Favorite Comedians
 

Some don't last long, thank goodness...see ya some day Dice Clay.
Some don't last long enough.

"Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an "act" and he told the audience, "This is my act." Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week."
Lenny Bruce

Here is my top five list...please share yours.
1. Lenny Bruce
2. George Carlin
3. Bill Maher
4. George Burns
5. Jerry Seinfeld

1. Rudy Ray Moore
2. Redd Foxx
3. Rickles
4. Rodney D.
5. Richard Pryor

sam kinison rip
r pryor
ateam
chris rock
red foxx..rip

Paula Poundstone

period.

Bill Cosby
Jack Benny
Grocho Marx
The Three Stooges
Mercedes McNab (not really a commedian but the funniest actress I've seen)

Redd Foxx
Robin Williams
Eddie Murphy
Bill Cosby
Jim Carey
Jerry Lewis
Peter Sellers

The last 3 cover the silly moods.

Tom Durkin
Carrot Top
Emilo Estevez
Barry Zito

How the heck can anyone mention great comedians of old and fail to see the genius that is....

BUDDY HACKETT:cool:

Stop acting like your old Kevin. Good grief, you're what 34?
You werent even a thought by your parents when Buddy Hackett was doing stand up.

Carrot Top is the funniest guy alive and Tom Durkin is also a non stop amusement.

Dude...Hackett was the shizzle...

Carrot Top??? you must be on a sugar high from your 3rd pint...

The clowns I work with.

George Carlin, no question about it for me
Sam Kinnison, love it when he goes off
Chris Farley on SNL
Richard Pryor

and this guy who works at this Gas Station I frequent. Dude just has me curled in the fetal position drollong in laughter 3/4's of the time telling stories

Damn.
I knew something was amiss. My list would be incomplete without the little narrowed eyed fat man.

These are the ones I've seen live..

1. Rodney (Syracuse's Landmark Theater in '81)
2. Eddie Murphy (Saw Delirious or Raw in Cincy at Music Hall around '84)
3. David Brenner (A dinner theater in E. Windsor, CT in 1978)
4. Jerry Seinfeld (Treehouse Comedy Club in Norwalk, CT, New Year's Eve, '89 or '90)
5. Jackie Mason (On Broadway in his "World According to Me")
6. Sandra Bernhardt (Off Broadway in her "Without You I'm Nothing")
7. George Carlin (At Oakwood in the Round in the '70's)
8. Ray Romano (At Comedyworks in Montreal before "Everybody Loved Him")
9. Mark Maron (Short Attention Span Theater host at Comedyworks in Montreal)
10. Harlan Williams (Before he got big at Comedyworks in Montreal)

Bill Hicks
 

Not many people remember Bill Hicks, who died of cancer in 1994. You can find many of his bits and interviews on youtube. This guy was incredibly cutting edge, and the topics he talks about 15 years ago are even more relavent today.

Word has always been around stand-ups that Denis Leary stole A LOT OF HIS EARLY ACT from Bill Hicks... And a number of them have always resented him because of it.

Hicks to this day is thought of as the 'comic's comic'...

What, no Michael Richards (Kramer)? Just kidding...although if the last month never happened he may have got a vote. Kind of a Pete Rose situation.

Robin Williams
Red Foxx (ever heard his stand up? excellent)
Don Rickles (way ahead of the curve)
Chris Rock