The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album has been handed out since 1959. It was not awarded from 1994 to 2003. It has had a few name changes along the years, it was known as Best Comedy Performance from 1959 to 1967, it was changed to Best Comedy Recording from 1968 to 1991from 1992, it has been awarded as Best Comedy Album. In 1960 and 1961 two separate awards were presented for the best spoken and for the best musical comedy performance. In 1994 the award was intended for only spoken word comedy albums, it has been awarded till 2003 as Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album. In 2004 the Recording Academy decided to once again consider musical comedy works for the award and changed the name to Best Comedy Album. Six time winner Bill Cosby is the most awarded in this category followed closely by Richard Pryor with five wins.

Winners: Grammys Best Comedy Album

Year
Winner/s
Album
2009
George Carlin
It's Bad For Ya
2008
Flight of the Conchords
The Distant Future
2007
Lewis Black
The Carnegie Hall Performance
2006
Chris Rock
Never Scared
2005
Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
2004
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Poodle Hat
2003
Nathaniel Kunkel (engineer/mixer), Peter Asher (producer) & Robin Williams
Robin Williams - Live 2002
2002
John Runnette (producer) & George Carlin
Napalm & Silly Putty
2001
John Runnette (producer) & George Carlin
Brain Droppings
2000
Chris Rock
Bigger & Blacker
1999
Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner
The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000
1998
Chris Rock
Roll With the New
1997
Al Franken
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
1996
Jonathan Winters
Crank(y) Calls
1995
Sam Kinison
Live From Hell
1994
George Carlin
Jammin' in New York
1993
Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach: Music - an Awful Lot of Winds & Percussion
1992
Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio
1991
Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities
1990
Peter Schickele
P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults
1989
Robin Williams
Good Morning, Vietnam
1988
Robin Williams
A Night at the Met
1987
Bill Cosby
Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand
1986
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording)
1985
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Eat It"
1984
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy: Comedian
1983
Richard Pryor
Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
Richard Pryor
Rev. Du Rite
1981
Rodney Dangerfield
No Respect
1980
Robin Williams
Reality...What a Concept
1979
Steve Martin
A Wild and Crazy Guy
1978
Steve Martin
Let's Get Small
1977
Richard Pryor
Bicentennial Nigger
1976
Richard Pryor
...Is It Something I Said?
1975
Richard Pryor
That Nigger's Crazy
1974
Cheech and Chong
Los Cochinos
1973
George Carlin
FM & AM
1972
Lily Tomlin
This Is A Recording
1971
Flip Wilson
The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress
1970
Bill Cosby
Sports
1969
Bill Cosby
To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With
1968
Bill Cosby
Revenge
1967
Bill Cosby
Wonderfulness
1966
Bill Cosby
Why Is There Air?
1965
Bill Cosby
I Started Out as a Child
1964
Allan Sherman
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"
1963
Vaughn Meader
The First Family
1962
Elaine May & Mike Nichols
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
1961
Spoken: Bob Newhart
The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!
1961
Musical: Jo Stafford & Paul Weston
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris performed by Jo Stafford & Paul Weston and as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards"
1960
Spoken: Shelley Berman
Inside Shelley Berman
1960
Musical: Homer and Jethro
The Battle of Kookamonga