Funniest stand up comedy you've seen

Scanlas The 2nd

For me it has to be Eddie Murphy "Raw" or "Delirious. Can't believe he didn't do more stand up.

bitemybanger

Jeff Dunham is pretty damn funny but Michael McIntire is hard to beat.

oldyouth

Omid Djalili cracks me up every time

tigger123

Dara O'Briain. I saw him years ago, about 1999, in the Laughter Lounge on the Quays, before they'd done it up. At that stage he was "yer man from Echo Island". I had a pain in my face from laughing so hard.

Saw Barry Murphy in the Olympia years ago, he was excellent too.

Ghandee

demanufactured

Frankie Boyle or micheal mcintyre

Billy connelly too

shockwave

Ricky Gervais's standup is pretty good, not a fan of his tv stuff though. Sean Locke is also very good.

telekon

shockwave wrote: »

Ricky Gervais's standup is pretty good, not a fan of his tv stuff though. Sean Locke is also very good.

Funny, I'm the complete opposite...

wandatowell

Bill Hicks

Benicetomonty

Live it has to be dara obrien. Hes the best iv seen when it comes to interacting with the audience. Of all time is Bill Hicks. Big hopes for mcintyre in november!

Go Tobban

Billy Connollys HBO special from 1990 is absolutely hysterical. Prob my favourite stand up routine

Stewart Lee can be excellent aswel

I love Bill Hicks but I didn't necessarily find him side splittingly funny, usually just found myself nodding along with agreement on most of the points he made

derfderf

I can never decide between Dylan Moran, Sean Locke and Richard Pryor.

crazygeryy

Billy connolly in the early 90s at the theatre royal in limerick.hes not great today but back then he was the funniest comedian on the planet.

Broads.ie

Dara o Briain... he's the only comedian that makes me laugh out loud all through the DVD.

Worst is Neil Delamere.

laugh

Dylan Moran.

Sonics2k

Jim Jeffries.

Saw him once in the UK a good while back, honestly the funniest show I've seen in a long long time.

telekon

Saw Dermot Morgan in 1994. It was pretty much 2 hours of Scrap Saturday material, mainly impressions of Charlie, Pj Mara, P Flynn, Peter Clohessy etc. and his experiences living in London as he was filming a little known series called 'Father Ted' at the time.

God, I miss him.

Blitzkrieger

Saw Dara o Briain in a small venue doing a charity fund raiser gig at the Cat Laugh's festival one year. I had to stop laughing in the end because my sides hurt so much. It helped that he spent half the show taking the piss out of a friend of mine. Then Ed Byrne came on and did the same thing!

antodeco

I think Peter Kay is great. Hate Lee Evans

Will I Amnt

Go Tobban wrote: »

I love Bill Hicks but I didn't necessarily find him side splittingly funny

Because he wasn't.
He was 2 parts political activist 1 part comic.

By all means admire him for what he preached but as a comic he was distinctly average.

Icaras

Richard Pryor live in concert (in long beach) funniest stand up I have seen. Still cracks me up every time I watch it - killing his car, sex monkeys, fighting Ali it has it all. In the Eddie Murphys interviews on his delirious dvd he even says the stand up was based on Richard Pryors performances.

Ishmael

The old Billy Connolly stuff from back in his earlier days would be hard to beat. Dara O'Briain is very good live also but very fond of Reginald D Hunter at the moment.

giles lynchwood

Peter Kay The Tour That Didn't Tour-Tour.
This was recorded live in 2011 in front of 14000 people.The best ending to a stand up ever.
Robin William's.We are Amused.

Chuck Stone

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

frozenfrozen

Milton Jones

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

Stewart Francis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9iCVwcQYE

demanufactured

Stewert francis is very good.

Milton jones is only good on mock the week in short bursts...saw his live show on dave....it was ****e.

TheZohanS

Jimmy Carr
Frankie Boyle

jdee99

Saw Dara O'Brien live tonight at Castlebar - brilliant

Peetrik

In rough order of reccomendation...

Dylan Moran
Jimmy Carr
Jason Manford
Ricky Gervais
Tommy Tiernan
Peter Kay
Rhys Darby
Stewart Lee
Omid Djalili
Bill Bailey
Chris Rock
David Cross

Slunk

Jimmy Carr and john Bishop were very good. Didn't think much of Dylan Moran which is a shame cause I loved black books. That Scottish fella Kevin bridges is good too.
Older ones would be Billy Connolly and the best of the best richard Pryor. That live in concert DVD has me in tears of laughter every time.
As for Peter Kay. Is he still doing jokes about his Nan and tea. Wads funny at the start but don't like hum anymore

luketitz

Louis CK - my new hero!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-otAJrtY-w

Cianos

Dave Chapelle has good.

