How can you guys not like Margaret Cho?
Anyway…
Chris Rock can be really hilarious but sometimes he’s really offensive.
Joan Rivers. A thousand times over, Joan-frickin-Rivers.
Her voice makes me envy the dead.
Andrew Dice Clay was no day at the beach either.
I’ll see your Pauly Shore and Gallagher and’ll raise you a Bill Bellamy.
Ann Widdecombe.
I’ll bite the bullet and admit Jerry Seinfeld is NOT overrated. He really is a better sleep aid than Nyquil. His live act is insipid, and his sitcom was repulsive. God knows how he got to be important and the other no-talents listed here are has-beens.
Worst comedian in this or any other universe
Dah! Bill Cosby. Sitting in an insect-filled room staring at your feet while a breath-activated chainsaw is ready to split your testicles wide open at your next oxygen intake is n times funnier (where n tends to infinite) than that guy’s pathetic attempts at being humorous.
Are you nuts??? I saw this guy in L.A., and my sides still hurt from laughing.
I guess it just goes to show how subjective humor is. I can’t stand Norm McDonald, Benny Hill, Louie Anderson or Tom Green. Their popularity astounds me.
Evidence that my town has no taste: Dennis Miller cancelled a show last month because fewer than 700 people bought tickets. Yet, Mark Russell is performing here this very night.
We are lost.
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This seems to be a major US thread, but in England we have David Baddiel, and he is FAR unfunnier than any other comedian before or since
Jenny Jones.
Yep. That talentless twit that actually has a talk show was once a comedian. Quite a bad comedian, from what I’ve seen.
I’ll double the Whoopi nomination.
Other supposedly funny people that never made me laugh:
Sandra Bernhard
Elaine Bousler (sp?)
The 3 Stooges
Roseanne
NO ONE has mentioned Craig Kilborn??!!
The guy with the 2 minute close-up shot? Did ANYONE find that funny???
I just had to concur with:
Andy Kaufman
Tom Green
Colin Quinn
Sandra Bernhard
Jenny Jones
Carrot Top
and
Pauly Shore (much as it pains me to say it, he’s a better actor than he is a comedian) (Which is not saying much)
Have to agree with those who said Robin Williams. Talk fast, talk slow, do a bad impression, talk to a glass of water, talk to the ceiling, run around, blah blah blah. Many friends of mine find him hilarious, but he’s just hyper.
Hate to generalize, but how about “any comedienne (female) on the Comedy Channel”? Tell us more about your mother and how men are pigs.
I’ll step in here to briefly defend Janeane Garofalo, Bill Maher and Ellen DeGeneres. Around 1994 these were three comedians with solid acts. They each had about two hours of hilarious material that would entertain any given crowd. Unfortunately, Bill got his own show, stopped writing material, started relying on misogynist sentiments and Lewinsky jokes and got very stale very quickly. Ellen used up what little material she had on a book and then got lost in sitcom land, where nothing funny ever happens. Janeane Garofalo got a great start and had an innovative delivery that played well to college crowds, but she’s growing up to be a woman who lives alone with a bunch of dogs, and that doesn’t translate well, so she’s long since lost her edge. They’re all talented in their own way, but at the moment they’re letting it all go to waste. I saw Janeane recently going through about ten minutes of her old material and not getting a single laugh, and I felt a little sorry for her, but she should have known better than to rely on routines from five years ago. Bill Maher is a different thread entirely, but in a nutshell, aside from being a misogynist, he doesn’t really disagree with political correctness anymore, which was the whole point of his humor in the first place.
This is just to hold them up as being utterly different from people like Martin Lawrence and Carrot Top and Norm MacDonald, who have no talent whatsoever, and Tom Green, who is a jerk. Richard Jeni’s funniest moments were in gum commercials seven years ago, and they weren’t funny in the least.
Chris Rock has an unfortunate tendency to star in unfunny commercials and unfunny movies, but his stand-up act is hilarious. He’s right up there with Richard Pryor as far as I’m concerned.
Finally, nobody go after these people or I’ll have to hurt you: Steven Wright, Rita Rudner, Dennis Miller, Jon Stewart, Bill Hicks, and… hey Cantrip, leave Emo Phillips alone!
Bill Hicks? Someone mentioned Bill Hicks as their pick for worst comedian?!?
Point me their way, it’s clobberin’ time…
All this, and no one mentioned Paul Rodriquez? Maybe this shows that he is in fact a major winner here. He’s bad enough that he’s just been forgotten. I remember a bit from MAD magazine that was postulating the future in 50 or so years, and there was something to the effect of: “Paul Rodriquez will continue to be the only comedian who makes a living without ever having once been funny.”
It took a few posts before I saw Sandra Bernhard’s name here…was thinking that you good people were slipping.
ugh.
Now, if Sherman would set the wayback machine to the late '70’s, does anyone here recall ever seeing Jimmy “Dyn-O-Mite!” Walker’s stand-up act?
…if anyone wants to watch back-to-back unfunny comedians, switch on A&E’s Evening at the Improv (if it’s still on), sit back and prepare to roll your eyes in amazement.
All the black comics on Fox and WB and UPN suck.
Wayans, etc. And anybody in a black movie.
The last black guys to make me laugh were Bill Cosby and Redd Foxx.
The new breed have such racist jokes you hope to hell nobody is laughing, but somebody must be since they stay on the air and in the theaters.