First of I'm a YouTube junkie so I am looking for comedians to get a laugh at and figured I'd ask you guys. I also want to know what the people here on Susan's find humorous.
My top fav. comedian of all time is Ricky Gervais. Followed by Louis C.K., Robin Williams, Ralphie May, Lewis Black, and Daniel Tosh.
Eddie Izzard!! I love that he calls himself an "executive ->-bleeped-<-" ;D
My other favorites are Bill Maher, Steve Hughes, and Alex Raymundo.
I love political and religious stand-up. My top three favorites are George Carlin, Bill Maher, and Ricky Gervais.
I also like Eddie Izzard even though I generally don't like comedians.
I also don't watch comedy too much. but I also like Ricky Gervais, Daniel Tosh. And I also like Bill Maher, if you like jokes making fun of religion.
Eddie Izzard, Wanda Sykes, Magaret Cho, Larry David (curb your enthusiasm <3), and George Carlin are great.
I also like the Howard Stern Show, but that features a lot of different people.
I like a lot of the people mentioned (though not Lewis Black or Howard Stern), but I can't leave out Mitch Hedburg, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, or Bill Cosby.
Chris Rock is also good sometimes, but he can be a little caustic.
I'll throw some Aussies into the mix shall I? :P
EDIT: Sorry, I intended them to be links, but I can't seem to get it to show them that way. XZ
Adam Hills!
Adam Hills (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcv8tXZKrqk#)
And Tim Minchin!
NSFW
Tim Minchin : 'If You Really Loved Me' - music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGzhutyOMSk#)
Again NSFW, and also not good to watch if you believe in creationism. :P
Tim Minchin: Americans & Evolution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAezEgYFeE&feature=related#)
How has no one mentioned Billy Connolly yet?!
Larry the Cable Guy and Katt Williams
George Carlin.
I second Eddie Izzard and Tim Minchin.
There's also a great disabled comedian I saw once (I wish I could remember his name) who came onstage on crutches, grabbed the mic stand, threw his crutches to the floor, looked the audience in the eye, gestured at his crutches and said "They're helpless without me..." - I love him for that.
Brian Regan is the only comedian I am a fan of.
Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy, Hal Sparks and Gabrielle Iglesias (spelling?)
Bill Maher, George Carlin, Dane Cook, Jeff Dunham, Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Car :)
Billy Conolly always does it for me.
I forgot to add Ron "Tater Salad" White.
Billy Connolly
And from the past
Tommy Cooper
Eric Morcambe & Ernie Wise.
The Monty Python team: John Cleese in particular.
Sorry the 'new' comics have it easy
Quote from: Cindy James on January 14, 2012, 07:14:45 AM
Sorry the 'new' comics have it easy
I was wondering what it was that separates the newer and older comedians, and I think this is it - that there are many channels and radio stations, that it is easier to do fairly well. Though not
easy easy, obviously but easier.
First, and foremost I love the Commedia dell'Arte tradition. Stooging is a time honored tradition. I'm pretty sure if you set up a screen in front of some tribe who has never seen a movie and ran 3 Stooges shorts they would laugh. Without context, or understanding the dialog, or even understanding the setting they ARE funny. So are Harpo, Chico and Groucho - that kind of comedy is long gone and does not seem to be coming back yet.
And I like Twain and Will Rodgers and H.L. Menkin and that entire school of American Satire and irony.
But my first love is Lenny Bruce. It's sad that the routines have aged so poorly, he was the icebreaker who changed the way stand-up worked, even at the cost of his life in many ways. But when I first heard that stuff it changed my life. He was no Rush Limbaugh picking on people half his size (well almost everyone is half Rush's size), Lenny went after the Kennedy's, J.Edger Hoover and the FBI, patriotism, The Pope (gee, like almost half a century before Sinad O'Connor did) sex, and drugs (back when few even knew what 'drugs' were. I still walk in Vegas and think about the "Tits and Ass" routine. That, and getting arrested in San Francisco for saying ->-bleeped-<-. That stuff supports our tourist trade now, then it just got Lenny busted. George Carlin took up where Lenny left off, hitting his best stuff right at the end when he knew he was dying and no longer gave a ->-bleeped-<- what anyone thought. The last 2 HBO specials are beyond awesome. Bill Hicks took up where George left off and died way too soon. Anymore I think only Lewis Black is doing that kind of stuff, and I try to work every show he does round here just to see him. Loved Burns and Allen too, Gracie was a natural.
All the stoners (and in California, that was just about everyone) loved Firesign Theater and Beyond the Fringe, and that stuff is pretty timeless. When I went to college we were all listening to Monty Python records (imagine our shock and surprise when we found out that it was acted out, I thought they were just doing a Firesign/National Lampoon Radio Hour deal) and we were dying. Then when we got to watch the TV show, we died all over again. Together they were about as smart and funny as any comedy group has ever been.
Oh yeah, and the original Saturday Night Live cast.
I love Frank Zappa too, he's one funny Mo-fo.
And I think it's very hard to do comedy now. Hell, half the real headlines look like something The Onion would have printed. It's hard to create a punchline in a surreal world.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - both their 'Pete & Dud' and their 'Derek & Clive' stuff
The Goons, and Peter Sellers' solo stuff
Monty Python, and also Michael Palin and Terry Jones' Ripping Yarns
Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie, together & separately
Blackadder
Kath & Kim
Rob Brydon & Julia Davis - Human Remains and Marion & Geoff
Julia Davis' Nighty Night
Jam by Chris Morris
Eddie Izzard
The Mighty Boosh
The Flight of the Conchords
Steve Martin
I also have a soft spot for Frasier, lol
I have a real soft spot for an obscure movie by Peter Sellers called The Party. Love it.
Bardy Numnums.
Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, Rowan Atkinson, any and all of the Christopher Guest movies and troupe (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, et al), Leslie Neilsen, Mike Myers, Monty Python
Thanks for mentioning Flight of the Conchords, that is genius!
OH DUH I forgot the Three Stooges, my original loves. Low brow comedy. If loving the Three Stooges is wrong, I don't want to be right :D
Quote from: tekla on January 14, 2012, 12:15:14 PMBill Hicks took up where George left off and died way too soon. Anymore I think only Lewis Black is doing that kind of stuff, and I try to work every show he does round here just to see him. Loved Burns and Allen too, Gracie was a natural.
Glad to see someone mention Bill Hicks - my absolute favorite. For me, Doug Stanhope is the Bruce/Carlin/Hicks successor. I also like Louis CK, especially his new show on FX.
Dane Cook, Jo Koy, Katt Williams, Mike Epps
QuoteI also like Louis CK, especially his new show on FX.
I love that show. My favorite episode was when his doctor(Ricky Gervais) fingered him up the butt. That was priceless. "I know whats wrong, you have aids". oh, it was hllarious
Monty Python, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Rowan Atkinson
George Carlin, who'll always be one of my personal heroes, Lewis Black, John Pinette, all of the Pythons, and Eddie Izzard.
Eddie Izzard. N'uff said.
I've got to give props to Steven Colbert whose parody is so over the top, so pure, so letter and note perfect that half the people watching him don't even understand that that it's a joke. Now that's funny.
tom green!!! haha
Quote from: Clive on January 14, 2012, 12:27:17 PMKath & Kim
Please PLEASE tell me you mean the real,
Aussie Kath and Kim?
They showed the American remake here and it got axed after only two episodes because Aussie audiences chucked a massive blue. I've never seen a show come and go so quickly! >:-)