Comedy Albums is a ''Billboard'' chart that lists the "top-selling spoken word and musical

comedy album A comedy album is an audio recording of comedic material from a comedian or group of comedians, usually performed either live or in a studio. Comedy albums may feature skits, humorous songs, and/or live recording of stand-up comedy performan ...

s" each week, as ranked by sales data compiled by

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. The chart debuted as Top Comedy Albums in October 2004 when it was published for the first time exclusively in ''Billboard'''s websites. The first number-one album on the Top Comedy Albums chart was '' Lord, I Apologize'' by

Larry the Cable Guy Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally as Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian, actor, and former radio personality. He was one of the members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a ...

. The current number-one album on the chart is the

soundtrack A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television show, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of m ...

to the 2024 series ''

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''. The longest leading number-one album on the chart is ''

Inside (The Songs) ''Inside (The Songs)'' (shortened and stylized to ''INSIDE'' on streaming platforms) is a soundtrack album by American musical comedian Bo Burnham. Accompanying the film of the same name, each song was written, produced and edited by Burnha ...

'' by

Bo Burnham Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990) is an American stand-up comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker, and YouTuber. Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with Comedy music, music, Sketch comedy, sketch, and stand-up comedy, co ...

at 133 weeks. Its ''Billboard'' Year-End chart has been archived for public viewing back to 2006. On May 16, 2014, ''Billboard'' published "Top 20 Best Selling Comedy Albums".

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