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I've been watching some stand-up though you-tube, I'm not usually a big fan of stand-up but I really like Louis CK's and Ricky Gervais's routines, anyways I would like to find more good stand-up comedians so I was wondering if any of you have suggestions.

Dara O'Brien is a good one, as is Ed Byrne, both Irish comedians, both very funny... Also the quick stand-up routines on Mock the Week are usually hilarious.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I've been watching some stand-up though you-tube, I'm not usually a big fan of stand-up but I really like Louis CK's and Ricky Gervais's routines, anyways I would like to find more good stand-up comedians so I was wondering if any of you have suggestions.

Go old school...

Bernie Mac
George Carlin
Bill Cosby (As Himself)
Andrew Dice Clay
Chris Rock

 whembly wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
I've been watching some stand-up though you-tube, I'm not usually a big fan of stand-up but I really like Louis CK's and Ricky Gervais's routines, anyways I would like to find more good stand-up comedians so I was wondering if any of you have suggestions.

Go old school...

Bernie Mac
George Carlin
Bill Cosby (As Himself)
Andrew Dice Clay
Chris Rock

Thats not old school
Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Gleason, and Bob Hope are old school...

Mitch Hedburg and Steven Wright are my kind of funny.

Rodney Carrington be one

Andrew Dice Clay!!? Are you fething serious? He's probably the worst stand-up I've ever heard.

For my money, the best American stand-up currently working is this guy:




My current favourite though, is this chap:





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Uh, both NSFW by the way...

Andrew Dice Clay is to funny what pantyhose and hip waders are to spontaneous sex.

Lee Mack
Russell Kane
Dara O'Brien
Chris Addison
Rich Hall
Rob Brydon
Paul Foot
David O'Doherty
Boothby Graffoe
Tim Vine
Al Murray
Russell Brand
Greg Davis
Hannibal Buress
Nick Helm
Jo Wilkinson
Craig Charles (don't think he's done any recently, but found some stand up he did a while ago)

I like comedians Most of the above are British, see more of them for obvious reasons.

Eddie Izzard makes me laugh.

Couple of my favorites:

Eddie Izzard
Jimmy Carr
John Pinette
Steve Byrne
Robin Williams
Bill Engvall
Jeff Foxworthy
Richard Jeni

Yeah Eddie Izzard is funny, not seen too much of him though unfortunately.

Yep, all about Eddie Izzard.

I enjoy Brian regan, Mitch Hedburg, and bill burr a lot.

Ross Noble, Ed Byrne and Jason Byrne were excellent when I saw them live, but there's too many other comedians to list here

Why has no one mentioned Dave Chappelle?

Also Danny Boy is pretty good too.

Jim Carrey's "Unnatural Act"

I used to like Eddie Izzard. He just doesn't make me laugh these days.

Oh, I almost forgot - Micky Flanagan. Now, he is so cockney that he could almost be speaking a foreign language, but he is very, very funny indeed>

CAUTION: This clip is probably the least safe for work of anything I have ever posted. VERY STRONG LANGUAGE!

Despite him being half intelligible that was possibly one of the funniest clips I've seen in a minute.

Tommy Tiernan's out of his mind but quite funny.
Lewis Black
Ron White
Robin Williams hasn't skipped a beat.

 Ratbarf wrote:
Why has no one mentioned Dave Chappelle?

Also Danny Boy is pretty good too.

What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!

What? No Fluffy? Barbarians!

I was just going to suggest Gabriel Iglesias, and Ralphie May.... Both are huge fat feths, but they are both really funny, IMO.


Of course, most of my list is already present, but obviously, there's only a relative handful of actually really funny comedians currently out there.

 whembly wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
Why has no one mentioned Dave Chappelle?

Also Danny Boy is pretty good too.

What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!

I wish I had 2 more thumbs so I could give that 4 thumbs down...My favorite lines come from that episode. But in general my favorite line from that entire show was a lost episode. "B you thought I was gonna leave my wife? Hells no B I'm happy as hell...

Chancetragedy wrote:

 whembly wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
Why has no one mentioned Dave Chappelle?

Also Danny Boy is pretty good too.

What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!

I wish I had 2 more thumbs so I could give that 4 thumbs down...My favorite lines come from that episode. But in general my favorite line from that entire show was a lost episode. "B you thought I was gonna leave my wife? Hells no B I'm happy as hell...

Think my favorite skits from that show are the Racial Draft

Crappy video quality but i like this comic

http://youtu.be/iZPuu_GUqHM

Richard Pryor, and the early Eddie Murphy shows are great. I only like Black comedians, because oddly, I find more in common with them than white comics who aren't Jewish, Italian, or another New York city minority.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Chancetragedy wrote:

 whembly wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
Why has no one mentioned Dave Chappelle?

Also Danny Boy is pretty good too.

What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!

I wish I had 2 more thumbs so I could give that 4 thumbs down...My favorite lines come from that episode. But in general my favorite line from that entire show was a lost episode. "B you thought I was gonna leave my wife? Hells no B I'm happy as hell...

Think my favorite skits from that show are the Racial Draft

Hahaha again back to bill burr
"And that's the first time a black man has won the lottery in a long time"
"And he'll probably still complain".

Hahaha I love that show. Pretty much every single skit in that entire show was good-great.

The way OT seems sometimes with news seems it'd seem to like Tim Vine.



Gabriel Iglesias

Ross Noble.


That is all.