Who is the most overrated comedian or comedic actor?

[The Night Owl]

Name comedians and comedic actors who aren't necessarily bad at their craft, but are overrated.

I'll start...

Mo Rocca.

Mo Rocca can be funny at times, but he relies too much on non sequiturs. Sorry, Mo, but weird is not always funny.

[DS1]

1. Adam Sandler

[trof]

11. ditto

[IcyPeas]

19. ditto to the second power

[Adsos Letter]

34. First one that came to mind. eom

[BarenakedLady]

136. First one I thought of (n/t)

[Katina]

2. Jimmy Kimmel

funny? no so much.

[IcyPeas]

but on his late night tv show

he often gets cool musical guests - so this makes up for his unfunnyness.

[Bombtrack]

26. self delete, see post below

[Bombtrack]

28. that couldn't be less true.

Jimmy surpassed Conan as the best Network late nighter soon after he started but you don't see good press anywhere in the mainstream, atleast I haven't.

Jimmy really isn't a comedian anyway, certainly not an actor. He's a personality who knows to rely on having good taste in showing or presenting things that are funny or interesting rather than try to ever do a standup act or get particularly animated or theatrical.

[Katina]

31. it about personal taste

you are welcome to your opinion, but obviously, I'm not alone in mine. Glad you enjoy him. I don't. I think his "humor" is sophomoric and juvenile. But have at him. B-)

[Bombtrack]

45. Him not being a comedian and him not being highly rated in the mainstream are about reality

reality which you chose to ignore to make your dumb opinion, an opinion the "it's personal just taste" defense/cop-out won't work on me with.

[The Night Owl]

50. Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian...

Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel

James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television comedy talk-show host, comedian and producer.

[Bombtrack]

71. Wikiality, Jimmy is a radio host turned talk show sidekick turned show host/producer

[mitchum]

72. Yes he is...just not a very good one (n/t)

[Katina]

94. my "dumb opinion?" My my, how open minded of you.

the question was who did we think was over rated and I gave my opinion. You disagree and that's fine, but then you respond with calling my opinion dumb. Seems to me you have problems with others having a point of view different than yours so you resort to insults. It says a lot about you that you would make an issue over such a silly subject. :thumbsdown:

[DS1]

137. He's great. Extremely fast with his mouth

Beats the shit out of Jay Leno any day

[Shakespeare]

3. Dane Cook.

Hideously bad and un-funny.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Seconded.

[gizmonic]

22. Thirded.

[Norwood]

41. Fourthed, if thats really a word

I thought he was kinda funny the first time I saw his act, after a while it was just kinda sad.

[hibbing]

75. fifthed

Hi,
Saw him on SNL and uh..seemed to act like his poop didn't stink, and then was very defunny.

Peace

[Tektonik]

55. agreed

[blondeatlast]

90. Yes. nt

[jobycom]

106. I disagree

To be overrated, someone somewhere has to think he's funny. I've never met anyone who thinks he's funny.

[DS1]

139. Visit a college campus some time

All the girls think he's teh funnay

[MilesColtrane]

110. That guy sucks rhino schlong.

He's also well known in the industry as a joke thief.

[mitchum]

4. All of tha above and I would add Tim Allen, Sinbad, and Rita Rudner

[skygazer]

6. Martin Lawrence

[MsKandice01]

86. Yes!!!!!

His show could be quite funny at times but his standup sucked.

[BOSSHOG]

7. rush limbaugh

the funniest thing he has ever said is that he is a comedian. And yet, there are those programmed to laugh on cue ergo his overrating.

[Roon]

83. The funniest thing ever that Rush said...

Was when he said the OKC bombing was committed by a right wing whacko!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

103. He might not be funny;

but he sure is a joke.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Dana Carvey comes to mind.

Yeah, Garth Algar was hilarious, but Master of Disguise? Not so much.

[JVS]

56. Church Lady was good. His stand up is mediocre. What is a skit and impression guy going to do...

after retiring from SNL, the top venue in that field? He was good at what he used to do, but he can't do it anymore.

[idgiehkt]

78. I agree

Church Lady was great. I also liked his character in Wayne's world alot, I think he did that shy sidekick very well.

[Burma Jones]

9. Abbot and Costello

And Dane Cook currently

[Sequoia]

24. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

At least Dean could sing while Jerry was just mean to women. Little twerp.

