Your five favorite living comedians?

[red dog 1]

1) Jim Gaffigan
2) Paula Poundstone
3) Sarah Silverman
4) Gilbert Gottfried
5) Patton Oswalt


(Feel free to list more than five if you want)

[Norbert9]

1. Lewis Black

I guess we aren't counting the likes of Colbert and Oliver?

When I think up stand of comedy I think of Carlin. A dead Carlin is funnier than most living comedians.

[LWolf]

20. Yes. nt

[femmocrat]

2. Off the top of my head:

1. Jon Stewart
2. Stephen Colbert
3. Samantha Bee
4. Lewis Black
5. Mort Sahl (long time ago)

[yeoman6987]

3. Mine are

Kevin James
Steve Martin
Amy shumer
Jerry Seinfeld
Tim Allen

[lisa58]

4. Kathleen Madigan...

Lewis Black
John Oliver
Assif Mondvi
Paula Poundstone

[world wide wally]

5. Bill Marher

Steven Colbert
David Letterman
Samantha Bee
Lewis Black

[Hoyt]

6. Dave Chappelle, Jim Jefferies, Lewis Black, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock.

[luvMIdog]

7. I left too many off

Trevor Noah
Dave Chapelle
Aziz Ansari
Samantha Bee
Melissa McCarthy

AND Justin Timberlake completely cracks me up when he does comedy

[pnwest]

8. Lewis Black, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Kate McKinnon, David Letterman

Lewis Black, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Kate McKinnon, David Letterman

Can women be funny? Not even a question - women ARE funny.

Granted, these three don't do your usual stand-up, but they are brilliantly funny comedic writers and actors.

[red dog 1]

9. I loved Letterman's late night TV show,

[GreydeeThos]

10. I think taterguy is pretty funny myself

[mainstreetonce]

11. Seth Myers

Seth Myers
Jimmy Kimmel

Bill Maher

Kate McKinnon

Melissa McCarthy
Tina Fey

[BarbaRosa]

12. Gabriel Iglesias

This list wouldn't be complete without Fluffy.

[DFW]

13. Not all are traditional choices

Jon Stewart
Bill Maher
Stephen Colbert
Jane Condon
Norman Ornstein (known, but usually for more serious stuff)

[First Speaker]

14. Gilbert Gottfried is beyond good and evil...

...he's off in his own stratosphere. Everybody groks, say, Barack Obama. Hardly anybody groks Einstein. And nobody groks Gilbert Gottfried.

[red dog 1]

18. Gilbert is unique!

He was a major part of the movie "The Aristocrats"..which shows how he reacted to shouts of "Too soon" when he told a 9/11 joke a couple of weeks after the 9/11 attacks.

It was at a Comedy Central roast of Hugh Hefner.

Gilbert said he was trying to get a direct flight to New York, "but there would be a stopover at the Empire State Building."

[Tikki]

15. Patton Oswalt...Hubby and Son are seeing him in person, soon.

Jim Jeffries
Emo Phillips
Flula Borg
Aisha Tyler

Actually, I like 85% of all Comedians and Comediennes living and dead.
I love to hear my family laugh...

Tikki

[red dog 1]

19. That should be a good show.

Patton Oswalt is one of the hottest young comedians around these days.

(I loved him on "King of Queens&quot

[WinkyDink]

24. He's 48!

[red dog 1]

30. That surprises me.

I thought he was much younger.....He looks good for his age.

He's still one of the hottest comics (under 50) around these days

[rurallib]

16. Ellen has always been one of my favorites

her wit is so quick and offbeat

Colbert
John Fugelsang his stuff is so intelligent
Sam Bee
I think Jimmy Kimmel is a great quick wit but honestly have only seen a little of him.
And people will hate me, but all his personal stuff aside Woody Allen has been one of the best for a long time

[applegrove]

17. Bill Maher, Martin Short, Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black, Kathy Griffin

and Jon Stewart

[LWolf]

21. That's hard,

since my top two aren't living.

1. George Carlin
2. Robin Williams
3. The list wouldn't be complete without the collective: Monty Python.
4. Carol Burnett
5. Lily Tomlin
6. Ellen DeGeneres
7. Chris Rock

[red dog 1]

22. Monty Python

I especially love all the sketches that have old ladies in them.
(Their "old lady" voices are hilarious!)

Even though George Carlin & Robin Williams are gone....I still love them...(and miss them)

[WinkyDink]

23. 1.) Kevin James. 2.) Ted Alexandro. 3.) Bryan Regan. 4.) Russell Brand. 5.) Jim Gaffigan. And I've

seen them all!

[fNord]

25. Most of my favorites are dead.....

Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Mitch Headburg, Lenny Bruce......

Here goes...

Lewis Black
Douge Stanhope
Amy Schumer
Hannibal Buress

I guess that's what I got....

[Fearless]

26. Mine are dead

Carlin was head and shoulders above the rest.

[OriginalGeek]

27. David Cross

Sarah Silverman
Amy Schumer
Jim Gaffigan
Louis C. K.

and a ton of honorable mentions like Dave Attell (his stand-up is ok and I usually laugh but I'm a fan because he is a nice guy in person. My wife met him at an airport gift shop and he was just really nice and funny and generous and humble to her and, by extension, that's cool with me.)

Paula Poundstone, Nikki Glaser, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (together or separate), Patton Oswalt is terrific, Eddie Izzard, I never think he's gonna but Brian Regan always makes me laugh, Dave Chappelle is great too.

And Ron White. I don't care about any of the other Blue Collar comedy dopes he used to tour with but Ron White is a funny emmereffer.

Norm MacDonald is kind of anti-comedy comedy. His delivery kills me. I'm still not sure if he's right-wing douche-bag or just trolling them but until such a time as I find out he voted for trump he's making me laugh.

I haven't seen Steven Wright do anything in a long time but he always used to make me laugh.

[yuiyoshida]

28. My five..

1. Margaret Cho
2. Natalie Tran communitychannel (Youtube)
3. Andrew and David Fung aka Fung Brothers
4. Anna Arkana (Youtube)
5. Randall Park (Fresh off the Boat)

[Initech]

29. Lewis Black, Dave Attell, Christopher Titus, Patton Oswalt, Bill Maher

Those would be mine. I'd also add Chris Hardwick, Doug Benson, Wanda Sykes, and Ron Funches to my list.

[red dog 1]

32. I like Dave Attell

and I loved his Comedy Central TV show "Insomniac" (I think it was Comedy Central)

[ret5hd]

31. Andy Kaufman. And NO, he's NOT dead!

His purported demise is simply proof of his greatness.

[red dog 1]

33. I've seen "Man on the Moon" at least 20 times

I'm still a huge fan of Andy Kaufman.

I remember him one time on SNL where he brought 4 or 5 members of the audience up on the stage and had them do lip syncs of barnyard animals to a record he had playing of '"Old MacDonald's Farm"...It was absolutely hilarious!

[Leith]

34. I Have a Thing for British Comedians

All of them are on YouTube.

Dara O'Brien
Jimmy Carr (warning: NOT for everybody!)
Lewis Black (not British, but he's one I'll go out of my way to see)
Alan Davies
Lee Mack
Jo Brand

If you like rapid jokes and repartee, search for these on YouTube:
Would I Lie to You
and
QI Stephen Fry
- Clips of these shows are like an epic battle of the comics