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CDs for sale

That's Not The Reason I'm Doing This
$10

Ever the nomadic and oftentimes undefinable entertainer--a comedy club here, a rock club there--Will Franken the wanderer found a home for the fullest expression of his talents to date in the theatre. This album, recorded live in May of 2004 to a sold-out audience at San Francisco's Marsh Theatre, marks the debut of Will Franken's successful and ever-changing string of one-man shows at that venue. Almost 80 minutes in length, the CD is composed of one single show in its entirety containing many pieces never before recorded including the full length Berkeley Indian prayer and invocation, the Youth Speaks Poetry Slam, and Will's touching anti-death penalty song "No Eye For An Eye"-- Nominated for best song written in front of a full-length mirror.

Tracks

1. Intro: Yes, Mother? (Homage To Charles Crumb)
2.The Ha-Ha Laugh-Laugh Fun-Time Comedy College
3. You've Reached The Living Room
4. Everything: We See It Everywhere
5. The "Writers Who Read" Summer Literacy Series
6. Poe'try Zlam!
7. My People, The Impersonators
8. Invocation And Native Narrative (aka "The Berkeley Indian")
9. The River By Three Trees
10. No Eye For An Eye
11. Jazz
12. Crock Racoon (aka "The Drug Coach")
13. Fun With Violence and Narcissism
14. The Five Things That Women Love, Part 1 (Vladimir)
15. Jesus Loved Us So Much
16. The Five Things That Women Love, Part 2 (Vladimir)
17. State Of California Law
18. Data Entry Systems, Inc.
19. The Oakland Fire Department

Concert To Benefit The Victims Of My Father
$10

This live CD contains some of Will's best-known pieces. Laugh along with audiences as Will frolics and cavorts from character to character like a caged animal finally released into his natural habitat: the stage.

Tracks
1. The Pledge Of Allegiance
2. The Imaginary President Of The United States Of The World
3. Miracles Happen Nearly Everyday
4. The River By Three Trees
5. TSR
6. Show! (Incorporating "Brand Name")
7. Smiling Ted And The Open Mike
8. Introduction To Shakespeare
9. AM Live With Stephen Hawking
10. What Does 'No Pickles' Mean?
11. Coach Loves Me, Coach Loves Me Not
12. Data Entry Systems, Inc.
13. Crosstalk
14. The Quilts
15. Oh Great, Oh Good, Oh Wow!
16. You've Reached The Living Room
17. The Antioch Christian Fellowship
18. White Trash Deist
19. It's A Wonderful Life, Pt. II: The Gathering
20. Boat Mahoney's Big Break!
21. We're Going To The Circus Today (with Johnny Boy Swerdan)

Putting Smiles On The Faces Of Dead People
$10

In the summer of 1997, a close friend convinced Will Franken to take some student loan money and purchase a small home recording studio. The result, over the course of two years--between Missouri and New York and North Carolina--was a 19 hour, 17 CD box set--of which Putting Smiles On The Faces Of Dead People is but one in a series of best-of volumes from that period. This 72 minute compilation contains some of Will's personal favorites, many of which--owing to the level of studio complexity inherent in purely audio comedy--he has never performed live. The studio Will is different from the live Will--even more cerebral, even more surreal--but still hilarious. Relax as Will leads you in and out of a series of bizarre vignettes: Whitney Houston loses her mind in the studio; a Scottish Blake enthusiast is convinced of the evil of the alphabet; a little boy's school has burned down and he's blaming the sun; a suspender falls in love with a cabaret singing stapler; and a pagan god assumes the body of a human college instructor so that he may bring the gift of questions to a Third-World tribe that only speaks in statements. This compilation also contains the original "River By Three Trees".(The box set or individual volumes can be purchased by contacting Will Franken directly)

Tracks
1. Alicia Touched Me
2. He Doesn't Read. . .Blake
3. That Sound
4. Hummingbird!
5. How My School Burned Down
6. Making Bail
7. I'm Not Rappaportish
8. I'm In Love With A French Girl
9. The River By Three Trees
10. The Suspender/Stapler Thing
11. Pandemonium Cerebrum
12. Whitney's Compromise
13. Girl Soup
14. Zaephel Goes Amongst The Mustard-Devillers
15. Lament For Alicia

DVDs for Sale

Turn on the Window, recorded live at the Purple Onion May 26, 2005, is only $15

Turn on the Window
$15 (Sorry, this item is temporarily out of stock)

Features the following pieces:

Every Sixty Seconds (PSA Medley)
Ms. Marin 2005
The Importance of Being Arnold
Racism Imperative Must Verb Stop
Loneliness
You've Reached the Living Room
Introduction to Shakespeare
AM Live With Stephen Hawking
Negro Blues Guitarist Ferstus Weathers
Miracles Happen Nearly Every Day
The Greatest Murder Myster Ever Told
Let's Talk About Drugs (Crock Raccoon)
A Tragic and Unfortunate Transition
Oh the Things That One Can Do With One's Eyes Closed
No Eye For An Eye