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Dayvenkirq 
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 Topic: Stand-UpsPosted: December 02 2013 at 21:26 |
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If your day turned stinky, ... here's Adam Ray:
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Ady Cardiac
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Posted: September 15 2013 at 03:57 |
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i like me older stuff like les dawson, tommy cooper, eric morcombe, bob monkhouse........but also adore Bill Hicks, Ted Chippington.......out of stuff today not much.....Tim vine, stewart lee ( who i had a pint with after a gig i saw of his......real nice fellow)
the worst one for me is Bill Bailey......i worked backstage at one of his gigs and he is a real arsehole......he aint what you see on telly thats for sure.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: September 08 2013 at 14:03 |
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Mike Birbiglia has some interesting things to say every now and then:
Edited by Dayvenkirq - September 08 2013 at 14:05 |
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Tapfret
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Posted: August 29 2013 at 02:34 |
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Burr is awesome. I love his take on the car ride home with Hitler after Jesse Owens won all those medals in Berlin. |
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Atavachron
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Posted: August 28 2013 at 03:58 |
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oh and Jake Johannsen great too
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Atavachron
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Posted: August 28 2013 at 03:49 |
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just caught a pretty funny young guy named Barry Rothbart
favorites include Steven Wright, Jim Gaffigan, Brian Regan, and of course Lenny |
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 28 2013 at 02:55 |
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But on a far more gentle line, news today of the loss of one of the classics from the 50s/70s
Mike Winters, RIP 
Usually overlooked in Morecambe & Wise's shadow, Mike & Bernie Winters still have an affectionate place in my 1970s memories... RIP Choochie Face! |
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Neelus
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Posted: August 27 2013 at 14:43 |
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Sorry if this was added before, but it is me fav...
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: August 27 2013 at 14:35 |
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^ Oh, yeah, ... Bill Burr is awesome.
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: August 27 2013 at 14:18 |
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Dave Chappele, Bill Burr, Lous C.K and Patrice O'Neal are (were in Patrice's case) hilarious.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: August 27 2013 at 00:17 |
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Good call on cinema...Steve Martin films are very different animals compared to his standup. It's like Monty Python, I love the Flying Circus TV episodes but think the movies are awful...they move so slow and except for a couple good lines, I just don't find much good there...seems they dumbed things down for the big screen. Getting back to Steve Martin, his best comedy album was the 1st, 1977's "Let's Get Small" before he became popular...after that, seems everything went downhill... There's quite a few Sarah stand up clips on youtube you can check out, and there's her 2005 film "Jesus is Magic" that's mostly stand up interspersed with some comedy sketches. She also had a tv series for a couple seasons that was pretty uneven...though most of the best episodes were season 1. I really liked Bobcat Goldthwait's stand up in the 80's. I 1st saw him as the crazy biker in the Police Story comedy films and later checked out his stage act and thought he was great. |
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 03:01 |
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I should give Sarah Silverman a listen. I've read that she has an awesome stand-up career. Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 26 2013 at 03:03 |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:58 |
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I never understood the appeal of Steve Martin
 I've seen countless of flicks featuring him in a supposedly funny character, yet he always fails to make me laugh. I kinda liked the Father Of The Bride movie(Yeah, well shoot me), but he wasn't remotely funny in that either.... |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:48 |
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Good call on Stanhope. I actually prefer him to Carlin and Hicks, maybe because as a paradoxical result of their influence those two guys don't sound as extreme today as they used to. |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 00:56 |
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George Carlin ("Hand me that piano.")
Bill Cosby (he can make you laugh without a single obscenity) Dennis Leary (tracheotomy man) Richard Pryor ("When you're on fire, people get out of your way.") Robin Williams (back when he was stoked on coke) |
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 00:34 |
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Saw Renaissance at the Paramount Theater in Oakland 1977 and they were opening for some guy named "Steve Martin". Yes, wild and crazy guy Steve Martin just before he became famous. Yet another brilliant Bill Graham pairing
 As far as standup goes, I love Sarah Silverman but my all time fave is Henry Rollins...though I don't know if he's technically considered standup or spoken word. I've seen Henry 4 times and he never fails to put on a great show.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 12:14 |
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I've always followed stand up comedy, I buy a lot of comedy albums and listen to them often. I grew up listening to Steve Martin, George Carlin, and Richard Pryor. The 90s were fairly devoid of new talent, at least in terms of standup comedy albums released, with the exception of people like Bill Hicks, who really did a lot to push the Carlin-esque politically incorrect philosophy forward, as well as the Lenny Bruce "doomed lone wolf" iconography. Another guy most people don't consider as a comedian (but he really kinda is, in the Hicks/Bruce sort of way) is Henry Rollins, who's best known as a punk rock singer. He's been doing "talking shows" since the mid 80s and he's incredibly funny but very serious at the same time.
I'd say the most impressive current-day comedian I've heard (and I've listened to lots of em) is undoubtedly Doug Stanhope. He's like Bill Hicks squared. Self-destructive and uninhibited to the point where I start to worry about him, but incredibly smart and right-on with his observations. You feel like you're talking to a drunk (but lucid) friend at a wild party when he's on stage, emptying cathartic shovelfuls of bile about any topic that ticks him off, without sounding self-righteous, just sounding like an honest friend.
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The Pessimist
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 11:46 |
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I know he's already been mentioned, but Stewart Lee is probably my all time favourite. Carpet Remnant World was sensational!
Also, I don't think he's been mentioned (maybe my eyes are playing up) but Stephen Wright is a very funny man. |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 10:37 |
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Neil Hamburger's another Australian, he's just lived in the US for most of his life and lost the accent as a result. Am I the only person on the site who finds this guy funnier than most normal stand-up comedians? |
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Dean
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 06:47 |
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Not enough stand-up comedy science in this thread
Robin Ince
Marcus Brigstocke
Josie Long
Ben Goldacre
Dara O'Briain
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What?
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Dayvenkirq wrote:
I've seen countless of flicks featuring him in a supposedly funny character, yet he always fails to make me laugh. I kinda liked the Father Of The Bride movie(Yeah, well shoot me), but he wasn't remotely funny in that either....