Great Comedians

[STEED]

Post your favorites..

For me the greatest comedian to come out of Ireland was the late great Dave Allan. :har: :yeah:

Just under hour, enjoy. :haha:
Dave Allen - The Immaculate Selection (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Tl2dPaPrY

[Sailor Steve]

Steven Wright. A lot of people quote his stuff and never know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB8ZDrNb3B0

[Rockstar]

Off the top of my head I'll go with George Carlin, Chris Rock, Bob Hope

[jacobston]

Most of my favorite comedians were, at one point, on SCTV

SCTV: Monster Chiller Theater: The House of Cats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMQ8qSEVFo0)

SCTV: Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKWn6oPj-c)

SCTV: Great White North: Dog Scoops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0N4APXmVjk)

[mapuc]

Dave Allen
Rik Mayall


Markus

[Tango589]

Ken Dodd FTW

Dave Allen

Victoria Wood

Early Billy Connolly

[Herr-Berbunch]

Post your favorites..

For me the greatest comedian to come out of Ireland was the late great Dave Allan. :har: :yeah:

Just under hour, enjoy. :haha:
Dave Allen - The Immaculate Selection (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Tl2dPaPrY

I watched that on New Year's Eve. Brilliant stuff.

[Jimbuna]

Dave Allen
Billy Connolly
Chubby Brown

[Aktungbby]

Richard Pryor; Chris Rock; George Carlin, Robin Williams-standup

[Oberon]

Dave Allen was hilarious. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBca1ixoEbg)

You can't beat a bit of the Big Yin either (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMJBQoHJ4E)

George Carlin was a boss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c)

:hmmm:

Jo Brand is quite funny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9vjyAizwQU)

Bremner, Bird and Fortune always get a chuckle. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jgZKV4N_A)

Al Murray, good man, and (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX98LGnvc1E) knows his WWII (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiMU1QNIHk) stuff. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWUDgWIXZ8o) :yep:

I also quite like some of Reginald D. Hunters stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg6CTFwOalc)

And, of course, Charlie Brooker. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlDDAURDyIw) :up:

[eddie]

John Cleese
Robin Williams
Don Rickles
W.C. Fields
Red Foxx
Smothers Brothers

[Fubar2Niner]

Eddie Izzard
Micky Flanagan
Steve Martin
Rik Mayall
Ade Edmonson
John Candy
Sean Lock

[Herr-Berbunch]

Frankie Howerd :salute:

[Skybird]

Laurel Hardy. And after them a long empty void. Their genius was never reached again.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

The Marx Brothers
Rowan Atkinson
The group formally known as Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Charlie Chaplin
Abbott and Costello
Laurel and Hardy
The Three Stooges
Stephen Fry
John Belushi
John Goodman
John Candy
Robin Williams
Mel Brooks
Alan Alda
Peter Sellers

[nikimcbee]

Jim Gaffigan.

[Fubar2Niner]

Frankie Howerd :salute:

Oooooh err misses. I forgot Frankie, good one HB :up:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Buddahaid]

Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeV9t2pqHWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiC0OjUcaL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCfUEsQZkME#t=94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ivzcLEzUs

[Sailor Steve]

'Brother' Dave Gardner. My dad was a huge fan of his in the '50s, and I've never forgotten him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-PtWvQuIdk&list=PLOkwt_5B3K3s_v6sr9lE7U1L3km9-AQYO&index=14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZPqAwXWZ4&list=PLOkwt_5B3K3s_v6sr9lE7U1L3km9-AQYO&index=1

And a newer rendition of a personal favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR8crtKS-eY

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/DSk9Wvt.jpg?1

[Fubar2Niner]

Ooohhh look its me :D

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Eichhörnchen]

Hey I hadn't spotted that!!

[HW3]

Red Skelton
Lucille Ball
Carol Burnett
Tim Conway

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/9c2KsiX.jpg?1


"I personally scorn comedy; I don't think I've ever had a laff in my entire life. It's rather unseemly, IMHO"

[Herr-Berbunch]

"I personally scorn comedy; I don't think I've ever had a laff in my entire life. It's rather unseemly, IMHO"

Did he never watch Westworld? :hmmm:

[Eichhörnchen]

That wasn't him, it was a robot.

[CaptainHaplo]

'Brother' Dave Gardner.

Amen!!!!

I think I have his discography somewhere. Truly Classic!

[Wolferz]

Cheech & Chong.

[d@rk51d3]

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor were always a good combo.

