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Re: Bill Hicks - great in parts but that Goat Boy stuff creeped me out big time. Some lines don't need to be crossed.
When I was a kid, I've never laughed as much as at a Billy Connolly show. I suspect it hasn't aged brilliantly. After that it was Richard Pryor, of course.
In the '90s Eddie Izzard was the shit. Dress to Kill and Glorious both amazing.
From before that, I feel like people have forgotten Emo Philips. Absurdist persona but great jokes. Steven Wright had the best one-liners.
Mitch Hedberg died way too young, of course..
Australians Tim Minchin and Jim Jefferies are very different but both very clever (easy to overlook in Jefferies's case).
Louis CK, though: his consistency amazes me. I just don't find Seinfeld funny any more, but even Louie's newest show has laugh-out-loud stuff in it. I just hope the rumors about him aren't true.
(Dave Chappelle goes without saying, of course, although I haven't checked out his new Netflix stuff. Like Pryor, he can be hilarious just in the way he delivers a line.)
 
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So many, but most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
 
There are some comedians that I think are greater for their importance in breaking boundaries and saying shit that needed saying than for sheer natural funniness. I put Carlin on top for this. Lenny Bruce was, I guess, the archetype, in that I doubt anybody nowadays would think of him as funny. Bill Hicks can be like this too, although, like Carlin, he gets off the odd inspired line. The only one who manages to be consistently hilarious and politically dangerous is Richard Pryor. (Although Louis CK is pretty good for this too, albeit not as groundbreaking as the others.) Just IMO.

People I never "got":
Johnny Carson. Just not even remotely funny.
Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay. I don't find them offensive, I just don't find them funny. (Kinison was a preacher before he became a comic, I guess, and I can really see that, both in his delivery and in his preoccupations and slightly dated attitudes.)
Andrew Kaufman. Well, except for the Mighty Mouse bit. But I don't think you were SUPPOSED to find him funny.
 
Tig Notaro's show where she went on stage like an hour after finding out she had cancer was fucking amazing.

I love 80's comedians: Steven Wright, Louie Anderson, Robin Williams. I had a cassette copy of Night at the Met I wore out.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
There are some comedians that I think are greater for their importance in breaking boundaries and saying shit that needed saying than for sheer natural funniness. I put Carlin on top for this. Lenny Bruce was, I guess, the archetype, in that I doubt anybody nowadays would think of him as funny. Bill Hicks can be like this too, although, like Carlin, he gets off the odd inspired line. The only one who manages to be consistently hilarious and politically dangerous is Richard Pryor. (Although Louis CK is pretty good for this too, albeit not as groundbreaking as the others.) Just IMO.

People I never "got":
Johnny Carson. Just not even remotely funny.
Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay. I don't find them offensive, I just don't find them funny. (Kinison was a preacher before he became a comic, I guess, and I can really see that, both in his delivery and in his preoccupations and slightly dated attitudes.)
Andrew Kaufman. Well, except for the Mighty Mouse bit. But I don't think you were SUPPOSED to find him funny.
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Kaufman was a comedian who told jokes at the audience not to them. The audience's reaction was the punchline. That said, the Mighty Mouse bit is perfection.
 
Maybe the best standup bit ever, like a meteor in the sky, was Steve Martin in the late 70s. He actually retired from standup because he knew he couldn't never top that zeitgeist cultural moment (and of course he was able to make movies then.)

His book, Born Standing Up, is really good. Actually, all his books are good. You don't like them? Well, excuuuuuse me!
 
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Ansari is awesome. His comedy is great and his show is pretty great too.

Swardson has been underrated for years. Been writing for Sandler and been doing standup. If you don't have his decade-old album, "Party", you're missing out.

And for those that need clean comedy..... Mike Birbiglia is the best "clean comic" in today's "comedy game".
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I Fucking love Aziz
 
Mike Birbiglia might be in my top 3-5 of comedians. Guy is so freaking funny.

Watching "My girlfriends boyfriend" right now.

