Poll of the Day > These are my ten favorite stand up comedians. Which of my favorites is yours?

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Honorable mentions: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Ali Wong, John Mulaney, probably a thousand others

Inb4 omg ***** isnt on the list?

Bill Burr
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Norm. Cause i love it when he tells a joke and nobody laughs. Then he explains it and again nobody laughs

Mead posted...

Bill Burr

Ive been watching a lot of bill burr. Interviews and shit. Hes so god damn funny. If Dave chapelle wasnt such a genius, hed easily be number one.

argonautweakend posted...

Norm. Cause i love it when he tells a joke and nobody laughs. Then he explains it and again nobody laughs

Norm gets comedy more than anybody else in the world I think. He gets comedy so much, sometimes its not even funny

Who voted Hannibal buress? You my boy

MICHALECOLE posted...

not even funny

Oh, so he's like van Gogh in the regard that he is not appreciated in his time.
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Louie is my favorite but I also really like tom segura, joe rogan, patton oswald, dave chapelle, & mike birbiglia.
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argonautweakend posted...

Norm. Cause i love it when he tells a joke and nobody laughs. Then he explains it and again nobody laughs

yes. norm is awesome

Carlin of course.
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Doug Stanhope
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I can't choose between Bill Burr and Hanibal Buress.


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Demetri Martin is easily my 2nd fave on that list and it's a big gap to #3 and on, but I gotta go w/ Carlin.

One of the best of all time, if not the best.

Ive always felt the love for Carlin was fake. Everybody just jumps on it.

Went with Chapelle, but interviews with Burr are always great.
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Bugmeat posted...

I can't choose between Bill Burr and Hanibal Buress.

For real
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Of those I'd go with Demitri Martin. His books are hilarious too.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Carlin of course.

This
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Hannibal Buress is fucking atrocious, dude looks comatose every time I see him. He needs to open his damn eyes and so do the dumbasses that think he's funny.
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

Hannibal Buress is fucking atrocious, dude looks comatose every time I see him. He needs to open his damn eyes and so do the dumbasses that think he's funny.

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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

Hannibal Buress is fucking atrocious, dude looks comatose every time I see him. He needs to open his damn eyes and so do the dumbasses that think he's funny.

How do you have Bill Burr and Louis CK, but not Patrice O'Neal on your list?

CK's Shameless routine is still one of the funniest things I've ever heard and it still makes me laugh no matter how many times I go back to it. And I don't laugh at a lot of stand-up.

Burr does good stand-up but he's at his best when he's off script or just ranting about something during an interview. I don't even remember what it was but I was giggling furiously at work for a good ten minutes over something he said on his podcast once.
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CaptainData posted...

How do you have Bill Burr and Louis CK, but not Patrice O'Neal on your list?

Because I dont like him as much as them

Carlin was steadfast and true. People should wear bracelets that say "what would Carlin do?"

BrrrrriAan Regan is the best "clean" comic there is.

And man, I wish Hicks lived a little longer.
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DrPrimemaster posted...

Ive always felt the love for Carlin was fake. Everybody just jumps on it.

Incorrect. Carlin was one of the greatest social commentators of all time.
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Carlin is a comedy legend. Kind of surprised at the lack of Lewis Black love though.
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Bill Burr is like a modern version of Carlin, however, i do feel as if he's toned it back a bit due to his wife and daughter. But the dude on Late Night television is absolute gold. You People Are All The Same is one of his greatest standups of all time.

Richard Pryor and Hannibal Burress are up there as well. Richard Pryor could handle a crowd like they were his bitches and Hannibal Burress's monotonous act always leaves me dying.
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Firewood18 posted...

Carlin was steadfast and true. People should wear bracelets that say "what would Carlin do?"

This, I'll explain why in a second.

Firewood18 posted...

And man, I wish Hicks lived a little longer.

Double this. JFC, Hicks was...just on another level.

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Incorrect. Carlin was one of the greatest social commentators of all time.

Also this.

Now granted, towards the end Carlin kind of became a cranky, bitter old prick...which was his right at that point in his life and what was happening in the world at the time.

That being said, what a lot of Carlin's detractors seem to miss is that the man wrote a new hour every year for damned near 40 years. If you understand anything about standup, you know what a crazy idea it was when he started doing it.

He came from an era where a working standup comic could still literally milk the same hour of material in Vegas for 20 years. He was really the first comic that would do a special and straight up burn the entire act and start from scratch as soon as it was recorded because it wasn't fresh anymore. I love Kinnison, but if he were still alive he'd still be shouting OH OH OH. GO WHERE THERE'S FOOD! Dice still tours and gets stuck doing Hickory Dickory Dock as an encore. If Hedbergh was still alive he'd still be feeding ducks with Subway bread as an encore. Hell, even Bert Kreischer can't leave a theater without people begging him to do The Machine.

