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Just Curious as to who makes you die laughing, I would have done a poll but i don't know how....
:D :p :) ;)

Hmm... Dave Chapelle or Lewis Black
but i also like Ellen Degeneres

Jon Stewart. The Daily Show pwns all!

there are too many hilarious comedians for a poll
lewis black, frank caliendo, that one hippy stoner looking guy that talks in halting sentences, steven lynch, adam sandler

I've said this twelve billion times before.
One of these two. Both are equally genius.

Bill Bailey, or Bill Hicks.

Just Curious as to who makes you die laughing, I would have done a poll but i don't know how....
:D :p :) ;)
You can only do polls when you begin the thread. At the bottom, there is an option for polls.

Stewart, Rock and Cho kick ass.

oh yeah i forgot ron white

Jasper Carrott's very good...does John Cleese count? He's brilliant, too.

And I have to agree; Bill Bailey's a genius.

that one hippy stoner looking guy that talks in halting sentences
Mitch Hedgeberg? He's so funny!
But the best was Richard Pryor, I don't know if you meant current Dem, but i don't care :D

You can only do polls when you begin the thread. At the bottom, there is an option for polls.

I'm sure that in the "thread tools" section in the top right of the screen, there's an "add poll" option, if you're editing the first post.

that one hippy stoner looking guy that talks in halting sentences

Mitch Hedberg?

"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, and I didn't, but I wanted a regular banana later, so yeah."

Edit: Damn, someone beat me to it, but I was still the first to spell it right.

There are many: Dennis Miller, Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Jeff Foxworthy, ( forgot his first name ) Harvey, and many others.

Some of my most favorite comedians are now gone: Milton Berle, Red Skelton, the inimitable Red Foxx, and the one I love most beacause of his humor and his support for American military personnel - Bob Hope.

Jethro :D

There's too many good ones to choose just one.
George Carlin
Dave Attel
Lewis Black
Steven Wright
Chris Rock
and old Eddie Murphy (from Delerious and Raw) are my top 6

Jon Stewart. The Daily Show pwns all!

Absolutely agreed. (Plus, it's pretty cool that he went to my high school and was taught by my English teacher... not when I was there, of course, but still! :D )

I'm also a fan of Billy Crystal, but he can be more hit or miss.

were george w bush a comedian he would be a genius, sadly hes not

Mitch Hedberg?

"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, and I didn't, but I wanted a regular banana later, so yeah."

Edit: Damn, someone beat me to it, but I was still the first to spell it right.
I saw Mitch Hedberg open for Lewis Black and Dave Attel in Philadelphia one new year's eve. He was so wasted he couldn't do his act properly. Tried to do the same joke on about three separate occasions during his set. He was still funny though.

I, too, like Mitch Hedburg. I saw him when he was just starting out doing a crappy comedy competition in Sacramento where you got in for $2 if you wrote a radio stations name one a piece of junk. He was funny then, he's funnier now.

I like Jake Johanson, David Cross, the last time I saw Patton Oswald it was pretty funny, I've been a Jon Stewart fan for since Lunch with Jon-or more so with his short lived syndicated talk show, Lewis Black, Janeane Garfalo(sp), some more I think I've forgotten.

Big cats, like Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin etc.

I, too, like Mitch Hedburg. I saw him when he was just starting out doing a crappy comedy competition in Sacramento where you got in for $2 if you wrote a radio stations name one a piece of junk. He was funny then, he's funnier now.

I like Jake Johanson, David Cross, the last time I saw Patton Oswald it was pretty funny, I've been a Jon Stewart fan for since Lunch with Jon-or more so with his short lived syndicated talk show, Lewis Black, Janeane Garfalo(sp), some more I think I've forgotten.

Big cats, like Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin etc.
Damn, how'd I forget Bill Cross????

Damn, how'd I forget Bill Cross????
Bill Hicks or David Cross? Or have you combined the two into one geneticly engineered super comedian? (which would rock)

Rick Mercer.