Links234

Bill Bailey, Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee

Johny vegas in cork

Glico Man

Rhod Gilbert, Dylan Moran, Dara O'Briain, Billy Connolly, Reginald. D. Hunter

Jake187

Finally someone mentioned Dave Chappelle.

FouxDaFaFa

Bill Hicks, Louis CK, Tim Minchin.

George Carlin was fantastic too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8hefESt7c

More recently, Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler have a great double-act going. So bizarre, but brilliant.

pragmatic1

Louis CK is the best right now. Jim Norton, Bill Burr also very funny. In general US stand up is miles ahead of anything from Ireland or the UK.

Darius.Tr

George Carlin was one of my favourites, Dane Cook has a few good acts aswell.

mackg

Some great ones mentioned already. I'll add Daniel Tosh never heard of him until a friend showed me some clips on youtube, really funny.

krudler

another vote for Louis CK, think he's the best comedian in the world right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDH-RXCptY

Bill Burr too, underrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLHjvQJ9y_w

I really like Gabriel Iglesias, really funny Latino comedian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbppTv4pCGQ

K-9

Live:

Dermot Morgan trying out new stuff about 1995, very sharp and alive to hecklers.
Ed Byrne in the late 90's used to be funny!

Colm Murphy and surprisingly Andrew Maxwell were quite good.

Ardal O'Hanlon picked on me for wearing a striped shirt that tied in with his pyjama joke. Males start and end life wearing pyjamas which is true. Spotted my striped shirt when doing the toilet dash and he just pointed "pjjamas". Baxtard!

Worst, Patrick Kielty.

DVD:

Dylan Moran. (I'd love to see him live)
Jimmy Carr from 4/5 years ago.

krudler

Darius.Tr wrote: »

George Carlin was one of my favourites, Dane Cook has a few good acts aswell.

I think Dane Cook's problem was he got too big, his show at Madison Square Garden is hard to listen to due to amount of women screaming at him the whole way through it, he's a rock star comedian, he's very fratboy humour but does have some very funny bits.

Peetrik

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Louis CK is the best right now. Jim Norton, Bill Burr also very funny. In general US stand up is miles ahead of anything from Ireland or the UK.

Are you from the US yourself? Some of the cultural differances from Ireland or the UK might not travel well and vice versa of course. A lot of the US comedians are fantastic but TBH I regularly find some US comedians to be a little... obvious.

K-9

Tim Minchin is excellent as well from what I've watched on TV.

PhlegmyMoses

Anybody who thinks that Eddie Murphy's Raw and Delirious shows were the best (both awesome, I agree) should check out Richard Pryor. The likes of Murphy and Chris Rock wouldn't ever claim to even be as good as him. He pretty much gave birth to that kind of comedy.

His ability to tell stories about the grimmest things that happened to him - growing up in a whorehouse, setting himself on fire after trying to freebase cocaine whilst spilling rum on himself, shooting up his girlfriend's car, having a heart attack - in such a humourous and candid way was nothing short of amazing.

He was also a great actor on stage which greatly added to his Live shows. He'd play out dialogue between multiple characters, giving them clearly defined personalities and voices in a way that most comedians could only aspire to. Absolute genius. Can't help but feel that his work has been diluted a bit by so many people playing the magpie with his work but he was a revolutionary in the comedy world.

Other great comedians I would advise everyone to check out are Mitch Hedberg and Demetri Martin. Very funny and very clever.

Fluorescence

This thread doesn't have enough Bill Bailey. The man's a genius I also love Dylan Moran and Dara O Briain. To a lesser extent: Sean Locke and Michael McIntyre.

cruiser178

crazygeryy wrote: »

Billy connolly in the early 90s at the theatre royal in limerick.hes not great today but back then he was the funniest comedian on the planet.

If memory serves me right, was'nt there a lot of up roar about how disguistingly vile Billys language was at that concert, afaik there was even talk about banning him from Limerick, which is a bit rich.

Joan rivers cracks me up every time, 79 next birthday, she is a fúcking LEDGEND.

krudler

cant believe I forgot Mitch Hedberg, insanely funny guy, such a pity he died so young.

sample jokes "so my pants are holding up my belt, but my belt is holding up my pants, so whos the real hero down there?"

"I saw a wino eating some grapes and I was like "dude, you gotta wait"

ah just youtube him, brilliant stuff.

Rothko

George Carlin

Davey Devil

Last gig I went to was Ross Noble. Very funny.