Who Is Your Favorite Stand-up Comedian?

I love stand-up.

And my all time favorite is Paula Poundstone. I guess because she was just so funny - not gross or obscene, doesn't use bad language or make crude sexual jokes. She is just funny.

David Cross comes in close after him

:)

Excellent, excellent comedian.

Saw him on his Comedians of Comedy tour a few months back. Even bought one of his "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice" shot glasses. Funny guy.

:rofl:

Aside from being funny, he has new material every time you see him on TV.

in his prime, he could make me lose bladder control from laughing so hard.

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I adore Lynn Koplitz. She cracks me up every time I see her.

Also like Mike Verbiglia. "Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye."

Funny and seemed like a real nice guy.

RIP

Said he was the same off stage, except he'd have a joint in his hand.

--IMM

She does shows here every couple years but I can't get my hubband to want to go to one. I have some funny mp3's of her anyway.
I like Eddie Izzard too, we went to Philadelphia for his Sexie tour, he was great.

I have to say that I have never laughed as hard as I did when we saw Poundstone at a show. My face hurt from laughing.

Bill Hicks.

Rodney Dangerfield.

Alive - Lewis Black or Ron White
Dead - Sam Kinison or Mitch Hedberg

Don't make me choose!!

After reading your post, I looked him up.

How sad. :cry: His wife found him. That's terribly sad.

That's too bad :(

His Comedy Central special was the best!!

RIP Mitch.

Pt. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5pEcS1d2NM


They took the rest of the special down. :(

:hug:

He was hysterically funny. I'll never look at Smokey the Bear the same again.

I love that one:

Me and my friends did acid in the woods, 'cause there was much less chance of running into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. And that is way more of a buzz kill. I looked around and saw my friend swearing to prevent forest fires. Later, he came up to me and said, "Mitchell. Smokey is way more intense in person".





Some of my other favorites:

When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it's busy so they start a waiting list, they say, "Dufresne, party of two, table ready for Dufresne, party of two." And if no one answers they'll say the name again: "Dufresne, party of two." But then if no one answers, they'll move on to the next name. "Bush party of three." Yeah, but what happened to the Dufresnes? No one seems to care. Who can eat at a time like this? People are missing. You people are selfish. The Dufresnes are in someone's trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they're hungry. That's a double whammy. We need help. "Bush, search party of three. You can eat once you find the Dufresnes."


If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house. "Well, I was lost, but now I live here. I have severely improved my predicament!"

I like the FedEx driver, because he's drug dealer and he don't even know it. And he's always on time!

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

I like an escalator, man, 'cause an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. There would never be a "Escalator temporarily out of order" sign, only "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience!

Whenever I walk people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer, it's kinda like they're saying "Here, you throw this away."

Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine. I saw through the bullshit.

If carrots got you drunk rabbits would be fucked up.

I'm against picketing but I don't know how to show it.




Ok, I know I quoted a lot, but he's funny and since he's no longer with us, those who love his humor have to keep it alive.

I'm really going to miss his very unique views on life.

*I was in a casino, I was standing by the door, and a security guard came over and said "You're gonna have to move. You're blocking the fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you're never blocking a fire exit. Unless you're a table.

*They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. But I tried to make it at home; there's more to it than that. "Want some more homemade Sprite?" "Not 'til you figure out what the fuck else is in it!"

*I'm not good at golf, I never got good. I never got a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. And that's way more satisfying. You're supposed to yell "Fore", but I was too busy mumbling "There ain't no way that's gonna hit him."

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correspondent's dinner. For some reason, Colbert wasn't invited back this year.

Although he was more than a comedian; Lenny was a prophet.

But Richard Pryor really had something going on in his stand up days.

although I think there are a great many comics living and dead that I would include in my all-time favourites list.

was on the last Seinfield episode. I think his name is John Pinnault.

also, Robin Williams and Rodney Dangerfield.

Lewis, Robin, Rodney, Ellen also.

on edit: Oops, meant this for the OP, sorry.

--IMM

but in practice it's not all that.

Maybe somebody is illiterate? :shrug:

--IMM

(Insert Kinnison scream here...)

--IMM

too bad he was a raging drug addict :(.

they have a similar style, in many respects.

and Mitch Hedberg. Andy was so over the top and out of the box. Of course we must thank the Hippy Dippy Weather Man, George Carlin, for breaking it all open.

I always liked Carlin and Richard Pryor, too.

(Can I see this as an excuse to link to clips?......Yes, yes I can :evilgrin: Some, uh, language.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sjqaj-W9k&mode=related&search=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzDskyMBxzQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1yulhPpiOA


Hicks and Carlin and my favorites.

(Edit: added good one.)

I also like Rita Rudner. Rita on making a cake: you mix flour and water, and you get glue. Then you add eggs and sugar, and you get cake. Where does the glue go?

:hi:

I love that and the Manatee bit. "Hey Sea Pig!" :rofl:

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He came to my college. :hi:

Also George Carlin, Lewis Black, & can I count Jon Stewart? These guys never fail to make me laugh--and think, too.

Though he can be obnoxious on talk shows.

He makes me laugh like no one else!

i remember seeing him on some HBO comedy thing about 15 years ago, and i STILL use some of his stuff to get a laugh from friends.

I googled him a minute ago, and it seems that he's still touring...
wish he'd do a show in Pittsburgh... would LOVE to see him live.

She makes the mundane very funny. :rofl:

She's so uninhibited.

