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    Posted: April 07 2017 at 08:23
Four legends of comedy whom changed the game, whom sat a standard which others followed, legacy, icon and hero can be used towards them all.

very important to remember laughter.

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I was always a DR fan, those quick, witty one liners were genius
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Sam Kinison.

But of these I'll say George Carlin.
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When I was a kid I watched The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson quite a bit and Don Rickles was a regular. Carson always had a lot of comedians on his show but Rickles was by far the funniest.
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I love Carlin in an erotic way.
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Carlin
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Carlin -- he is so quotable.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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Yes, but "funny" how? Wink




Edited by The Dark Elf - April 07 2017 at 16:06
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Looks like Bob Hope has no hope........
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From the list, Don Rickles.  But the comic who 'changed the game' was Richard Pryor.
 
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Wasn't Richard Pryor heavily influenced by Redd Foxx?
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As a game-changer, Lenny Bruce deserves mention. And he influenced Richard Pryor and my choice of George Carlin.



"Lenny changed my life. I never heard anything like him before and I remember thinking, 'If this is comedy, then what the f*** am I doing? ... So I played his record over and over, every night. It was him who said comedy wasn't about telling jokes - it was about telling the truth" (Richard Pryor).
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

"Lenny changed my life. I never heard anything like him before and I remember thinking, 'If this is comedy, then what the f*** am I doing? ... So I played his record over and over, every night. It was him who said comedy wasn't about telling jokes - it was about telling the truth" (Richard Pryor).

Great quote.   It's so sad that had Lenny been of our time he'd have been accepted, and left alone by the cops.
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Jonathan Winters were also very funny
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George Carlin by a country mile.
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Dunno.  They are all dead.
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Dunno.  They are all dead.


yeah... I guess so...


Bill Cosby for the thread win..... his comedy albums ruled..

ICE CREAM...we're gonna eat ICE CREAM... LOL

to say nothing of the .... Chicken Heart
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my favourite comics are probably Orson Bean and Norm Macdonald, but I voted Rickles
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