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/dRYV6ex.png?1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-KrzEeh5R4

(Here hosting "The Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club", a fictional Northern Working Mans' Club on TV in the '70s, supported by Bernard Manning). I think he looks a bit like Frank Skinner...

[swamprat69er]

Foster Brookes
George Carlin
Dean Martin
George Burns & Gracie Allen
Robin Williams
Redd Foxx

[Tchocky]

Milligan.

:rock:

A personal favourite - Dylan Moran.

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/2bPZ8K8.jpg?1

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/XqNjAvD.jpg?1

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/nsRmogX.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo

[razark]

Jack Benny

[Onkel Neal]

Red Skelton

[Von Due]

In no particular order:
Rowan Atkinson
The Monty Python gang, Graham Chapman in particular.
Mel Brooks
Tommy Cooper
The Wesenlund/Steen combo, Norwegians and probably not well known outside of Norway.
The "KLM" trio of Kirkevaag, Lystad & Mjøen (in their heyday that is). More of those Norwegians.
Bill Hicks
Peter Sellers
Marty Feldman
Clarke & Dawe

(and probably some I missed. Not really into standup. Some hillarious pieces by a lot of them but few of them had more than a some hillarious pieces, that I have seen)

[Catfish]

in no particular order

George Carlin
Dieter Hildebrandt
Volker Pispers
Georg Schramm
Urban Priol
Frank-Markus Barwasser
Hans-Joachim Heist
Martin Sonneborn
Oliver Welke
Django Asül
Otto Waalkes
Tom Gerhardt
Heinz Erhardt
Vicco von Bülow
Michael "Bully" Herbig
Eckart von Hirschhausen
Some other german comedians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German-language_comedians
Sacha Baron Cohen
Rowan Atkinson
Monty Python
Donald Trump

:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Not in any particular order.

BILLY CONNOLLY
CHUBBY BROWN
JOHN CLEESE
RICHARD PRYOR
STEPHEN FRY
ROBIN WILLIAMS
CHRIS ROCK
STEVE MARTIN
EDDIE MURPHY
WOODY ALLEN
JOAN RIVERS

The list could go on and on and on.

[Commander Wallace]

Benny Hill

Steven Wright

[Osmium Steele]

In addition to the many listed here:

Mitch Hedberg
Flip Wilson
Dwight York is a personal favorite.
Buddy Hackett
Lenny Bruce
Don Rickles
Bill Cosby
Bob Newhart
Steve Martin
Jonathan Winters
Rodney Dangerfield

[Red October1984]

Mitch Hedberg
John Mulaney
Nick Offerman
Jim Gaffigan
Robin Williams
Monty Python
Stephen Wright

And a sprinkling of others.

I am going to see Demetri Martin in October, however. :Kaleun_Wink:

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/naPjP4o.jpg

Can't be classed as a "great" yet as he's current, but I'm sure he will be one day. Scroll forward to his 'Cockney routine' 4 minutes into this gig at the Apollo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKO5j54EVS4

[Osmium Steele]

Can't be classed as a "great" yet as he's current, but I'm sure he will be one day.

Dear Lord. "I think tourettes is just people with predictive talking turned on and they can't turn it off."

I almost wet myself. :har:

[jayni]

Joyce Grenfell. Her nursery school routines are lol funny.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Norm MacDonald and Jim Jeffries.

[Platapus]

In my opinion, we can't consider "greatness" until about 20-25 years after they stop performing. If there are still fans paying money to see their material, then they can be considered for greatness.

There is a reason people still buy Marx Brother's movies and WC Fields performances 70-90 years later.

[Eichhörnchen]

I agree entirely :yep:

[Von Due]

In my opinion, we can't consider "greatness" until about 20-25 years after they stop performing. If there are still fans paying money to see their material, then they can be considered for greatness.

There is a reason people still buy Marx Brother's movies and WC Fields performances 70-90 years later.

One can consider it an evolution of languanges. Take "hate" for instance. In the past, hatred really meant that. Now people hate broccoli. What wrong did that do? An airliner disaster today means the plane was delayed 50 minutes. People point guns at eachother to demand respect but when did anyone tremble with respect? In living memory means this week and to destroy someone means to have some good points in a debate. Best ever, see "in living memory". Great is good but not as good as best ever so great would more refer to best since 11 o'clock.

[Méo]

I never thought Tobey Maguire could be that good..

Starting at at 1:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E

[Jimbuna]

I never thought Tobey Maguire could be that good..

Starting at at 1:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJy15ItE1E

Yep, great performance :yep: