Favorite FEMALE Standup Comedian

[charlie and algernon]

sorry, glaring oversight on my part in regards to the first poll.

Maybe I'll put the top 5 from each poll into a true overall comedian poll.

Vote here for the Men
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8955054&mesg_id=8955054

[LostInAnomie]

1. Sarah Silverman

Everyone on that list is awful... just awful.

[MineralMan]

2. I love the smell of testosterone in the morning...

[gmoney]

10. +1

I have my problems with Sarah, but most of the rest on that list are kind of lame.

Even Judy Tenuta trumps most of that list.

[Startup]

46. Ouch... and true for a double ouch.

:evilgrin:

[Lorax7844]

13. Wanda Sykes is awesome

this list should be changed to add her.

[DeepBlueC]

50. yeah, absolutely

She's at the top of my list right now, male or female.

[pinstikfartherin]

41. She's pretty funny. Didn't (Or does she still) she have a show on Comedy Central? n/t

[arbusto_baboso]

3. Stephanie Miller used to do some pretty good stand-up.

Of course, she doesn't want any of us to actually SEE it since she's drastically altered her appearance since then...

[Richardo]

4. A tie for the top 3

With the edge to Ellen and Rita.

[newcriminal]

5. Paula Poundstone scares me.

[Deja Q]

8. You're lucky. She turns me on.

Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot


:yoiks:

[charlie and algernon]

9. you're too old for her

doesn't she have a thing for little kids?

:hide:

[Deja Q]

11. I'm 37 and a handful of months... isn't she like 42 or something?

Wait, it just dawned on me... :blush: She digs lil' children? No way. Please tell me no way because I will not adjust my view of child molesters. I can't. Those never harmed by such "people" can. I can't.

[charlie and algernon]

12. unfortunately she was charged with molestation

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/06/27/poundstone.arrest/

[IcyPeas]

26. Paula Poundstone - drove while intoxicated with kids in the car.

Stop spreading b.s. about Paula Poundstone.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/11/poundstone.children/index.html

she admitted to driving with the kids while intoxicated and denies any lewd behavior. She has adopted kids and fostered kids, one with cerebral palsy -- they took her foster kids away permanently but gave her back custody of her adopted kids. She has admitted and has paid for her mistake. The charges of lewd acts were dropped.

By the way, she is HILARIOUS when she is on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on NPR on weekends.

[newcriminal]

31. The poster was not spreading b.s. He stated it correctly.

She was charged with committing a lewd act on a minor (14) year old girl(three different incidents). This had nothing to do with the dui. She took a plea bargain and she pled guilty to driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a minor. The other charges were dropped as part of the plea bargain. Do we know if she actually did what she was charged with no. We do know that if she was not famous she probably wouldn't have even been given such a sweet deal.

[cherish44]

20. she's probably pushing 50

I think the molestation charges were dropped but did plead to guilty endangering her children. She had a pretty bad alcohol problem and lost her adopted kids for awhile but I'm pretty sure she eventually got them back after treatment.

[Mojambo]

6. I've seen some funny stuff from Maria Bamford

I agree with LiA.

The people in this poll BLOW chucks.

[Deja Q]

7. Lily!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uINRNwq_TXQ

Can't find the bit where she's in the car wash... I saw that on television a few years ago... why wasn't her sketch show ever put on TV?

I loved Roseanne Barr's TV show, but as a standup - I'd stand up too... and walk out...

[Eyerish]

14. Other - Janeane Garofalo

Funny as hell and a damn good progressive.
http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2009/04/06/Garofalo_narrowweb__300x424,0.jpg

[charlie and algernon]

15. I haven't heard her standup, but she was great on the West Wing

definitely a serious role for her, and she was able to play up her progressive ideals.

[Eyerish]

18. She's great. Pretty dark & jaded, but her topics are very relatable.

She's going back out on the road doing festivals around the country this summer.

[Deep13]

16. Lisa Lampanelli nt

[pinstikfartherin]

40. Oh! I forgot about her! She is hilarious! n/t

[reflection]

55. Yep. She is gut-bustingly hilarious.

I think she borrowed her vocabulary from Andrew Dice Clay.

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Judy Tenuda.

[newcriminal]

19. She is one crazy woman.

[Taverner]

21. Where the heck is Judy Tenuta???

She rawks - she has more balls than spay and neutering clinic...

[begin_within]

34. It could happen.

[cherish44]

22. I really think Chelsea Handler is hilarious. Does she do stand up?

[blue_onyx]

23. I love Chelsea too

I watch her show every night. She and Kathy Griffin are my favorites.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

24. The late LaWanda Page...

...god, did I love Aunt Esther. Yes, she was an actress versus a stand-up comic, but Redd Foxx was a stand-up comic, and she was his arch nemesis, and by default, I'm gonna give her the title too.

