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(5,514 posts)Quickest wits on earth.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Coventina
(27,120 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Mark.b2
(261 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)I always liked his delivery and content.
Honestly, I grew memorizing Bill Cosby albums and loving Woody Allen movies. 😬😳
debm55
(25,212 posts)because he was talented.
rsdsharp
(9,177 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Coventina
(27,120 posts)I love his stand up!!
Permanut
(5,608 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)I also really enjoy Bob Newhart! Here's on of my favorites:
debm55
(25,212 posts)Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Buster Keaton
Mark Bros.
Richard Pryor
debm55
(25,212 posts)KarenS
(4,075 posts)I used to think Sam Kinison was funny until I watched him again with older eyes,,, good grief not sure why I thought he was funny,,,,
on edit,,,,
add Dick Van Dyke, Smothers Brothers, there are so many,,,,,
blm
(113,061 posts)To his sophomoric stylings, which is a large demographic. It is different looking back, but, he really was a kinder, sweeter fellow than he portrayed in his act.
KarenS
(4,075 posts)I saw Sam Kinison at the Celebrity theater must have been in 1991 (I just looked it up),,, I was 42 at the time
saw George Carlin in Tucson it looks like that would have been in 1999,,,,
never saw the others live.
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)Currently I really enjoy Amy Schumer and Louis CK.
debm55
(25,212 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,145 posts)...and of course, Rodney Dangerfield
debm55
(25,212 posts)Basic LA
(2,047 posts)Along with his crew, Carl Reiner & Imogene Coca.
debm55
(25,212 posts)leftieNanner
(15,100 posts)I saw her with Rene Auberjonois in San Francisco in The Foreigner. Funniest thing I've ever seen!! I couldn't breathe.
Saw Bill Cosby at the Circle Star Theater once too. Very funny but sad and twisted the way it turned out.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Basic LA
(2,047 posts)Sid Ceaser, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner (Rob's dad), & Howard Morris. They were doing live 90-minute shows each week. Later it went to an hour and Nanette Fabray replaced Coca.
And of course they had Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, & Woody Allen as comedy writers.
I didn't know of Coca's subsequent stage work, but would love to have seen that.
And, well, Bill Cosby had everyone laughing until he didn't. Who could've known.
LoisB
(7,206 posts)equally, well maybe a slight edge to Carlin.
debm55
(25,212 posts)cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)I tried emulating them at every turn.
I got into a lot of trouble but by the age of ten I could do a prat fall that looked incredibly real and was doing comedic stunts on my bike a la Keaton.
I once jumped a modified banana seat bike with ultra extended forks over a 2 foot 30 degree incline ramp into a bedsheet that we suspended between the alley. Needless to say, the sheet wrapped around me and the bike and when I landed it took everything I had to maintain control and stop, but everyone watching thought it was the funniest thing they ever saw...
debm55
(25,212 posts)elleng
(130,908 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)Belle Barth
debm55
(25,212 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,804 posts)Way back when, on our old black and white TV, Winters would have "improv" minutes with suggestions from the audience. He was quick, and unfailingly hilarious. And he could do more with facial expressions than others could do with words.
Williams -- no explanation required.
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debm55
(25,212 posts)Mark.b2
(261 posts)His bit on the different kind of Asians (of which he's one) is side-splitting. He can do the best accents.
debm55
(25,212 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,128 posts)I cannot pick just one, but there are several who rank as legendary...
Johnathon Winters
Mel Brooks
Carl Reiner
Bill Hicks
Richard Pryor
Steve Martin... just to name a few...
debm55
(25,212 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 18, 2024, 10:03 PM - Edit history (1)
OldBaldy1701E
(5,128 posts)Carol Burnett
Billy Hayes
Madeline Kahn
Irene Ryan
Lucille Ball
(Almost embarrassed to say I realized that first list was completely male... I will not forget those great female comediennes of the past and present. I didn't forget you, Catherine O'Hara... not right after St. Paddy's Day!)
BOSSHOG
(37,055 posts)In New Orleans during Mardi Gras early 90s. I thought I was going to die laughing along with everyone else in the street. Lots of profanity, lots of put downs. Not child friendly. But Ive never laughed as hard then or since.
debm55
(25,212 posts)BOSSHOG
(37,055 posts)Difficult not to enjoy ourselves when we visited New Orleans, which was often. We lived 40 miles away. Im too old for the fun now but we have the memories. And the pictures.
debm55
(25,212 posts)elleng
(130,908 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Squeaky41
(160 posts)Ernie Kovacs
debm55
(25,212 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)He pretty much perfected sketch comedy.