[Burma Jones]

25. Agreed.......

[JVS]

76. I played Who's on First in my office for a visitor from Europe who thought that the...

clip about Rice telling Bush that Hu was the new president of China was funny. While we were watching another foreigner came in. They both thought it was good comedy. Maybe we take them for granted

[Burma Jones]

131. It's just one bit, derived from the British Music Hall

"Who's On First?" is descended from turn-of-the-century burlesque sketches like "The Baker Scene" (the shop is located on Watt Street) and "Who Died" (the owner is named Who). In England, in the variety halls (Britain's equivalent of vaudeville theatres), comedian Will Hay was doing a routine in the early 1930s (and possibly earlier) as a schoolmaster interviewing a schoolboy named Howe who came from Ware but now lives in Wye. By the early 1930s, a "Baseball Routine" had become a standard bit for burlesque comics across the United States of America. - From Wikipedia

I dunno, I just never liked them much. Although the premise behind "Who's on First" is great, it isn't theirs.....

[Va Lefty]

10. I never "got" Buddy Hackett

Currently I think Larry the cable guy is waaay overrated. Comedy is very subjective

[HEyHEY]

12. Will Ferrel = NOT FUNNY

[Auggie]

17. Absolutely and firmly seconded

[IcyPeas]

18. thirded - not funny - same character all the time

each one = not funny

[Art_from_Ark]

59. Feh

Will Ferrel's imitations of Duh-byuh are hilarious

[JVS]

63. Go fuck yourself, San Diego!

[snailly]

95. I've always hated him until the Pearl the Landlord video

That was hysterical. http://funnyordie.com/videos/74

[ironflange]

99. You got that -- he sucks

Why, oh why, do movie producers keep encouraging him?!?

[AlCzervik]

13. Dane Cook.

[WinkyDink]

14. the "Git'er Done" guy and his side-kick, the smoker (Ron Something?).

[terrya]

15. Mike Myers

He did a movie called "Austin Powers" which was sort of funny. And then he wasn't funny anymore.

[JVS]

64. When I was on vacation I saw Goldmember in the $5 bin.

I think the original Austin Powers was still 10 or 13

[idgiehkt]

16. this thread is a who's who of over-rated.

:)

edit: I think Martin Lawrence can be really funny, like with shanaynay and stuff.

Another one is that Jerry's kids guy, who is such a jerk underneath, I can't remember his name.

[Kerrytravelers]

20. I just want to say "Yes" to all of the above.

[Lady President]

21. Jim Carey

Making faces just isn't funny to me.

[MnFats]

48. amen! Carey is wretchedly un-funny.

[AndreaCG]

53. Jim Carrey has done several very good films.

Liar Liar. Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And my screenwriting teacher showed excerpts of The Truman Show as an example of excellent filmmaking.

Even back in the In Living Color days he did a Fox made for TV movie which was a serious role and he was very good. He's more than just a goofball.

[idgiehkt]

105. I honestly think his best stuff was on "In Living Color"

like I love this "Imposter" one, a spoof of the Snow song "Informer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icb_tRTnA4g

[Sequoia]

23. Robin Williams.

HE.IS.NOT.FUNNY.JUST.A.JESTER.

[LostInAnomie]

51. A-fucking-MEN

I wish people were smart enough to realize that jumping around like an manic idiot and making stupid voices does not equal comedy.

[AndreaCG]

52. I don't think he's done anything decent since Moscow on the Hudson

Maybe Good Will Hunting. I stopped seeing his movies by then.

He is also reputed throughout the comedy community to lift people's material on occasion. They did it all the time in the 40s and 50s but it's a no-no these days.

[barb162]

88. amen

[MilesColtrane]

111. Robin Williams stopped being funny when he stopped doing blow.

[JANdad]

27. Jerry Seinfeld

ick!!!!!

[PVnRT]

49. A-fucking-men

Listen to me, I'm a whiny, self-centered, neurotic New York asshole!

[idgiehkt]

81. yep another one in my "I don't get it, didn't get it, and never will get it"

category. The only thing good about that show was Julia Louis Dreyfuss, even though they tried to make her look as ugly as possible for some reason (Jerry wanted to be the prettiest?)

[blondeatlast]

91. Agreed. Mr. BAL loves him; I leave the room. nt

[EFerrari]

116. Yes, because nobody really cares about lint.

lol

[Bombtrack]

29. Lewis Black is more overrated than Mo Rocca, the most among TDS people

I don't think Mo ever got a 60 Minutes piece.

