# Who Last Made a Name for Themselves in Stand-Up?

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**Created:** [February 14, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-last-made-a-name-for-themselves-in-stand-up/485797 "2009-02-14T06:30:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-last-made-a-name-for-themselves-in-stand-up/485797/21 "2009-02-15T19:28:21Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> If America had as many comedy [panel shows](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel_game) as the UK does, there’d be a sharp increase.

I think Comedy Central does a good job of giving stand up comedians recognition. That’s how I learned about Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedberg and Patton Oswald among many others. The network seem to have several comics on contract to appear at those lame roasts every year.

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-last-made-a-name-for-themselves-in-stand-up/485797/22 "2009-02-15T20:33:15Z")

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> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Bill Maher  
> Lisa Lampanelli

The Lamp was in town recently. I contemplated making Tracy go and see her.

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-last-made-a-name-for-themselves-in-stand-up/485797/23 "2009-02-16T03:01:45Z")

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When Comedy Central started up about all they could afford to show was unknown and little known comics. They pretty much just ran standup shows 24/7. I guess some of those guys made it big.

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-last-made-a-name-for-themselves-in-stand-up/485797/24 "2009-02-16T06:25:32Z")

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Joe Rogan’s standup really took off AFTER _Fear Factor_ (which was after _Newsradio_). This was partially due to his utter hatred of Carlos Mencia.

What about Mitch Hedberg? He toured with Dave Attel and Lewis Black when Black was pretty big and Attel was going crazy with his Insomniac show. Hedberg was already sort of well-known from spots on talk shows but he absolutely killed the audience when I saw him. There was a huge outpouring of grief when he died shortly thereafter.

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