JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #441.44!

Lenny Bruce – Thank You Mask Man (Fantasy) :: No, thank you.

Andrew Dice Clay – The Diceman Cometh (American) :: Now, more than ever.

Vaughn Meader – The First Family (Cadence) :: He looked like JFK, he sounded like JFK, and three shots later his comedy career was as dead as JFK.

Bob Booker & George Foster — You Don’t Have To Be Jewish (Kapp) :: Lou Jacobi! Frank Gallop! Jack Gilford! So what’s not to like?

Don Rickles – Hello Dummy! (Warner Bros.) :: This hockey puck needs a box-set retrospective.

Rodney Dangerfield — No Respect (MCA) :: Here’s another guy who’s got no retrospective, no retrospective at all.

Sam Kinison – Live From Hell (Priority) :: Oh! Ohhhhhhh! Add this 96-decibel freak to the want list!

Groucho Marx – An Evening With Groucho (A&M) :: Erin Fleming is the Yoko Ono of comedy.

Rusty Warren – Knockers Up! (Jubilee) :: Oh yasss!

Steve Martin – Let’s Get Small (Warner Bros.) :: The Metallica of comedy is a mild and lazy guy.

Bill Cosby – Revenge (Warner Bros.) :: The Cos was a very funny fellow.

Eddie Murphy – The Haunted Mansion (Disney) :: Eddie, what happened?

Richard Pryor – Live On The Sunset Strip (Warner Bros.) :: A 50-foot solid gold monument wouldn’t even begin to do the man proper justice.

Bob Newhart – The Button Down Mind Of Bob Newhart (Warner Bros.) :: “King Kong” will remind you why Bob’s cool.

SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Shelley Berman – Inside Shelley Berman (Verve) :: But the coolest of the cool remains Mr. Berman, who’s still making bridled anxiety an art. Even cooler: His classic telephone routines are more relevant today than they were back in the ’50s.

Be seeing you!