Marx Brothers
Monty Python
the writers for the Sid Ceasar show (incomplete list includes Ceasar, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart).
No votes yet for Blackadder/Baldrick (Atkinson/Robinson)?
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
Abbot and Costello!
How about Rebo and Zootie?
Zootie. . . Zoot Zoot!
strom and trent
Rufus T - great minds do think alike!
Wayne and Shuster were pretty funny. Their Shakespearean baseball skit was hilarious.