Who is your favorite Comedian?

[Bard2dbone]

Edward Blake...

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*golf clap* Well Played.

Most of my favorite comics are dead. It's some kind of creepy sign of approval in a few of their cases.

Some, like Carlin, I loved for years and then he died.

Others, like Bill Hicks and Mitch Hedberg, I heard and loved their material, but didn't know who it was from initially. Then I get to know their names and give them proper credit...and they die.

One of my co-workers back on the ambulance used to do Hicks' line about being born somewhere besides America. He'd boil it down to just suddenly yelling four or fives times "**** in Paris! ****in Paris!" I didn't know WHAT his problem was at first. And my son would say" I am morally opposed to picket signs. But I have no idea how to express my disapproval." I recognized the sources as comics that I didn't know well.

Then I got to know their stuff. Then they died.

Crap.

 

[Munjibunga]

Dead: Johnny Carson
Alive: Billy Crystal

 

[gold_member_321]

Maines own Bob Marley.

 

[Marlat]

Jesse Joyce

www.jessejoyce.com

A ridiculous headshot from the 90's:

 

[sandmangeck]

no SAM KINISON? sam kinison, bill hicks, dave chapelle

 

[cheezewiz]

Artie Lange and Uncle Larry Reeb.

 

[Mike Money]

mike birbiglia



cant spell his name, which is his most common joke.

 

[iamthebassplayr]

Steven Write and Mitch Hedberg.... and not like a stand up comedian, but Jack Handy quotes are also amazing.

Got to see Mitch a couple months before he died.

 

[iamthebassplayr]

Mitch Hedberg and Stephen Lynch.

I still remember the night I saw them together. I couldn't breathe.

I saw them together too, it was great.

 

[Oric]

If you consider him a comedian (and I do), Kurt Vonnegut. His commentary on life is dead-on, and hilarious.

 

[sarcastro83]

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[ChiliPepper]

The one and only :

George Carlin ( RIP )

 

[marcray]

Doug Stanhope

 

[Phalex]

Michael Richards. That guy knows how to improvise!!

Kidding, just kidding.....

I gotta go with Bill Cosby. I grew up listening to his albums, and he's still out there being funny today.

I love all the old dead guys too.

Buddy Hackett

Redd Foxx

Richard Prior

Rodney Dangerfield

Don Rickles

They all had a hand in warping my young mind!

 

[DigMe]

For me it's a tie between Demetri Martin and Brian Regan. Jim Gaffigan usually makes me laugh too.

I gotta go with Bill Cosby. I grew up listening to his albums, and he's still out there being funny today.

Cosby was huge in my family growing up. We would listen to his records and my brother and I were constantly referencing his routines. Of course we all gathered 'round for The Cosby Show once a week too. He was kind of an iconic figure of my childhood.

bc

 

[sonicvi]

I can't stand Jim Gaffigan, that little voice of the audience thing he does after every other line just annoys the hell out of me.

Some of my faves - Patton Oswalt, Demitri Martin, Eugene Mirman, Mitch Fatel, Janeanne Garofalo, Todd Barry, Seinfeld, Hedberg, Carlin...

 

[buzzbass]

Ron White

 

[TheXym]

Mitch Hedberg, RIP
Doug Stanhope is good as well
Brian Regan
Pablo Francisco (his movie voice and karaoke bits in particular)
Craig Shoemaker (especially the "Lovemaster" routine)

 

[plexibass]

jeff dunham

 

[Atoz]

Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby. Throwbacks from the days when you couldn't fall back on profanity. Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason, and Milton Berle were pretty funny too, in their own ways. Don't even get me going on the Three Stooges.... hilarious.

As far as current comedy is concerned, whoever said Bob Odenkirk, that's a big +1. Mr. Show was great.