# Convince us your favorite comedian is funny, in three YouTube clips or less. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332 "2011-05-26T18:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/1 "2011-05-26T18:48:31Z")
There are a bunch of comedy threads up right now, with people discussing what is/isn’t funny in them. In at least one of these threads several YouTube videos of funny bits from the comedian in question have been posted as an example of why said comic is funny. Someone else mentioned that it was great that we live in the age of YouTube where we can all go and see clips of this comedy I thought that this would make for a fun thread topic if it was opened up to all comedians. Worst case, none of us agree on what is funny, best case we all have a few laughs. You get three links to prove that your favorite comedian (or the comedian you wish to champion) is actually funny. I’ll go first and post clips of Eddie Izzard (lazy choice I know, but it’s what I was watching when I had the idea.) [Hitler, No Flaggy No Country and Cake or Death](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOLOGGftTY) [Monkey with a Gun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtX6Tj74oU&feature=related) [Jesus the Pagan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnakuXMG5g&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/2 "2011-05-26T19:17:47Z")
[Mitch Hedberg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5fy61_BVPM&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/3 "2011-05-26T19:22:28Z")
Challenge accepted. My favorite comedian is Louis CK, but I haven’t yet met someone who dislikes him. I’d try to champion Jeff Dunham, but the clips I want for him are buried in the middle of longer videos, and I can’t actually look at Youtube from work. So instead: **Gabriel Iglesias** [Drive-Thru Voice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQJiZ_g3Ho) [Racist Gift Basket](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbppTv4pCGQ) [Road Trip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtk5Ej-xLsM) ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/4 "2011-05-26T19:23:12Z")
Izzard is great. I had to narrow it down by picking a comedian that’s still alive, but Brian Regan is damn funny while working squeaky freggin clean: [Pop Tarts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kThoZpF_U) [Stupid in school](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1cYS6aGstU&feature=related): there’s no video, but the animation is kind of funny too. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/5 "2011-05-26T19:50:08Z")
[Stewart Lee](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CtPQp_0xw) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/6 "2011-05-26T20:10:36Z")
Dennis Wolfberg [The Bris](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3Be9MxTSw#t=00m25s) [Intelligence Testing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q4aeD1whgM&feature=related) [On Letterman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrSIwvfX1M&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/7 "2011-05-26T20:33:03Z")
Love the thread’s idea. One of my current favorites is from my neck of the woods and may not be well know to others, so here’s my introduction to you of [Comedian Nate Bargatze performing at Rascals in New Jersey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uw8WtZKtEc) More recent clips: [Childhood Toys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_GdprleE9A&feature=fvwrel) [Home Protection](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZJTZ0XTi4Q&feature=fvwrel) ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/8 "2011-05-26T20:38:46Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > [Stewart Lee](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1CtPQp_0xw) I can’t agreed with Stuart Lee’s comedy vehicle. I absolutely love Lee & Herring, recently made it my mission to re-watch and re-listen to all their TV and radio shows and I have to say they’ve aged very well, just as funny, if not funnier than I remember. But, I cannot watch Stuart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle though, it just isn’t that funny. Infact I find it cringingly awful as he tries to ‘cleverly’ take the piss out of his sycophantic audience who laughs at whatever shit he serves up. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/9 "2011-05-26T20:45:24Z")
Anyway, as USians are probably aware of Ricky gervais and Russell Brand here’s one of my favourites who they probably haven’t heard of, **Al Murrsay, The Pub Landlord** : [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9VCJZ5p6OFE/hqdefault.jpg "Al Murray- Chunky Monkey") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCJZ5p6OFE) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUdaPNXC_68) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bc47Wcso3hU/hqdefault.jpg "AL Murray National Anthems") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc47Wcso3hU) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/10 "2011-05-27T02:59:11Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > [Racist Gift Basket](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbppTv4pCGQ) I had to clean my monitor after that 😛 John Pinnette: [Lines](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUlf1F05gTA) [France & Italy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMkRIXhLH0) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/11 "2011-05-27T03:01:48Z")
