# 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523 "2004-04-17T14:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523/41 "2004-04-24T21:24:11Z")
Well, I for one am pissed! I can’t believe that [insert comic’s name here] rated better than [insert comic’s name here], and [insert comic’s name here] shouldn’t have even been in the top 50, let alone the top 10. Oh, and where was [insert comic’s name here] on this list? These people are jokers! (pun intended). Heh. Seriously, I can say I honestly know a relative few of these 100, and I know these are all subjective. But, I’m glad to see Bill Cosby and Steve Martin in the top 10, both of whom I consider to be at the very top of what they do. George Carlin has never really done it for me. But, like I said, that’s just me. Certainly his long career shows that there are a lot of people who really find him funny. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523/42 "2004-04-25T01:08:45Z")
I think Dane Cook is pretty funny, though he hasn’t been around for very long so I guess he can’t qualify on the 100 Greatest Stand Ups of All Time. Conan 'O Brian is quite funny too, but he never did stand up, did he. I don’t think he really could, I think he is more of a host on a show, like he does then a stand up comedian. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523/43 "2004-04-25T15:47:46Z")
Gallagher!? He’s on the list and Margaret Cho isn’t? I mean, I know her style isn’t for everybody, but come _on_! And as much as I love Woody Allen’s movies (well, his older ones, anyway), I’ve never thought much of him as a stand-up. Certainly not the fourth greatest stand-up of all time. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523/44 "2004-04-25T17:55:38Z")
Alan King’s absence from the list would be an outrage, if a list of comedians could be considered an outrage, which it couldn’t be. But King is a heckuva lot funnier than most people on that list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time/240523.md?page=2)