Favorite Stand-Up Comedian

[Runwildboys]

Carol Burnett & Company were hilarious. I still watch it.

If it were on here, I'd watch it. One of the best shows ever.

 

[Runwildboys]

Bob Newhart
Daniel Tosh
Jim Gaffigan
Kevin Hart
Eddie Murphy
Abbott and Costello

 

[The Fonz]

One thing I can't stand is vulgarity and sadly most comedians use it for the sake of using it and to push the envelop.
Spencer Kimball said once: profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.So I would listen to someone as long his or her jokes are clean.
I love George Carlin and not for his comedy but for his awareness and his cynical views the man always spot on.He was an intellectual treasure.

 

[Melonfeud]

George Carlin.
Sam Kinison.
Jonathan Winters.
Steven Wright.
Emo.(not to be confused with Emu).

I'd read a long while back, a little article about Steven Wright and how he'd come up with the majority of his material ,,, dude makes like a pallet/sleeping bag on the floor & lays there with a glass of water,notepad& pen and won't get up till he's come up with new stuff.

 

[Runwildboys]

George Carlin.
Sam Kinison.
Jonathan Winters.
Steven Wright.
Emo.(not to be confused with Emu).

I didn't think anyone would know Emo Phillips....He should have been bigger.

 

[Quickdraw]

George Carlin and Rodney Dangerfield

 

[cowboyec]

I didn't think anyone would know Emo Phillips....He should have been bigger.

he was so damn funny.
I loved his joke..."as a kid I would pray for a bike...then I realised The Lord didnt work like that...so I stole one and asked him to forgive me."

 

[cowboyec]

Donnie Baker.
his bit makes me cry.
he posts videos on "youtubes".

 

[Runwildboys]

Joe Rogan

 

[cowboyec]

Joe Rogan

LOVED him on newsradio...GREAT show.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Jim Gaffigan
Michael Jr
Mitch Hedberg

 

[Supercowboy1986]

Jay pharaoh is pretty good and his impressions are spot on

 

[Idgit]

Bill Burr’s pretty great.

 

[DallasEast]

Used to be Eddie Murphy but Chris Rock replaced him as my favorite. There are tons of comedians that make me laugh though. For example, I did not know Gary Owen until my sister introduced his act to me recently. Love his black church skit.

 

[Runwildboys]

Jay pharaoh is pretty good and his impressions are spot on

I've only seen his SNL stuff and bits of his standup, but from what I've seen, I agree.

 

[Runwildboys]

Bill Burr’s pretty great.

I thought about going to see him when he was in our area. He's awesome. I liked him in The Heat too.

 

[Runwildboys]

Regardless of who my actual "favorite" comedian might be, Eddie Murphy's Delirious is the best full show I've ever seen or heard.

It's not for everyone, but as long as you bear in mind that it's just jokes, it's friggin' amazing.

 

[OmerV]

Am I really the only one who thinks George Carlin is overrated? He's okay sometimes, but mostly he just says ordinary stuff in a strange voice.

I think what Carlin does well, he does very well. The word play and thought provoking material is great. But there is another part that is silliness and strange voices that seems to make people think there is more substance than there is.

 

[OmerV]

There are the obvious ones - Seinfeld, Carlin, Pryor, Murphy and others. And classics like Rickles and Dangerfield.

Then there are few I discovered through XM radio that I think are very good - Kathleen Madigan, Mitch Hedberg, Ralphie May ... all very funny.

Big fan of Lewis Black too.

Nobody is giving the rednecks any due? Foxworthy? Ron White? (Forget Larry the Cable Guy - much too redneck)

 

[Idgit]

I thought about going to see him when he was in our area. He's awesome. I liked him in The Heat too.

His “telling Philly the truth” episode made me a fan for life.