Favorite Stand up Comedian?

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AtomBomb

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My favorites include Louis CK, Bill Hicks, and Nick Swardson. (Louis CK being my overall favorite)

Who do you guys like?
 
I suck ass at remembering names. Suck so hard at it... But of those I remember, ... Jim Jeffries, Doug Stanhope, for fun uplifting comedy I like Gabriel Iglesias, Dave Chappelle and Eddie Izzard. Also Ricky Gervais. Others that I'll never be able to name. Omid Djalili.
I like both Hicks and Carlin, but they can get quite preachy, so can Stanhope. I prefer Hicks' family bits (dad's a goober), and Carlin's linguistic-bits.
Me and a friend knew Eddie Murphy's "Delirious" almost by heart, so I still have some feelings for that, although it is quite simple comedy at times :D
Hmmm... I do also appreciate Seinfelds classic "what's the deal with"-type routines, although I've heard them to death for a long while to come, long ago :D
Oh and I like Louis CK too, I didn't connect at first, like I said, I suck at names :D
 
Ten years ago I had the great pleasure of seeing George Carlin when he came to my tiny town. Guy was even more politically outraged when the HBO cameras weren't rolling.

I loved it.
 
George Carlin - for funny rants
Jimmy carr - for some seriously filthy stuff coming out of a seemingly gentelmenish guys mouth
Def Comedy Jam - for some mixed black humour, also Chris Rock

Also some others that are also already mentioned.
 
I love stand up, so I like most of them.

All of the above plus
Nick Depalo
Jim Gaffigan
Aziz Ansari
Joan Rivers
Joe Rogan
Jim Brewer
Jim Norton

Janine Garrafalo's stand up sucks though

Wow that's a lot of names with the first letter J
 
Derek and Clive.

Though neither of them did much standing, more sitting and offensive rambling.

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Les Luthiers. Technically they don't really fall under the category of stand-up, actually, I'm not sure what category they fall under if any, but they're the most funny thing I've ever seen on a stage, altho I don't think they make any sense in any other language than spanish.

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Gonzalez said:
Les Luthiers. Technically they don't really fall under the category of stand-up, actually, I'm not sure what category they fall under if any, but they're the most funny thing I've ever seen on a stage, altho I don't think they make any sense in any other language than spanish.
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I am a fan, but they have a lot of different styles, so many a new listener may get a "bad batch" for their first listen - or something not fitting their humor, when the group has so much more to offer :D
I got many favorites, among them are their parodies and experiments with musical styles, especially their jazz rags and such.

Such as this classic, baroque + andean folk, you don't hear that every day (or anywhere else :D)
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Would you consider music comedy to be stand up? I kind of debate with myself whether it can be considered stand up comedy or not. But I really like Stephen Lynch, and Bo Burnham isn't too bad.
 
AtomBomb said:
Would you consider music comedy to be stand up? I kind of debate with myself whether it can be considered stand up comedy or not. But I really like Stephen Lynch, and Bo Burnham isn't too bad.
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I think they are so few and far between, that if they are talented and funny, then yeah, throw them into the count! :D
 
I like Louis C.K, Dave Chapelle, Katt Williams, Ralphie May, Aziz Ansari, Gabriel Iglesias, and of course the various assorted asians whose names no one can ever remember.
 
I saw Carlin a while back too. Guy's the best, and he got better, sharper and nastier the older he got.

Katt Williams
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Having grown up watching a really great progression of edgy black comics - 70s Pryor, then 80s Eddie Murphy, then 90s Chris Rock, 00s Dave Chapelle. Katt Williams just seems like a lot of noise to me.


I know he doesn't do stand-up, but Stephen Colbert is a fucking national treasure.
 
Steve Martin's number one for me. His college shows in the 1970s are legendary, and eventually he became so incredibly successful as a stand-up that he quit because there was no challenge left. Also, there are comics who try to copy the style of the Carlins and the Pryors and the Bill Hickses, but nobody even tries to copy Steve's style, because it's impossible.

Norm MacDonald is underrated as a stand-up. His Comedy Central show from a couple years ago, Me Doing Stand-Up, is great. Possibly the darkest humor I've ever seen a comic pull off.

For up-and-comers I like Jon Dore and Rory Scovel, among others.

http://thelaughbutton.com/news/jon-dore-rory-scovel-perform-simultaneous-comedy-acts-conan/
 
On the subject of stand up comedy, I just found out today that my cable company now has Comedy Central, wich I was wanting to have for a long time now, so I guess I will be watching stand up on cable daily now.

As for stand up comedians from my country I did used to like like Pinti, but he's far too political for my liking, and as an argentine, I'm truly tired of politics, political discussions are the order of the day here, so to be honest I'm sick of it.

I now prefer younger comedians that have fresher material, like Malena Pichot or Los Bla Bla
 
Cimmerian Nights said:
I saw Carlin a while back too. Guy's the best, and he got better, sharper and nastier the older he got.

Katt Williams
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Having grown up watching a really great progression of edgy black comics - 70s Pryor, then 80s Eddie Murphy, then 90s Chris Rock, 00s Dave Chapelle. Katt Williams just seems like a lot of noise to me.
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Yeah, that's the impression I always got from Katt Williams so I've never seen anything else other than one of his stand-ups. Not even all of it, just a few parts of it.

Dave Chappelle is definitely one of my favorites, though admittedly I don't watch much stand-up comedy.

Eddie Griffin is another one I also like.
 
The lack of Eddie Cantor in this topic shows how un-classy you all are and only reaffirms my sneaking suspicion that troglodyteism has run amuck among the ranks.
 
George Carlin, loved his views on the excessive consumption/consumerism in the United States (it's a global issue though).
 
Bill Bailey, Dara O Briain and Dylan Moran. Thought this topic needed more Brit comedians... ish... two of 'em are Irish.
 
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