Favourite comedians

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally posted by nicodemus

Also kudos to whoever tipped the hat to Jerry Clower.

HAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

My mom and dad had some of his albums. My favorite is the piece on redneck manners: "Boy, if I told you once, I've told you a hunnerd times: lick the knife before you stick it back in the butter."

Saw Lewis Black this weekend. He was in good form. Funny, and he'd make a cup of coffee nervous.

[whirlwind]

George Carlin
Football has the block, the blitz, the bomb, the interception, the tackle... baseball has the bunt.

Steven Wright
My house is on the median strip of a freeway. It's nice, and they mow my lawn for me, but when I leave the driveway I have to be going 75 miles an hour.

Chris Rock
Dad, I broke my leg!
Get out the Robitussin!

Emo Phillips
I was babysitting one day, and we decided to go to the zoo, and I was pushing them along, and the babies were crying and screaming, because I forgot to bring along the stroller...

[ruudboy]

Chris Rock-Toss salad man.

[dcsiouxfan]

Tom Lehrer- not so much a comedian as a satirist from the 50's and 60's.

[GianPaolo]

DANE COOK!!!!!!

Pattan oswalt
Chris Rock
Dave Chappele
Mario Cantone
Carlos mencia
Chris tucker
Colin Mochrie
Ryan stiles

[Frieslander]

Lewis Black
Chris Rock
David Cross

[ForeverRed]

There is George Carlin.......

Then there is everyone else........That's all folks!

[Ictar]

Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, they always make me laugh.

I've seen Carlos Mencia's show a few times on Comedy Central, and it only made me laugh once. The bit about Mexicans in space and it shows them on a space walk, and one of them asks, "Hey, does this mean we get our green cards?" Other than that, I haven't found him to be very funny.

[Toon³]

Ross Noble.

Owner of quite possibly the worlds greatests anicdote.

[sarabella]

No love for Dave Attell? His Insomniac show was great.

[acolombi]

Russell Peters (an Indocanadian), a lot of you in the US have probably never heard of him but he is huge in Canada right now. Check him out before he explodes down there.

Edit: BTW the only reason that I mention that he is Indocanadian is that if you look him up and it is some white guy (russell peters is not really an Indian name :)) you might not understand why he is so great!

[Fleetwood Mac #1]

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Zack Galifianakis

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Greg Rogell

"This is a great country, America. Do you realize it only costs 70 cents a day to sponsor a starving person and $2.99 a minute to talk dirty to somebody? One hour of phone sex will feed 259 starving people. If we can somehow get these starving people to talk dirty to us ..... "

Louis C.K. is another. The part about blowing demons in the hallway (in hell) was hilarious.

[shwantzme]

Lenny Bruce
Richard Pryor

[Fanaddict]

chris rock
jay leno
Dave chappelle

[PoshSpur]

Eddie Murphy - RAW & Delirious
Jerry Seinfeld
Dave Chappelle
Lenny Henry
Kevin Smith - Silent Bob
Stephen Wright

[Footix]

Marc Maron
Patton Oswald
Patrice O'Neal
Ted Cikowski
David Cross
Greg Giraldo

[mritalian1210]

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in ONE SENTENCE....what it does....it's illegal.



Lewis Black

[SirManchester]

1. George Carlin

2. Jerry Seinfeld

3. Bill Maher

4. Eddie Murphy

5. Dave Chapelle

[billyireland]

In no particular order:

Tommy Tiernan (hilarious... the only person on the Just For Laughs Tour to be asked to do a full set 2 years running)
Zach Galifaniakis
Mitch Hedberg
Bill Bailey
Jack Dee (unbelievalbe that I haven't seen him mentioned yet!)
Dennis Leary & Bill Hicks (they're pretty damn similar, tbh)

Also, I saw this one guy on the just For Laughs festival once. He was American, had quite whiney voice (quite like Ray Romano), and he didn't face the audience directly... instead he stood at a kind of diagnol angle to them, looking sideways. He also had his hand to his face nearly the whole time, and told some strange anecdotal type jokes. If anybody can remember his name, I'll owe you big. The guy was hilarious.

[MikeLastort2]

Dave Attell is one of my favorites. Ditto for Lewis Black.

In fact, my wife and I saw the Comedy Central tour they did a few years back which featured Mitch Hedberg too. That was probably Mitch's last tour.