Favorite stand-up comedian?

[elperromagico]

My pick: Lewis Black. Nobody does rage quite like Lewis.



Who's your favorite?

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. Bill Hicks.

R.I.P.

[Twillig]

4. Amen.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Carlos Mencia

Once made me actually roll on the floor laughing.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Where has he been hiding? n/t

[Lisa]

3. I'd have to say, George W. Bush

But somehow his material has gotten a LOT darker over the past couple of years.

[NC_Nurse]

5. I second the Bill Hicks...

I like Chris Rock and Margaret Cho too, but no one has replaced Bill as my numero uno.
Lewis Black is cool as well.:)

[Philosophy]

6. Steven Wright

http://www.weather.net/zarg/ZarPages/stevenWright.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I love Steven Wright...My favorite:

"So I accidently stuck my car key in my house door...and it started up. I took it for a drive and parked it on a highway exit ramp and told everyone to get the hell off my driveway....Heeeeheeeheee.

He is terrific with his monotone delivery. :)

[SmileyBoy]

7. Dane Cook

No one else comes close. Except for Lewis Black, maybe.:)

[Bronco69]

8. Paula Poundstone

and Kathleen Madigan. It's a tie! :-)

[democracyindanger]

9. David Cross

[AlCzervik]

19. I love him!

i loved his HBB show with Bob oderkirk. Did you see his one man show where he did his send up of James Lipton and Stephen Hawking? Love Margaret Cho also.

[Catholic Sensation]

11. Dave Chapelle

Killin em Softly was hilarious

[TroubleMan]

12. Stephen Hawking

JUST KIDDING!!

Currently it's Chappelle...of all time it's Carlin.

[Burma Jones]

13. Working Now, Lewis Black - All Time - Richard Pryor

With props to:

Jonathan Winters
Bill Hicks
Sam Kinnison
Dave Chapelle
Andy Kaufman
George Carlin
Steve Martin
Robin Williams
Chris Rock
Jim Norton

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Everyone listed here

plus a few others probably

[jpgray]

15. Lenny Bruce

I'd love to see some modern comedians do a bit as involved as 'the Palladium'--great stuff.

[bbernardini]

16. Definitely Bill Hicks.

It's like he could see the future.

Runners-up include David Cross, Lewis Black, Steven Wright and Henry Rollins. Also, I keep hearing a guy named Todd Barry on XM who seems pretty funny.

[Duncan Grant]

18. Margaret Cho

http://www.margaretcho.com/index.html

[AlCzervik]

20. i saw her on mothers day

last year at the mondavi theater at US Davis, the revoltuion tour, excellent.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. She is effing hilarious!

I saw a couple of her shows on HBO, and my stomach hurt the day after from laughing so hard!

[Jade Fox]

21. Eddie Izzard...

His humor is so.... sweet.

Sweet humor is hard to do and still be roll on the floor funny.
Izzard pulls it off.

[mitchum]

22. Working now: Sara Silverman Refusing to Work Now: Gary Shandling...

All Time Favorite Stand-up: Lenny Bruce All Time Favorite Sit-down: Mort Sahl

[daligirrl]

23. Chris Rock

Because he's not afraid to tell the truth about us Black folk, and Bill Hicks, because he tells the truth about it all.

[curse10]

24. Mitch Hedberg

he always cracks me up

[jpgray]

30. An escalator is never broken--it can only become stairs

:D

[Westegg]

25. I'm TOTALLY grooving on the late Bill Hicks these days...

...I've got a couple of his albums (I traditionally don't buy comedy albums), and I saw some just-okay TV documentary on him last week that at least made me want to learn more about him. I barely remember him from when he was alive. Sadly, I've come to appreciate him more since he died. I now think he's one of the greats, in the fine tradition of Lenny Bruce and a small handful of others.

[Wapsie B]

26. Robin Williams.

I love many of the above but to me Robin Williams is in a class all by himself. During his last special that was broadcast on HBO I thought I broke a rib from laughing so hard.

[Ksec]

28. Don Rickles still makes me laugh out loud

Something that very few can do. I also liked Sam Kinison .

[Endangered Specie]

29. George Carlin

just can't be beat.

[sundog]

31. CHO! CHO! CHO!

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[doc03]

32. Rodney Dangerfield