# Help me ID this comedian
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711 "2006-09-06T23:02:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/1 "2006-09-06T23:02:56Z")
I saw him on Comedy Central – last year, I think. 20something white guy with a beard. His schtick is to tell stories as if he’s entertaining a group of small children, the stories leading into (mostly) bawdy songs, accompanying himself on his guitar.
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/2 "2006-09-06T23:07:28Z")
I know who you mean, it’ll come to me in a minute here…
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/3 "2006-09-06T23:11:27Z")
Hmm … I’d have said Stephen Lynch, except he’s not bearded.
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### Author:  [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/4 "2006-09-06T23:15:59Z")
hmm…I’d also assume Stephen Lynch, but could he have been bearded? at least, at one point?
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### Author:  [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/5 "2006-09-06T23:22:24Z")
Lynch isn’t who I was thinking of, but can’t come up with his name. ::grumble::
Doesn’t mean it’s not who the OP means though
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/6 "2006-09-07T00:32:09Z")
It’s [Zach Galifianakis](http://www.zachgalifianakis.com/)… right?
It could also be Demetri Martin - but I don’t think he does a “story time” theme…
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/7 "2006-09-07T00:35:05Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#):
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> It’s [Zach Galifianakis](http://www.zachgalifianakis.com/)… right?
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> It could also be Demetri Martin - but I don’t think he does a “story time” theme…
Sorry, here’s al ink to [Demtri Martin’s site](http://www.demetrimartin.com/main.html). Martin’s style is more one-liners set to guitar music… not so much w/ the “bawdy songs” described by the OP. It’s gotta be Zach G he’s thinking of…
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/8 "2006-09-07T05:42:26Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#):
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> It’s [Zach Galifianakis](http://www.zachgalifianakis.com/)… right?
Zach plays piano, not guitar, and I’ve never heard him do the children’s story thing.
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/9 "2006-09-07T06:50:02Z")
I’ve not heard or seen him do the children thing, but [Mike O’Connell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2v-AkSj260)?
(Not safe for work, but hilarious.)
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/10 "2006-09-07T06:57:50Z")
Almost forgot, O’Connell can be found with guitar [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjPxX0-G9l8).
(Also probably NSFW)
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### Author:  [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/11 "2006-09-07T13:08:27Z")
I believe it is Stephen Lynch. I think the comedy set that the OP is refering to is set on a stage where a few people are all sitting around Stephen. He is up on a stool, looking down on them, and speaking to them as if they were children.
If you could remember any of the songs, that would be helpful. I think in this specific one, he did a few songs like Special Fred, If I were gay, Hermaphrodite, Lulaby, a quick Taxi Driver song, If I could be a superhero (about a girl who leaves Stephen for a doctor named Bob) and a few others.
I really do think thats what he is talking about though. For sure.
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### Author:  [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/12 "2006-09-07T13:10:54Z")
Also, Stephen was a little beared in that specific Comedy Central Presents. I think a better term for his facial status would be “unshaven” but thats just me.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/13 "2006-09-07T13:12:48Z")
Stephen Lynch’s abums are freaking hilarious, by the way. I highly recommend them.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/14 "2006-09-07T18:00:01Z")
It’s definitely Stephen Lynch, the most beautiful man in comedy. Well, at least [as far as I’m concerned](http://www.geocities.com/mulderscreek/blog/neoxblog.html/3), he is. The start of one of his specials was the set up that he’s talking to a class of kids.
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/15 "2006-09-07T23:53:51Z")
'Cause Daddy likes football and whisky and beer
Daddy likes sex that involves Mommy’s rear…
That the guy?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-comedian/371711/16 "2006-09-08T14:08:23Z")
Definitely Stephen Lynch. Thanx! 🙂