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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:02 PM
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For balance...Worst Stand-up Comedian?
Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 12:05 PM by youthere
I vote for Dane Cook, he's just NOT FUNNY. He tries, but shit, I watch one of his shows and feel like I've had a shot of novocaine. Dennis Miller-he's just a great big asshole. Larry the Cable Guy is up there too (fart jokes are only funny for so long).
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:08 PM
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1. Dane Cook
is a comedian that I suspect you either love or hate. I've seen some of his shows, and I gotta say that he is very adroit at working a live audience. They seem to LOVE him. Mileage may vary.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:09 PM
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2. For old timers--
Jack Carter---incredibly unfunny.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:23 PM
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3. Gallagher.
I win.

Unless someone sees me and raises me a Carrot Top, maybe.
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:26 PM
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4. I saw him get booed off the stage at the US Festival....
even though he WAS a pretty funny guy, Rock aad Roll and comedy don't mix. It was unmerciful.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:27 PM
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5. Dane Cook
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:27 PM
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6. Jerry Clower
Not sure if he was, per se, a stand-up comedian, but Wiki lists him as a "country comedian," whatever that is.

Back in the mid 90's I heard about ten minutes of one his routines. It was so bad that I wanted to get in my time machine, go back a few billion years, and prevent life from germinating on young Planet Earth.

It would have been worth it, I swear.
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:19 PM
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27. What a "Q" thing to say
And you claim not to like Q... :shrug:
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:17 PM
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32. Did I claim that?
I like Q just fine. Not so much in Voyager, where that whole "Journey to the Q Continuum" arc was seriously stupid.

But in ST:TNG I thought the was great, especially in the finale!
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:32 PM
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35. Okay; I seem to remember some Q grumbling in TNG as well (Qpid) and some general Vash bashing,
Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 02:33 PM by temeah
so I Q-estioned your devotion.

And it was the finale to which I was initially, of course, referring. :D
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:09 PM
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38. Oh, that
Well, that wasn't Q's fault. Vash was just ridiculous as a love-interest for Picard. And the desperate campiness of the episode leaves me cold.

Still, Q as Q is cool, IMO.
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:12 PM
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39. Okay, that's good. Because I wouldn't have been able to think any less of you than I already do.
I keeeed. :pals:
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:27 PM
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7. The Correct answer would be Pauly Shore.
or Carrot Top.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:31 PM
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8. Judy Tenuda was pretty bad too...and Andrew Dice Clay.
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:50 PM
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30. I saw Judy Tenuta a few years ago at IML in Chicago
She was pretty funny, my vote for worst would have to be Larry the Cable Guy or Dane Cook (depending on my mood).
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:34 PM
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9. Carrot Top, Joe Piscopo, Rich Little, Roseanne Barr, Larry the Cable Guy
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:34 PM
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10. I'd never ever call him the worst
but I think it's time George Carlin retired. He just seems bitter these days, and he doesn't do it well like Bill Hicks did.
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:37 PM
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11. Don Rickles oughta retire too.
Man, he is nothin' but mean and nasty. Not sure why anyone would go to a show of his just to get insulted all night.
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:42 PM
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14. Rickles was hilarious on Letterman the other night....
Really funny. Suprising...
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:48 PM
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15. Wow. There's some special about him on TV recently,
and he just insults everybody in the audience about anything he can think of. That seems to be the whole shtick.

I thought he was funny as hell in Kelly's Heroes though.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:53 PM
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31. That is why the term of art for his act is "insult comic"
Sahddup, ya hockey puck.
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gbate Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:37 PM
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12. I also say Dane Cook.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:37 PM
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13. Larry the Cable Guy
Comedy Central keeps re-running that "Blue Collar Tour of Comedy" thing. It just proves how desperately unfunny Larry the Cable Guy is.
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:54 PM
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17. I can't believe how much mileage the guy has gotten out of
poop and fart jokes.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:24 PM
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29. From Buffalo Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005
48. Larry the Cable Guy

Charges: The absolute nadir of the American South’s baffling cultural hegemony. A middle-class Nebraskan, raised in Palm Beach, whose parents sent him to private school, masquerading as an Appalachian mutant and making millions off the nine-toed cyclopes in his audience by calling his material "blue collar," when it’s really just a celebration of proud ignorance. The latest in a long line of "entertainers" propagating the lie that real talent is elitist. The South has risen again—just long enough to grab the rest of the nation by the legs and pull it back down to its Lovecraftian depths. Isn’t even "bad funny." Makes Jeff Foxworthy look like Chris Rock.

