Paul F. Tompkins – Impersonal

Got this off emusic.

Contains some material he used on his last “Comedy Central Presents…” but it’s good material and that’s lots here that is new. Plus it has more Tompkins’ patter and banter than the edited to within an inch of it’s life CCP had.

Tompkins is one of those guys where a lot of the appeal for me is in the way he says things as much as the gags themselves. His exaggerated faux-sophisticate raconteur voice he uses at times amuses me greatly.

Here’s a clip from Comedy Central for folks not familiar with him.

I’ve been trying the free emusic trial and it’s sorely tempting to carry on with it, at least for another month. There’s a surprisingly wide range of comedy albums on there I’d like to get (Eugene Mirman, Jimmy Pardo, Maria Bamford). I picked up Scharpling & Wurster’s “Rock Rot & Rule” too. That’s an entire album as one track, so bargain.