And for anyone else that likes him: He's gonna be here on Nov. 5th (Remember, remember, the 5th of November). I'll definitely be going to that.
 
My favorite comedian of all time is probably Bill Hicks. I discovered him at a time when I was very angry and disillusioned.
He expressed the same POV as I did, and had a lot of the same libertarian values. Bill had an attitude that over twenty years later is copied wholesale. This is one of his my favorite bits. Thougb it has a crappy video quality.




I also thought Robin Harris was absolutely hilarious and appreciated his sheer unique material. Late eighties comedians wanted to be rock stars or appear to be as raw as possible. Harris appealed to just about every demographic and never changed his act. He was that good.




And this is one of my fav Bill Burr bits. Always makes me laugh my ass off.

 
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Chappelle to me is the best ever. Not only his specials but his show had some of the greatest sketches I ever saw.
Louis CK.
Bill burr
Saw Neal Brennan's special recently. It's good. Wrote with Chappelle on chappeles show
Bill hicks
George carlin
Richard Pryor
 
Bill Burr
Aziz Ansari
Steve Martin
Mike Birbiglia
Gilbert Gottfried
Lewis Black
Ron White
Jeff Foxworthy
Bill Engvall
Ellen Degeneres
Joan Rivers
Brian Regan
Greg Giraldo
John Mulaney
 
JFizzleRaider said:
Different taste in comedy I guess. I think louis ck is awful. Seinfeld is alright.

I've seen Aziz Ansari and Tom Green in person. Both were great.

Going to Nick Swardson at the end of this month. He might be one of the best stand up comics out there right now. His special "Taste It" was hilarious.
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Seinfeld is bland. I thought he was that way when his show was hot.
 
The most unfunny man alive is..................thRJCF56ZH.jpg (Doesn't he look like a boiled egg?)
 
OK--had to read through the whole thread and make sure I wasn't duplicating anyone else.

I love smart comedians. I mean, most have to be pretty intelligent to parse the language the was they do, but there are some who are clearly a cut above. My favorites in that vein are probably Greg Proops, Demetri Martin, Myq Kaplan, and The Sklar Brothers. I'm also a big fan of Todd Barry's slow, dry style.
 
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Rastapopoulos said:
Have you tried Master of None? It's REALLY good.
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I actually did. I remember sitting through it and for about 20-25 minutes I just never laughed. I don't know if it's his delivery, or what... but I just did not like it. I mean, he's popular as hell, so it's probably just me. lol.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
OK--had to read through the whole thread and make sure I wasn't duplicating anyone else.

I love smart comedians. I mean, most have to be pretty intelligent to parse the language the was they do, but there are some who are clearly a cut above. My favorites in that vein are probably Greg Proopst, Demetri Martin, Myq Kaplan, and The Sklar Brothers. I'm also a big fan of Todd Barry's slow, dry style.
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For my 19th b-day I got 2nd row aisle seats to the traveling Whose Line Is It Anyway show that came through... it was a dream (Only Wayne Brady from the original cast was not in it) and Greg Proops was there and he actually opened the show with a 20 minute set. Man, oh man... it was funny as hell but whew... for a show with lots of kids in the audience he used a lot of colorful language. haha.
 
Strenuus said:
I actually did. I remember sitting through it and for about 20-25 minutes I just never laughed. I don't know if it's his delivery, or what... but I just did not like it. I mean, he's popular as hell, so it's probably just me. lol.
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It's not so much a laugh out loud show a la Seinfeld or Arrested Development, but it's a very good show.
 
Stevenson said:
Maybe the best standup bit ever, like a meteor in the sky, was Steve Martin in the late 70s. He actually retired from standup because he knew he couldn't never top that zeitgeist cultural moment (and of course he was able to make movies then.)

His book, Born Standing Up, is really good. Actually, all his books are good. You don't like them? Well, excuuuuuse me!
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I have two of his books and I love his writing ...havent' read the biography yet though..last one was the incredible pleasure of my company...(I think that's the title)....the other was shopgirl.
 
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