When you look at the greats - the funnymen that could have contributed more ( who died 1960- today) who are you most saddened to not have around today.
Bill Hicks.
I’d have to say Lenny Bruce. He pushed the boundaries of free speech and made Carlin, Belushi, Kinison, and the rest of the “blue” crowd possible.
Robin
Gilda Radner.
I’m still pissed-off at Mr. Cancer about her.
Gracie Allen
Jack Benny
Sam Kinison
Well, in all fairness, Dex, Gracie and Jack would be 108 and 109 years old, respectively. They might still be funny, but not intentionally.
**Dex, those are the first two that I thought of. When Jack Benny died – I think it was the mid 1970’s – that was the first time that I thought how strange it would be to have a world without that particular celebrity alive.
By the way, Rachmaninoff was a Jack Benny fan.
Jack would be 39, wouldn’t he?
Phil Hartmann
Bill Hicks, without a question.
Phil Hartman, or John Belushi.
You guys are amateurs - if only http://www.weirdity.com/oneliners/cooper1.shtmTommy Cooper was still amongst us, we would be standing on the shoulders of giants. Not like that, like that
And Kenny Everett makes us all ashamed.
John Candy
Bill Hicks.
Another vote for Phil Hartman and Bill Hicks. If Bill had lived, perhaps Denis Leary would have had to steal someone else’s act.
OK, I am going to have to go google this “Bill Hicks,” never heard of him . . .
Votes for Belushi, Hartman, Candy in that order.
Having said that, I always wondered what more Freddie Prinz had in him – would he have been Tony Orlando today? or John Travolta? or Rob Reiner …
Really? Or whoosh…?
Can someone explain the John Candy contention here?
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Comedian.
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Dead.
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“Lost without”
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