Favorite Stand-Up Comedians?
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Topic: Favorite Stand-Up Comedians?
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Favorite Stand-Up Comedians?
Date Posted: August 11 2019 at 08:30
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(in this order) Mort Sahl, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Louis C.K., Bill Burr, Dick Gregory, Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedburg, dov davidoff, doug stanhope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJrIShiYbK4 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 00:43
See above. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
MortSahlFan wrote:Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 00:57
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http://www.carolinatheatre.org/events/steven-wright-1" rel="nofollow">  ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 02:01
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Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey, Jo Grant, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Murphy, Billy Connoly are some that come to mind. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 03:48
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Carlin. Steven Wright. Brian Regan. His Stupid In School shtick is one of those great I defy you not to laugh moments. ------------- Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 05:37
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(in no particular order) Danny Bhoy, Frankie Boyle, Dylan Moran, Bill Burr, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Richard Jeni, Dennis Leary, Ross Noble, Omid Djalili, Harry Hill, Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg, George Carlin, Hal Cruttenden, Miles Jupp, Russell Peters, Jim Gaffigan, Patrice O'Neal, James Acaster, Sean Lock, Lee Mack, Kevin Bridges, Greg Davies, Joe Lycett, Micky Flanagan, Bill Bailey, Josh Widdicombe, Jack Dee, Milton Jones, Ed Byrne, Ed Gamble, Ardal O'Hanlon, Marcus Brigstocke, Stephen K Amos, Seann Walsh, Simon Evans, Sarah Millican, Tony Law, Rich Hall, Jo Brand, Les Dawson, ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 05:46
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Stewart Lee is another fave of mine. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 06:04
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I have to say that Friede is a great stand-up comedian. she once told the joke of the Ploinkner at a party for about an hour, and everybody hung at her lips. here the short version of the joke: a man who has been without a job for years desperately seeks for a new job because he has to feed a wife and 6 children, so when he reads an ad in the local paper saying "Looking for a Ploinkner. We pay a fee of $1,000,000" he applies for the job, is told what he has to do and agrees. so on a certain date he climbs up a rope ladder with 1000 rungs up to a platform in front of an audience that cheers him on. when he arrives at the platform he jumps down - ploink yeah, I agree, not much of a joke, but Friede turned this into an epic with TV-stations fighting for the broadcasting rights, an international crisis almost leading to nuclear war because the USA refused to have the event broadcasted in Russia and finally God and his angels as well as the devil and his cohorts attending, with the story taking all kinds of unexpected twists and turns. it was all completely improvised and incredibly funny, and everyone marveled at her wild imagination
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 06:42
 Yes, I enjoy the comedy of Steven Wright.------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 06:42
These ones and Sean Rouse.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 08:33
| George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor to name a few. |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 08:36
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Rodney Dangerfield Chris Rock Richard Pryor Mitch Hedberg ------------- Help the victims of the russian invasion: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28523&PID=130446&title=various-ways-you-can-help-ukraine#130446 |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 08:40
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Bill Burr Sebastian Maniscalco Nate Bargatze Don Rickles Bill and SM were both better before they got married. They seem to be a bit too relaxed these days, but they still amuse me.
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Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 10:17
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Steven Wright, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Jim Carey (esp in In Living Color), Tracy Ullman, Lenny Bruce, Steve Martin, David Letterman, Sid Cesar, Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart, Johnny Carson, The Smothers Brothers, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore, Mort Sahl and Jonathan Winters. I'm sure I'll think of more. So many other great comedic actors/writers etc over the years, but all of these also did stand up. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 12:09
I knew someone would EVENTUALLY name Mort Sahl in a prog site. I found out very early that there are many great movie tastes in here as well. Do you watch Mort on Thursdays? The only guy (besides Mort) I could talk about Mort died (Paul Krassner). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 12:24
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Yes, I know another person who knew Paul Krassner. I remember him, of course, but didn't know him personally. I was unaware of the Mort of Thursays? ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 16:32
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Richard Pryor Chris Rock Robert Klein John Pinette Robin Harris Sinbad Redd Foxx Jay Anthony Brown |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 17:01
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My favorite comedians are all unfortunately dead; so none of them stand up anymore. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 20:34
Goodness! Probably the best, the dirtiest and the funniest thing I have EVER seen, was Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx who did a bunch of shows together, which I think were totally improvised ... and on this particular night ... you will never discuss again __________________________ ... because it was insane, and it did not stop, to the point where I had to go outside for 5 minutes! Other than that, I miss PC and DM together. I miss Sam Kenniston (spelling). And a handful of characters that I loved dearly ... PC and DM might not be considered "stand-up", but that was how they started, more or less, and their material was crazy. And the greatest highlight of their material can probably be found in the film, BEDAZZLED, the original one ... I also miss Peter Sellers ... who was not a "stand-up" comedian, but his albums, were just like a "stand-up" thing ... insane comedy bits and some songs ... totally off everything you can think of. Spike Milligan, maybe, but he is not known as a "stand-up" guy, but he did "stand-up" with children by the hundreds and thousands ... and it was funny, and fun to listen to ... just the stories ... what a mind! Lastly, and needs to introduction ... Robin Williams ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: himani786
Date Posted: August 13 2019 at 01:22
