Who's your favourite stand up comedian?

[VladimirIlyich]

I dont find many modern comedians laugh out loud funny and are very hit and miss.

Ive found Lee Mack,Kevin Bridges and Jimmy Carr to be quite funny at times.

[stringvest]

I like comedians with a self defecating sense of humour - just in it for shits and giggles.

[Tom R]

Still Tom Stade for me. 

off to see him in Liverpool again on 24th Oct. 

First comedian in years I've ever bothered going to see live.

[Bjornebye]

Billy Connolly and Kevin Bridges for me

 

Eddie Murphy , Richard Pryor and Frankie Boyle close behind

 

The big yin is ace. Saw him in southampton mayflower a few years back and cried throughout.

[Stouffer]

Suprised there aren't more shouts for Dave Allen.

[Robbo29]

Dave Allen, more of a sit down than a stand up, funny man though

[setreal]

Dangerfield

[VladimirIlyich]

Dangerfield

Only ever saw him in Caddyshack and he was the best character in the film.

Did he do stand up also?

[boots123]

If you google Les Dawson, an audience with that never was, there is a hologram of one of his shows and they have created an image that he seems to be live on stage,his wife who went to the theatre couldn't believe how real it seemed, makes 3D look like old technology, but most of all he had me sobbing with laughter, the guy was a comic genius.

[setreal]

He was a stand-up by trade, yeah. Look him up on Youtube as a guest on Carson, Leno or Letterman. Fucking hilarious. 

 

I bet you also know him as Mr Burns' son from that Simpsons episode with Mr Burns' son

 

 

That said, I don't really have a favorite stand-up comic. I enjoy a fair few, though.

 

EDIT: This was in response to Vlad

[boots123]

forgot to mention Les died 20yrs ago just a week before he was going to do an audience with, so they did it with the hologram and all the stars that had already been invited attended.

[VladimirIlyich]

He was a stand-up by trade, yeah. Look him up on Youtube as a guest on Carson, Leno or Letterman. Fucking hilarious.

 

I bet you also know him as Mr Burns' son from that Simpsons episode with Mr Burns' son

 

 

That said, I don't really have a favorite stand-up comic. I enjoy a fair few, though.

 

EDIT: This was in response to Vlad

Yeah,I remember him from the Simpsons episode too,he was good in that too.

Just wasnt aware of his body of work.

Wasnt he Jewish?

Yippee,I cant be an anti semite as i liked the old Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield.

[setreal]

Yeah,I remember him from the Simpsons episode too,he was good in that too.

Just wasnt aware of his body of work.

Wasnt he Jewish?

Yippee,I cant be an anti semite as i liked the old Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield.

 

What about Seinfeld, though?

[Dr Nowt]

Sadowitz for me.  Painfully funny, should only be seen in small doses and only can be; avoiding the dreaded saturation the vast majority of pretenders, imitators and shirt-tail clingers end up subjecting everyone to.

 

"How do you crucify a spastic?  On a swastika."

 

Stanhope and Lee are absolutely tremendous live as well, but Jerry will always take the prize. 

[cloggypop]

Sadowitz is boss.

[NoelM]

Early Woody Allen stand-up stuff is great, Billy Connolly in his earlier days also we saw Ardal O'Hanlon around 98 and he was brilliant.

[nando1000]

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

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Stewart Lee. Absolutely brilliant.

[Dr Nowt]

Stewart Lee. Absolutely brilliant.

 

His act is exceptional isn't it.  Layers upon layers.

 

I wince when I see the likes of Jack Whitehall and Micky Flanagan described as comedians I must say, let alone ones at the top of the heap.  Someone's fresh out of drama class teenage nephew who's desperate for attention, and the next door neighbour telling a mediocre story when he's pissed at your summer barbeque.

 

Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.

[Stu Monty]

After hearing him on the Comedian's comedian podcast I checked out Hannibal Buress and really dig his style.

 

[Tony Moanero]

Hardeep Singh Kohli.

[Tj hooker]

Suprised there aren't more shouts for Dave Allen.

Great shout Very funny fella was the Irishman

 

[dickie mint]

Bobby Chariot.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

His act is exceptional isn't it.  Layers upon layers.

 

I wince when I see the likes of Jack Whitehall and Micky Flanagan described as comedians I must say, let alone ones at the top of the heap.  Someone's fresh out of drama class teenage nephew who's desperate for attention, and the next door neighbour telling a mediocre story when he's pissed at your summer barbeque.

 

Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell.

 

I honestly think he's the greatest stand up I have ever seen (haven't seen him live, but would love to). Some of the greats come close for laughs, but there have been times when I have been completely taken aback by Stewart Lees shows. He can make my laugh until i'm nearly pissing myself with a superbly timed flick of his head/eyes. Quite brilliant satirical comedy. I've started reading his book which is pretty good so far. "How I escaped my certain fate."

[Boss]

Stewart Lee throws the conventions of comedy out the window he does things comedically that have virtually never been done before like talk about a subject that no-one has any clue about, talk for 20 minutes about it and have people engrossed throughout and then have them pissing themselves at the end about something they've never seen or have no knowledge of. Case in point his Scooby doo on zombie island sketch and then comparing it to 80's Thatcherite Britain and post war socialism.