 Spike Jones had some successess in the late 1940s.Comedy albums were held back by the technology of the time, but when LP records were introduced in 1948, it allowed artists such as Lord Buckley, Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer to record material close to modern comedy albums.The one album to possibly be considered the first comedy album is Mort Sahl's 1958 "The Future Lies Ahead", which was a recording of his comedy routine in front of a live audience, organized by jazz record producer Norman Granz.