George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Russell Peters
Favorite Comedians?
@CommonReason said:
Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Doug Stanhope, and Louis C.K.
There are a lot of good comedians, but these will likely stick with me for a long time. They stand out and in large ways, seem to define a lot of the material newer performers have that I've seen recently.
hot damn! these are the 4 that i had planned on posting milliseconds upon reading the topic. well done, my friend. you saved me the trouble. i also like Eddie Izzard and Ricky Gervais.
i like jimmy pardo, doug benson, eddie pepitone and a tonne more.
i just listen to the comedy bang bang, doug loves movies, never not funny and the long shot podcasts and i seem to get introduced too a new great comedian every episode.
i read through this entire thread and in my opion mitch hedberg is not getting nearly enough love. Other than him I like jerry seinfeld, Lewis Black, Louis C.K., george carlin, bill hicks, eddy murphy, dave chappelle, harland williams, jeremy hotz...there are more but I cant remember them right now.
Note: it is actually impossible for mitch hedberg to get enough love.
Based on the love he was getting here, I started checking out Lewis Black. THE MAN IS A GENIUS!!! Really funny.
My favorites are Louis C.K, Bill Burr, Mike Birbiglia and Jimmy Carr and then I can't stand Stewart Lee, Andrew Dice Clay or Lewis Black
Bill Bailey's work is consistently great and the roads that Ross Noble travels when he starts a topic are wild and wonderful. Really like early Paul Merton before he became kinda...jaded, seeing him in London recently he just seemed bored by it all.
Ricky Gervais and Joe Rogan are the only ones I pay attention to. Joe Rogan for his podcast, which gets many a laugh out of me every time. Also some pretty interesting shit talked about on there.
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the guy who wrote this comic
Talking strictly stand-up: George Carlin will always be my favorite.
But other than him, still strictly stand-up: Chris Rock, Pablo Francisco, Ricky Gervais, and Dave Chappelle.
EDIT: I forgot Jim Norton and Louis CK and basically anyone who was on Lucky Louie. Great fucking show.
Peter Kay for me. Though went to see Stephen Merchant live a few months ago and he was awesome, way better than Ricky Gervais stand up.
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