I’m looking for some recommendations of good stand up comedy to listen to in my car on long journeys.
I don’t mind vulgar stuff, as long as it’s funny (ie, andrew dice clay is just vulgar IMO, not really funny)
So far I’ve got
David Gunson - What Goes Up Might Come Down
(former British air traffic controller gives a funny story about being a pilot & air traffic controller)
I’ve also got a couple of stand up routines by Ben Elton, another British comedian who wrote amoung other things, Blackadder.
On second thought, don’t buy/download/borrow anything by Eddie Izzard. You’ll be an accident waiting to happen, as you’ll be laughing so hard you won’t be able to concentrate on your driving.
I must agree with ** rastahomie **. Eddie Izzard is hysterical… Though I think the enjoyment gained by listening to him is worth the slight possibility of driving off a bridge or such due to the distraction.
If you’re looking for comedy to listen to in a car, try to find some old Firesign Theater tapes, especially, “How Can You Be Two Places at Once if You’re Not Anywhere at All?” or “Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers.”
The reason is largely because what he does is hardly ever “a routine” - it feels as if he’s saying whatever comes into his head, and he wanders around from subject to subject, and when you try to tell your friends about it afterwards, you can’t actually explain what was funny.
Rich Hall, AKA Otis Lee Crenshaw - Don’t know if he has any tapes out but there are certainly tapes of the songs from his routines.
Boothby Graffoe – British comedian, somewhat like Eddie Izzard in that the routines don’t always go anywhere or have a punchline.
Al Murray as the Pub Landlord – the funniest comedy gig I’ve ever seen, and I believe there are tapes around. The persona is of a Little Englander who believes that there’s nothing worth learning that you can’t learn at the University of Life. Sheer joy, plus he can deliver to hecklers with a penetrating couple of words the sort of blow more usually associated with a blackjack