Best Comedians

[jamesd1628]

Sort of stole this idea from PowerT83 in another thread, but who are your favorite stand-up comedians? I would have to go with the following (not necessarily in order):

Ron White
Kevin James
Carlos Mencia
Chris Rock

There are others, of course, but these come to mind pretty quick.

 

[Volsguy12]

carlos mencia is awful

 

[milohimself]

Mencia's stand-up is okay, his show is terrible.

Jim Gaffigan
Demetri Martin
Hard & Phirm
Jeff Dunham

The ones that come to mind right now as my favs.

 

[egotisticalmoron]

carlos mencia is awful

agreed.

 

[**ORANGEBLOOD**]

If the question is best stand up of all time, there is only one name that can be spoken.

Eddie Murphy

 

[**ORANGEBLOOD**]

Stand ups today,

Jim Gaffigan
Greg Hahn
Stephen Lynch

 

[vader]

George Carlin
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Chris Rock
Dave Attell

 

[allvol123]

Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor

Any of those Blue Collar Comedy guys are horrible.

 

[jamesd1628]

Mencia's stand-up is okay, his show is terrible.

Jim Gaffigan
Demetri Martin
Hard & Phirm
Jeff Dunham

The ones that come to mind right now as my favs.

I've actually never seen Mencia's TV show, but the stand-up routine I watched had me laughing about as hard as I've laughed at anything.

 

[jamesd1628]

Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor

Any of those Blue Collar Comedy guys are horrible.

What about Foxworthy? Maybe his act has grown a little tired, but he has been dang hilarious it times, especially when those Red Neck jokes first came out.

 

[milohimself]

Exactly. Foxworthy was fresh and funny in like the 80's.

 

[allvol123]

I find Foxworthy absolutely boring.

 

[Volsguy12]

i would have to say 1 of the best is Larry the Cable Guy.


absolutely just kidding.

 

[allvol123]

Watching Eddie Murphy in Delirious when I was a teenager made my stomach muscles hurt.

 

[jamesd1628]

Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor

Any of those Blue Collar Comedy guys are horrible.

You don't like Ron White?

 

[Lexvol]

You don't like Ron White?

Ron White is a good comedian, and is easily the best of the bunch.

 

[superdave1984]

Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Robin Williams
Eddie Murphy
Bill Hicks
Damon Wayans

 

[McLovin]

Steven Wright

 

[Lexvol]

Tim Wilson

Steven Wright is brilliant...but he is hard to find these days.

 

[allvol123]

Steven Wright is damn good.

 

[cd12]

Tim Wilson

Steven Wright is brilliant...but he is hard to find these days.

last I heard someone stole everything out of Wright's apartment and replaced it with exact replicas!

 

[TXA&M07]

Robin Williams any time.
Demetri Martin with a big chief tablet and a sharpie.
Eddie Murphy back in the day before the corny movies.


I think that Pablo Fransisco is good too.

 

[milohimself]

Yes, Pablo Francisco is brilliant.

IMO his Comedy Central 1/2 hour stand-up is among the best the network has ever had.

 

[droski]

how could no one have mentioned dane cook?

 

[TXA&M07]

how could no one have mentioned dane cook?

He is in the same category as the blue collar guys and Jim Carrey. They were funny at first, but now they are just annoying and a bit redundant.