Dane Cook
Maria Bamford
Robin Williams
Mitch Hedberg
Lewis Black

Not necessarily in that order.

would be Lily Tomlin, then Woody Allen and Richard Prior

I also like Rita Rudner and Ellen DeGeneres.
When I was a kid, my older sister told me about a guy she saw in a club who was hysterically funny. Then I saw him on local TV. It was Richard Pryor. He was just starting out. (We lived in Illinois). Funniest comic ever.

Probably some others in there, too.

of seriousness to humour, and it only makes the humour more biting! But then many of the deepest areas of truth are, I believe, the ones with the most potential for the wildest hilarity.

And was it Bill Hicks who did the video of Bush mending fences on his "ranch"? That was brilliantly funny?

I bookmarked those George Carlin video clips which appeared on here a few weeks ago, but they don't work any more. When I persevered, I got a message to the effect that it had been used without permission or something like that, and I had posted the link to a few other places, so it may have been directed at me personally.

He's hysterical.

http://www.shelleyberman.com/
http://imdb.com/name/nm0066098/



This is Shelley with Larry David.

there are clips of her on youtube. She uses colorful speech a lot but she is hysterical. I first got introduced to her watching the Queens of Comedy special she did with Adele Givens and Monique and one other lady whose name escapes me. That is the funniest comedy show I have ever seen, I've watched it like 10 or 15 times and each time it's hysterical.

S.O. picked up one of his CDs, and we listened to it as we drove across Wyoming. Wow! His TV work is pretty tame, but his standup is jaw-dropping funny.

Also like Chris Rock (although his coarseness gets a bit much sometimes),

Roseann Barr used to make me howl, and Paula Poundstone is pretty funny, too - I love when she's on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me."

Though I can't decide if I prefer the Executive Transvestite or the Action Transvestite. :shrug:

I'll always be a huge fan of Stephen Wright, too.

And I loves me some Paula Poundstone — especially when she tucks one foot underneath her and gets that :wtf: look on her face and that singy-songy voice. Cutest lesbian EVarrr. :loveya:

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He is beyond TV and all comedy clubs cannot handle him. He is one of the great unique crazies of comedy!

at a place called George's(no longer there) behind the merchandise mart in chicago...and like i said- it was the funniest stand-up act i had/have ever seen.

...more like a stand up ventriloquist...Jeff Dunham and his dummy is Peanut. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWThRmRW6GE

I also really like Garry Shandling.

Of the newer people, I like David Cross.

It's an NDN thing.

Outsourced is one of the funniest stand-up routines I've seen.

No matter how much Bush has fucked up, Lewis Black can put in a perspective better than anyone in mass media.

I also have to vote for Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and Lenny Bruce. Dave Attell is pretty funny, too (his cameo in Arrested Development is GOLD).

I really like everyone affiliated with his Comedians of Comedy right now though.

his stand up act is funny as hell

And honestly, Bill Cosby, when he was doing stand-up, would always make me howl with laughter.

...not sure if he is my fave though....there are so many both new and old.

He is too funny!

famous. I remember seeing her on HBO. I have never seen anyone so funny!

I'll never forget her standing there in her great big overalls with her nasal voice, and I could relate to everything she said about working class American homes. I even remember some of the jokes she told..."My husband told me to get him some cheetos so I told him he could just lift up that sofa cushion himself." LOL. And "Why are men always asking women where stuff is? It's like they think the uterus is a tracking device." I had never heard anyone tell jokes like that before. People forget what an innovator she was. I also loved her show, and love her to this day in fact.

alive, i have done my job.

i'll start vacuuminmg when sears make on i can ride.

they are really funny.

Saw Ellen Degeneres at the Kennedy Center about 5 years ago. I laughed so hard I almost cried.

My face hurt from laughing for 2 days.

It should be Mitch Hedberg, damn it.

New favorite: Steve Carrell. Hilarious in "The Forty-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Office".

Classic comedy: Ernie Kovacs. That man was a genius who was way ahead of his time.

Lewis Black, Eddie Murphy....:D

I particularly like his take on words and word usage.

One Man--that's all I gotta say.

He does big arms, puts babies on spikes, and rides around Rome on a motorbike saying "ciao."

I've listend to both upteen million times. It took, um, let's see, fifteen years to get tired of Bill. I guess Lew has another decade or so.

Dave Attell, Sam Kinneson, Ron White, Robin Williams are also up there. Oh, and Chris Rock, too.

Denis Leary, Doug Stanhope, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Andy Kaufman, Ron White, John Heffron. I just can't choose.

Brothers, Carlin, a bunch of them.

Everytime I've ever seen one of her routines (especially her back-and-forth with audience members), I just laugh myself to the point of tears. (Even though no matter how hilarious I find some people's sense of humor, I don't often laugh out loud).

I was going to name her as my favorite based only on the title/question of your thread. How cool that you and quite a few others named her as their favorite. Especially since one doesn't see her on television very often these days.

Bill Hicks and Mitch Hedburg were awesome.

She is funny. I saw her at a BGLT comedy festival once.

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Kathy Griffin, Bill Hicks, Mitch Hedberg, Brian Regan, Eddie Izzard, Laura Kightlinger, Steven Wright....

This list just goes on and on and on. I love stand-up! :)

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I have several more that we really love, but those are the three that really crack me up. Jim Gaffigan especially. Mark Day is pretty awesome too.
Duckie

Of all time? I don't know.

I don't generally enjoy standup comedy, but he was quite capable of cracking me up.

Incredibly, incredibly funny lady! :D

his patients were always stand up comics. That show was hysterical. His son, Ben, is one of my all time favorite TV characters.
Come back, Dr. Katz.
We need you.

Robin Williams





George Carlin

I hope she's doing okay since her driving while drunk indiscretions and will someday return to her her pre-court battle form.

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