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 Steve and Harry's wacky  performance tapes, CD's, DVD's and knee-slappingly funny books are for sale! You can hear audio samples for each of the recordings too!
Just click on the thumbnail and you'll go to the big toenail, I mean the big picture with the opportunity to buy that item.
 
 

Before you do anything, you can take a quick peek at our nifty How-to-Order page.

                 
 

                      




Steve's Manifesto has arrived!
Hocus Jokus- How to be a Funny Magician!

S o many of the jokes, magic tricks and tips that Steve has developed over his two decades as a professional cornball and funny magician is now in book form. Even if you're not a budding magician it's still fun to read. Anyone interested in  becoming a real knucklehead will find this book a great starting off point. It includes

How to develop a character (a character is the unique person (or giant vegetable) a magician pretends to be while performing)

Patter (anything a magician says during a show to make it more interesting (like burping)

The difference between funny words and not so funny (Smith is not funny, Fenstermacher is)
What to say to hecklers (you have nice hair...coming from each nostril!)

What to say when a joke falls flat (Is this an audience or an oil painting?)

Short jokes to fill in the time (I was wondering why this baseball I was looking at the other day was getting bigger and bigger...then it hit me) and so much more.

It also contains 50 really neat, easy to do magic tricks and how to make them funny.

Published by Meadowbrook press and distributed by Simon and Schuster, this book is available right here.
 

Hocus Jokus

 A mere $7.95 will do it.


STEVE'S DVD!

Steve and Harry are in 
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT! 
"Stuck in Childhood"


 
 

Steve and Harry have created a DVD! This compilation includes many of the best comedy routines, magic tricks and songs that they've performed for the last two decades on stage and on their popular radio program "Knock On Wood".
Gladys Twinklebottom sings about bellybuttons. Hartwood B. Aquiver reads goofy poems and Hobo Reese performs amazing magic. Hear about Priscilla the Gorilla's shenanigans and the time Steve ate the biggest sandwich in the world.
And of course there's Harry engaging in verbal mayhem by playing with tonguetwisters, knock-knocks, silly songs and generally putting Steve in his place.

If you'd like to see a sample of the DVD,  click here..no, no I mean right here. Fooled you again. Okay I'll stop. Click....here!


DVD $7.95 



AUDIOTAPES and CD's

The Knock On Wood recordings feature the scholar of lunacy himself, Steve Charney, and his dumm... er, his Wooden American, Harry. Steve and Harry cajole, tickle, poke, and squawk at us; they sing, they dance (or so we're told), they contort their tongues, they even do genuine scientific experiments (involving peptides and particle physics, we're told). In turn, 99.9 percent of us giggle, shake, chuckle, grin, smile with an air of steely superiority, guffaw, laugh, hide our mouths behind our hands, titter, howl, and slow down if we're driving on the thruway.

We're talking hours of some of Steve and Harry's most hysterical and heart-warming comedy routines, selected from the best comedy on radio and stage. Can you say Great Gift Idea?

Okay, here are the details:


The  Yellow Album: Knock On Wood: Live Music and Comedy

       

This compilation includes classic Knock On Wood routines such as Knock Knock, Radio Man, Priscilla the Gorilla, and Finger in Your Ear, performed before a (very) live audience of children. 
 
 
 

Wanna hear a sample?

Here's Harry doing 30 seconds of the tonguetwister Betty Botter



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Or go for the whole routine of Harry's Knock-Knocks


CD $7.95

 

 

Audiotape $3.95

 

 

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The Red Album: Best of Knock On Wood Volume 1

        

A great way to impress your sweet-heart, this CD showcases 60 minutes of Steve's primitive, juvenile, and absolutely perfect sense of humor , with sizzling numbers such as Harry's In love, Untrue Facts , and Steve, Steve, Steve.

Wanna taste of what you'll get?
Here's "Harry in Love". This was a commentary on NPR's "All Things Considered" some years back. 

And here's Harry trying to learn the ABC's with disastrous results.

 

 

CD$7.95

               


The Blue Album: Best of Knock On Wood Volume 2

Steve figured that it would be dumb to make a 'series' of comedy CD's with only one volume, so he produced the overnight success, Volume 2. Don't miss such favorites as The Wart on Her Nose and The Bellybutton Song.  

Harry is learning how to play baseball. Here's a segment we like to call
"Baseball and Pancakes"
 

Or listen to the complete song of
"The Biggest Sandwich I Ever Ate"

 

CD $7.95

Audiotape $3.95


The White Album: Best of Knock On Wood Volume 3

 

Here's the deal: Volume 3 includes 60 minutes of gut-busting, mega-goofy, spit-shined comedy that you honestly can't live without. All that Beatle Music..oh wait a second, that's the OTHER white album. This is Steve and Harry's version. Don't miss favorites such as Harry's Halloween Tu-Tu and How Dry I am.
 

