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Valadius Feb 12 2006 12:20 PM

Who makes you laugh? Who comes up with the best one-liners, the best impressions, the best stories? Who would you name as your favorite comedians or comediennes? I'll submit the following names: Frank Caliendo Dane Cook Bill Cosby Eddie Murphy Richard Pryor George Carlin

metirish Feb 12 2006 12:30 PM

Tommy Tiernan is a riot, check him out http://www.tommytiernan.com/ George Carlin specials on HBO are still a laugh. Bill Maher is great, miss his show.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 12 2006 12:36 PM

Without a doubt:

OlerudOwned Feb 12 2006 12:46 PM

Demitri Martin is a funny guy.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 12 2006 01:20 PM

The man is a genius.

Edgy DC Feb 12 2006 01:29 PM

Confessing myself to be a pushover for Kathleen Madigan. For years, there were almost no women who made me laugh. Talented femmes like Lucy, Lily Tomlin, and Tracy Ullman got my respect but not the chuckles. Catherine O'Hara was always an exception. Kathleen Madigan is another. Maybe because she tells baseball jokes. Gilbert Gottfried told a joke about Nostradamus twenty years ago, barely funny in concept, but, combined with his delivery, it split me open like a salmon. I still laugh at it when I recall it.

ScarletKnight41 Feb 12 2006 01:30 PM

David Brenner was one of my favorites when I was growing up. D-Dad and I saw an hysterical 17-year-old Chris Rock doing his thing in a comedy club in the 80's, and we've been enjoying him ever since. Ellen Degeneres is always great - she finds such absurdly funny things about the simple truths in life. On the opposite end of the spectrum, especially accounting for language, Denis Leary is just f--king funny. I have seen Robert Klein both live and on television, and he's always made me laugh. My favorite comedy club memory, though, is about a guy named Bill Campbell. You've probably never heard of him. He was making the comedy club rounds in New England in the mid-80's. We saw him in Boston one weekend, and the next week we were visiting friends in Newport. D-Dad was telling our friends about this really funny guy we had seen, and he went through several of Campbell's bits (Howard Johnson's restaurants and suggestive popular songs that his kids liked were big in the routine). That night, in Newport, we went to a comedy club to see my friend's cousin, who was headlining. One of the supporting comics that night was Bill Campbell. He did every bit that D-Dad imitated, and my friend, who is a big girl with a big laugh, was consistently cracking up about three beats before every punchline, much to the comic's confusion. It was one of those weird but very funny moments.

seawolf17 Feb 12 2006 02:34 PM

I miss Mitch Hedberg.

Willets Point Feb 12 2006 02:58 PM

George Carlin & Eddie Izzard are at the top of my list.

TheOldMole Feb 13 2006 07:11 AM

Lord Buckley.

soupcan Feb 13 2006 09:25 AM

Jim Gaffigan

MFS62 Feb 13 2006 09:41 AM

Willets Point wrote: George Carlin & Eddie Izzard are at the top of my list. And I'd add Richard Jeni, Steve Allen, Lenny Bruce, Lewis Black and Weird Al Yankovic to that list. And the brilliantly innovative Ernie Kovacs, too. Later

RealityChuck Feb 13 2006 10:35 AM

For standup: Dennis Wolfburg (alas) [url]http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/castandcrew/denniswolfberg.htm[/url] The Amazing Jonathan Woody Allen Jackie Vernon Jackie Mason Bob Newhart Bill Cosby Chris Rush George Carlin Richard Pryor

seawolf17 Feb 13 2006 10:41 AM

Dennis Wolfberg was great! I can't believe he died so long ago. He was on an episode of Fox's Comic Strip Live that was just classic... it was him, George Wallace, and a few others. Funny, funny man with crazy eyes.

Centerfield Feb 13 2006 10:44 AM

Jerry Seinfeld Chris Rock Robin Williams Billy Crystal Ellen Degeneres (I've only recently discovered her) David Letterman Rosie O'Donnell Is Tom Hanks still considered a comedian? If so, Tom Hanks. And I might be the only one I know who doesn't find George Carlin even remotely funny. I think he's preachy, I think he tries too hard, and I find I have to turn to something else after ten minutes.

Edgy DC Feb 13 2006 10:48 AM

Even when I when I appreciate what Carlin is trying to do, and the work that he puts into his writing, I find him embarassing to watch, and frequently as narrowminded as those he's trying to expose for their narrowmindedness.

Frayed Knot Feb 13 2006 11:09 AM

I've always liked Carlin but he is much better when he's merely pointing out life's little absurdities than he is when he gets into screech mode. He doesn't do angry nearly as well as he does whimsy.

KC Feb 13 2006 03:05 PM

It's a little known fact that Gilbert Gottfried was the fifth Ramone - Gil Ramone.

Willets Point Feb 13 2006 04:16 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: I've always liked Carlin but he is much better when he's merely pointing out life's little absurdities than he is when he gets into screech mode. He doesn't do angry nearly as well as he does whimsy. Ditto. I love his old stuff where he talks about going to Catholic school

soupcan Feb 13 2006 04:32 PM

Or the Carlin classic 'football versus baseball'.