Your Favourite Comedian?

Maccattack

Paul Hogan. Anyone remeber his TV show. I used to get stomach cramps and loss of breath from laughing at him. The movies were sh*t though...

Des bishop and Jack dee:D

nitrogen

MrJoeSoap: Billy has been performing in the US for years and not just to expats.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000B8TJ6C/qid=1133281642/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/203-5419272-6883935

Aurther Hugh

Dylan Moran

j22

Bill Hicks definitely number 1. Richard Pyror, Jimmy Carr, Dave Chappelle.

Dont really find Des Bishop funny at all. Surprised he got mentioned so often. Syrprised Jimmy Carr didnt get mentioned

whiskeyman

Phil Kay (no, not Peter).
Funniest comedian I've ever seen.

Jack Dee, Jasper Carrott, Ross Noble, Bill Bailey all get a good look in too...

Kingsize

j22 wrote:

Dont really find Des Bishop funny at all. Surprised he got mentioned so often. Syrprised Jimmy Carr didnt get mentioned

Personally i think he's a twat.(bishop )
ive recently heard that he's allegedly been living here for some years (i.e since he was about 12?)which kinda makes the whole "FITTING IN" thing seem a bit hollow.I'd rather go and see "hows yer tits & vagina?" by brendan ocarroll.
jimmy carr is very good but underrated ( probably cos of his media whore activities - he'd appear in a line up uf rapists if the price was right)

For my money in all seriousness its gotta be harry hill.

MuffinMonster

1. tommy tiernan
2. peter kaye
3. billy connely

RefulgentGnomon

Most of those mentioned are great acts, Billy Connolly always makes me laugh.
I thought the comedian warming up the crowd before Rip Off Republic (in the Helix) was excellent. He was on that weird Irish football show on TV3 recently, he was giving betting tips, I think his name is Brendan something...
(not O'Carroll or Grace)

kincsem

Rodney Dangerfield RIP

What do I get? No respect!

Bard

My favourites would have to be Bill Bailey, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard, and Dylan Moran (not necessarily in that order).

Dara O'Briain is good live too - he was bloody brilliant on Jack Dee's "Live at the Apollo" show. Paul Merton is also regularly hilarious - only really on "Have I Got News for You" though.

Pretor

Curse the American TV trash I watch but the best comedians i've seen are Russell Peters and Chris Rock....

Heres a 45min vid Peters made, watch it or "Sombody gonna' get a-hurt realll baddd!"

Zaph

Maccattack wrote:

Paul Hogan. Anyone remeber his TV show. I used to get stomach cramps and loss of breath from laughing at him. The movies were sh*t though...

Loved that show, absolutely hilarious.

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/paulhoganshow.htm

Favourite comedian is Billy Connolly, by a mile. Tommy Tiernan is probably next.

buzzerxx

Fidelis wrote:

Bill Hicks/Denis Leary
Ricky Gervais
Bill Bailey
Richard Pryor
Patrice O'Neal

all good choices ,Patrice O'Neal is absolutely hilarious i thinks.

Beekay

John Pinette
This guy is so funny,Especially his impression of an Ewok

And Richard Pryor

Steve_o

Surprised Ardal O'Hanlon wasn't mentioned hes fairly funny!!

Nimrod's Son

Ardal O'Hanlon is very good but he doesn't come up with fresh material often enough.
My personal faves are Dylan Moran, Tommy Cooper and Marcus Brigstock.

anonymous_joe

Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey are my favourites.

On the Irish scene I'd say my favourite comedian's David O'Doherty.

limerick_man

Chris Rock
Lewis Black
Des Bishop
Dara O'Brian (i have to see him live at some stage)
Karl Spain (he doesnt sem to come up with alot of new matieral though)
Billy Connelly

Sorchie

My all time favorite has to be Des Bishop.He's really good live and that work experience show he had out a while back was classic!And who could forget poor old Dermot Morgan as Father Ted!I've seen all the episodes of that show a million times and they always make me laugh!:D

Dyr

No-one mentioned dave allen? for shame


:v: < though technically not a stand up really, on account of the chair

Anto and Moe

Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran, Dylan Moran!!!

Bard

Ack, I can't believe I forgot to mention Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan!

The Goon Show featured some of the best comedy ever written/performed/recorded

Dyr

I used to PMSL just reading the goons scripts as a kid


:v: < ye used to just PYS as a kid anyway

masteire

Ronnie Barker R.I.P.
This was originally shown on BBC TV, back in the seventies.
Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how
many takes) The irony is that the BBC received not one complaint. Must
have been the speed of delivery was too much for the whining herds. Try
getting through it without converting the spoonerisms as you read;



This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion.

Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and
shivelling shot.

At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.

The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge,
and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible
huckers; they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies.
The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but the cotton runts
would not let Rindercella go.

Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared.
Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian.
She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with
six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks

The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise,
there would be a cucking falamity.

At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when
suddenly the clock struck twelve.
"Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said Rindercella, and she ran out
tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.

The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella's door and
the sugly isters let him in.
Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let off a fig bart. "Who's
fust jarted??" asked the prandsome hince.
"Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge.
When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on
both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.
Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a
knack in the kickers.
This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and a hig bard on.

He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking
ferfectly.

Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince
lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a
follen swanny.

cartman

dylan moran is def my fav irish comedian, overall id say dave chappelle has to be the number1, for what its worth is the funniest standup ever

aw

Dylan Moran, Rowan Atkinson (brilliant stand up), Tommy Tiernan, D'Unbelievables (at their peak), Billy Connolly (older stuff), Dermot Morgan.

Karl Spain-Good once. But every show theirafter is the same. One joke man-Look at me and laugh because I'm tubby.

johnplayerblue

Most of the above are in there own way sometimes "Funny" and pander to that section of the population that sat through something like, Theres Something About Mary and laughed out loud and tought that it was "Funny"
For shame on you! How standards have dropped "Dumming Down" is the phrase i think. Dr Strange Love, The King Of Comedy, Four Rooms are "Funny" Films. Anyways when it comes down to what qualifies as a comedian all you have to do is watch or listen to the genius that was Bill Hicks. R.I.P.
Now that was a very very funny and observant comedian and if your not familiar with his body of work chech it out and compare it to the sad line up that stand up and give us the age old rubbish stories in a different format.
Also Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor to name but a few!
Real men, real lives real stories Truely funny if not sometimes disturbing.
Also i do like Bill Baileys humor and think that Dennis Leary is a loud mouth retard!

Dave!

George Carlin #1

Then (no order)...

Mitch Hedberg
Dave Chapelle
Bill Hicks
Dara O'Briain
Billy Connolly
Peter Kay
Ricky Gervais

Duckjob

Bambi wrote:

No-one mentioned dave allen? for shame


:v: < though technically not a stand up really, on account of the chair

Agreed. Dave Allen was the funniest fecker *EVER*. Absolute legend.

Of the contempories, Jack Dee and Ross Noble.


At the other end of the scale, absolutely despise Brendan O'Carroll.