 Sahl's records sold well and is said by Shelley Berman to have directly influenced him.Also 1958's "The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows", a recording of collected material from Stan Freberg's comedy radio show The Stan Freberg Show, won the first 1959 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.Shelley Berman's own 1959 album "Inside Shelley Berman" is regarded as the first actual hit and was the first to win a Grammy in the subcategory Spoken Comedy of the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1960.