Exhibit A: Ostensibly humorous catchphrase translates into "complete the task."

Sentence: Sent back in time for the sole purpose of having Mark Twain’s cigars extinguished on his face.

http://buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:51 PM
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43. I agree.
I CANNOT stand that phrase he made popular. Yeah, you know the one. :puke:
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:53 PM
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16. Andrew Dice Clay.. but he's been off the radar for quite a while....n/t
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MsKandice01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:55 PM
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18. Joan Rivers...
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:57 PM
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19. Andrew Dice Clay.
Evil.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:14 PM
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23. Seconded. He's an even worse pig if he doesn't believe his sh!t.
I have at least a _bit_ of respect for a person who's honest, even if he/she is honestly a pig. Worse is exploiting a harmful mindset for personal gain.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:08 PM
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20. Bob Saget. He couldn't make me laugh
unless a pitching machine torched one into his nads.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:18 PM
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33. Bob Saget makes Tom Bergeron look like the genius of our time
Quite a feat.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:14 PM
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40. Bob Saget should team up with Sarah Silverman
Then they could laugh at each other's jokes.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:13 PM
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21. I'll have to go with Dane Cook as well.
Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 01:13 PM by skypilot
I rented a DVD of one of his shows and I was horrified at how unfunny the guy is. Just rambles on and on while making stupid faces and approximating some kind of "attitude". And the audience that shows up to see him is equally horrifying. From what I could see from the little that I could stand to watch, the whole damned audience looked like the folks you'd see at Hotchickswithdouchebags.com. Horrible.
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:14 PM
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22. (Tie) Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie.
They may have been funny at one time, but their performance with M.C. Karl Rover sucked all da humor right out, clean. Just ewwwww.
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:16 PM
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24. Does Dennis Miller count as stand up? ( does he count as anything?)
If so, Miller's the winner here although Dice Clay was a fine combination of sickening and unfunny , even more so than Miller.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:16 PM
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25. Dennis Miller.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:20 PM
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34. No contest
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racaulk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:18 PM
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26. Rita Rudner.
That woman's stand up routine will put you to sleep.

:boring:

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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:20 PM
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28. Sarah Silverman. nt.
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Malikshah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:57 PM
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45. Thank you!
What the hell do people see in her?

It is like the 2001-present cast of SNL. They think they're funny and anyone who doesn't is just uncool and doesn't "get it"

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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:58 PM
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46. I respectfully disagree.
She's hilarious.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:34 PM
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36. there's only one answer
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:46 PM
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42. Dingdingdingdingding!!!!! We have a WINNA!
However, since you obviously hate America, you're being shipped to Branson, MO for re-education. And no, you CAN'T go to Gitmo instead! :rofl:
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:34 PM
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37. Dane Cook hands down
SAYING IT LOUD DOESN'T MAKE IT FUNNY
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:17 PM
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41. And the All Time worse comedic performance goes to..... Martin Lawrence
I saw his SNL monologue live and it was about the most painful thing I've ever witnessed on TV. NBC frikkin' banned the dude from its network, for God's sake! That's just piss poor. :puke:
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:54 PM
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44. Richard Jeni, I said it.
Caught his final HBO special a few years ago, thinking, "Well, sure his schtick was tired in the 80s, but maybe he's had time to rest up and work on some new marterial." Then he started into terrorists hijacking planes and Michael Jackson!!! It was the same shit from the 80s!!! Jeni's demise proves the great hook-handler in the sky doesn't always cut'em down in their prime.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:59 PM
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47. Andy Dick
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