# One Hit Wonder comedians **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2010, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746 "2010-01-28T07:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/61 "2010-01-29T18:23:47Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Katt Williams. > > It was something about “Nigger.” > > Anyone heard that one? > > Joe No, but I do remember this line. “Ladies, I only call you bitches because I don’t know you personally.” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/62 "2010-01-29T19:20:53Z")
I’d consider Russell Peters a one-hit wonder. If anyone’s even heard of him, it’s probably for his [Beat your kids](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzKHQX59Wso) bit (‘Somebody gonna get-a hurt real bad.’) It was funny, but I know someone who saw him a year ago and said he really didn’t have anything more. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/63 "2010-01-29T19:23:46Z")
The “shoulder-mah-pads” guy! I still crack up and can do his routine (although probably no longer PC). Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/64 "2010-01-29T21:01:20Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay tried to reinvent himself, but it just didn’t take. Another one that I was a little disappointed with. He was The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and also a failed sitcom if I remember correctly. He’s using the name Andrew Silverstein now. Just recently he had a reality show where he was trying to make a comeback. Looking it up, it was called “Dice Undisputed” and it ran on VH1 in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![natterj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@natterj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natterj)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/65 "2010-01-29T21:36:24Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > The “shoulder-mah-pads” guy! > > I still crack up and can do his routine (although probably no longer PC). > > Quasi [Bob Nelson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/66 "2010-01-29T22:51:35Z")
I’m not all that familiar with comedy, but I would guess Jim Gaffigan with his hilarious Hot Pockets bit. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/67 "2010-01-29T23:06:11Z")
Aren’t all comedians generally one hit wonders? They have that one schtick that everyone loves and then they hit it big with a TV show and broaden their comedic audience by watering down the thing people loved so much. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/68 "2010-01-29T23:29:33Z")
> [@natterj](#): > > [Bob Nelson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA) :D:D:D:D:D:D Got me a new best friend! Thanks, **natterj**! I laughed just as hard tonight as I laughed all those years ago! I had forgotten about the earlier thins with the balloons! :D:D:D:D:D:D Thanks! Q ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/69 "2010-01-30T06:54:46Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’m not all that familiar with comedy, but I would guess Jim Gaffigan with his hilarious Hot Pockets bit. Jim Gaffigan has a wide range of material. Maybe you’ve just seen a lot of the Hot Pockets because it’s easily identifiable with him, but he’s got lots more. Check out his DVDs; they’re great. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/70 "2010-01-30T06:59:40Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Vaughn Meader was really a one-hit wonder. He was a comedian/impersonator who was hugely famous for a 1962 album called The First Family, in which he made fun of JFK and his family. It was the fastest-selling record in the history of the US and sold over 7.5 million copies. But after the Kennedy assassination the next year, his career virtually ended - all his records were pulled from stores, and he couldn’t get work again, being so closely associated with JFK. Funny you mention him. I always associate Vaughn with a joke ABOUT him. Soon after the Kennedy assassination, Lenny Bruce, paced the stage in silence for several minutes. Finally, he stopped pacing, stepped up to the mike, sighed loudly and announced: ‘‘Whew! Vaughn Meader is screwed.’’ Which is right up there with Gilbert Gottfried’s post 9-11 joke that he had intended to catch a plane, but couldn’t get a direct flight because “they said they have to connect with the Empire State Building first.” Ballsy. ---
**Author:** ![natterj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@natterj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natterj)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/71 "2010-01-30T22:27:17Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > :D:D:D:D:D:D > > Got me a new best friend! > > Thanks, **natterj**! I laughed just as hard tonight as I laughed all those years ago! I had forgotten about the earlier thins with the balloons! > > :D:D:D:D:D:D > > Thanks! > > Q No Quasi, thank \*you \*for reminding me of probably my favorite comedy bit of all time. I think is was from one of those HBO Young Comedian specials. And yes, it is somewhat un-PC, but still damn funny nonetheless. I just can’t believe I remembered the guy’s name. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/72 "2010-01-30T22:54:48Z")
> [@natterj](#): > > No Quasi, thank \*you \*for reminding me of probably my favorite comedy bit of all time. I think is was from one of those HBO Young Comedian specials. And yes, it is somewhat un-PC, but still damn funny nonetheless. > > I just can’t believe I remembered the guy’s name. It definitely _was_ on one of the Young Comedian Specials, **natterj**. I was working in Panama City, FL at the time as one of the managers of the Sherwin-Williams Co. and my crew and I did that whole football routine all the next week. My name being Bill, our Store Manager took to calling me “Billy-Bob Brubake”!😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/73 "2010-01-30T23:00:49Z")
Denis Leary isn’t really a one-hit-wonder, but I think people know “Asshole” over all the rest of his work. ---
**Author:** ![Herbert\_Quentin\_Viola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Herbert\_Quentin\_Viola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herbert_Quentin_Viola)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746/74 "2010-01-31T01:27:55Z")
I don’t know if this counts. This thread seems to have a pretty wide interpretation. Cheech and Chong were known for their pot humor, even though their bits on stage were all over the map. They will always be remembered for the marijuana, though. “Kinda grabs ya’ by the boo-boo, don’t it?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hit-wonder-comedians/526746.md?page=3)