Favorite Comedian?

[Mr. Blonde]

I have to say I recently started listening to David Cross (it came with my conversion to Arrested Development) and he is pretty damn funny.

[Digit]

1. Jim Carrey

[Fenris]

2. Carlin

[maveric]

8. Carlin is my #1 too.

He's weathered the times and tells things as they really are.

[Rooktoven]

31. ditto on Carlin

[GOPBasher]

47. Yeah, Carlin's the best. And by the way, your sig line (2nd) rocks!

I love that quote, the second one, about religious bigotry. :thumbsup:

[gpandas]

50. carlin

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. Steven Wright

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[Gabi Hayes]

4. hard to pick between these

check the site, too
http://mrsun.us/2004/09/decision-2004-worst-pundit-hair.html

or could it be...

[punpirate]

5. Would have to say Stephen Wright...

Hermits have no peer pressure.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?

Did Washington just flash a quarter for his ID?

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.

Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing "Happy Birthday."

I got stopped by a cop the other day. He said, "Why'd you run that stop sign?" I said, "Because I don't believe everything I read."

It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. what about the dehydrated water?

just add....

[punpirate]

19. Yeah, he's got a couple of variants...

... on that: "I bought some powdered water, but I didn't know what to add to it."

So many others:

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Last week, I went to a furniture store to look for a decaffeinated coffee table. They couldn't help me.

What's another word for "thesaurus"?

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child . . . eventually.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. One day I got a call from a guy in France who said, "Cut it out!"

I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights. Now it looks like I'm the only one moving.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio, I think "Hey, maybe I wrote that."

I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. or...."You know that feeling you get when you're leaning back

on a chair....and you think it's about to tip over?

That's the way I feel all the time."

[MazeRat7]

6. George Carlin

[asthmaticeog]

9. Fave living comic: David Cross; Fave dead comic: Bill Hicks.

With Sarah Silverman and Mitch Hedberg close seconds in the living & dead categories, respectively.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. great choices

Cross's bit about the mortally wounded soldier in Iraq, signing the prayer for Bush, praying that * will have the strength to eat his lobster salad....

[asthmaticeog]

18. ALL of his stuff is great.

He had an *amazing* HBO special a few years back. I taped it, and I hope it comes out on DVD, as my VCR is now busted and I just don't see any point in buying a new VCR.

You a Mr. Show fan?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Paula Poundstone (I assume you want to include the ladies)

Accept no substitutes!


http://www.paulapoundstone.com/

[hfojvt]

14. better than Carol Burnett?

You must be joking.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Carol works best with other comedians.

All Paula needs is a live audience.

Of course, thinking about Carol, Tim Conway floats to the top, as does Harvey Korman...

[punpirate]

22. Very funny stuff...

... I still think the funniest thing of hers I've heard was on one of the PHC joke shows. She and Roy Blount were trading "your mama's" jokes, and she paused just right amount of time and blurted out, "your mama's so fat she sat on a quarter and a booger popped out of George Washington's nose."

Blount was completely non-plussed--just didn't have a comeback.

[hfojvt]

13. Don Rickles, you hockey puck.

Anybody but Dennis Miller or Jay Leno.

[benny05]

16. Robin Williams

[maveric]

20. He's my #2. Only second to Carlin.

[Chomskyite]

17. Richard Pryor

He's the reigning king.

[sasquatch]

23. As long as he's alive, after he passes though I think the following will-

happen.


Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and maybe Robin Williams or George Carlin will fight for funniest man alive.

[Emops]

21. Chris Rock

[sasquatch]

24. As of this moment Jon Stewart is!

:thumbsup:
Top shelf show tonight.

[alarcojon]

25. Rodney Dangerfield

"I bet you buy a hat like that, you get a free bowl of soup" - then seeing his nemesis Judge Smails - "Looks good on you, though."

[frictionlessO]

26. Only good comedians are dead ones...

Bill Hicks
Andy Kaufman


and sadly recently deceased Mitch Hedburg, Im still bummed about that, then again Im still bumming over Hicks as well.

[sasquatch]

28. What about Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart?

[frictionlessO]

32. Ahhh hell Ill give it up to Dave and Jon... some others as well

like David Cross and Robert Schimmel (is that his first name?) as well.

