Who's Your Favorite Comedian?

[Alpha]

My favorite comedian would have to be Jay Leno, no one can beat him at his antics. Especially "The Tonight's Show" is sad to miss since it's on so late. But I try to never miss it on Friday night. So who's your favorite comedian? Who makes you laugh so hard that your stomach will hurt and your gasping for air?

[Wizard]

I would say Conan O'Brien. The skits and everything. Even the joke about french people when he did it when he was up in Toronto. Offended Quebecers because it's true! And Dave Chappelle, that man is one of the greatest comedian I've ever seen. Too bad I don't remember the name of this one comedian that was at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal last year. His skit about the bads of drinking and driving was priceless.

[AntiWinner22]

Here is my list:

1. Mitch Hedberg (Best. Delivery. EVER.)

2. Richard Pryor (No need for explanitory footnote)

3. Dave Attell (2nd. Best. Delivery. EVER.)

4. David Cross (just cool)

5. Jerry Seinfeld (this one is for you, Gryph. )

6. Carlos Mencia (Funny Kat)

7. Lewis Black (Cerebral Pissed Off Kat. Love it.)

 

Anon.

[Gryph]

My ultimate favorite is George Carlin.

 

Then there are my other favorites like Richard Pryor, Steven Wright, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Lewis Black, Dave Chappelle, Robin Williams, Dennis Miller, and a whole bunch more.

 

But George Carlin rules them all.

 

And to the great Alan King, rest in peace. He will be missed.

 

EDIT: Oh crap, how could I forget Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Eddie Izzard, Mitch Hedburg (I love his style), Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, Andy Kaufman (very esoteric yet funny), Robert Klein, and Gallagher (what a badass).

Edited May 10, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[Inky]

richard pryor

eddie murphy (the older SNL/Raw stuff not the kiddie stuff he does now)

george carlin

jerry sienfeld

dave chappele

jon stewart (his old standup more then the daily show)

the guy who did "bebe's kids" I don't remember his name

sam kinison

andrew "dice" clay

but my absolute favorite is DENNIS LEARY!!!!

[Chaotica]

I don't know many, because I am not that into comedy, but I love watching Letterman on TV.

[BoomBa_GoosE]

Jay Leno

Conan O'brien

Eddie Murphy

Bill Cosby

The Kngs oF comedy (steve harvey, cedrick the entertainer, darryl hugley, Bernie mac)

Dave Chapelle

Eddie Izzard

George Lopez

martin lawrence

ellen degeneres

[Gryph]

richard pryor

eddie murphy (the older SNL/Raw stuff not the kiddie stuff he does now)

george carlin

jerry sienfeld

dave chappele

jon stewart (his old standup more then the daily show)

the guy who did "bebe's kids" I don't remember his name

sam kinison

andrew "dice" clay

but my absolute favorite is DENNIS LEARY!!!!

One reason I want to go to Las Vegas is to see the Diceman.

 

And Dennis Leary needs to be added to my list as well. "No Cure for Cancer" was brilliant.

[Fatal Rose]

Jerry Seinfeld all the way.

[OverlordMondo]

I don't know many comedians.

Uh...

Dave Chappelle, he's good.

That dood from The Daily Show, he's awesome. Never have I seen more Bush insults.

...That's all I can come up with.

[Cominus]

George lopez (funny stand up

Dave Chepelle (funny skits)

Chris Rock (Why didnt anybody metion him? He's funny)

[Gryph]

Chris Rock (Why didnt anybody metion him? He's funny)

Then there are my other favorites like Richard Pryor, Steven Wright, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Lewis Black, Dave Chappelle, Robin Williams, Dennis Miller, and a whole bunch more.

 

I did... just shows how much people read.

[Weirdy]

1) Carlos Mencia

 

2) George Carlin

 

3) George Lopez (his old stuff from the 80's, 70's and 60's is funnier)

 

4) Chris Rock

 

and a lot more ppl

[random guy]

I'm assuming you mean stand-up comedian? Because my favourite comedy writer is also my favourite stand-up comedian, although he doesn't do much stand-up. It's Ben Elton. You should know who he is if you've ever seen the Young Ones, Blackadder, or the Thin Blue Line because he wrote or co-wrote each of those tv series, and he also occasionally guest-starred in the young ones. He's also written a lot of books, and most of them are among my favourite books. The man's a genius!

But if you're talking more traditional stand-up, I'd have to say most of my list would come from the UK: Ross Noble, Bill Bailey, Billy Conolly, Eddie Izzard, Ed Byrne...

We've (Australia) got a few good stand-up comics as well: there's Ahn Do, Dave Hughes, Karl Barren, Merrick and Rosso (okay they don't really do stand-up, but 95% of you won't even know who they are so nyeh)... Adam Spencer and Will Anderson used to do stand-up, and I'm going to sneak in flacco and the sandman, who do stand-up style stuff, although they assume the roles of characters when they do. Who cares, they're hilarious!

Now for the US comedians, there's Bill Hicks (RIP), Dennis Leary, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Stephen Wright, Robin Williams, George Carlin...that's probably about it. I've noticed that there aren't any female comedians on my list and there are few if any on the other replies either - why is it, do you think, that men rarely find female stand-up acts as funny as male acts? It's curious.

[Gryph]

Well some funny female comedians are Jeanene (sp?) Garafolo, Tina Fey, Phyllis Diller, Carlon Burnett, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Molly Shannon, that woman who played Pat on SNL, that one woman who was with John Belushi and Dan Akroyd in the first few years of SNL, and some more that I can't remember. And anyone that says Rita Rudner is funny needs to be smashed in the face.