Favorite Comedians

[GA!]

Definitely Harry Hill. I love his surrealist cartoony approach to jokes, and how he's never had to turn to smut to get a laugh. His stand-up is great too, his ability to go away and come-back to several jokes continually throughout the entire hour he's on stage without forgetting any of them is amazing.

Edited January 13, 2007 by God-Awful

[therockbox]

I've Dara O'Brien, Jimmy Carr and Al Murray live, and they were all brilliant.

I'd like to see Lee Evans as well, and Peter Kay.

[Mongrel]

Dylan Moran is the funnies comedian I've heard, particularly Monster. From Australia, with all the utter shit we churn out, Carl Barron is a gem.

[Lord Nibbler]

Stewart Lee.

[Bushmeister]

Robin Williams and Bill Murray are the first ones that spring to my mind, Williams for his great stand-up routines and Murray for his style of dry and ink-black comedy that I so dearly love. Also have to mention Ron Livingston here, who is brilliant in "Office Space" and "Adaptation".

[apsham]

Izzard's religious and historical stuff, I like. The whole "I'M A CROSSDRESSER!" thing... not so much.

Really, though, other than the odd skit, he never plays up on that too much, and it's fairly excusable when he does because...well...you can't miss it, can you? But it would be so easy for him to just be lazy with it and work his whole comedy around that, but he barely ever references it, and I think that's part of why I like him so much.

Well, yes. Regardless, I still don't find it funny.

[YI]

I thought this was merely stand-up but now that I've looked, a 'proper' list;

Ross Noble

Peter Kay (I'm sorry, say what you like, but the guy is really funny, the first series of Phoenix Nights was literally gag-after-gag)

Paul Merton

Bill Bailey

erm...erm...erm...there's loads, but my mind is totally blank.

[Farmer Reil]

No Jethro love makes me a sad panda

[YI]

No Jethro love makes me a sad panda

[Guest mAXi]

My love for Demetri Martin continues to increase..

[IAceI]

Lee Evans, Bill Bailey, Dara O'Briain, Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, Dave Spikey and Russell Howard.

[Steeb]

Ross Noble, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Dane Cook, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt, Omid Dijalili (sp?), Noel Fielding, Ed Byrne...there's probably more.

[Nerf]

Brian Posehn. Chris Rock. Dylan Moran. Eddie Izzard. Stephen Lynch. Jerry Seinfeld. Peter Kay. Lee Evans.

Edited January 13, 2007 by 1-2-Who?

[bob saget]

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Edited March 3, 2021 by bob saget

[thuganomic]

Stephen Lynch, Jeffrey Ross, Gregg Rogell, Chris Rock.

I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would find Dane Cook funny.

[Farmer Reil]

I just looked him up on Youtube. Meh. He's mildly amusing, but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch him or anything.

Edit: While not technically a comedian, I have to add Craig Ferguson to the list. He's hilarious.

Edited January 14, 2007 by Farmer Reil

[zero]

George Carlin is my God of comedy, no one can ever top him. Also, in no particular order:

Lewis Black

Richard Pryor

Penn & Teller

Dave Chappelle

Robert Schimmel

Louis CK

Dave Attel

David Cross

Patton Oswalt

Chris Rock

Edited January 14, 2007 by Zero

[Jook]

Dave Gorman

Harry Hill

Noel Fielding

Julian Barratt

Bill Bailey

Simon Amstell

Rich Fulcher

[The Dork Knight]

Mitch Hedberg

Brian Posehn

Patton Oswalt

Richard Pryor

Dave Attell

Bob Saget

Dave Chappelle

George Carlin

Jim Gaffigan

Tom Papa

Chris Rock

Bill Hicks

Rodney Dangerfield

Jim Norton

Ron White

Mike Birbiglia

Denis Leary

Gabriel Iglesias

Louis C.K.

Edited January 14, 2007 by The Dork Knight

[VerbalPuke]

George Carlin is definitely my top dog as well. He has seemingly gotten better with age, and puts a brilliant spin on the subjects he is discussing. Despite describing things in an absurd way, there is also a real logic to what he's saying which makes it that much funnier.

After George I like Sam Kinison, Red Fox (John Elroy Sanford), and Richard Pryor.