favourite comedian
Soviestan
16-09-2007, 22:11
who's yours?
Layarteb
16-09-2007, 22:15
While I love George Carlin and Richard Pryor, I have to say that Dane Cook is off the wall hilarious and I laugh my ass off listening to Russell Peters.
Cannot think of a name
16-09-2007, 22:17
I likes-
Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, David Cross, Jake Johanson, Lewis Black, I don't know...A few others I can't think of right now. Payton Oswald, Brian Posein. Or however you spell his last name. That bearded little freak they hang out with, too. Whatever his name is.
Soviestan
16-09-2007, 22:18
That bearded little freak they hang out with, too. Whatever his name is.
Zach Galafanakis.
Grave_n_idle
16-09-2007, 22:31
I guess we are talking about stand-up performance?
Eddie Izzard, obviously.
Jack Dee
Ricky Gervais
Paul Merton.
(Just off the top of my head - first ones that came to mind).
EDIT: Rowan Atkinson. (d'oh)
Faxanavia
16-09-2007, 22:40
Jim Bagleducia.
Greater Valia
16-09-2007, 22:46
Gina Yashere (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EbKb7TsKmp8).
Call to power
16-09-2007, 22:46
Bill Bailey etc (you have my sympathy's Soviestan with your inferior American comedians)
Philosopy
16-09-2007, 22:48
Stephen Fry's good.
Lunatic Goofballs
16-09-2007, 23:07
Sam Kinison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1GjyrQiSRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockyHP3kV9o
:)
Deus Malum
16-09-2007, 23:10
Lewis Black
Jeff Dunham. He's a ventriloquist. Hilarious. Been on Comedy Central a few times.
Oh, and nothing can every possibly beat Robin Williams doing stand-up.
Soviet, you do know that Mitch Hedberg is dead, right?
Soviestan
16-09-2007, 23:12
Soviet, you do know that Mitch Hedberg is dead, right?
yes, sadly. It doesn't make him any less funny. youtube him, the guy is(was) the best.
Soviestan. He makes me giggle.
Intangelon
16-09-2007, 23:13
Geroge Carlin
Lewis Black
Bill Hicks
Eddie Izzard
Chris Rock
Jim Norton (his bit on Terry Schiavo is the ultimate in guilty laughter)
Richard Pryor
Carlos Mencia (BEFORE the TV show)
Dan St. Paul
Pablo Francisco
Robin Williams
Kathy Griffin
Jim Gaffigan
Dimitri Martin!
Johnny B Goode
16-09-2007, 23:32
who's yours?
George Carlin or Rodney Dangerfield.
IL Ruffino
17-09-2007, 00:06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRPIm42xYPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DT41m86N4
I see your puppetry (an entry bet at best), and raise you a real comedian! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eJA9RPX9mRY)
Fleckenstein
17-09-2007, 00:38
Note one of the quotes in my sig for one. . .
Gaffigan, Martin, Williams, Caliendo, Jimmy Carr, uhh. . .
Mystical Skeptic
17-09-2007, 00:42
BOB NELSON RULES!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA&mode=related&search=
"It ain't no coffee cup - it ain't no Dixie cup - and you certainly don't want to be drinking nothing out of it!"
Theoretical Physicists
17-09-2007, 00:52
On the given list, I would say Sarah Silverman. Not on the list, I'll have to go with John Cleese.
Copiosa Scotia
17-09-2007, 00:56
Of those listed, Mitch Hedberg.
Of all comedians ever, Bob Newhart.
Of all modern-day comedians, Brian Regan.
Splintered Yootopia
17-09-2007, 00:58
Maz Jobrani.
Bottomboys
17-09-2007, 01:13
Lewis Black
I second that - he reminds me so much of me when I have a damn good rant about the state of affairs in the world :)
Deus Malum
17-09-2007, 01:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRPIm42xYPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DT41m86N4
Yay-uh.
Jeff Dunham is hilarious.
