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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 14:50
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

 
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If you are American and easily offended don't watch! Wink
 
LOL

You should change it from 'and' to 'or'. I'm American, and found that to be hilarious. LOL
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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2010 at 14:46
Originally posted by moreitsythanyou moreitsythanyou wrote:

For the past few months I've been listening to a lot of Maria Bamford. This is one of her best bits.




You know, this is going to sound sexist, but it's just how it is. I rarely find women funny. This is no exception. 

But my dislike of comedians isn't limited to just women. Bob Saget is also quite the hack, in my opinion.


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Sean Lock
 
If you are American and easily offended don't watch! Wink
 
LOL


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I never saw the obsession with Bill Hicks.

I liked him, loved him actually, but I rarely saw him as funny. At least not in his routine.
I guess he was an entertaining public speaker to me LOL

Oh, and sadly (like Tool) there are a wave of fan boys that worship him, to be "edgy" and all.


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I still love classic Woody Allen.
 
"I'd like to finish my act tonight with a positive story.... but I don't have any..... So here's two negative ones."
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hope this little gag will "stand up"...Wink
 
 
A man applied for a fermentation operator post at a famous  firm based in Devon.   A Polish man applied for the same job and since both had similar qualifications, they were both asked to take a test by the Manager and were left to do the test together. 

When the results were in, both men had scored 19 out of 20.
 
The manager went to the the first applicant and said, "Thank you for coming to the interview, but we’ve decided to give the Pole the job." 
 
"...and why would you do that - we both got 19 questions correct ?... we are in  England and me being English, surely I should get the job." 

 
Manager, "We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but on the question you got wrong."
  
"And just how would one incorrect answer be better than another?" 

Manager, "Simple. On question number 7 the Pole wrote down, 'I don’t know.'
You put down,
‘Neither do I’.“
 
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 08:21
Its Ross Noble I've been trying to think of.

Forgot Dylan Moran too.


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Lots of good comedians mentioned here, but I'd add Jeremy Hardy to the list of comic national treasures - he's a brilliant stand up and also the best thing on The News Quiz - for some reason he's never really come across that well on TV though.
 
 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 08:02
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David Mitchell is one of my all time favourites.
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Points: 1588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:53
He isn't a real stand-up comedian in the sense that he does stand-up, but David Mitchell usually puts a smile on my face with his clever humour and ranting.




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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:47
Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Tim Vine


Hell yeah! How could I forget him?



Itr's easy to forget ...theres a Geordie one and I can't remember his name.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Tim Vine


Hell yeah! How could I forget him?
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:41
Some of my faves

Bill Bailey
Ricky Gervais
Billy Connoly
Tim Vine
Jack Dee
Michael McIntyre
Eddie Izzard
Rhod Gilbert
Sean Locke


and more I will add because my brain won't remeber their names


Oh  and i agree with TP about Jo Brand. Cannot stand her. And Omid Jalili not  VERY funny.
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 07:33
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

that Herring tirade reminds me of Lenny Bruce fighting his censors in the early 60s


Yeah, it's not him at his funniest but he's trying to convey a message which isn't getting through the mainstream media, which was always Bruce's thing - in many ways I see Bruce more as a polemicist than a comedian (not that it isn't possible to be both, of course).

Anyway, the British tabloid press are leaping on any controversial gag and trying to whip the public up into a frenzy ever since this 'incident', usually as a transparent method of attacking the BBC. At the time of that podcast Herring was touring a show entitled 'Hitler Moustache' in which he wore a toothbrush moustache in an attempt to 'reclaim' it for comedy (it was Chaplain's first, after all) and the media deliberately took gags from the show out of context to try and portray him as a racist, only to ask him for quotes about offensive comedy weeks later when running stories about other comedians. If I were him I'd be pretty pissed off as well.
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My, my, there are SOOOOOO many great stand up comedians. Here are a few I love, but too many to list all of them-favorites:
Bill Cosby
Robin Williams
Seinfeld
George Carlin
Lewis Black
Steven Wright
Ralphie May
Alonzo Bodden
Larry Miller
and on, and on, and on.......................................
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Points: 65505 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 05:28
that Herring tirade reminds me of Lenny Bruce fighting his censors in the early 60s
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2010 at 04:20
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:



Jasper Carrott - Good delivery, but a bit too broad and mainstream for my tastes.

When he first appeared in the 1970s he was a complete revelation - along with Connolly, Boyce, and Harding, he came out of the early 70s folk scene doing extended chats between songs, then the songs became shorter and shorter until they were just one-liner gags ("If I were a Carpenter, I'd screw you to the bed" ... "Hangman, hangman, come slacken your noo-")  and was alternative before alternative became the lame buzz-word of the PC 80s.
 


Thanks for that, Dean. I wasn't aware of Carrott's origins - I was just going on what I've seen of his stuff without necessarily placing it in context (which can be crucial to understanding comedy).

Right then, here's a partial list of some of my favourite stand-ups, with illustrative links.

Stewart Lee - as mentioned above, easily the most intelligent, refreshing and bold stand-up this country has ever produced, IMO.
Richard Herring - not as polished as his former double act partner, but that's a conscious choice of his. He's brilliant at creating utterly obscene imagery undercut by satirical or metatextual ideas which neatly deflect any accusations of puerile childishness.
Simon Munnery - Baffling, scattershot, too clever by half, but utterly utterly brilliant.
Josie Long - Don't judge her by her appearences on sh*t panel shows, her actual stand-up shows are much much better.
Bill Bailey - Finely-honed whimsy.

I could go on, but I'll leave it there for now. I'm sure there's something useful I ought to be doing instead.
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2010 at 11:07
Off the top of my head:

Lewis Black
Bill Maher
Steven Wright
Sam Kinison (yeah screamed too much, not any more, but still funny.)
Eddie Murphy
George Carlin
Rodney Dangerfield (didn't get no respect)



Edited by Slartibartfast - August 08 2010 at 11:13
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:



Jasper Carrott - Good delivery, but a bit too broad and mainstream for my tastes.

When he first appeared in the 1970s he was a complete revelation - along with Connolly, Boyce, and Harding, he came out of the early 70s folk scene doing extended chats between songs, then the songs became shorter and shorter until they were just one-liner gags ("If I were a Carpenter, I'd screw you to the bed" ... "Hangman, hangman, come slacken your noo-")  and was alternative before alternative became the lame buzz-word of the PC 80s.
Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

 
Harry Hill misunderstood? i understand him to be a poor version of Harry Worth Tongue
 
Wink
Then you've misunderstood him Steve, Wink though I do now understand that he's one of those comedians you either get ot you don't. That he can subvert prime-time TV and get away with it is a materstroke of surreal comedy genius.
 
 
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