# Greatest comedy team of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475 "2002-11-19T05:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![moonchilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@moonchilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonchilde)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/41 "2002-12-19T06:19:37Z")
Marx Brothers Monty Python the writers for the Sid Ceasar show (incomplete list includes Ceasar, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart). ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/42 "2002-12-19T12:17:34Z")
No votes yet for Blackadder/Baldrick (Atkinson/Robinson)? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/43 "2002-12-19T19:07:12Z")
Since everything else you’ve said in this thread has been right on, **Exapno** (wonder what ‘Groucho’ and ‘Chico’ would look like in Cyrillic? :)), I’m gonna have to catch the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Especially because, just as I was thinking, “No one’s mentioned Firesign yet,” there you were, right on time. And, yes, _Don’t Crush That Dwarf_ **is** the best comedy record ever. “Oyez, oyez, all rise for the courtroom scene, take one!” “I’m going to find a bunch of guys who dress alike and follow them around!” “Daddy, where can I get a good deal in a Christian atmosphere?” My short list, in order: The Marx Brothers Monty Python Firesign Theatre The original (1975-76) cast of _Saturday Night Live_ (while we’re including troupes) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/44 "2002-12-19T19:19:54Z")
Abbot and Costello! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/45 "2002-12-19T19:29:56Z")
How about **Rebo and Zootie**? Zootie. . . Zoot Zoot! ---
**Author:** ![krazy\_kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@krazy\_kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krazy_kat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/46 "2002-12-19T19:32:44Z")
strom and trent ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/47 "2002-12-19T20:35:12Z")
**Rufus T** - great minds do think alike! ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475/48 "2002-12-19T21:09:03Z")
Wayne and Shuster were pretty funny. Their Shakespearean baseball skit was hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-comedy-team-of-all-time/137475.md?page=2)