Ready for a sample. I sure hope you have working speakers on your computer. Here's Steve and Harry singing a couple of verses of

"Hooray for the Busdriver"

 

Or try "I Love You"

 

CD $7.95

 

              


 



T he Doody CD! Volume 4 .
There is a warning on the front which reads:
This recording occasionally uses words like doody and tushie. If you don't want your child to be exposed to this juvenile humor (which the artist finds hilarious) avoid this album and buy one of the many other delightful Steve and Harry recordings that are as clean as a whistle.

Wanna hear Harry trying to recite "Peter Piper"? You know what to do.

 

This next song (written by Steve) was sung by The Bear on "Regis and Kathy Lee" from the Jim Henson show "Bear in the Big Blue House"



CD$7.95


                                    Steve and Harry Poke Fun of School

Row, Row, Row your boat
Gently down the stream
Kick your teacher overboard
And listen to her scream!

Here's Steve and Harry's latest! 25 tracks of songs and comedy routines. Steve was influenced by the schoolyard songs we all learned as kids to write his own parodies using  traditional melodies. There's also lots of routines with Harry of course. But be careful, we wouldn't want you to end up in the principal's office.


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Here's a sample. This song is called "This school is your school"


And this one is a routine with Harry. "N-O spells no"


CD$7.95






Dinostuff were 3 half hour audio tapes once,that has been culled down to one hour long dynamite CD called
  
   
                                             

  This one is for anyone who has ever loved the dinosaur. Steve and Harry are joined by the great Frank Orsini, George Wilson, and Galen Blum on perennial laugh-monsters such as 'Stomp, Stomp, Stomp' 'The Dinosaur Carousel.' and 'King Kong Played Ping Pong with Godzilla' 

 

Here are two songs from the album.
"Big Bones"

"Stomp, Stomp, Stomp"


CD $7.95




riddle king

The Riddle King's Riddle Songs

This CD rocks! Steve sings his own songs, and also sings Mike Thaler's terrific riddles. Harry is not singing on this CD (he was hiking the Redwoods with an unnamed red-head), but boy, guess who is here: John Sebastian, Bill Keith and Jay Ungar and Molly Mason! If you missed purchasing this must-have CD through the Scholastic Inc. Book clubs, here's your chance.

And now for the samples!

"Bellybutton Riddles" Just a shortie.  

"The Riddle Boy" A longie.  

CD  $7.95



silly songs

                                                                                                                      

Let's Sing About Silly People CD and Songbook!      Published by those cuties over at Troll Associates, this book and CD combo is a zinger, certain to please even the most ferocious kid. Illustrated by Rowan Barnes-Murphy with terrific visual humor (like the leaping mad-man in his polka-dotted strong man suit), (pronounced 'lisp') allows Steve, Harry, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason the chance to strut their stuff. Chock full of silly songs such as Miss Lucy Had a Baby, Daddy's Whiskers, My Crazy Aunt Daisy , and Mrs. Murphy's Chowder .

You can also hear a short sample of Harry singing a silly song called "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder" . Now this is a mouthful!

Or try the whole goofy version of "The Bold Fisherman".

CD $7.95

 

Songbook $7.95

 

              


   

   kookiestriddles
Steve's book "Kid's Kookiest Riddles" is put out by Sterling Publishers, a division of Barnes and Noble.  It contains hundreds of jokes, riddles and other nonsense.                             

Here are some examples:

If I made $300 dollars and I gave you half, what would you have?  A heart attack!
How can you avoid getting parking tickets? Take the windshield wipers off your car!

The sausage is a cunning bird
With feathers long and wavy
It swims about in the frying pan
And makes its nest in gravy

Two antennae got married. The wedding was awful but the reception was great!

  
Available in hard or softcover. The hardcover will last about 20 years, the softcover about 2 years.

Hardcover book  $9.95

 

Softcover book $4.95  

 



Mr. potatohead

This is the latest of Steve's jokebooks.
Published by Sterling, it contains lots and lots of pages with lots and lots of funny stories, jokes and other nonsense.

Here are some examples:

Don't sweat the small petty things, and don't pet the small sweaty things
I have three eyes, two mouths and four noses, what am I?  A big fat liar!

I is for the Idaho
Potato Idahoans grow
Can Mexicans in Mexico
Grow Idahos?
Ida know.

Knock, Knock. Who's there? Picasso. Picasso who? Picasso of you I'm telling these jokes!



Book $4.95  

 


R is for the radish
Radishes are reddish
And Russians really relish
A radish when they're famished!

ABC's

The New York Times wrote "A simple and beautifully illustrated new book by Steve Charney and David Goldbeck, "The ABC's of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond" is one good way to interest youngsters in these most nutritious foods...Part 1 is a series of easy-reader alphabet poems about common and uncommon produce from apples to zucchini and including (wild) xemenia for the "X" page. Part 2 offers a host  of enticing food facts, recipes and fun..."

Book- $11.95
 

 





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