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Who is your favorite stand-up comic?
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Chik a Boom
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Bob Hope! No other like him.
Red Skelton was a regular at my house on Tuesday nights as a kid.
Ron Lucas, who is another wonderful ventriloquist comedian. Check out
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwJcp2Pwg3U[/ame]
I appreciate good humor without the obsenities.
Red Skelton was a regular at my house on Tuesday nights as a kid.
Ron Lucas, who is another wonderful ventriloquist comedian. Check out
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwJcp2Pwg3U[/ame]
I appreciate good humor without the obsenities.
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dsf
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I notice of all the names listed only one time was a woman mentioned. Which kind of validates my thought that women aren't funny. Not sure why, but they're not.
I bounce all over the place with Ron White, Carlin (played cards with him once) and Gilbert Gottfried. Dave Attell. Am liking Paul Mooney and Jim Jeffries for now.
I bounce all over the place with Ron White, Carlin (played cards with him once) and Gilbert Gottfried. Dave Attell. Am liking Paul Mooney and Jim Jeffries for now.
ACORN
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I case any of you are unaware, YouTube has a Dry Bar Comedy channel with lots of good comedy. A bunch of less than famous, clean, funny acts.
Bob Zany, Jeff Allen, Chad Thornberry, and Joe Devito are favorites of mine. Devito can go blue depending on the venue, but on Dry Bar he’s not.
Bob Zany, Jeff Allen, Chad Thornberry, and Joe Devito are favorites of mine. Devito can go blue depending on the venue, but on Dry Bar he’s not.
Patrick L
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John Pinette. Taken way too soon.
Sebastian is also way up there. Sinbad is pretty funny too, especially when he talks about relationships ��
Sebastian is also way up there. Sinbad is pretty funny too, especially when he talks about relationships ��
I liked Carlin in his younger days and the wife and I saw him in person at Vegas, but as he got older, his comedy became darker and more cynical until it reached a point of being too negative to be funny, at least to me. I watch a comedian to laugh, not be reminded how screwed up things are, especially those things I can't change.
Richard Prior was a hoot and comedic genius but unfortunately didn't last long. Eddie Murphy was also a genius in comedy and I don't know why he left it. His acting was OK, but the rolls he played were limited and that field seemed to dry up for him. Chris Rock seems to be headed in the same direction as Murphy.
Jim Gaffigan's early stuff had me rolling on the floor but his most recent stuff is kind of lame. Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy are the same. Their early stuff was falling down funny but later stuff not so much so. In their defense, it has to be hard to come up with new routines, especially if you stereo type yourself as Foxworth and Larry have.
Richard Prior was a hoot and comedic genius but unfortunately didn't last long. Eddie Murphy was also a genius in comedy and I don't know why he left it. His acting was OK, but the rolls he played were limited and that field seemed to dry up for him. Chris Rock seems to be headed in the same direction as Murphy.
Jim Gaffigan's early stuff had me rolling on the floor but his most recent stuff is kind of lame. Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy are the same. Their early stuff was falling down funny but later stuff not so much so. In their defense, it has to be hard to come up with new routines, especially if you stereo type yourself as Foxworth and Larry have.
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Many of mine have already been mentioned: Carlin, Pryor, Newhart, etc. One that I have always liked but big city folks may not get as much is Jerry Clower. If you have any connection with country life and rural the stories do strike home. Got to love the Ledbetter family. LOL
I agree and whether art is imitating life or the other way it seems like it is way overboard. The TV series Deadwood was 36 one hour episodes and the count for a carnal verb is 3,000 or so and the running joke was there were hardly any sentences without at least one use. Great show but it would have been better using the profanity for effect rather than as a replacement for dialog.
Marshwheeling
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Bob and Ray. Masters of timing.
Richard Jeni is the guy I quote the most. His visit to MacDonalds is one of the best bits ever. It got me a timeout here, because I thought mistakenly that I had found a scrubbed version that could be played here.
Eddie Murphy. Lots of unrepeatable quotes.
I grew up listening to comic LPs: Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Slappy White, B. S. Pulley, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Stan Freberg, Roy Aubrey, Tom Lehrer.
Currently, Steve Hofstetter.
Richard Jeni is the guy I quote the most. His visit to MacDonalds is one of the best bits ever. It got me a timeout here, because I thought mistakenly that I had found a scrubbed version that could be played here.
Eddie Murphy. Lots of unrepeatable quotes.
I grew up listening to comic LPs: Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Slappy White, B. S. Pulley, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Stan Freberg, Roy Aubrey, Tom Lehrer.
Currently, Steve Hofstetter.
For the most part, I like the old comics that came from the days of Vaudeville:
Alan King
Henny Youngman
George Burns
Milton Berle
Red Skelton
etc., etc.
Alan King
Henny Youngman
George Burns
Milton Berle
Red Skelton
etc., etc.
Dashriprock
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Women aren't funny? Try Kathleen Madigan. She rolls me out -- maximum hilarity.
Most everyone already mentioned -- except Jeff Dunham -- I enjoy.
One guy I've always liked and not previously mentioned is Doug Stanhope. He is not for everyone, to be sure, but his dark take and cynical truths are hilarious. No one is safe from his acerbic analysis, and nothing is off limits.
Never heard of him? As he often notes, he's been doing this over 30 years and no one knows who he is outside of 100 yards of where he's playing 20 minutes before his set.
If you're tempted, try his No Refunds set on YouTube.
Most everyone already mentioned -- except Jeff Dunham -- I enjoy.
One guy I've always liked and not previously mentioned is Doug Stanhope. He is not for everyone, to be sure, but his dark take and cynical truths are hilarious. No one is safe from his acerbic analysis, and nothing is off limits.
Never heard of him? As he often notes, he's been doing this over 30 years and no one knows who he is outside of 100 yards of where he's playing 20 minutes before his set.
If you're tempted, try his No Refunds set on YouTube.
Hands down Jerry Clower!
venomballistics
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John Pinette
The man could deliver a rib splitting routine without any element that'd render it not family safe.
The man could deliver a rib splitting routine without any element that'd render it not family safe.
Another vote for Johnathan Winters and Red Skelton. Ron White, Bill Engvall, Foxworthy, and the Cable Guy. The only one I watch now is Jeff Dunham. I have no use for standups that think wall to wall profanity is funny.
I've been watching Sebastian Maniscalco lately...very, very funny guy.
I also love Chris Rock. (His 1996 "Bring the Pain" video is hysterical, although very vulgar and totally politically-incorrect.)
Larry the Cable Guy, of course.
Jeff Foxworthy...
Jerry Seinfeld...
And then there's Jay Leno, one of my all-time favorites. I've seen him live several times, and he's terrific. No vulgarity, no grossly crude stuff, no meanness...just Jay being funny.
I also love Chris Rock. (His 1996 "Bring the Pain" video is hysterical, although very vulgar and totally politically-incorrect.)
Larry the Cable Guy, of course.
Jeff Foxworthy...
Jerry Seinfeld...
And then there's Jay Leno, one of my all-time favorites. I've seen him live several times, and he's terrific. No vulgarity, no grossly crude stuff, no meanness...just Jay being funny.
George Carlin
