# Rock Stars' Favorite Stand-up Comedians? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679 "2020-09-27T17:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/1 "2020-09-27T17:21:27Z")
I just got done hearing for the 20th time how “Musicians wanna be stand-up comedians, and vice-versa”, but I’m wondering who were the favorites of your favorites, or those you know… If you can’t think of rock stars, any musician will do. Steely Dan liked Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce. Tool seemed to be a big fan of Bill Hicks. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/2 "2020-09-27T17:36:51Z")
I’m guessing [The Beatles aspiring to be Marty Allen](https://www.google.com/search?q=BEATLES+WITH+MARTY+ALLEN&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA835CA835&sxsrf=ALeKk01Qq_bj6uIIiNrkqyMXq1z5m-ucnQ:1601228117553&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-pprJ74nsAhUcFTQIHV-FDwMQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=990&bih=698) doesn’t quite cut it, here? ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/3 "2020-09-27T20:37:01Z")
Jim Morrison liked Tom Lehrer… Someone said in the latest book, “Friends Gathered Together” that Jim had more comedy albums than musical records. He did live near SF during the 1950s comedy boom. I wonder if he ever went to the hungry i ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/4 "2020-09-27T23:19:18Z")
Weel, I don’t know if he was Bob Dylan’s favorite, but he wrote a song about Lenny Bruce. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/16nKWku72oo/hqdefault.jpg "Bob Dylan - Lenny Bruce") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nKWku72oo) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/5 "2020-09-29T16:26:39Z")
Jackson Browne’s _The Load Out_ Now we got country and western on the bus R and B, we got disco in eight tracks and cassettes in stereo We’ve got rural scenes & magazines We’ve got truckers on the CB We’ve got Richard Pryor on the video [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tNCuwUSPias/maxresdefault.jpg "Jackson Browne - The Load-Out / Stay (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNCuwUSPias) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-stars-favorite-stand-up-comedians/921679/6 "2020-09-29T17:08:19Z")
Not stand-up, but George Harrison was enough of a fan of Monty Python that he financed their movie _Life of Brain._