Favorite Comedian

[sjp]

Who is yours?

mine is Richard Pryor of all time, but Chris Rock these days.

[TimDoolan]

Robert Schimmel, Kat Williams.

[Guy Incognito]

Bill hicks. No question.

[funk63]

Mitch Hedberg the Curt Cobaine of comedy RIP

[DandyFop]

Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Mitch Hedberg.

Todd glass, Maria Bamford, Tig Notaro

Seeing a lot of really great ones around LA these days that should hopefully make it big at some point

[gbsuey]

ok, so i was going to be completely hilarious yar, and say my favourite comedian was Iceman-the WORST comedian i have ever seen. I know!! It would have been HILARIOUS. But i thought i'd double-check to make sure i had remembered the name ok-can't find reference to him anywhere-not even Wiki. I know he was a proper tosser so i guess he's been deleted. Unless of course i did get his name toally wrong and the hideous not-funny twat i'm thinking of is called something else.!

Anyway it's Bill Hicks

But Frankie Boyle is amazing too-made me cry and hurt laughing

[Rock]

Lil' Jimmy Norton
Louis CK
Chris Rock
Artie Lange (only on Stern, his stand up sucks balls)
David Cross
Dave Chappelle

No particular order.

[mikizee]

Yep, all time favourite, Bill Hicks without a doubt.

[camo]

Jimmy Carr
Frankie Boyle
Sean Lock
Billy Conelly

[Adam]

Bill Bailey without a shadow of a doubt

Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding as a double act next.

[kleptomaniac]

mmmmm...dana carvey doing stand-up!! :)

squatting monkeys tell no lies! :D

[ToucanSpam]

Wow someone else said Todd Glass...haven't seen him in a while. *youtubes*

Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Dennis Leary
Chris Rock

If I had to pick one I'd pick George Carlin.

[jabumbo]

as of late, its been jim gaffigan for me

[saz]

lewis black
bill maher
dana carvey
don rickles
george carlin
dave chapelle
george wallace
steven wright
russell peters

[Guy Incognito]

Wow someone else said Todd Glass...haven't seen him in a while. *youtubes*

Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Dennis Leary
Chris Rock

If I had to pick one I'd pick George Carlin.

i fail to see how you can have leary on your list and not hicks. Granted leary is funny, got a really funny face, and swears like a trooper but a lot of his subject material and jokes have been lifted straight off hicks but with a less serious and lighter tone than the great man. I like leary i just dont think a list with leary on and not hicks is a good list.sorry

[mathcart]

Carlin was tops. Period.

then almost as good and almost equally enjoyable:
Bill Hicks
Brian Regan
Jim Gaffigan
Chris Rock
Emo Phillips
Stephen Wright
Mitch Hedberg

then the rest
plenty I like here who are funny more than not :

Dave Chapelle
Louis CK
Lewis Black

have a soft spot in my heart for the Cos's standup from my childhood, same with Eddie Murphy but I know now they both were not at the same level (for me) as those above since their stuff doesn't really stand the test of time (Cosby's weirdly does more than Murphy's).

I don't really know Pryor's stand up- which is near criminal for someone who grow up loving and listening to stand up as much as music- but it is what it is and I can't include him when I'm ignorant of his stuff.

For my money :
John Stewart
Stephen Carrell
Stephen Colbert
are the funniest comedians on television but their not doing stand up so I'm not sure what the ruling on them would be.
My list my rules so they on it! And if we're opening it up to a definition of comedic actors- sheeet the floodgates be opening!-

How about the Marx Brothers?
Will Ferrell (et all)?

could really keep going so Im gonna stop.
Stupid snow day.

[DIGI]

No Zatch Gaspifinaski?

[cubsfirstplace]

jimmy norton (hopefully he will win his battle with aids)

[Fern]

Andy Kaufman

[Lyman Zerga]

Andy Kaufman

i dont think he was supposed to be a comedian, just a joke

[Burnout18]

Jim Norton!

i was laughing out loud while reading both his books, and he cracks me up every morning on O&A.

And Louis CK is great too.

[Otis Driftwood]

Dave Chapelle, Patton Oswalt, Mike Nelson and anyone from the MST3K crew

[kaiser soze]

I gotta admit, Bill Cosby was a big favorite of mine

His Natural Childbirth bit still puts me in stitches

"whooo wee oh weee woo hoo PUUUSH PUUUUSH!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFMVeZyhagI&feature=related

"We can go in the bushes but not in the car dear"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-AG_yF1Uw&feature=related

[HEIRESS]

Mike Birbiglia
Patton Oswalt,
Jim Gaffigan
Demetri Martin
and god help me, Daniel Tosh

[Praying Mantis]

Mitch Hedberg
Daniel Tosh
Todd Glass
Stephen Lynch

[ToucanSpam]

i fail to see how you can have leary on your list and not hicks. Granted leary is funny, got a really funny face, and swears like a trooper but a lot of his subject material and jokes have been lifted straight off hicks but with a less serious and lighter tone than the great man. I like leary i just dont think a list with leary on and not hicks is a good list.sorry

I completely forgot about Hicks. Sorry.

[ericlee]

Knuckles

[Documad]

Jon Stewart does stand up. He was pretty good. His stuff about his kid was funnier than his political stuff. I liked Jerry Seinfeld. And believe it or not Joan Rivers was pretty funny when I was a kid and saw her.

Eddie Izzard usually puts on an enjoyable show. But he's a little less funny every time I see him.

Honestly, David Sedaris is funnier than any stand up I've seen but I don't like stand up as a rule. It bothers me that the rest of the audience will be laughing and I don't think it's funny. I laugh more at That 70s Show or 30 Rock than I do at an average stand up gig. Bill Bryson is also funny. I guess I like funny readings better than stand up. :p

[Matt]

Classics:
Bill Cosby
George Carlin

Contemporary:
Maria Bamford
Todd Barry
Patton Oswalt
Eugene Mirman
Mitch Hedberg
Mike Birbiglia
Jim Gaffigan
Kyle Dunnigan
Brian Posehn

All Time Favorites:
Zach Galifianakis
Bob Odenkirk
Tim and Eric (Saw them live last Sunday, best show I've seen anywhere, ever.)

[ericlee]

Adrock

[Lyman Zerga]

always joey gladstone

[Matt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs61cnX7pvg

[Lyman Zerga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs61cnX7pvg

thats right, bitch (y)

see joey is so funny he even blew the second funniest person called bob saget off

[Dorothy Wood]

eugene mirman
zach galifianakis
demetri martin
kumail nanjiani
hannibal buress
brian posehn
patton oswalt
maria bamford
david cross
janeane garafalo
leo allen
jon benjamin
steven wright
george carlin
lewis black
neil hamburger

and mitch hedberg forever and ever, amen.