Burns and Carlin at the Playboy Club Tonight is the 1963 debut album by the comedy duo of Jack Burns

Jack Burns

Jack Burns is an American comedian and voice actor.-Biography:In 1959, he began his career as a comedy team with George Carlin when both were working for radio station KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas...

 and George Carlin

George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....

. The album was actually recorded at a club named Cosmo Alley in Hollywood, California and not at the Playboy Club

Playboy Club

The Playboy Club initially was a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room...

. It was recorded in May 1960 but was not released until 1963.

By the time of the album's release, Burns and Carlin had already split up amicably in 1962 to pursue separate endeavors. Burns teamed with Avery Schreiber

Avery Schreiber

Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an American comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, TV, and film.-Biography:...

 and the duo were a successful comedy act until their breakup in 1974. Carlin continued to perform stand-up and record comedy albums until his death in 2008.

The album has been re-issued twice, both with alternate track listings: in 1972 as The Original George Carlin and again in 1981 as Killer Carlin (which itself was re-issued on CD in 1995).

Original

Side 1

1. Mothers Club - 5:41
2. Killer Carlin - 3:00
3. Captain Jack & Jolly George - 4:17
4. War Pictures - 4:39

Side 2

1. Herb Coolhouse - 5:54
2. Edward R. Murrow
   Edward R. Murrow
   Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...
   
    - 4:05
3. Lenny Bruce
   Lenny Bruce
   Leonard Alfred Schneider , better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American comedian, social critic and satirist...
   
   -Mort Sahl
   Mort Sahl
   Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy. He was the first comedian to record a live album and the first to perform on college campuses...
   
    - 5:46

1972 release

Side 1

1. Mother's Club - 4:35
2. Herb Coolhouse - 4:23
3. The Original "Person to Person
   Person to Person
   Person to Person was a popular television program in the United States that ran from 1953 to 1961. Well-respected news reporter Edward R. Murrow hosted it until 1959, interviewing celebrities in their homes from a comfortable chair in his New York studio Person to Person was a popular television...
   
   " - 3:50
4. Captain Jack and Jolly George - 2:34

Side 2

1. Lenny Bruce - 2:05
2. Mort Sahl - 3:31
3. Killer Carlin - 3:00
4. War Pictures - 4:33

1981 release

1. Mothers Club – 4:39
2. Killer Carlin – 2:47
3. Capt. Jack and Jolly George – 4:01
4. War Pictures – 3:42
5. The Cool World – 5:16
6. Person to Person – 3:34
7. The Sickest – 1:54