Cenac began to give his work a New York perspective after moving here in 2008. For the last two years, he's done a residency at the Gowanus club Littlefield. There, he developed the idea for the "Brooklyn" special. The vinyl release mines a deep passion. "I've always appreciated comedy albums from the '60s and '70s — stuff by Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and Dick Gregory," he says. "When you hear those records on vinyl you don't just hear the comedian. You hear the sound of the room. We put mikes in to capture the sound of the laughter. The different laughs become characters in the show."