I won’t change the channel when Awesome Show, Great Job! comes on, but I own the dvds for Tom Goes to the Mayor and I laugh and laugh at them. The Mayor is a total fucking psychopath who wants nothing more than to torment Tom–a genuinely nice guy. It cracks me up.
And Colin Quinn is where laughter goes to die.
Andy Dick, anyone?
He was (moderately) popular when he was on Newsradio, but not so much any more. I’d be surprised if anyone still likes him after hearing the recent stories of his dickishness.
No, thanks. I’m full.
Oh, I think he’s hilarious. Then again, all of his jokes are familiar to me. Between my Indian family and the SO’s Chinese family, most of the stuff he talks about is really true and quite funny.
No thank you.
Yep. I’ve been scrolling through this thread thinking “Love him. Love him. Hate him. Etc.” and seriously questioning the tastes on most of the respondents. 
Well, everybody except those who hate Ray Romano. Them, I like.
I’d like to nominate Chelsea Handler, but I’m unsure whether anyone actually watches her show, let alone thinks she’s funny.
From the little I could bear, though, I found her so intensely anti-funny that she deserves to be included.
I’m going to defend Sarah Silverman here. I think she’s hysterically funny. She plays a character, and if you don’t ‘get’ her character, you won’t like her comedy. Her character is endlessly naive, has a very rudimentary understanding of the world, and is very child-like (or perhaps childish). She entertains overblown fantasies of how steeling her will and committing to ridiculous causes will gain her respect and change the world. She doesn’t understand the power of her words and often says things that are horribly politically incorrect, but she says them the way a child who doesn’t understand politics or controversy would say them. She is easily manipulated emotionally, and is somewhat insecure but attempts to overcome this by doing things she thinks are positive and which make her seem cool, but which usually reflect naivete more than anything.
Her album “Jesus is Magic” is pretty good (although not great), and her show “The Sarah Silverman Program” is sort of hit-or-miss, but I’d say that the best episodes of it stand among the best comedy being produced today.
You really thought people just didn’t grasp that?
Oh god. He was in what was probably the worst episode of Saturday Night Live I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. I think the sketch where he was playing the little boy channeling a Catskills standup “comedy” act was the worst thing I’ve seen on the show.
Speaking of SNL, Kirsten Wiig isn’t bad when she’s doing impressions - the sketch after Nancy Pelosi’s election to Speaker of the House where Wiig portrayed Pelosi really stands out - but otherwise she’s not really my favorite.
I think that was the true measure of how magical Newsradio was. Andy Dick and Joe Rogan, and the show was still funny! I mean, how could that even be?!
Am I getting whooshed, or was this a unabashedly dickish thing to say?
That’s Jonah Hill, not Seth Rogan.
looks them up :smack:
Dammit. I must have “unfunny douche” hardwired into my brain as a trigger for Jonah Hill and that set me off.
Did I miss a mention of Andrew Dice Clay?
Oooh, yeah . . . Jonah Hill is even worse than Seth Rogen.
(The Seth Rogen thing is mostly jealously on my part, because everytime I see him a voice wells up inside me that screams why the FUCK is this guy whose personality, looks, and talent are bland in every way being paid millions of dollars to entertain people and living a great life partying all the time, banging hot chicks, etc??! :))
Yeah, look at the thread title - you missed it by at least 15 years.
Hey, you think that’s bad. I am apperantly a more than passable lookalike. Imagine how much it sucked to walk around Hollywood right before Knocked Up came out when his mug was plastered all over the place on posterssaying “What if this guy got you pregnent?” and then have people come up to you and say “wow, you look JUST like that guy in the poster” Strangers. On the street.
I cut my hair and grew a beard is what I did.
That being said, I actually like him as an actor and thought SuperBad (the first movie he wrote) was quite funny. I haven’t seen Pineapple Express though.
It’s been years, but Kevin Meaney still tops my list.
Regards,
Shodan
Ooh, I got one that fits the topic perfectly: every Last Comic Standing winner and pretty much everyone who makes it through more than 2 rounds. Being funny is a death sentence on that show.