Chris Rock is also pretty overrated considering his specials have gotten worse every new one he has and his movies are always horrible.

[The Night Owl]

36. Blasphemy!

I really don't understand how anyone can say that Lewis Black is overrated. If anything, Lewis Black is underrated simply because he is so awesome.

[Bombtrack]

40. have you seen his standup (tv specials or live)? Listened to his albums ?

I've done all. Back in Black is where he does his best work by far. The other stuff doesn't hold up.

[The Night Owl]

44. I've seen a lot of Lewis Black's routines...

I've seen a lot of Lewis Black's routines and I have yet to see a routine which isn't funny.

What do you think is weak about LB's work?

[Burma Jones]

132. But you like Jimmy Kimmel?????

Your opinion is unique, perhaps bizarre, and easily ignored......

[Fox Mulder]

30. Jim Carrey

Edited to add Ray Romano. :puke:

[IcyPeas]

32. who's the guy...

used to play a character with his pants up to his chest and his hair in a horn style, then did a parody of a talk show...... aahhhhhhhh what's his name? anyway, him (especially the talk show host character...).

[idgiehkt]

37. Martin Short, that was Ed. Grimley

I don't know who the talk show host was.

[JVS]

67. Prime Time Glick or somesuch

The whole premise seemed to be: watch Martin Short wear a fat suit and act effeminate.

[idgiehkt]

69. okay, now I remember

Jiminy Glick? I thought that he did capture that whole affected/demented talk show host thing, where 99% of the persona is plastic, pretty well...but it was kind of strange.

[MilesColtrane]

112. When Steve Martin received the Mark Twain award I saw Martin Short do a...

four or five minute tribute to him, and it was freaking hilarious.

I didn't like Ed Grimley and I've never seen Glick.

[Mad_Dem_X]

142. Jiminy Glick is hilarious - I love Martin Short

Saw him in New York back in February, in his show "Fame Becomes Me." When he did Jiminy Glick I almost peed myself laughing.

[KamaAina]

38. That'd be Martin Short

the pants 'n' hair character was Ed Grimley.

[JVS]

66. I remember the Ed Grimley cartoon series. How the fuck did that ever happen

I guess if you do enough coke in the 70's with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, something's going to go your way.

[Redstone]

33. Whoopie Goldberg. She's never said ONE funny thing even ONCE.

Redstone

[Bombtrack]

42. I agree. I'd lump in Margaret Cho with her on that one.

[idgiehkt]

43. I love Margaret Cho

her comedy is geered much more toward minorities and gays and lesbians, and for people in that demographic she is such a breath of fresh air, I find her hysterically funny.

Here is a great bit she does, it's a little slow getting started but it's more social commentary like most of her stuff.

asian chicken salad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYHfxWqorc

[JVS]

58. I thought Margaret Cho was good when I first saw, her, but she seems...

to like talking about herself more than making jokes now. It's kind of like Kathy Griffin but not as good because Griffin is an expert at getting herself into funny situations.

[TommyO]

101. I love both Kathy and Margaret

I'm one of Kathy's gays, and Margaret is just too damned funny.

[idgiehkt]

107. me too

I think Kathy is funniest in her show when the non sequiturs just fly out, and who else but Margaret Cho would say something like "Laura Bush's pussy tastes like Lysol"...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Joe Fields]

65. I must disagree. If you have ever seen her one woman show,

at least I felt it was a tour de force performance. I think she's very funny!

[idgiehkt]

68. I liked her sitcom

I really wish it had made it, I thought it was cool.

[Joe Fields]

82. I guess you and I were the only ones who did, idg....

:toast:

[Bombtrack]

35. Richard Pryor would never be rated as highly as he is as a standup if he wasn't an A-list movie star

His huge fame in the mainstream from his movies made the masses see his standup act, making him one of the first comedians with that type of irreverence alot of them saw, and as always influence gets conflated as/with greatness and talent.

He was funny, but he doesn't have anything on par with dozens of hours of genius standup output a bunch of other comedians like Steven Wright who he's always placed above.

[Joe Fields]

62. WTF? Pryor was doing stand-up on Ed Sullivan in the '60's...

He was a major stand up comedian loooooong before he became an actor.

