Your favourite comedians

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Who are they?

Mine favourites are definitely Morecambe and Wise.

Previn: Piano Sketch

Glenda Jackson

Also a huge fan of Reeves and Mortimer.

[OctoberRaven]

I am a huge Demitri Martin mark.

"I agree with rock paper scissors... two-thirds. Rock breaks scissors... these scissors are broken I can't cut anything with these. Scissors cuts paper.... this paper is destroyed I have confetti now, I got nothing. Paper covers rock... rock's fine! No structural damage to rock! It should be rock... dynamite with a cuttable wick... scissors."

[ADG]

Not in any particular order but I'd recommend Adam Hills to anyone who has never seen him, seriously the funniest man I have ever seen live.

Adam Hills

Billy Connolly

Eddie Izzard

Dara O'Briain

[probablyoliver]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IE0kSZmW6g

Close this thread now.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Lewis Black.

[Liam]

Ollie stole my choice.

[TKz]

I am not cool because my favourite comedians are mostly mainstream. Ricky Gervais, Dylan Moran, Peter Kay, Jimmy Carr and Jack Dee.

I've seen Dylan Moran and Ricky Gervais live as well, they were both fairly brilliant. Though either it was an off night or Gervais is starting to run out of material, because his 'Science' tour really had nothing to do with Science at all.

[Farmer Reil]

Mitch Hedburg, Bill Hicks, Bill Bailey and recently Michael MacIntyre and Rob Brydon.

[EddieG]

Gabriel Iglesias, Pablo Francisco, Lee Evans, Peter Kay, Dara O'Briain, and 2 more who are Dutch.

[Skummy]

Peter Cook, Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, and lately Doug Stanhope, Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis.

....and holy shit, I just found out Charlie Brooker's engaged to Konnie Huq.

[fr34k]

Lewis Black, George Carlin (RIP), + many German Cabaret performes which in Germany basically is politcal satire

[Walker]

Ross Noble, Dylan Moran, Dara O'Briain, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey, and then there are a shit load I like, but those six are my favourites.

[Boulder]

Richard Pryor

[METALMAN]

Eddie Izzard

Stewart Lee

Ross Noble

Jack Dee

I'd also like Rich Fulcher to do more things.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Daniel Tosh

Jim Norton

Jim Gaffigan

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[Kyle_]

The Amazing Johnathan, Stephen Lynch, Daniel Tosh, Mitch Hedberg, Greer Barnes, Jim Gaffigan, Frank Caliendo, Greg Giraldo, Ron White and Bill Engvall

[Meacon Keaton]

Mitch Hedberg, Bill Hicks, and George Carlin are my top three. I'll give anyone a shot, but I haven't seen anyone recently that's made me laugh. Except the fat guy that says he's fluffy.

[GA!]

This is general those who perform comedy rather than just exclusively stand-up right?

If so: Mark Thomas, Charlie Brooker, Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, Peter Serafinowicz, Harry Hill, Jack Dee, and Jimmy Carr.

And most certainly NOT Andy Parsons.

[Jimmy]

Russel Howard and Michael McIntrye top my list. I'm horribly mainstream; but I love them both.

[Vamp]

Rhod Gilbert was great live. He's normally pretty good on TV, but yeah, he's great live. Jim Davidson, if you like his kind of humour (which I'm not normally much of a fan of) is a master at working his crowds and getting them to eat out of the palm of his hands. Some of his jokes arn't bad either. Although I got to see him for free, and I doubt I'd have enjoyed paying full wack for it. If Charlie Brooker counts as a comedian, which I suppose he does, then he nears the top of anyone's list I should imagine. Even if you don't always agree with him you'll enjoy the way he makes his points. Paul Merton is fantastic live, even if his TV work has slipped. I recommend the Comedy Store Players to anyone.

As an aside, I really can't stand Russel Howard. What he says is generally fine, its more the way he performs. He just has such a fake delivery that it's impossible for me to get into the joke and I just sit there thinking "yeah, whatever" because he doesn't even try and pretend that his anicdotes are true. I mean, I know mosto f them arn't for almost every comedian but to me a good comedian at least tries to make you believe what they're saying by at least pretending they believe it themselves. That's why I love Paul Merton, he'll say utterly bizarre random things and look like he's being dead serious when he says them, and then full his "I can't believe I just said that" face. Russel Howard has that face on the whole time. I'm also no fan of Noel Fielding.

And, while I used to appreciate what he was doing, the more repeats with Frankie Boyle I see the more I start to hate him. He wasn't any kind of genius, he just said things that no one else had the balls to say at the time. People rate him far too much.