> [@These are my own pants](#): > > I can’t agreed with Stuart Lee’s comedy vehicle. Yeah, you know I really liked that bit and just felt like throwing it in. You are most probably right. ---
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/12 "2011-05-27T16:40:16Z")
Kyle Kinane: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/x6rsp6phb5U/hqdefault.jpg "Kyle Kinane Effinfunny Stand Up - Believing in Yourself") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6rsp6phb5U) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JzciaDJDMvE/hqdefault.jpg "Kyle Kinane Effinfunny Stand Up - Sucky Jobs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzciaDJDMvE) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cx-lPbrywBQ/hqdefault.jpg "kyle kinane: insomnia") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-lPbrywBQ) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/13 "2011-05-27T17:31:38Z")
This is not a resounding endorsement of David Cross, but it is one of the funniest bits I have ever heard. I was in pain from laughing at it. Here’s hoping you can at least smile at it. [David Cross: 9-Panel Painting at Sea-Tac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otDIXcZe7eo) ---
**Author:** ![kivrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@kivrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kivrin)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/14 "2011-05-29T17:36:41Z")
Dara O’Briain [Homeopaths and other quacks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvMb90hem8) [Catholic/Protestant Mixed Marriage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0thRUS1wUw) [Hotel, part one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6esyExLwnak) [Hotel, part two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSgpR71fM1Y) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/15 "2011-05-29T19:53:18Z")
Just to get him at his funniest and most profane have some fun with [Jim Jefferies - Religion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-RJeqyh-vI) (if you have trouble with blasphemy and nasty words, pass by on the other side). ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/16 "2011-05-30T08:09:58Z")
Some examples of weird musical comedian Bill Bailey (UK). I got to see him live last year - he was awesome! [‘Catastrophic Failiure at a U2 Concert’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Go2DK9VtQ) [‘Magic Roundabout’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdq-UbQWcs) Pretty typical of his verbal patter. [‘Three Men Walk into a bar’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdaXxMfjxI) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/17 "2011-05-30T11:59:53Z")
My favorite German comedian is [Loriot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicco_von_B%C3%BClow), so here are two of his classics. They are subtitled, but anyway both are basically physical comedy: [“Das Bild hängt schief (The painting hangs askew)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkx9zBUdno&feature=related) [“Die Nudel (The Noodle)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytLTSJxmMas&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/18 "2011-05-30T12:12:32Z")
Tim Minchin An Aussie musical comedian known for his piano skills and irreverent humor. [Inflatable You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6raVzrbqrM) [Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfmjMlPEic) [Prejudice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw) ---
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> [@Jaguars](#): > > Some examples of weird musical comedian Bill Bailey (UK). I got to see him live last year - he was awesome! > > [‘Catastrophic Failiure at a U2 Concert’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Go2DK9VtQ) > > [‘Magic Roundabout’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdq-UbQWcs) > > Pretty typical of his verbal patter. > > [‘Three Men Walk into a bar’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdaXxMfjxI) Heh - I know, and like, Bill Bailey exclusively from \*QI \*and the occassional _Top Gear_ appearance; I had no idea he was even a musician. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332/20 "2011-05-30T18:00:43Z")
Mmm, not too many of my local SA comics on youtube, and a lot of it is hard to get if you’re not local… There’s Trevor Noah: [Coloureds and Accents](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjf6We7Mik&feature=related) [On growing up in the township as an “albino”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BafAXL9EMY&NR=1) (Note: Noah has a Xhosa mother and Swiss father)[On public arguments](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf8yjjThAmI&feature=related)(This one is a bit “white people walk like _this_…” but accurate) ETA: Bonus on [Political Speak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCOsoUo0R4&feature=related) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-us-your-favorite-comedian-is-funny-in-three-youtube-clips-or-less/583332.md?page=2)