Also Steve Allen - a certified genius and multi talented man
Permanut
(5,608 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan and Corey Ryan Foster.(AKA The Liberal Rednecks)
Stephanie Miller
Frangela
Hal Sparks
John Fugelsang
Bob Cesca (technically not a comedian but he might as well be)
The Banana Boys: Kurt Braunoler and Scotty Landis
I listen to a number of hilarious podcasts but I don't list the hosts as comedians because they are doing other things with their lives.
debm55
(25,212 posts)3catwoman3
(23,987 posts)...way back when.
debm55
(25,212 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Rupert Pupkin, Carlin, Pryor, Lewis Black
debm55
(25,212 posts)Lunabell
(6,080 posts)In that order. RIP George, you were hilarious. And if you haven't seen the other two, you gotta see their acts.
limbicnuminousity
(1,402 posts)in ST: Discovery. Loved her one special I managed to catch.
debm55
(25,212 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,216 posts)bob hope, bing crosby) vaudaville, radio. movies and early tv. dick van dyke . mary tyler more . list gos on and on.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)Gabriel Iglesias, aka, Fluffy,. He brings a comedic view of what actually happens to him. For example, once the police asked for identification right in front of the poster at a theatre featuring him that night. So he pointed to it and did the pose he did for the poster.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)He is funny and, also, a clever physical comedian.
Tikki
limbicnuminousity
(1,402 posts)Of course Robin Williams, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, but for anything close to this century it has to be Brennan and Schlesinger. Brennan's Blocks special is pretty amazingly good.
debm55
(25,212 posts)rubbersole
(6,690 posts)Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)I LOVE both Kathleen and Trea!
Do you listen to Kathleen's pubcast? Are you a Termite? I LOVE her pubcast (it's very different than typical ones. She does it just for fun with no advertising),
rubbersole
(6,690 posts)I first heard both of them on the Stephanie Miller Show. Kathleen thinks in funny. A remarkable gift.
Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)Her pubcast is on Wednesdays.
It's just her sitting at a desk/table going through various notes with things she wants to talk about that are completely light hearted. She stays away from politics. She's having a cocktail and will sample various snacks that she's gotten or been given during her touring. She has one person that we never see who she can talk to (along with us). It's a woman who Kathleen has nicknamed Paddles.
She calls her listeners "Termites" because when one of her comedian friends stays with her, at the end of the day he'll say, "Night, night, Termite" (and she got a kick out of that). I went back to some of her earlier shows (which started during the Pandemic) to get some context.
rubbersole
(6,690 posts)I also told the missus about her pubcast. She's even a bigger fan than I. Thanks again!
debm55
(25,212 posts)RandySF
(58,832 posts)Yes, a long time ago.
debm55
(25,212 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)returnee
(43 posts)My favorites: Stephen Wright, Steve Martin, John Fugelsang, and John Mulaney. Probably others I cant remember.
NJCher
(35,672 posts)Eom
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)Tom was always the "setup man" in a comedy skit in Mork and Mindy plus the Bob Newhart Show.
debm55
(25,212 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 19, 2024, 07:16 AM - Edit history (1)
Elessar Zappa
(13,991 posts)Wish he was still here.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,561 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)Mel's comedic tricks if you watch enough times. )
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)I had most of their LPs
Ed: Sorry ... I meant for this to be a stand-alone thread.
debm55
(25,212 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Polybius
(15,417 posts)A damn shame no one remembers him.
debm55
(25,212 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)His movies have never failed to make me laugh.
As for stand-up, I don't follow it much at all. George Carlin, maybe, or Tom Lehrer if we stretch the definition of "stand-up."
-- Mal
Emile
(22,743 posts)Williams, Smother Brothers, George Carlin.
Jrose
(822 posts)All, by the way, appeared or starred on SNL at least once!
FalloutShelter
(11,866 posts)Eddie Izzard.
debm55
(25,212 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)Two of his routines stand out to me from an old appearance with Johnny Carson
1) "Johnny I need to cut down on my smoking. My wife and I agreed that we would only light up after sex. I am still smoking the same pack I've had since 1976, but she's up to three packs a day!"
2) This is my favorite;
"Johnny, thought I would check out a gay bar this week for the first time. What a meat market ! There were at least 10 guys for every guy"
debm55
(25,212 posts)Emile
(22,743 posts)thucythucy
(8,052 posts)This is a show from early 1961.
His jokes on the Kennedy inauguration are hilarious.
Plus so many classics: Christ and Moses, Tits and Ass, a Black Black Woman and a White White Woman...
debm55
(25,212 posts)ibeplato
(66 posts)He used to be my favorite comedian. He still is, but he used to be too.
debm55
(25,212 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)debm55
(25,212 posts)GP6971
(31,158 posts)Abbott & Costello.