Okay here’s the deal. You can choose five comedians living or dead to go and perform on one night. They won’t perform together and their genres need not match. Just pick your five favorites of all time. Mine are George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, Ron White, Eddie Izzard. What would yours be?
George Carlin, circa early-mid 1970s.
Bill Cosby, circa mid-1960s
Patton Oswalt
**Jonathan Katz ** (whatever happened to him? I think he’s Toby on The West Wing)
Larry Miller
Dave Chapelle
Jim Breuer
George Carlin
Larry Miller
Jerry Seinfeld
Elayne Boosler
Drew Carey
George Carlin
Bill Hicks
Kathleen Madigan
Interesting question.
My choices:
George Carlin: grandfather of observational humor. Without him, no Seinfeld
Richard Pryor: No one has ever made me laugh as hard as Richard
Sam Kinnison: Move where the food is!
Bernie Mac: His performance on Kings of Comedy was brilliant. He’s makin’ fun of me!
Robert Schimmel: Only comedian who made me buy their CD, and that I listened to more than once.
Interesting that we’ve all chosen George Carlin.
Carlin: in the 70’s. Funny.
Marx Brothers: I want to have a front row seat to their work.
Monty Python: see Marx Brother’s reasoning.
Wanda Sykes.
Woody Allen.
Lessee, now…
George Carlin ~ Yeah, he’ll turn up on a lot of lists, I think.
Laura Kightlinger ~ Always thought she should have made a bigger impact than she did. Amused me, anyway.
Sam Kinison ~ At his peak, he was truly funny, not just crude. Unfortunately, his peak got cut short.
Kevin Pollak ~ Just for the Columbo impersonation. Cracks me up
Bill Hicks ~ The headliner. The big finish. Just turn him loose for about two hours, and stand back.
easy
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George Carlin
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Chris Rock
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Richard Pryor
4)Eddie Murphey (1980’s Eddie with leather bodysuit, color optional)
5)Mitch Hedburg
Mine are the same as yours, except I’m replacing Pryor with Eddie Murphy and Lenny Bruce with John Cleese (I know, he isn’t famous for standup but he’s still the funniest man of all time).
Oh, and Ron White gets the boot for Chris Rock.
My folks were in Vegas 2 weeks ago and admitted that Carlins recent stuff has been taking a dive lately, but claimed his performance in Vegas was really a huge come back. So, I hope to see another HBO special in the next year or two.
Chris Rock, how could I forget?
You know they call corn on the cob, corn on the cob, but that’s how it comes out of the ground, man. They should call that corn, they should call every other version corn off the cob. It’s not like if you cut off my arm you would call it Mitch. Then reattach it and call me Mitch-all-together…
Mitch Hedberg
Eddie Izzard
David Cross
Lewis Black
Bill Hicks
Probably in that order.
How is it the same when 60% of the list has been changed?
:rolleyes:
Brian Regan
Steven Wright
Joel Hodgson (sp?, from mst3k)
Redd Foxx
Bill Hicks
Derek Edwards - There is a sample here.
Brent Butt
Chris Rock
Woody Allen
Steven Wright
Standup only, and single performers, not groups:
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Chris Rush. His “First Rush” was the funniest comedy album ever made. Vanished soon afterwards, though he seems to be still performing. Rush’s style was to build up, then hit you with about six punchlines in a row, one funner than the next.
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Dennis Wolfberg. Hilarious man, much like Rush. Best known (if at all) for his recurring part as Gooshie in Quantum Leap, and died much too young.
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Jackie Vernon. Long forgotten, but his “vacation slides” routine was one of the great classics.
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Bob Newhart.
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Woody Allen.
Bill Hicks
Dane Clark
Lewis Black
Denis Leary
Richard Pryor
Sorry - I like 'em profane and loud!
Lewis Black
Denis Leary (<i>Cancer</i> era)
Greg Proops
George Carlin
Jerry Seinfeld
In no particular order…
Eddie Izzard
Robin Williams
Ellen Degeneres
Chris Rock
Buddy Hackett