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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34055 |
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Prog Snob ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 12 2012 Location: Staten Island Status: Offline Points: 225 |
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George Carlin
There are so many missing from that list. |
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20526 |
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For that matter where's Bruce, Williams, Pryor, Murphy, Newhart, etc..............
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Kepler62 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 09 2017 Location: Fort Erie Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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Carlin wins, Where's Lewis Black?
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Guldbamsen ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
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Bill Hicks.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64700 |
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For intellect, Carlin. For creative talent, Winters.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20526 |
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That's a tough question since they appeal to different sensibilities and different generations....I grew up watching Hope , Rickles , and Winters and Carlin later.
I was a fan of all the Hope Road movies and his standup in the early days.....Winters was very funny in some films and when he was ad libbing.....Rickles was hit or miss for me. Carlin was very good at times but could also be a bit self inflated...especially when he got older.
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progaardvark ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 49151 |
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Of these, I'd go with Carlin. Steven Wright is also a favorite.
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Greys0n ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: March 28 2016 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 44 |
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i think it's obvious George Carlin
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the late German actor, director, writer and cartoonist Vico van Bülow, better known under his pseudonym Loriot, was extremely funny. his specialty was getting the characters in his sketches into undignified situations and trying to keep their dignity. many of his sketches were with Evelyn Hamann, who was a congenial partner.
here an example of one of his most famous sketches with Evelyn Hamann, with English subtitles: |
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Tough room |
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Triceratopsoil ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 17995 |
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my favourite comics are probably Orson Bean and Norm Macdonald, but I voted Rickles
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yeah... I guess so... Bill Cosby for the thread win..... his comedy albums ruled.. ICE CREAM...we're gonna eat ICE CREAM... ![]() to say nothing of the .... Chicken Heart |
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infocat ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: June 10 2011 Location: Colorado, USA Status: Offline Points: 4671 |
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Dunno. They are all dead.
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Kepler62 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 09 2017 Location: Fort Erie Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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George Carlin by a country mile.
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Icarium ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34055 |
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Jonathan Winters were also very funny
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64700 |
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Great quote. It's so sad that had Lenny been of our time he'd have been accepted, and left alone by the cops. |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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As a game-changer, Lenny Bruce deserves mention. And he influenced Richard Pryor and my choice of George Carlin.
"Lenny changed my life. I never heard anything like him before and I remember thinking, 'If this is comedy, then what the f*** am I doing? ... So I played his record over and over, every night. It was him who said comedy wasn't about telling jokes - it was about telling the truth" (Richard Pryor). |
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Just a music fan passing through trying to fill some void. Various music I am into now: a youtube playlist
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TeleStrat ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 27 2014 Location: Norwalk, CA Status: Offline Points: 9319 |
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Wasn't Richard Pryor heavily influenced by Redd Foxx?
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dwill123 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 19 2006 Status: Offline Points: 4460 |
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From the list, Don Rickles. But the comic who 'changed the game' was Richard Pryor.
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