| My personal recommendation would be to tune into ‘Vote The Hell’, an amazingly original political satire on Watcho App if you want to watch some rib-cracking stand up comedy. Watch hilarious digs by ace stand up comedians like Sundeep Sharma, Ravi Gupta, Ankita, Vignesh, and many more. Visit https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.watcho.com/list/vote-the-hell/k-337261_3230&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1565767235973000&usg=AFQjCNE4GgHXSrar_Cro7Pz5mKfvFXWjpg" rel="nofollow - https://www.watcho.com/list/vote-the-hell/k-337261_3230 to ROFL. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 13 2019 at 01:23
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Craig Ferguson, Steven Colbert, Letterman, Bill Murray, Don Rickles,Jerry Seinfeld have anyone seen Comedians in a Car Getting Coffey, its quite insightful into comedy and Jerry is a good interviewer i think, that with Bill Maher is great and with Michael Richards is comicly in the way that they outomaticly reverts back to bickering like the series they starr in -------------  
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 13 2019 at 02:14
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^ I actually enjoyed it which shocked me because Seinfeld is so stale and dated now, and when I saw previews for this one it looked pretty dire. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 13 2019 at 06:45
Who were they? ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 05:19
Professor Irwin Corey Stand-Up Comedy NYC 1976There just isn't enough out there for him to be my favorite, but he's underrated and still one of my favs.. And the clips that are online are when he's in his 90s. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 06:14
I don't know any of those names listed, but here's my favourite stand-up comedian, Ricky Gervais, who's well-known on both sides of the Atlantic.  |
Posted By: Joel Julian Music
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 06:28
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I don't enjoy many stand up comedians, but I love Bill Bailey. I also think Dave Gorman is extremely underrated. ------------- https://vamoosery.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xMy7EHlvs3FgcRiBR99DB?si=-oZvC34MQhGt3CMCuFMXgg" rel="nofollow - Spotify |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 06:37
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All-time: George Carlin Old-time: Jack Benny 60s/70s: Benny Hill Modern: Bill Burr & Ricky Gervais ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 09:07
| Stewart Lee is the best. Dave Gorman at his best is second to none. I also enjoy Sean Lock a lot, RIP! |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 09:33
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Gabriel Iglesias, John Mulaney, Bill Burr, Ricky Gervais, Chappelle In no order |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 19 2023 at 10:42
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Used to love Jasper Carrott back in the seventies. He will be totally unknown to anyone outside of the UK I imagine but he brought a much ruder style to British stand up comedy but without it being all out crude (or sexist) as many were at the time. He once recorded a song called Funky Moped with Jeff Lynn which actually made the British charts. It's absolutely awful but actually sold on the B-side called 'Magic Roundabout' a piss take of the famous French subversive political animation that was translated into English in the UK and presented as 'kids tv. I still to do this day can't help thinking of lines such as 'there's only one way to kill a mole,.... blow it's bloody head off!' and 'has anyone seen my camel?' BTW his daughter is the actress Lucy Davis who appeared in The Office (UK version)
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Posted By: duchamp
Date Posted: December 27 2023 at 16:42
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(this isn't limited 2 stand up comedy, this is about comedians in gen) 1. Nick Mullen 2. Chris Morris 3. Norm Macdonald 4. Trevor Moore 5. Adam Friedland
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Posted By: EnForce24
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 05:18
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Billy Connolly |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 08:10
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George Carlin Bill Burr Robin Williams Ryan Long Norm Macdonald
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 09:57
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Mike Harding Jack Dee Rich Hall Romesh Ranganathan Sarah Millican ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 09:59
Jasper almost made my list too. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 10:28
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Has anyone in here listened to the "AI" stuff someone did masqueraded as Bill Hicks or George Carlin? I'm wondering when someone will make one of Mitch Hedberg (if they haven't already). This only came to my attention a few days ago. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: January 15 2024 at 10:44
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I like George Carlin. The real one obviously. AI can go fuсk itself B) ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 16 2024 at 00:37
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Hi, I do wish that some of the Redd Foxx and Richard Prior live shows were available. They were, at least the show I saw, a fairly strong XXX rating and it was about all comers ... not just about this or that. And it was funny, although these days, a lot of folks will think it is improper and be scared to release it. Robin Williams, also had a lot of quips that HBO cut, and it showed in the shows when you could easily tell that that there was a cut for whatever reason and Robin's dialogue was not "continuous" and seemed to have a burp of some kind. Perfect example is him getting close to finishing up a joke, or story, and cut ... the next shot he is drinking some water before continuing. But, nowadays, until this desire to censor everything and attack everything else, I doubt that a lot of comedy can stand up in one piece, specially with various countries taking out contracts on their artists and other folks ... the sickest of the sick in my book.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 16 2024 at 02:19
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Ian Anderson, obviously  https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2016" rel="nofollow - Stand Up ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 16 2024 at 09:57
I have been able to find a ton of rare Mort Sahl shows (and interviews) by writing to Universities, Archives, etc.. Many will even digitize them for free. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 17 2024 at 13:27
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James Acaster Stewart Lee Jerrod Carmichael Sam Morril Marc Maron I used to like both Louis CK and Ricky Gervais a lot but now I find them very irritating |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 19 2024 at 22:24
Hi, I doubt we will ever see these ... they are almost pure porn and the jokes, are grand, but often ... wow ... but we're never going to hear the thing about the "rags" ... which went on for almost 20 minutes ... it was really funny, but if we sit back ... it was also offensive, though it was not meaning to be mean! I suppose they could do an Peter Cook and Dudley Moore thing ... and let the albums out as "Derek and Clive" ... but even those albums are crazy, and frogs, peche, lobsters ... will never be the same again! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |