Hamlet" | |||
| Look Forward in Anger | |||
| 1961 [4] | Musical Comedy | ||
| Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris | |||
| "The Old Payola Roll Blues" | |||
| Homer and Jethro at the Country Club | |||
| An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer | |||
| "Alvin for President" | |||
| Spoken Comedy | |||
| The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! | |||
| The Edge of Shelley Berman | |||
| "2000 Year Old Man" | |||
| The Wonderful World of Jonathan Winters | |||
| 1962 [5] | An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May | ||
| José Jiménez the Astronaut | |||
| Jonathan Winters | Here's Jonathan | ||
| 1963 [6] | The First Family | ||
| Beyond the Fringe | |||
| Nichols and May Examine Doctors | |||
| My Son, the Folk Singer | |||
| Another Day, Another World | |||
| 1964 [7] | "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" | ||
| Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival | |||
| I Am the Greatest! | |||
| Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! | |||
| Think Ethnic | |||
| 1965 [8] | I Started Out as a Child | ||
| Woody Allen | |||
| Ready or Not, Here Comes Godfrey Cambridge | |||
| For Swingin' Livers Only! | |||
| Whistle Stopping | |||
| 1966 [9] | Why Is There Air? | ||
| Bob Booker & George Foster | You Don't Have to Be Jewish | ||
| Them Cotton Pickin' Days is Over | |||
| Earl Doud & Allen Robin | "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!" | ||
| Mom Always Liked You Best | |||
| 1967 [10] | Wonderfulness | ||
| Funny Way to Make an Album | |||
| Have a Laugh on Me | |||
| Wanted for Murder | |||
| "Downtown" | |||
| 1968 [11] | Revenge | ||
| Lenny Bruce in Concert | |||
| The Cockfight and Other Tall Tales | |||
| Take-Offs and Put-Ons | |||
| Cowboys and Colored People | |||
| 1969 [12] | To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With | ||
| Hello Dummy! | |||
| Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In | |||
| You Devil You | |||
| Year | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 [33] | P.D.Q. Bach | |
| Without You I'm Nothing | ||
| Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession | ||
| Dice | ||
| "Wild Thing" | ||
| 1991 [34] | P.D.Q. Bach | |
| The Best of Bob and Ray: Selections from a Career, Vol. 4 | ||
| More News from Lake Wobegon | ||
| Various artists | The Best of Comic Relief '90 | |
| Jonathan Winters into the '90s | ||
| 1992 [35] | P.D.Q. Bach | |
| When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home | ||
| Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics | ||
| Local Man Moves to the City | ||
| Brand New | ||
| 1993 [36] | P.D.Q. Bach | |
| An Evening with George Burns | ||
| Naked Beneath My Clothes | ||
| Jonathan Winters is Terminator 3 | ||
| Off the Deep End | ||
| 1994 [37] | Jammin' in New York | |
| A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair | ||
| You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like You! | ||
| Lake Wobegon USA | ||
| The Naked Truth | ||
| 1995 [38] | Live from Hell | |
| The Jerky Boys 2 | ||
| The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook | ||
| They're All Gonna Laugh at You! | ||
| Attention Butt Pirates and Lesbetarians | ||
| 1996 [39] | Crank(y) Calls | |
| Games Rednecks Play | ||
| God's Other Son | ||
| Funk It | ||
| In Goddess We Trust | ||
| 1997 [40] | Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations | |
| Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Vol. 2 (The Middle Years) | ||
| The Rants | ||
| What the Hell Happened to Me? | ||
| The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach | ||
| 1998 [41] | Roll with the New | |
| Dirty Jokes and Beer | ||
| Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater | ||
| Button Down Concert | ||
| God said "Ha!" | ||
| 1999 [42] | The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 | |
| Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death | ||
| Totally Committed | ||
| Pure Drivel | ||
| I'm Telling You for the Last Time | ||
| Year | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 [53] | ||
| Suckin' It for the Holidays | ||
| Tall, Dark & Chicano | ||
| My Weakness Is Strong | ||
| Back from the Dead | ||
| Internet Leaks | ||
| 2011 [54] | Stark Raving Black | |
| Cho Dependent | ||
| I Told You I Was Freaky | ||
| Kathy Griffin Does the Bible Belt | ||
| Weapons of Self Destruction | ||
| 2012 [55] | Hilarious | |
| 50 and Not Pregnant | ||
| Turtleneck & Chain | ||
| Finest Hour | ||
| Alpocalypse | ||
| 2013 [56] | Blow Your Pants Off | |
| In God We Rust | ||
| Mr. Universe | ||
| Seaman 1st Class | ||
| Rize of the Fenix | ||
| 2014 [57] | Calm Down Gurrl | |
| I'm Here to Help | ||
| That's What I'm Talkin' About | ||
| Live | ||
| A Little Unprofessional | ||
| 2015 [58] | Mandatory Fun | |
| Oh My God | ||
| Obsessed | ||
| Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time | ||
| We Are Miracles | ||
| 2016 [59] | Live at Madison Square Garden | |
| Brooklyn | ||
| Just Being Honest | ||
| Back to the Drawing Board | ||
| Happy. And A Lot | ||
| 2017 [60] | Talking for Clapping | |
| American Myth | ||
| ...America...Great... | ||
| Boyish Girl Interrupted | ||
| Live at the Apollo | ||
| 2018 [61] | The Age of Spin & Deep in the Heart of Texas | |
| Cinco | ||
| What Now? | ||
| Jerry Before Seinfeld | ||
| A Speck of Dust | ||
| 2019 [62] | Equanimity & The Bird Revelation | |
| Standup for Drummers | ||
| Noble Ape | ||
| Annihilation | ||
| Tamborine | ||
| Year | Performing Artist | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 [63] | Sticks & Stones | |
| Right Now | ||
| Relatable | ||
| Quality Time | ||
| Son of Patricia | ||
| 2021 [64] | Black Mitzvah | |
| Paper Tiger | ||
| The Pale Tourist | ||
| I Love Everything | ||
| 23 Hours to Kill | ||
| 2022 [65] | Sincerely | |
| The Greatest Average American | ||
| The Comedy Vaccine | ||
| Evolution | ||
| Thanks for Risking Your Life | ||
| Zero Fucks Given | ||
| 2023 [66] [67] | The Closer | |
| Sorry | ||
| Comedy Monster | ||
| We All Scream | ||
| A Little Brains, A Little Talent | ||
| 2024 | ||
| What's In A Name? | ||
| I Wish You Would | ||
| Selective Outrage | ||
| Someone You Love | ||
| I'm An Entertainer | ||
| 2025[68] | ||
| The Dreamer | ||
| The Prisoner | ||
| Armageddon | ||
| Someday You'll Die | ||
| Where Was I? | ||