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    Posted: July 14 2015 at 18:24
Who are your favorites Comedy Artists?
            There are so many out there-here are some of mine.

Victor Borge-"The Clown Prince Of Denmark", I recently bought some dvds of his old "The Victor Borge Show" from way back in 1951-classical music comedy, mainly. He's priceless. Also have some television special of him when he was way older, doing, among other things, his "quotation/punctuation mark speech". A natural and witty rib tickler.

Don Adams-I love Get Smart, and Max is in a league of his own. I get a kick out of his one liners, especially, always just at the right time.

Lucille Ball-l love The Lucy Show, and remember it when a wee boy in the 1960s, recently got back into on dvd.
Also great on that show is Gail Gordon.

Monty Python-my favorite piece of theirs is Monty Python and the Holy Grail-don't know a lot of their material, but get a kick out of that film, for sure.

those are just a few, what springs to mind for you folks?
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Monty Python for me. Half of what I'am today is thanks to them.

The other half is a bee.
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Love them. For me it's the best thing happened to British comedy since Monty Python.
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Ok, just a few:
 
Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean (nuff said)
 
Chris Rock
 
Robert Klein
 
Henny Youngman
 
Richard Pryor
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Yeah the Pegg and Frost combo is pretty good. I also like the Pryor and Wilder duo as well. I think Eddie Murphy is also worthy of a mention. Maybe not pure comedy but Jackie Chan brings a sense of humor to his insane stunts, and I like Chris Tucker enough to think the first two Rush Hour movies weren't horrible. Also Jim Carrey makes me laugh, first two Ace Ventura movies, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar are top notch comedies. Adam Sandler has some great stuff in his early career. Ben Stiller keeps making gems in my opinion, Tropic Thunder was hilarious and his old stuff like The Cable guy is a personal favorite of mine. Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911 guys) have made some funny films and television, Viva Variety Hour is pretty nich but had some moments.

I am a huge fan of stand up as well and to if I had to list a top 5 it would be
1.George Carlin
2.Louie CK
3.Doug Stanhope
4.Jim Jefries
5.Steven Wright
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1.- Peter Sellers
2.- Don Adams (Maxwell Smart)
3.- Walter Matthau
4.- Mel Brooks
5.- Marty Feldman
            
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i think its Mathew Broderick played in Cable Guy, not Ben Stiller :/
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Like some of the previous posters I'm a Monty Python fan. Their greatest work, in my opinion, is still the Flying Circus. The films are good but they don't have the flavour of anarchy anymore, as the TV series does. "Their" best film (though only half of them were in it) is Jabberwocky, I think. I also like Blackadder and Little Britain.


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Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge
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Bill Cosby, the comedian.  Not a big fan of Bill Cosby, the man at this point in time.
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yeah man...  I pissed myself silly growing up and listening to the Cosby comedy albums..


classic man.
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Stewart Lee is by far my favourite!
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Points: 64349 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2015 at 17:29
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

yeah man...  I pissed myself silly growing up and listening to the Cosby comedy albums..

classic man.


Loved those records, would buy them used and run home to listen.  They were like gold.

Really a shame what's happened.   Another hero self-destroyed.
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ClapI have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.. I probably hadn't heard that in 35-40 years.  Yet as soon as I saw Scott's post I thought.. .CHICKEN HEART!! LOL

I would to get a copy of those again..
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Craig Fergusons monologues on late late show, makes me lol,

Robert Downeey jr as Tony Stark is hilarious
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

ClapI have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.. I probably hadn't heard that in 35-40 years.  Yet as soon as I saw Scott's post I thought.. .CHICKEN HEART!! LOL

I would to get a copy of those again..


Tongue    Yesss, the Inner Sanctum, how he'd scare himself to death.  Love that one.
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Tony Law's brilliant. Couldn't recommend him more. Saw Phil Kay live because he gave my friend a tenner because she was working the doors at the fringe and was skint and he was phenomenal. Stewart Lee is wonderful.

The Goon Show is probably the funniest program ever made by the funniest people ever alive. Python's pretty good.
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Points: 64349 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2015 at 17:53
Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Craig Fergusons monologues on late late show, makes me lol,

Robert Downey jr as Tony Stark is hilarious


Downey is completely hysterical;  did you catch him in John Favreau's Chef ?

I miss Ferguson a lot, James Corden just doesn't cut it.   I don't see him lasting much longer.
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