Jon Stewart. The Daily Show pwns all!
Jon Stewart!

i love Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart also. But I seriously do love Kevin James. He is funny to me. Patton Oswalt (also on King of Queens), also does hilarious stand-up. :)

Seinfeld, Chappelle, and Carson. Each one from a very different comedian category. If they fused they would be the super comedian. :D

I prefer Conan O'brien! :D

I prefer Conan O'brien! :D

Ugh.

Jon Stewart!
jon stewart isnt that good of a standup comedian but hes a great sit down comedian, to copy the people who listed the 100 greatest comedians (though i dont agree with alot of their list)

Ugh.
What's wrong with conan?

Eddie Izzard, Peter Kay, George Carlin...there's just too many!!!

John Stewart!!! With Jerry Seinfeld coming up right behind and Dave Chappelle not too far behind that.

Sam Kinison http://www.kinison.com/

my faverate are:
Victora Wood
Jasper Carrot
Jack Dee
Bill Bayie

What's wrong with conan?

He's just so... lame.

And I know that all the best comics were nerds in high school, but Conan looks like he hasn't quite gotten over that... he tries too hard.

EDIT: er, I guess I should make that middle school. By high school people started to realize the nerds were the more interesting ones anyway.

were george w bush a comedian he would be a genius, sadly hes not

I think he's funnier when he's trying to be serious. I laugh when he's speaking, but not when he jokes. :p

In no particular order

Ricky Gervais
Bill Bailey
Bill Hicks
Billy Connelly (been in bad taste recently though)
Lee Evans
Dave Spikey
Dave Gorman

He's just so... lame.

And I know that all the best comics were nerds in high school, but Conan looks like he hasn't quite gotten over that... he tries too hard.

EDIT: er, I guess I should make that middle school. By high school people started to realize the nerds were the more interesting ones anyway.
Well, he WILL be replacing Leno in 2009...

He's just so... lame.

And I know that all the best comics were nerds in high school, but Conan looks like he hasn't quite gotten over that... he tries too hard.

EDIT: er, I guess I should make that middle school. By high school people started to realize the nerds were the more interesting ones anyway.

You are too harsh, other than Jon Stewart, Conan does the best interviews of any talk show host. His monologues are a struggle, but how many monologues are good to begin with?

Well, he WILL be replacing Leno in 2009...
and i foresee the show bombing

You wouldn't think it but def Jam's Queens of Comedy DVD is actually pretty funny.

Maybe I was just wicked stoned last weekend, but watching Monique, a 300 hundred pound sack of quivering cellulite, scream and rant about "hatefull skinny bitches" and how they need to "eat a chicken wing or sumptin" was the funniest damn thing I ever saw. You may want to turn off the DVD though before she gets into her bit about how much she loves giving her man rim jobs and the importance of giving your man a bath before doing so.

I like Southern American (South U.S. States) humor and I saw a movie calld The Blue Collar Comedy Tour or something like that and it was very funny.

You are too harsh, other than Jon Stewart, Conan does the best interviews of any talk show host. His monologues are a struggle, but how many monologues are good to begin with?

Jon Stewart's monologues are good... great... f'ing hilarious, even.

And Billy Crystal can ad lib like no other!

I've said this twelve billion times before.
One of these two. Both are equally genius.

Bill Bailey, or Bill Hicks.

ditto, totally different styles but both have some grasp of a bigger truth.

I've said this twelve billion times before.
One of these two. Both are equally genius.

Bill Bailey, or Bill Hicks.
Bill Bailey's fine, but that needy woman always wanting him to come home puts a damper on everything.....






he-cause, you see-there's this.....well, I'm not making anyones favorite comedian list.......

George Carlin
The Blue Collar Guys (Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy)
Johnny Carson (May he rest in peace)

LEWIS BLACK PWNS J00 ALL!!!!!!!!1111111shiftoneshiftone

Alive; Eddie Izzard or Bill Bailey.

Dead; Bill Hicks. No contest imo.