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.
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!
Zack Galifianakis 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.
Eddie Murphy - RAW & Delirious Jerry Seinfeld Dave Chappelle Lenny Henry Kevin Smith - Silent Bob Stephen Wright
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.
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.
Ah, nice one... rep to you, good sir! Turns out it's actually Jeremy 'Hotz' and he is Canadian, I always thought he was a New Yorker for some reason. I just find his self-depricating humour hilarious. For those who may not be as familiar with him...
That spelling error is a little embaressing since I acctually went to see him on the last Just for Laughs tour that came to town, basically just for him and Russell Peters. If I liked someone enough to spend money on him you would think that I would remember how to spell his name!
One Australian addition here -- Mick Molloy. Mick's got a dry, sarcastic sense of humor that just bites away at the inner reaches of one's soul, and isn't afraid to say what he thinks, no matter how controversial it might be, as long as he's funny. In addition to showing off his comic acting range in a couple of recent Australian flicks such as "Crackerjack" and "Bad Eggs" (and two movies on DVD worth making overseas purchases, mind you, they're that good), he can be heard most weekday afternoons from 12 noon Melbourne time on Triple M radio here. One sample from his "Tough Love" show, from some months back, about Paris Hilton's dog (and I'll use the "result" tags in the event that this could offend)... [result]"Paris Hilton's dog is pregnant. Yeah, I know. I saw the video. "Amazingly, there was less 'doggy-style' in that video than in Paris' video."[/result] Funny stuff.
Absolutely! One must get a copy/copies of "Crackerjack"/"Bad Eggs" -- even if you have to go to Amazon.com to do it. You won't regret it...
Out of interest -- which flick? Or both? Lots of quotable lines in each one. And in that spirit, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy are quite funny as well.