Favourite Stand Up Comedians?

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Some ones I'm liking a lot at the moment are - Doug Stanhope, Stewart Lee, Bill Burr, Tig Notaro, Dylan Moran. Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly

There are many others but I'm too tired to list them all.

Please share some of your favourites.

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Hari Kondabolu!

[Taters]

Hannibal Buress

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Frankie Boyle.

[Bala Perdida]

I recently watched some George Carlin, he was pretty funny!

[Art Vandelay]

Some ones I'm liking a lot at the moment are - Doug Stanhope, Stewart Lee, Bill Burr, Tig Notaro, Dylan Moran. Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly

There are many others but I'm too tired to list them all.

Please share some of your favourites.

I saw Stanhope live recently. He put on a great show, although it wasn't quite as politicized as some of his shows are, which somewhat disappointed me. Even though his politics are kinda shite, he still makes some funny/interesting points. Bill Hicks will probably always be my favorite, so shitty he died young and his material got stolen and butchered by Dennis Leary. Bill Burr is an interesting one, he's known as a comedians comedian and I think he's very good at building up/developing jokes, but ultimately some of the stuff he talks about just makes me want to hate him. Carlin is also another good one that you might like, just based off of some of the others you've mentioned. Maybe check out some Sam Kinison too.

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I saw Stanhope live recently. He put on a great show, although it wasn't quite as politicized as some of his shows are, which somewhat disappointed me. Even though his politics are kinda shite, he still makes some funny/interesting points. Bill Hicks will probably always be my favorite, so shitty he died young and his material got stolen and butchered by Dennis Leary. Bill Burr is an interesting one, he's known as a comedians comedian and I think he's very good at building up/developing jokes, but ultimately some of the stuff he talks about just makes me want to hate him. Carlin is also another good one that you might like, just based off of some of the others you've mentioned. Maybe check out some Sam Kinison too.You forgot Lenny Bruce. Shame, shame, shame.

[the debater]

Off the top of my head, I think of Ralphie Mays, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Louis C.K., and Rodney Dangerfield.

[Brutus]

Milton Jones, Jack Dee and Lee Mack

[DasFapital]

Doug Stanhope, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Jamie Kilstein

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Hmmm....lessee....

George Carlin is the first one that comes to mind. Despite the reputation for a 'shock comic' he sometimes has, he was definitely the thinking man's comedian. He could twist and turn the English language in ways that only a great poetic mind could do, all the while expressing some biting social commentary that people needed to hear.

There's also Richard Pryor. There's a reason he's considered to be the greatest American comedian he ever lived, because material from him that's over 30 years old is still some of the funniest comedy ever performed. The special he did shortly after his famous 'incident' (the one where he accidentally caught fire while freebasing cocaine and then running down the street bare-ass naked and engulfed in flames) is probably the greatest comedy special ever filmed.

I'm also a huge fan of Sean Cullen. Cullen was originally a member of the comedy music troupe Corky & The Juice Pigs, then went solo. He's mostly a comedic singer who also has some great spoken material as well. My favorite routine by him is the "Food of Choice" bit, wherein he asks members of the audience to name him a food, and then he comes up with creatively macabre ways of killing them with it...

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He's also a pretty good author of YA novels as well.

Who else.....Gallagher in his prime was actually pretty good. Yes, I am talking about THAT Gallager. The one with the giant mallet smashing watermelons. Before he had the whole thing with his brother and then went crazy, he was quite funny. His shows were pretty elaborate, and his props were pretty creative...FAR more creative then certain other prop comics (hint: His initials start with CARROT TOP)



And if we're gonna go with internet comics, I'd say Doug Walker (aka The Nostalgia Critic, Dominic, Chester A. Bum, etc.) is the king. His Nostalgia Critic videos on the two Animated Titanic movies (Titanic: The Legend Goes On... (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/5605-titantic-the-legend-goes-on) and The Legend of the Titanic (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/30972-the-other-animated-titanic-movie)) are absolute classics of internet comedy. Hell, even when he's just talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender he's enthralling to watch (he did an entire series of vlogs about every episode of all three season of A:TLA, and it is AWESOME).

....And yeah, I'll join the chorus of love for Bill Hicks. Gone too soon, and Denis Leary ought to be beaten for ripping off Hicks's material wholesale.

[Art Vandelay]

....And yeah, I'll join the chorus of love for Bill Hicks. Gone too soon, and Denis Leary ought to be beaten for ripping off Hicks's material wholesale.

I think Leary ought to get more than a beating. The man is a hack and a scumbag; Hicks and him were friends at the time he ripped off Bill's material. Hicks was dying of cancer and Leary took the routine he stole from Bill and made it into a special titled 'No Cure for Cancer.' Hicks was king and handled the Leary situation like a champ.


I have a scoop for you. I stole his [Leary's] act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and, to really throw people off, I did it before he did.

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RIP Greg Giraldo

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[GerrardWinstanley]

A few of those already mentioned (Stewart Lee, Doug Stanhope, Milton Jones and Frankie Boyle), Richard Herring and Ava Vidal (the only observational comedian whose jokes work more often than they fall flat for me). I've laughed uncontrollably at some of Joan Rivers' material and hated myself for it, although I don't think her comedy crosses the line any more than, say, Boyle does, bad politics aside.

I have a difficult time with the generation gap with earlier comedians, though Pryor has some indisputable moments of brilliance and Woody Allen's stand-up work always impressed me.

[Marshal of the People]

Me of course!

P.S. I am not really a stand up comedian but I am funny, aren't I?