Chappelle and Murphy together just about make me die of internal bleeding.

Carlin and Robbin Williams are also still doing their best yet... but man oh man Hicks, Kaufman and Hedburg just put me under constantly.

Mitch Hedburg was unreal the way he could just pull comedy out of thin air and like not rely on politics or heavy news items, just a Budhha of Laughter he was.

[peekaloo]

27. Lily Tomlin.

[NYCGirl]

29. As for the legends:

Lenny Bruce (the prophet)

And for folks working today:



Gilbert Gottfried (if you've ever seen his stand-up act, you'll understand. And he ROCKS in the upcoming film, "The Aristocrats")

and



Richard Belzer (another incredible stand-up act, although I think "The Belz" is now a dramatic actor primarily)

[shanti]

30. i have several

jamie fox, martin lawrence, jim carrey, robin williams, george lopez.

[Bat Boy]

33. David Cross is high on my list...

His latest CD, It's Not Funny, is one of the finest pieces of standup I've heard in years.

Of course the Holy Trinity (Bruce, Carlin and Pryor) goes without saying.

Bonnie Hunt has always made me laugh.

Stephen Colbert is one of the smartest comics I've ever known. I know he comes off as smart on the Daily Show, but triple that.

Buster Keaton was...just...oh, my God...

The Carol Burnett Show defined sketch comedy for me. It was later redefined, but my first memory of seeing sketch comedy and saying, "I gotta get me some of that..." was Carol Burnett.

I have to stop now, before I go too deep. I could do this all night...

[nuxvomica]

34. Did you ever see the "Just Shoot Me" episode with Cross?

I laughed so hard I was crying. Cross played the photographer's brother, who has been faking a mental disability all his life to avoid work. It was surprisingly inoffensive and Cross was brilliant.

[Bat Boy]

35. My wife and I still can't eat Chicken Pot Pies.

That was hysterical.

[nuxvomica]

39. LOL

I had forgotten about "chicken pot pie". :spray:

[CanuckAmok]

36. HEyHEY.

HAnDS DOwN.

[hickman1937]

37. Gilda Radner

You youngsters won't remember her, but she was fearless. Until she married Gene Wilder. I've always wondered what she'd have done if she'd lived and married a true love of her life.

[enigmatic]

38. Bill Hicks

I miss him so much..

[NoSheep]

40. A tie between Eddie Izzard and Bill Hicks

[CO Liberal]

41. Three-Way Tie: Lewis Black, Margaret Cho, and Ron White

I have diverse tastes in what I consider funny.....

[RebelOne]

42. Rita Rudner n/t

[Arkana]

43. Any of the Blue Collar guys except Larry the Cable Guy

and only not Larry because I can't friggin' understand him when he's up there.

[LiberallyInclined]

44. Gilbert Gottfried is the funniest live show i've EVER seen...

bar none.
and i've seen A LOT of comics.

Lewis Black is my current fave on the tube. I live for his Daily Show appearances.

[Richardo]

46. "The Aristocrats"

No, I've never heard the joke itself, but I know the punchline, and I still think it's funny.

Supposedly the funniest, filthiest joke ever. I can only imagine.

[LiberallyInclined]

48. you can hear Eric Cartman tell the joke here-

http://waxy.org/random/view.php?type=video&filename=southpark_aristocrats.wmv

and read about Gilbert telling it here-
http://www.andrew.moorehill.net/archives/2004/10/the_aristocrats.html

[Richardo]

52. I'm guessing the audio is not 'safe for work'

:)

I've read about it in an article before - that must be where I became aware of the punch line.

[bertha katzenengel]

45. I like Brian Regan, but Lewis Black ROCKS.

[fudge stripe cookays]

49. I have so many....

I listen to Laugh Trax on Spinner, and have picked up tons of favorites from there. It makes work easier, and I can close my door for the dirty stuff.

Lewis Black
Craig Shoemaker
Dana Gould
Suzanne Westenhoefer
Pablo Francisco
Rodney Carrington
Rich Shydner

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[TyeDye75]

51. A few

Ross Noble
Ricky Gervais
Rich Hall
Peter Kay
Bill Hicks