If an audience had begged Carlin to do 7 dirty words in 87 as an encore, he would have flipped them the bird and walked off stage. Once his act was recorded, it was sour milk to him and he was on to the next hour.

Without a guy like Carlin, comics could still afford to be complacent and lazy. You'd never have guys like Hicks or Stanhope or Ralphie May if it weren't for guys like him. Gabriel Iglesias would still be doing his fluffy bit. Dunham would still have one puppet. White would still be doing Tater Salad. Foxworthy and the rest of the redneck crew would still be milking their punchlines. Kat Williams would still be doing White People...Demitri Martin wouldn't have to rip pages off his sketch pad as he goes.

The modern art of standup owes in particular Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Hicks an eternal debt of gratitude that any comic worth a damn would acknowledge.

Just my two cents. Change My Mind.
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I always hated ralphie May

Keebs05 posted...

Carlin is a comedy legend. Kind of surprised at the lack of Lewis Black love though.

Lewis Black is funny. Not one of my favorites though.

I also really like Marc Maron a lot

Keebs05 posted...

Kind of surprised at the lack of Lewis Black love though.

Black is a genius, but he hasn't done much in the past 4 or 5 years afaik, so he's not exactly on anyone's mind right now.

As to Burr, he's at his best when he's just riffing on some dipshit that asks him a stupid question, but that's a common trait in most of the Boston comics.

Never really got Burress. His delivery just doesn't do it for me, but I can still see why some people love him.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

I always hated ralphie May

Maybe I have a biased POV because I listen to a lot of standup comics' podcasts and hear a lot of inside baseball, but Ralphie was a genuinely good person with a heart of gold and a lot of pain...like most stand-ups, granted...but the dude never let his fame go to his head. He was always there to help the people he came up with, and he was very generous to a fault when it came to his friends.
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I never found Ralphie May funny either
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There's so many great comics that I haven't even touched on here.

Just to throw a wild card out there, as much as most female comics don't do much for me, I think a lot of people are sleeping on Iliza Shlesinger. I might be biased because I hit on her at a party years ago in New Canaan back when she was calling herself Lizzy when she thought she was Courtney Love in the late 90s...but she's hot AF and she's actually funny without every joke she does being about her vag.
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Ellen Degeneres only has a couple stand up specials but theyre so funny. She has a new one coming out on Netflix and its her first one in 15 years. Im very excited

Richard Pryor.
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Most of my favourite comedians are English but my fucking goodness Hannibal burred is funnyy

Dave Chappelle is pure garbage tho stop playing
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My favorite comedians when they did stand up back in the day when they cussed etc

Eddie Murphy
George Carlin
Billy Connolly
Billy Crystal with Whoopie Goldberg and Robin Williams when they were doing stand up together on HBO
Louie Anderson
Paula Poundstone
Jerry Seinfeld
George Burns

Pryor.

DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

DrPrimemaster posted...

Ive always felt the love for Carlin was fake. Everybody just jumps on it.

Incorrect. Carlin was one of the greatest social commentators of all time.

Carlin had all the insight of an angsty teen.
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Zeus picked Richard Pryor - how Republican of him, ok?
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Carlin.

I don't really watch stand-up comedians though, so he wins by default.
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Louis followed by Chappelle
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Eddie Murphy is actually the only one I know from the list.
Mick Foley, Lee Evans, John Bishop, Billy Connolly, Frankie Boyle and Peter Kay are more my bag.
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Bill Burr

Chappelle would probably be number one but I didnt really start getting into his stuff until he was on his sabbatical, so I missed him in his prime. His new Netflix stand ups are phenomenal though.

Netflix also introduced me to Tom Segura and hes probably third right now.

Glad to see someone else mentioned Patrice ONeal. I never got into most of his stuff, but his Elephant in the Room special is probably my favorite routine of all time.
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Zeus posted...

Carlin had all the insight of an angsty teen.

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Needs more joe Rogan

Segura Tom also

Ohh and Chris delia

Out of those Carlin is king
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It blows my mind that you included Sarah Silverman btw. I thought you were okay before
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Paula Poundstone was and is still funnier than the annoying Sarah Silverman

SmokeMassTree posted...

It blows my mind that you included Sarah Silverman btw. I thought you were okay before

I love Sarah Silverman, and besides Killin em softly, Jesus is magic is my favorite stand up special ever

Solid list, I would probably replace Sara Silverman with Joan Rivers or Lisa Lampanelli though.

Carlin is a comedy god though, have to go with him.

edit: Rivers, Joan Rivers. Why did I think Joan Collins was a comedian?
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Dave Chapelle
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I clicked louie ck before realizing norm mcdonald was on the list.

i like both but norm is fucking hilarious.
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