[blondeatlast]

93. And he co-wrote "Blazing Saddles. " Definitely NOT overrated, IMHO. nt

[Robeson]

100. Bizarre comment. n/t.

[MilesColtrane]

113. Steven Wright would probably be the first guy to tell you that Pryor belongs...

...in the comedy pantheon.

Maybe you're not as old as me but my friends and I were listening to "That Nigger's Crazy" before I ever saw him in a movie. (Car Wash -1976)

[WinkyDink]

133. RP was a GENIUS. And WAY before films.

[no name no slogan]

39. Ray Romano

Not everybody loves Raymond.

Honorable mention goes to Paul Reiser.

[idgiehkt]

77. all I could think of

the few times I ever sat through a few minutes of that show, was 'if that ever happens to me I'll fracking kill myself'. That isn't comedy, that is misery.

[Initech]

46. Trio of turds: Dane Cook, Larry The Cable Guy, and Carlos Mencia

[Bombtrack]

47. they're all awful but being commercially marketable isn't the same as high ratedness

corporate executives are propping them up and shoving them down peoples throats, not comedy/creative people.

[Joe Fields]

54. Definitely Will Ferrell...

About as no talent as I've ever seen.

[bigwillq]

57. Tim Allen

Conan O'Brien, Dennis Miller, Jay Leno (except when he does headlines but he doesn't really do them, people send them in).......there's more but that's all I can think of now.

[flvegan]

60. Carrot Top is by far, the biggest idiot

out there alleged to be funny.

[Frank Cannon]

135. How dare you say that about Carrot Top!

He's mad at you now!

[JVS]

61. Whatshername? Lampenelli I think. Racial epithets are no substitute for material

[idgiehkt]

70. ah ahhhhh

the heavens part and the sun breaks through

:applause: :applause: :applause:

she makes my skin crawl...I hope she gets lost in a minority section of a large metropolitan area one day. Can't. stand. her.

[Bombtrack]

73. Lisa Lampanelli, I'm pretty sure her career is based on pity

they need to stop inviting her to all the roasts. Insult comedy in itself is mediocre enough

[idgiehkt]

79. She's the Ann Coulter of comedy

I know she will get punched out one day...hope I'm watching.

[WinkyDink]

134. I'm thinking it's based on the shock of her X-rated gross-out insults.

[Generic Brad]

74. Ellen DeGeneres

I admire her as a person, but I don't think she is funny as a comic. She has yet to make me crack a smile.

[rug]

80. Chevy Chase.

He's not.

[snailly]

84. Don Rickles

I hate that piece of crap. No, I'm not 80,000 years old.

[Zorro]

85. Don Rickles

Obnoxiousness is not funny.

[barb162]

87. Ben Stiller

[MsKandice01]

89. Joan Rivers.

I listen to some of her routines on the Comedy station on XM radio and she is HORRIBLE.

[snailly]

92. Ugh

I forgot about her and I agree.

[blondeatlast]

96. Lucille Ball. There, I said it. nt

[philosophie_en_rose]

97. Sarah Silverman. Dennis Miller.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

104. I second both of them.

:thumbsdown:

[KG]

98. Eddie Izzard

even his audience was forcing laughs on the concert tape i saw. and drag? is there a point?

[Yukari Yakumo]

102. Carlos Mencia

Talentless hack and joke thief.

Should be working at Taco Bell.

[jobycom]

108. Bill Hicks, Sam Kineson.

I know, sue me. They were loud, obnoxious, insulting, and degrading. And banal. They were like listening to some old guy in a barbar shop whine about kids these days. With the exception of Dane Cook and Carrot Top, no one I saw on this list bored me more than either of them. Though someone has to mention Sinbad.

[MilesColtrane]

114. OK, I'll bite.

If you don't find Bill Hicks funny, just who do you find funny?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[jobycom]

115. Most others.

Bill Hicks wasn't funny. Doesn't mean others aren't. Odd question. If you do find Bill Hicks funny, who do you find unfunny? :shrug:

[MilesColtrane]

120. Just asking a question of you.

If you don't care to answer just say so.
I guess you assumed I was going to attack your sense of humor, or lack thereof.

[jobycom]

122. Didn't mean to sound that way.

I answer all these posts with a bemused grin, which of course you can't see, so my post sounded snarkier than I meant it to.

Just struck me as an odd question, like asking "Okay, so if you don't like haggis, what food do you like?" I like most comedians, I just don't find Hicks funny.

[MilesColtrane]

128. I just need to get out more.

The only people I personally know who don't like Bill Hicks are my elderly mom and a couple of Republican neighbors.
That's why I was interested.

In my experience, more often than not, folks who think alike politically also have similar tastes in music, humor, movies, etc..

If you had come back telling me that you're a Yakov Smirnov fan that would have been a dead giveaway that you were a infiltrating freeper. Ha!

[jobycom]

138. Hey, Yakov Smirnov was ahead of his time!

:rofl:

[jpgray]

117. I feel like I know you by heart. :D

There are some very funny moments in the Hicks catalogue that have nothing to do with sick, obnoxious, degrading or banal. Such as his ability to make Pro-Life folks look ridiculous, or his bit on how likely Jesus would enjoy seeing a cross as his symbol, with a hypothetical remembrance of JFK through little sniper rifle pendants. "Just thinking of Jack!" :D

Of course tastes are tastes. I mean, if you'd rather hear "men and women are different..." jokes, fine. But hopefully you can at least see some imagination in where Hicks chose to take his material.

And what I meant by my OP is that you can almost always be expected to take sides against artists elevated by snobs. Why is that? :D I don't mean to suggest your tastes aren't genuine, but that always struck me as weird.

[jobycom]

119. See, that's exactly what I find unfunny.

His "ability to make Pro-life folks look ridiculous." I don't find labeling, stereotyping, insults to be funny. And no idea why you think I'd like "men and women are different" jokes... I lump Bill Hicks into that category, actually. Rather than banal and dehumanizing crap about gender stereotypes, he spouted banal and dehumanizing crap about whatever group he doesn't like.

I want someone edgy, who says something, not someone who points out the obvious to his group of cheerleaders. Whether it's Hicks bashing religion or Gallager bashing watermellons, it is boring and predictable to anyone other than devotees. Give me Pryor, Bruce, Hackett, Williams. Some of Chris Rock's later stuff is good. Stuff that says something new in a new way, not just repeating old cliches about people they hate. Something that genuinely challenges society, not someone who just says "what's up with that?"

I like light humor, too, like Sienfeld or Romano, if I'm in the mood.

I tried hard to like Hicks, but after a few hours of him, I just had to admit I was trying to force it, and he wasn't as edgy or insightful as people were telling me he was. Same with Kineson. Okay, he hates women. Does he have anything to say that wasn't written down in the first joke book ever written?

[MilesColtrane]

129. "he spouted banal and dehumanizing crap about whatever group he doesn't like."

Since you probably never made it to the end of one of his routines you missed the part where he challenges the audience to make a choice "between fear and love."

" The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead... just play with this... if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. Thank you very much you've been great, I hope you enjoyed it..."

Is it funny?

No, I guess not.
...especially when you compare this sentiment side by side with reality.

Hicks didn't rail on people to make his audience feel like exclusive members of the cool kids club. He laughed at people because he thought it was hilarious that they couldn't overcome their own greed to make the world a more humane loving place.

He jokingly called himself a precious "dark little poet", and I'm sure he would have found your opinion of him incredibly funny.

[jobycom]

140. See, that routine is what I'm talking about

EVERYBODY was saying the same thing. Make love not war. Spend all that money on people instead of on the military. What was insightful or unique about that? All he did was throw a few pretentious words at a very common sentiment. That's his whole routine, to me. Maybe he was a beautiful person. But he was banal. Someone else mentioned Yakov Smirnof above. Yakov was a beautiful person, too, I'm sure, but he just said the same, obvious stuff over and over. That was Hicks.

Sorry. I just didn't like him. I tried to, I just didn't.

[jobycom]

121. And to answer the other point.

I think you've got me backwards. I don't dislike artists elevated by snobs. I dislike snobs who bash artists for being popular, and that's usually the side I take. I'm sure there are a couple of artists who are generally liked that I don't like, but that's because I don't like them (Steely Dan comes to mind). Other than a handful, I generally love everyone, and that's what I get the most smack from the culture snobs over. But I won't hate someone just because "snobs" like them.

What I look for in art is genuineness. I try to see what the artist was doing from the artist's perspective. If I'm listening to Billy Ray Cyrus, I'm not angry at him for not being Pavoratti or Bob Dylan. I listen to what he was trying to contribute. Doesn't mean I find something in everyone, just that I look for it. Some artists--like Steely Dan or Bill Hicks--I don't find genuine. I find them trying to put on an appearance of cool. WIth Steely Dan, it's "Look how cool our lyrics are, we sing about fancy drugs," and with Hicks it's "Look how cool I am, I hate every little thing you can think of." Too formulaic, too forced, not enough true insight. I'd rather listen to "Achy Breaky Heart--" at least it knows it's just a dumb little dance song.

[jpgray]

125. So that's what you're after

I suggest that's a dead end as well. Just as fans of popular artists (particularly the ones "snobs" like to bash) aren't a monolithic bloc drawn in for wholly simplistic and contemptible reasons, snobs who bash those artists aren't a monolithic bloc who bash for wholly simplistic and contemptible reasons either. In other words while it's too simplistic for a snob to say "those idiotic BRC fans are just led about by marketing and promotion--if only they'd heard of obscure country star x!" it's also too simplistic for you to say "those idiotic snobs are reacting against BRC fans simply because of his popularity--when they bash him, their motivation isn't like or dislike but a desire to separate themselves from the majority because they feel that act of separation gives them identity and makes them unique/cool/whatever."

Authenticity is a tough thing to measure. I agree you can argue that an artist who sells out without pretense is more authentic than one whose only unique identity is the pretense of refusing to sell out, but isn't authenticity only a part of what makes art enjoyable? And doesn't it follow that people's ideas about what constitutes authenticity and how important it is will be just as thoroughly subjective as their ideas about what constitutes good art? In other words, neither the snobs nor the "popular music isn't bad because it's popular" people should have any reason to bash each other, and they should realize that their views are an oversimplification of what each school of thought is about.

Worse, people tend to lump someone into these overgeneralized groups based on their like or dislike of a single artist, whereas no music fan I've ever heard of is wholly elitist snob or wholly egalitarian commercial pop defender--there is always a significant blending. The funny thing that comes with that problem is that people can just as easily write the same person off as elitist that others would write off as egalitarian, depending on which artist is being discussed.

I think people who react against what's popular just because it's popular are just as silly as those who react against something snobs love because snobs love it. People should like what they like, without trying to fit those who disagree into an all-encompassing simplistic sociological system.

[jobycom]

141. I'm an egalitarian more than an anti-elitist.

When I bash someone, it's for bashing large groups of people who don't deserve it. When someone starts screaming that a popular entertainer is a "talentless fuck" (seems to be the most common insult), they insult everyone who likes that entertainer. Often they go further, bashing all the fans (Like Larry the Cable Guy, who I admit I've rarely seen or heard outside of Cars), not just the artist. That's elitist. That's anti-Democrat. That's what I come down on.

This thread was about "overrated" comedians. I listed two who are popularly praised, who I find unfunny. It would be silly for me to name Carrot Top--no one rates him highly in the first place.

As for authenticity, I wasn't arguing that an artist who "sells out without pretense" is authentic, I was arguing that I take what is offered in the spirit in which it was given. Billy Ray Cyrcus couldn't sing like Elvis if he wanted to--he isn't "selling out" because he doesn't sound like Elvis. He's just offering what he can, without claiming he's more than he is. I can appreciate that. Don't always like it--there are popular artists I don't like, obviously. To me, selling out is doing something formulaic to make a buck.

I'm egalitarian. All are created equal. No one should have to apologize for who or what they like to listen to. That's unAmerican. That's undemocratic.

Your last line is good. It is exactly the point I've been trying to make.

[FloridaJudy]

109. Dennis Miller

Sure, his politics suck, but above all the guy is completely not funny.

[UrbScotty]

118. Seconded (nt)

[sanguinivorous]

123. Richard Lewis, Rita Rudner...

Two people who have, at no point in either of their careers, ever been funny.

[bamacrat]

124. Carlos Mencia, Joe Rogan totally called him out for stealing jokes.

Its hilarious worth a watch, its on Joe's website.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

126. Ed Sullivan.

[MrSlayer]

127. Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell.

A tie. Both have one movie I like but overall nowhere near as funny as people claim.

[Awsi Dooger]

130. The Three Stooges

I've had friends who thought they were hilarious but all I see is pathetic attempts at physical humor, not remotely funny. I wouldn't watch them for five seconds.

Mo Rocca is an outstanding nominee. I'm only familiar with him via Olbermann, and that's the only time I ever click away from Countdown, and immediately.