{{Short description|Canadian record label}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = Comedy Records | image = Comedy Records Logo.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_alt = <!-- WP:ALT text describing the image --> | caption = <!-- a caption for the image --> | parent = <!-- parent company, such as "Warner Music Group" --> | founded = July 10, 2010 | founder = Barry Taylor, Tim Golden | fate = <!-- explain the reason of the closing--> | defunct = <!-- year the label dissolved, such as {{end date|1990}} --> | status = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" --> | genre = Comedy | country = Canada, U.S. | location = Toronto, Miami | url = {{URL|www.ComedyRecords.ca}} }} '''Comedy Records''' is an independent record label run by Toronto-based comedians Tim Golden and Barry Taylor. The label only releases stand up and sketch comedy albums.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://torontoguardian.com/2016/02/canadian-comedy-on-the-record/|title=Digital Wax: The Comedy Records Revolution|date=2 February 2016|work=torontoguardian.com|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref> Comedy Records currently has offices in Toronto and Miami.
==History==
Comedy Records began on July 10, 2010 in Toronto, Canada and was founded by former CFNY-FM personality, Barry Taylor. After being let go from his on-air position in 2009,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-ballad-of-martin-streek/article4280388/|title=The Ballad of Martin Streek|work=theglobeandmail.com|date=25 July 2009|access-date=12 December 2016|last1=Archer|first1=Bert}}</ref> Taylor began to pursue a career in stand up comedy. One of his early projects was recording a compilation album with ten other up and coming Toronto-based comedians. While looking for distribution, Taylor discovered there were very few labels in Canada releasing comedy albums and the idea for Comedy Records was born. Friend and industry colleague, Joel Carriere<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dinealonerecords.com/news/throwback-feature-barry-taylor/|title=THROWBACK FEATURE: Barry Taylor - Dine Alone Records|date=18 February 2015|work=dinealonerecords.com|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref> agreed to distribute Comedy Records through his label, Dine Alone Records.
The goal when Comedy Records began was to take the indie music label template and apply it to comedy. Using the label itself as a brand to work on an album and then build shows and tours around it. Since its inception Comedy Records has released over one hundred stand up and sketch comedy albums.<ref name=cbc220>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/comedy/an-oral-history-of-10-years-of-comedy-records-home-to-k-trevor-wilson-arthur-simeon-and-more-1.5699080|title=An Oral History of 10 years of Comedy Records, home to K. Trevor Wilson, Arthur Simeon and more!|work=CBC|date=2 September 2020}}</ref>
In November 2014 Taylor partnered with one of the original Comedy Records comedians, Tim Golden to expand the label to the United States. The company's first American release was with Miami-born comedian Forrest Shaw. The label has since gone on to produce albums at clubs and theaters in Miami,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southbeachcomedyfestival.com/artist/mad-cat-more-presentscomedy-recordsthe-south-beach-albuma-live-recording/|title=Mad Cat & More PresentsComedy Records"The South Beach Album"A Live Recording|work=southbeachcomedyfestival.com|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref> New York<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/blogs/2015/09/comedy-records-live-america|title=Comedy Records goes south of the border with some of Canada's best comedians|work=thecomedynetwork.ca|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref> and Boston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Comedian-Giulia-Rozzi-Full-Length-Comedy-Album-TRUE-LOVE-Out-212-20160113|title=Comedian Giulia Rozzi Full-Length Comedy Album TRUE LOVE Out 2/12|author=BWW News Desk|work=broadwayworld.com|access-date=12 December 2016}}</ref>
The label currently manages a select group of comedians and celebrated their ten year anniversary by pressing a vinyl compilation album featuring their roster that can otherwise only be heard on SiriusXM.<ref name=cbc220/>
==Artists== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * Mark DeBonis * Adrienne Fish * Courtney Gilmour * Bria Hiebert * Garrett Jamieson * Alonzo Hamburger Jones * Jay Wells L'Ecuyer * Emmanuel Lomuro * Brittany Lyseng * Justin Shaw * Eytan Millstone * Chad Anderson * Nick Reynoldson * Dena Jackson * Todd Graham * Monty Scott * Clare Belford * Forrest Shaw * Efthimios Nasiopoulos * K. Trevor Wilson {{div col end}}
==External links== * [http://www.comedyrecords.ca/#comedy-records Official Website]
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