Also, change your sig. We've definitely lynched you in previous games.
The Infinite Dunes
17-09-2007, 01:18
Gina Yashere (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EbKb7TsKmp8).You bastard that was going to be my suggestion.
Existing reality
17-09-2007, 01:23
I can't decide between Alan Alda, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Roy Blunt Jr, Peter Sagal, and Tom+Ray Magliozzi.
ZachsMind
17-09-2007, 01:44
OOC:
Of those listed, I'd have to say George Carlin. However, I CHALLENGE THE SANCTITY OF THE LIST! I also waggle a finger in your general direction. There's easily a couple hundred comedians better than most of the names on the list. Carlin could stand toe to toe with the best of them though. You know why? When he was a child he was raised in New Jersey. HE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! That'll make any comedian hardy.
IC: We have possum pelts! Very warm very soft! You buy?
Antigonal
17-09-2007, 02:32
I like too many to count, Brian Regan, Jim Gaffigan, and Pablo Fransisco are all great along with a couple other comedians I think are pretty good. Dane Cook isn't half bad himself. But I'd say my all time favorites would have to be a tie between Mitch Hedberg and Demitri Martin. I voted for Mitch just because he was actually on the ballot.
Eddie Izzard, Ross Noble, Bill Bailey, and Jack Dee.
Those four together would be simply the greatest thing ever.
Lewis Black
Dave Chappelle
Cris Rock
Eddie Izzard
[NS]Click Stand
17-09-2007, 03:35
Lewis black just for the line about the horse.
Good Lifes
17-09-2007, 03:36
Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Bob Hope.
George Carlin was good about 30 years ago but hasn't written a good line since.
Chumblywumbly
17-09-2007, 03:44
Armando Iannucci.
C’mon, the man brought us Alan “back of the net” Partridge and Malcom “as useless as a marzipan dildo” Tucker, a signed confession from OJ, and footage of the assassination of Tony Blair. What’s not to love?
Honourable mentions go to Eddie Izzard and Stewart Lee. Two funny men; one in a frock and lippy.
Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx and Zeppo Marx. Oh, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. They be oldies, but I have yet to see their match today.
New Stalinberg
17-09-2007, 03:57
Your list sucks. I mean, it really sucks.
The answers are (in no particular order):
Robbin Williams
Russell Peters
John Pinette
Steven Lynch
Dane Cook
And of course, Gabriel Iglasias (probably didn't spell that right)
NERVUN is also right, the Marx brothers are timeless comedians.
Naturality
17-09-2007, 04:01
You know what I've noticed about you, Soviestan? You're interested in the most simple things... (Big things actually) .. what we eat.. how we sleep.. who we like.... you are so interested.
Before (or at my entrance) this, you were into communism .. I never saw that, But I've seen many conversions of it with you, ppl calling you on it etc. (No Problem). What I gather tho..(I of course could very well be wrong) .. is, you just go head first into whatever it is you are studying.. you are all the way , not half assed. You've made many changes here, and will continue.. I take it you are late teens.. early twenties... ?
You have passion .. zeal. Don't burn it up.
Dane Cook is funny...if you're into young male humor..same for Stephen Lynch...
Lewis Black is funny...George Carlin makes a discussion on suicide funny...Robin Williams...
Chris Farley...who can forget the van down by the river...or the dance off for Chippendale's
There are too many greats to pick from...
Potarius
17-09-2007, 05:59
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Oh. My. God.
Did you just do put in Mitch Hedberg and leave out Lewis Black completely? Is it just me, or is there something terribly wrong with that? Don't take this personally, but honestly, old Mitchell, Mitch, Mitchum, or whatever the hell his name might be, is one of the most over-rated "comedians" of the past decade and a half, mostly because he died recently, and his fans were a bunch of acid-dropping mush brains. Sorry to break it to you, but the man was barely funny, usually not worth a chuckle, if I have anything to say about it.
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Aside from the overly-negative tone of the above paragraph, I largely agree with what it says.