All-time great standups

[Johnny Panic]

Who's your favourite?

Mine is Bill Hicks. Passionate, funny as hell and even on an off night funnier than pretty much everyone else in comedy. I've heard a couple of George Carlin albums, and he's cool too. A little to-and-fro, but good.

Honourable mention to Woody Allen, who used to be damn funny.

[Rockmejohnny]

I'm definitely going with David Cross on that one... because all of his comedy is witty and you KNOW he makes up half of it when he's up there... honorable mention to ... well, everyone who can actually get up there and try. But David Cross? He's just my king.

[dane atkinson]

i like old school george carlin (occupation foole was the first album i heard from him, and it still cracks me up) and eddie murphy of course...too bad hes not funny anymore

[OddFellows001]

Perhaps not the greatest in the span of time, but as far as most well-written, interesting, and as a piece of stand-up/one-man-showiness, I have to give a nod to Paul F. Tompkin's HBO Workspace nugget, "Driven to Drink." If you've seen it, you've experienced something funny, sad, and I think we can agree a little angry. Tompkins plays the role of a quiet drunk who finally releases the demonic demon that is humanity's annoyance from his head. What he probably didn't mean to happen is that once you watch it enough times, you see a person onstage who isn't a character created to relay messages from some monkey at the typewriter of a comedian's mind. Instead, you get Paul F. Tompkins, who is, in case you don't have a blood kit handy, a real person. He presents the viewer with an above-average joe who is tired of being the average joe among over-rated jackasses. No matter how backwater you are, at some point or another you've looked at someone and wondered, "What the hell was that person thinking?" Mr. F Tompkins recounts his night wryly and without kid gloves; his tone is perfect for the bar setting he chose for the piece because when you're tired, thirsty, and you don't want to talk to anybody about anything, you spend about thirty minutes describing what got you to that state of mind. P.F.T. truly does come off as a bitter man at some points, but instead of it being bitter in that Sam Kinison "I can make my voice sound like this" kind of way or the Andrew Dice Clay "I can make my voice sound like this, ova-here-a" Tompkins is far more interesting because he has something to say. In the process, "Driven to Drink" lets you in on a little secret: you are very annoying no matter what you do and the best thing you can do to be less annoying is shut the hell up for five minutes so that you can see how annoying you were by seeing how annoying the people you were just talking to when you were talking are and therefore realize that nobody should talk so much about how interesting and unique they are." Whew, now I'm gonna shut up.

[Hecubus]

Lewis Black

[Stabby]

NEIL HAMBURGER!!! :eek:

Bob points him out in the audience during one of the Mr. Show episodes too!

[gerald hennessy]

Which one tough guy?

[Stabby]

It's in the Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost episode. It's at the very beginning, they come out and do the "Hey, What's up?" deal and Bob points to someone in the audience and says "Hey Neil Hamburger." :\

[gerald hennessy]

Thanks for the info

[Mystik64]

My two favorites are David Cross from the HBO special (I'm not quite as in love with the CD) and Emo Phillips.

[agent_PUNT]

Does anyone know where I can find some of Daniel Kitson's material? I had never heard of him until that David Cross interview. What is Kitson like?

[sizzlingsteaks]

Well David's sets, of course, but I also like Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, and there was a set by Kathy Griffin a few years back that was pretty funny.

[Dart Shitter]

The 3 Dave's of the Apocolypse

Attell
Chappelle
Crross

Explosivo

[SpatulaCity]

Dane Cook?
I've seen him live twice, and I laughed to the point of incontinence. Also, his CD/DVD package is one for the ages.

Brian Regan?
I used to love this guy...and then he kinda disappeared.

Also:
"The 3 Dave's of the Apocalypse" to quote...whoever the fuck it was.
Jon Stewart back in the day
Mitch Hedberg
Louis C.K.
Eddie Izzard
Jim Gaffigan

Oh wait...these are people that *I* think are hilarious....ok, so I guess that automatically makes them the GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

[improvmaniac]

Michael Feldman.

He's not really a comedian per se, but the man is funny. You can listen to his radio show every Saturday on NPR. Check his show's web site for more info:

http://www.notmuch.com/


So...

Favorite Radio Comedian: Michael Feldman
Favorite TV Comedian: Letterman...I think he still got it, and he has become so much more acerbic in his old age. I love it.
Favorite Comedy Club Comedian working da clubs today: Michael Loftus, and Wendy Liebman.

regards,

Miguel Baldoni Olivencia
http://www.outofourheads.com/miguel.html

[typsygypsy]

I love the group Stella. So very much.

Also....Janeane Garafola, of course, and Jim Gaffigan.

[MicMike3004]

My favs are the popular comedians David Cross, Jim Gaffigan, Comedyprinz, Janeane Garofalo and others...

[Stabby]

Originally posted by MicMike3004
My favs are the popular comedians David Cross, Jim Gaffigan, Comedyprinz, Janeane Garofalo and others...

Oh yeah i totally think that comedyprinz guy is fucking hysterical and i think he would fit in really well on these boards

...if only he were here
:mad:

[CptPlanet]

HAHAHAHA I don't know if I want you to stay or go Comedyprinz. I mean MicMike3004 ;) ;) ;) YOUR SECRET IS SAFE WITH ME!




You fucking pathetic shithead.

[3v3+Z]

You know, I cannot for the life of me understand the marketing strategy of being a dick. You know, things like junk mail, email spam, message board spam, high pressure salesmen who work on commission... Actually, I just lied. I DO understand that marketing strategy. It's applied EXCLUSIVELY by people who's product isn't strong enough to merit any kind of repeat business or good word-of-mouth. It's a desperate, EVIL, FUCKING PATHETIC hail-mary pass at fooling idiots into giving them money. They do it because it WORKS. Maybe it only works on one out of every 50 people or one out of every 100,000 people, but it's better odds than they'd have by relying on the "strength" of their product. Fucking scoundrels!