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Poll Question: Who was/is your favorite?
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Bill Bailey definitely.





The last one is just brilliant.





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Originally posted by Zebedee Zebedee wrote:

Bill Bailey definitely.





The last one is just brilliant.



 
Thanks for posting the Kraftwerk one saved me the job!  Bill Brilliant! LOL
 
 
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Dave Chappelle from the list
some of my faves are: Brian Poshen, Zack G., Jim Gaffigan,George Lopez, Rodney Dangerfield,Lavell Crawford, Russell Peters and the list goes on....
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Didn't vote, but if I could I would vote against Ricky Gervais! He is so not funny. Or am I missing something?! 
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From this list....Bill Hicks

Voting for Jeff Dunham should be grounds for immediate banishment...
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Anybody like Stewart Lee, Al Murray or Omid Djalilli at all?
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Originally posted by FusionKing FusionKing wrote:

Anybody like Stewart Lee, Al Murray or Omid Djalilli at all?
 
 
Omid Djalilli is a very funny man - the best comedians never laugh at their own jokes!
 
I loved watching Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin when i was a kid, The Goons were  very dear to us, they were the first real alternative comedians, breaking away from the old music hall / end of pier comedy which still persisted for years through unfunny "comics" such as Morcambe and Wise and Ken Dodd, Benny Hill was a master of  this style but wasn't properly appreciated in his time.   
 
The next big breakthrough was a radio show called "Around the Horne" in the 50's,  and political satire such as  "That was the week that was" known as TW3, which inspired Monty Python and "Not the Nine o Clock News", enter "Alternative" Comedy.
 
My favourite American comedians are Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen and Robin Williams.
Modern comedy tends to centre on everyday trivial situations which make you chuckle but the comedy is very economical. Ermm
 
 
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Stephen Colbert has to be the funniest man I've seen in a while, so he gets my vote.
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Phil Jupitus, Dylan Moran and Rich Hall. Another three good ones!
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Ricky Gervais has a few moments of greatness (Animals and Politics) however I feel he is pretty overrated.
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Sean Lock makes me laugh - WARNING: don't watch this if you like budgies!
 
 
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Needs more Stanhope.  Here is a hidden camera show he did way back when on Fox.




Here's his rendition of the Aristocrats joke.  Very very very vulgar:




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David Mitchell is another comedian that I'm enjoying more and more. He's brilliant.

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If you're gonna put Stephen Colbert up there, where is Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien? I mean, all three guys are from the same school of thought; to have one without the other two seems kind of . . weird. 

Anywho . . .

The only other guy I would have liked to have seen up there is Richard Jeni. He's still so unknown to people, and his tragic suicide means that he may very well go down in hsistory as one of the most short-lived, underrated greats of our time. Shame, really.

As for the choices you DO have . . . damn . . . it's so tough. With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Billy Connoly, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and of course, the great Lenny Bruce, it's way too many greats to choose from! Urgh! 

Wait . . . what the hell . . . Henry Rollins?! Wacko
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From the list, Woody Allen.

From out of the list, Bill Bailey. He's the prog comedian.
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Robin Williams for me - he's like the John Coltrane of comedy - he doesn't need a script at all! You just give the guy a ball of string, and people have been literally carried out of the theater in pain from laughing so hard - the man is a genius...
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I have to mention Steve Coogan.  I've been watching It's Alan Partridge over the past few days, and instantly loved it.
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Originally posted by jplanet jplanet wrote:

Robin Williams for me - he's like the John Coltrane of comedy - he doesn't need a script at all! You just give the guy a ball of string, and people have been literally carried out of the theater in pain from laughing so hard - the man is a genius...

That's interesting, because I honestly never found him funny at all. I actually think his real talent is in his acting abilities. He's moved me in so many different ways during all the times I've watched him on film. Brilliant. 

Ah well. Different strokes, I guess. 
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Other. The greatest of all is Vico von Bülow, better known under his pseudonym Loriot, with his congenial partner Evelyn Hamann. But he is little known outside of Germany. Here is one of my favourites of his.
http://tinyurl.com/yevcfo8
You don't have to understand German to laugh, though if you do it is even more funny, like the time when the noodle is on his nose and he says "Say something. Tell me you don't like my nose, but say something".
Or at one zime he says: "You feel something is there, don't you? Certainly,  it is still tender, but it can become bigger. It can grow". He is of course talking about her love to him, but she is looking in horrid fascination at the noodle, imagining it to grow.


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Other. The greatest of all is Vico von Bülow, better known under his pseudonym Loriot, with his congenial partner Evelyn Hamann. But he is little known outside of Germany. Here is one of my favourites of his.
http://tinyurl.com/yevcfo8
You don't have to understand German to laugh, though if you do it is even more funny, like the time when the noodle is on his nose and he says "Say something. Tell me you don't like my nose, but say something".
Or at one zime he says: You feel something is there, don't you? Certainly,  it is still tender/ but it can become bigger. It can grow". He is of course talking about her lofve to gim, but she is looking in horrid fascination at the noodle, imagining it to grow.
 
I ws surprised to read around Christmas that a very funny knockabout sketch , I think  called something like the Christmas Dinner  starring English comic Freddie Frinton, was shown on German TV every year as a tradition.
 
Freddie Frinton once lived a few streets from me many years ago in a relatively huge house on the corner of Whiton avenue, it is now owned by a Polish medical practice.
 
 
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