Your favorite comedian?
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+1 Excellent Stuff!
Rodney Dangerfield (RIP)
George Carlin (RIP)
Lewis Black
and Greg Giraldo (RIP)
George Carlin (RIP)
Lewis Black
and Greg Giraldo (RIP)
David Steinberg has a show on Showtime where he interviews comedians (Inside Comedy) and Chris Rock made an insightful comment regarding Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor (both of whom tear me up). He pointed out that while both were all time greats, what Bill Cosby did, and still does, was so hard that no one imitates him. Rock said that he does a little Pryor in his routines, Eddie Murphy did a little and so on. No one, however, does Cosby and he claims it's because it too difficult.
Anyway my favorites:
Jack Benny (watch his old TV show, he kills)
Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor
Anyway my favorites:
Jack Benny (watch his old TV show, he kills)
Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor
Jim Gaffigan
John Caparulo
And Kevin James (from King of Queens, which I don't really care for) has a great stand up routine.
John Caparulo
And Kevin James (from King of Queens, which I don't really care for) has a great stand up routine.
Don Rickles was on Letterman last night, and he is still hilarious and sharp as a tack.
any way, i have two camps of favorites... in one camp Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison (the raw comedians)...and in the other camp Jerry Seinfeld (kinda the thinking man's comedian IMHO) "I mean i'd love to meet the chairman of the board of mccdonalds and say to him, look, we all get it...you've sold alot of hamburgers...i'm tired of hearing about every god damn one of 'em" (and i guess those of you who are to young to remember the signs with like 90 bjillion sold wouldn't get it.)
Why do so many comedians think they have to talk dirty to be funny? Look at the old I Love Lucy's, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, i.e. no swearing or potty mouth but so funny you could not stop laughing. I don't know, maybe it is a generational thing. Borat, making fun of others and getting laughs at someone else's expense is not funny. Again, maybe generational. I saw part of the Sasha Baron Cohen movie where he was making fun of some friends of mine at Alabama OCS. Not Funny. He had no clue as to purpose of what happens there, but he was there to make fun of it. If I am going to get a laugh at someones expense, it is going to be at my expense.
+ 1, especially when he's with Mel Blanc or Frank Nelson.
Anytime Jimmy and Gloria Stewart would appear (they were his TV next-door neighboors) were highlights.
A whole bunch of the posts here comment on the question of why do so many comedians feel they have to be "dirty" or use "foul language" in order to be funny. I don't think that's the right question. Comedians are either funny or not; using foul language won't make them so. The real question is why there are so many funny comedians who use foul language (pryor, murphy, bruce,rock louis ck, black, carlin etc). But that should be the topic of another thread.
I find Cohen to be a mean spirited comedian.
Also a cheap shot artist.
For example, how hard is it to make fun of some drunk frat boys.
Ahhh, I know I belong when only one person so far has listed the insipid and derivative Russell Peters.
Funny how these things are... Sarah Silverman is at or near the top of my list while Robin Williams ranks at the very bottom, even below Russell Peters.
+1 I hope he can get back to his circa 2000 form.
I've seen some vintage footage of a young Joan Rivers doing her thing and it was just awful, simply awful. I wonder if she attained such heights in the industry primarily for being a loudmouth and foulmouth in a skirt at a time when the stage was ruled by men.
Great point. And while I do agree with you, there's something to be said for crude language and taboo subject matter that works as a means, not an end. Genuine wit and intelligence can shine if framed with the right trash talk. People like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sarah Silverman and Dave Chappelle do it right.
Funny how these things are... Sarah Silverman is at or near the top of my list while Robin Williams ranks at the very bottom, even below Russell Peters.
+1 I hope he can get back to his circa 2000 form.
I've seen some vintage footage of a young Joan Rivers doing her thing and it was just awful, simply awful. I wonder if she attained such heights in the industry primarily for being a loudmouth and foulmouth in a skirt at a time when the stage was ruled by men.
Great point. And while I do agree with you, there's something to be said for crude language and taboo subject matter that works as a means, not an end. Genuine wit and intelligence can shine if framed with the right trash talk. People like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sarah Silverman and Dave Chappelle do it right.
Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle (I'm rich beee-y.....tchhh!!!), Jim Carey, and Jo Koy.
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Richard Pryor, God rest his soul...
George Carlin RIP
I'm related to Andy Kaufman.
