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Your favorite comedians?
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Russell Peters
Craig Ferguson
Ricky Gervais
Lewis Black
Eliza Schesinger (she's got some standup on Netflix ATM, take a watch, it's worth it)
Jimmy Fallon
Craig Ferguson
Ricky Gervais
Lewis Black
Eliza Schesinger (she's got some standup on Netflix ATM, take a watch, it's worth it)
Jimmy Fallon
I just saw Carrot Top in vegas, he was quite funny, I also like:
Jim Jeffries
Adam Carolla
Joe Rogan
Pete Holmes
Bill Burr
Doug Stanhope
And many more...
I listen to/watch comedy as much or more than music, I love it!!
Jim Jeffries
Adam Carolla
Joe Rogan
Pete Holmes
Bill Burr
Doug Stanhope
And many more...
I listen to/watch comedy as much or more than music, I love it!!
Henny Youngman, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Jackie Mason...
Just kidding. Honestly though, I don't have any idea what comedians are out there these days. I watch virtually zero television, and haven't since I was a teen. Late night talk shows are where you would see comedians and the last time that I watched late night TV Johnny Carson was still on the air.
Just kidding. Honestly though, I don't have any idea what comedians are out there these days. I watch virtually zero television, and haven't since I was a teen. Late night talk shows are where you would see comedians and the last time that I watched late night TV Johnny Carson was still on the air.
All time ???
Redd Foxx..."been my brother it woulda crushed his skull"
Richard Pryor
Paul Mooney
Rudy Ray Moore
Dave Chappelle
Eddie & Charlie Murphy
Huggy Lowdown
Redd Foxx..."been my brother it woulda crushed his skull"
Richard Pryor
Paul Mooney
Rudy Ray Moore
Dave Chappelle
Eddie & Charlie Murphy
Huggy Lowdown
Just what I've seen on TV. Benny Hill, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie (Fry and Laurie), the Monty Python gang, Peter Sellers, and all the Britcoms on PBS. Why? For one simple reason - they're funny as hell!
I'm constantly listening to and watching stand up shows. I love them all so it hard to pick the best. My current favorite, however, is Harland Williams.
I really don't pay enough attention to stand up comedy to have an up-to-date opinion on it, but what the heck, it's a slow snow day, so...
I was a huge George Carlin fan in the very early 1970s...then he got a bit too predictable in the early 1980s so I stopped liking him...and then he got wonderfully un-comedic, more like a philosopher/political commentator/poet in the early 1990s, so I became a huge fan again.
Nearly every routine I've heard by Billy Connoly, Steven Wright, and Margaret Cho has had me absolutely roaring in hysterical unstoppable laughter for 10, 15 minutes at a time...though, with maybe one exception (Cho's "Ass Master" routine) I can't remember a single joke 24 hours later.
Conversely, there are a few lines from routines by Jake Johannsen and Elaine Boosler that I heard once 20+ years ago that I can still recite verbatim.
I was a huge George Carlin fan in the very early 1970s...then he got a bit too predictable in the early 1980s so I stopped liking him...and then he got wonderfully un-comedic, more like a philosopher/political commentator/poet in the early 1990s, so I became a huge fan again.
Nearly every routine I've heard by Billy Connoly, Steven Wright, and Margaret Cho has had me absolutely roaring in hysterical unstoppable laughter for 10, 15 minutes at a time...though, with maybe one exception (Cho's "Ass Master" routine) I can't remember a single joke 24 hours later.
Conversely, there are a few lines from routines by Jake Johannsen and Elaine Boosler that I heard once 20+ years ago that I can still recite verbatim.
