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04-01-2012, 08:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | | Stand Up Comedy much?
Hey, I'm a HUGE Stand Up fan and have been for decades. Anyone else around here a Stand Up comedy fan?
Who's your favorite comedian?
What's your favorite bit?
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The list of comics I like is probably too long to post here. There's something that I find I like from pretty much every comic out there. 
YouTube links are a good idea too. 
So who do you like for laughs?
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Originally Posted by Gopherbassist  I'd laugh, but you can get really sick from that. | |
04-01-2012, 08:13 PM
| | | | I love too much stand up comedy classic to new school
Hedberg to Attel to Rickles to Newhart to Carlin to Regan and back again.
I just saw a special from a newer comic named Arj Barker that I thought was really clever stuff, like Demetri Martin in a way.
Can't stand Joe Rogan / Carlos Mencia stuff nor can I stomach Dane Cook and the over the top but just no point comedy. Make it gross, make it cerebral, but at least make a point.
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04-01-2012, 08:15 PM
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#10 Kathleen Madigan
#9 Andrew "DICE" Clay
#8 Kat Williams
#7 Lewis Black
#6 Russel Brand
#5 Dennis Leary
#4 Doug Stanhope
#3 George Carlin
#2 Sam Kennison
#1 Bill Hicks
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04-01-2012, 08:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | Demetri Martin hasn't done much for me but I do like some of his stuff. I like Dane Cook alright.
A comic who's stuff seems a bit random and seems to lack a point is Zach Galifianakis...I mean his stand up stuff. He's pretty funny in movies (e.g. Hangover).
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Originally Posted by Gopherbassist I'd laugh, but you can get really sick from that. |
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04-01-2012, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ZeroSymbolic Big time Stand Up fan. This is my cream of the crop
#10 Kathleen Madigan
#9 Andrew "DICE" Clay
#8 Kat Williams
#7 Lewis Black
#6 Russel Brand
#5 Dennis Leary
#4 Doug Stanhope
#3 George Carlin
#2 Sam Kennison
#1 Bill Hicks | Lots of good names in there! Madigan is awesome! Black, Leary, and Carlin are pretty freakin' hilarious too.
I've been getting into some of the newer guys (or newer to me) like Japser Redd and some others.
One I recently heard that killed me was a bit Ted Alexandro did on fast food when he said,
"I think ALL the meals at Taco Bell should be called #2"
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04-01-2012, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Huge Mitch Hedberg fan. Also love Tim Vine (nothing like a bunch of English one-liners)
Gabriel Iglesias is pretty good too.
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04-01-2012, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by totallyfrozen Lots of good names in there! Madigan is awesome! Black, Leary, and Carlin are pretty freakin' hilarious too.
I've been getting into some of the newer guys (or newer to me) like Japser Redd and some others.
One I recently heard that killed me was a bit Ted Alexandro did on fast food when he said,
"I think ALL the meals at Taco Bell should be called #2" | You have to see Doug Stanhope's No Refunds. Because it is the most extreme piece of comedy I have ever seen. You got to see it with an open mind, and be willing to take some jokes that are in bad taste to put it lightly, but nonetheless he is funny.
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04-01-2012, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ZeroSymbolic
You have to see Doug Stanhope's No Refunds. Because it is the most extreme piece of comedy I have ever seen. You got to see it with an open mind, and be willing to take some jokes that are in bad taste to put it lightly, but nonetheless he is funny.
| I like him.
Louis C.K. is pretty hilarious. Can't repeat most of his bits here, but he's got a great one about all the amazing technology we have now, yet all anyone does is complain about it. |
04-01-2012, 09:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | Old school:
Bob Hope
Bob Newhart
Phyllis Diller
George Burns
Jackie Mason
Milton Berle
Johnny Carson
Jackie Gleason
The Smothers Brothers
Shecky Green
Don Rickles
Red Buttons
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04-01-2012, 10:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: QLD, Australia | | Bill Hicks is a big favourite of mine.
Someone else who never fails to entertain me is Ross Noble. The way he can sort of prattle on about some weird tangent for the duration of an entire show just astounds me. Does a fantastic job of putting his ADD to good use Ross Noble Muffins - YouTube
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04-01-2012, 10:33 PM
| | | | Seems like the best are all dead.
I love Mitch Hedberg, George Carlin, Bill Hicks as previously mentioned. One of my all time fave's is Richard Jeni, also no longer with us
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04-01-2012, 10:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Campbell River, BC, Canada | | | Big Carlin fan here!
He's one of those rare few comedians who makes you think while you laugh.
I also like what he thinks we should do with golf courses 8)
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04-01-2012, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Portland, OR | | | Here are some of my favorites:
Steven Wright
Jim Gaffigan
Eddie Izzard
Bill Cosby
Mitch Hedberg
Andy Kauffman
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04-02-2012, 12:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | Love some Doug Stanhope. "Bobbie Barnette" is a classic bit.
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04-02-2012, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Hampshire | | | Carlin is #1 for me.
Louis C.K. is next in line for me. I also like Gabriel Iglesias and Jim Gaffigan.
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04-02-2012, 12:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New York City | | Classics: Carlin, and Hedberg. Carlin's "7 dirty words" is just great and this is my favorite Hedberg bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2491LucLa1g
Oh and for more recent stuff, Dave Chappelle! His Killin' Them Softly show just gets me every single time lol...and Louis C.K. is also brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
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04-02-2012, 12:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Santa Cruz CA | | | +1 Bill Hicks owns all.
I've taken **** for my love of Joe Rogan (you know who you are!). I shall do so again.
I saw Brian Posehn for the 6th or 7th time 2-3 weeks ago at Cobbs in SF. He's always great, especially since he had his kid.
I've seen too many to list, but loved Mitch Hedberg, Patton Oswald, Aziz Ansari, Zack Galiafankis, and Michael Ian Black was great, despite having a string of terrible TV shows over the last fifteen years.
Oh! Oh! And Arj Barker did a 2hr set and absolutely KILLED! He is not to be missed. Seriously one of the best shows ever.
I tend to hit Cobbs once a month or so. The Punchline in SF doesn't get a lot of great acts, and I don't much like the seating there. There's a couple of random places in the east bay, but not much (Norm MacDonald at the San Jose Improv was pretty cool, and Doug Benson at... eh... somewhere in Dublin... good show; tiny venue). |
04-02-2012, 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by stratovani | Wow! You're traveling the WAY BACK MACHINE for those names. They're all GREAT talent too. One name I'd add to your list is Woody Allen and who can leave out Bill Cosby? One of the best, IMO.
Oh, and don't forget Jonathan Winters and Rodney Dangerfield.
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04-02-2012, 05:31 AM
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Jim Norton
Doug Stanhope
Bill Burr
Joe Rogan
Dave Attell
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04-02-2012, 06:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Loves me some stand up, even small local gigs can often be quite funny (you do get some terrible ones though).
I'd agree with most of the names here.
Quite like John Bishop's stuff too.
While more spoken word than stand up, Henry Rollins can be pretty damned funny (and a very angry/ranty).
And from watching recorded stand ups:
Eddie Murphy, back in the day was spectacular.
Surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet, but I thought Richard Pryor was brilliant.
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