:toast:

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

LaWanda Page, born Alberta Peal (October 19, 1920 - September 14, 2002) was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Aunt Esther in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Page began her career in show business working small nightclubs, billed as "The Bronze Goddess of Fire," an act which included her lighting cigarettes with her fingertips. She performed this feat on an episode of Sanford and Son, in which Fred held a circus in his front yard.

Page was convinced by her friend Redd Foxx to become a stand-up comedienne. She recorded several live comedy albums for the Laff Records label in the late 1960s and early 1970s; One release, a gold-selling album called Watch it, Sucka!, was titled after one of Aunt Esther's catchphrases to capitalize on her newfound TV fame.

On Sanford and Son, Page's Aunt Esther character was the sister of Elizabeth, Fred Sanford's late wife. Page was Foxx's only choice to play Aunt Esther. Esther would sometimes be accompanied by other formidable ladies from her church, or by her henpecked--and usually inebriated--husband Woodrow (played by Raymond Allen).

Aunt Esther was a combination of devout churchgoer and tough-as-nails realist, often sparring with Fred over both the state of his mortal soul and the lack of his success, resulting in her being insulted by Fred in return, with Fred opining on her homely appearance. The character of Esther was in direct contrast to the blue material of Page's stand-up act and record albums.

Page also appeared on several episodes of Dean Martin's "Celebrity Roasts," and over the next two decades occasionally guest-starred in episodes of other popular television shows, including Amen, Martin, 227, Family Matters, and Diff'rent Strokes. In the early 1990s she appeared on several tracks of the debut album by RuPaul entitled Supermodel of the World, most notably the hit song Supermodel (You Better Work). She also appeared in several music videos from the album. Shortly before her death she appeared in a series of comical Church's Chicken television commercials featuring the catchphrase "Gotta love it!" Among her movie credits are an appearance in the Steve Martin film My Blue Heaven; a cameo appearance in the hit movie Friday, stealing the opening scene with a salty one-liner; and a role in the 'hood parody film Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as the overbearing mother of aging gangsta "Old School."

Page succumbed to diabetes in September 2002. She is interred in an outdoor crypt at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

Her daughter, the evangelist Clara Estella Roberta Johnson, died on June 4, 2006, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 69.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. No Maria Bamford?

[Orsino]

51. +1

Those voices crack me up.

[madinmaryland]

27. Lisa Lampanelli?

:shrug:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. Wanda Sykes.

[Captain Hilts]

38. Oh yeah....nt

[Bucky]

29. Elaine Boosler

[Captain Hilts]

37. Yes, she was terrific. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Sarah Palin. I mean, that whole "I'm Christian and I'm a leader" shtick had me rolling every time.

[Startup]

47. I am convinced future historians will mark her as a comic genius.

[Demoiselle]

32. I hear Paula Poundstone on NPR more than anywhere else....

She's a pretty regular guest on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" the comical news show.
She terribly sharp and hysterically funny. But I do like all these ladies a lot, too.

[graywarrior]

33. Bonnie McFarlane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMd1JyMQJ4

[begin_within]

35. I always thought Wendy Liebman was very clever and funny.

Her jokes unfold in stages, just when you think you've heard the punch line, she adds another few words and that twists it around into a new joke.

[Captain Hilts]

36. Elaine Boozler used to be really good. nt

[pinstikfartherin]

39. I love Kathy Griffin and Kathleen Madigan!

I watch Kathy on tv and hear Kathleen on Sirius all the time.

[jobycom]

42. Good list, but Joan Rivers is better than any of them.

[mix]

43. +1

not even close

[Skipperoo]

44. I like em all!

Guess i'll vote Paula but they are all very good.

[Tabasco_Dave]

45. Sandra Bernhard

I've been a fan since her Letterman appearances in the 80's.

[NJmaverick]

48. I voted other- Wanda Sykes

would be my favorite

[Tommy_Carcetti]

49. I like Ellen.

Funny, observational, and she doesn't go for the shock or controversial humor, just plain laughs. A lot like Jerry Seinfeld. She's just so damn likeable, yet she's very funny to boot.

[LNM]

52. Gilda Radner

Do they have to be alive?

Edit to add:
Oops, you said stand up.

[ceile]

53. Wanda Sykes

[HamdenRice]

54. Whopi in her prime was the greatest. She could have been the next Pryor, but she sold out.

I can't say she is the greatest, because she didn't pursue her talent, and instead decided to do movies.

When she first hit the comedy big time as a standup, she was simply in a different league from all other female stand up comics. She was in Pryor territory. Then she just stopped. Strange.

I saw her when she wasn't famous yet in San Francisco, c. 1986. Then she did an HBO (I think) special that was amazing. That was about it.

Then I would have to say Lily Tomlin -- but again after doing groundbreaking work, she stopped doing standup and did only movies and TV. Tomlin did some amazing collaboration with Pryor, I think on early Saturday Night.

Third would be Roseanne. But again, tv kind of ended her very, very funny standup career.

I think there's a generational aspect of the poll results. You have to be of a certain age to have seen Goldberg, Tomlin or Barr when they were at their peak.