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Old 01-25-2007, 01:32 AM     Post subject: Favorite Stand-Up Comic! #1 (permalink)  
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Whos your favorite stand-up comics?
I always thought Denis Leary would be my favorite, But I watched Dave Chappelle's Killing Them Softly and shit myself!

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Old 01-25-2007, 01:48 AM #2 (permalink)  
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 Chris Rock and (the late) Mitch Hedberg

Rock's delivery is great and Hedberg is just pure genius.
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 I'm Canadian so I vote for Russell Peters.



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 If you're talking listening to the CD: Dave Attell, Chris Rock, Dane Cook, Frank Caliendo, George Lopez, Daniel Tosh are all classic.

I'm meh on David Cross and George Carlin, both solid just not quite me.

Carlos Mencia's DVD is super cluth. That Dave Chapelle you mentioned is superb.

I've been DVRing Comedy Central Presents so if I really thought about it I could probably make a top 50 list (Megan Mooney and Jimmy Carr are the best I've seen recently).

{EDIT: Dave Attell is easily #1. Anyone who picks another comedian hasn't listened to the CD.}
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Mitch Hedberg (RIP you funny bastard)
Ron White
Dave Chappelle
Chris Rock
George Carlin


Hedberg is definitely my favorite and the other four are in no particular order.


 
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Bigger&Blacker is non stop hilarious. End of story if you haven't seen it rent that shit now.
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 Dane Cook and Mitch Hedburg.

Carlos Mencia is the worst comic I've ever seen. It's the same damn joke.
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1. Bill Hicks
2. David Cross
3. Chris Rock

Which Dave Attell CD you talkin bout swiggidy? I used to enjoy me some Insomniac...
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Which Dave Attell CD you talkin bout swiggidy? I used to enjoy me some Insomniac...
"Skanks for the memories"

I guess he has a newer one, I haven't heard it

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Carlos Mencia is the worst comic I've ever seen. It's the same damn joke.
Fuck his skit comedy on Comedy Central. It's garbage. His stand-up is great.
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Which Dave Attell CD you talkin bout swiggidy? I used to enjoy me some Insomniac...
"Skanks for the memories"

I guess he has a newer one, I haven't heard it

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Carlos Mencia is the worst comic I've ever seen. It's the same damn joke.
Fuck his skit comedy on Comedy Central. It's garbage. His stand-up is great.
Dave Attell is funny.

" People always talk about the hundreds of people who die a day due to drunk drivers. Lets talk about the millions who dont"- Dave Attell
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Old 01-25-2007, 05:44 AM #14 (permalink)  
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it was mitch.

mencia steals alot of jokes. joe rogan of all people called him out on it.
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whew no one has said Jeff Foxworthy thank god.

You may be a red-neck if you use the same punchline over and over.
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Old 01-25-2007, 06:10 AM #16 (permalink)  
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 Carlos Mencia - insert joke making fun of mexicans so he can then make fun of white people followed by something randomly ridiculous with a punchline of WHAT WERE U THINKING? and other loud shit. He's terrible.
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Old 01-25-2007, 06:50 AM #17 (permalink)  
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 how has no one mentioned eddie murphy and richard pryor? 2 of the funniest stand up comedians of all time IMO.

another one no one has mentioned is jim gaffigan

david cross is also fucking hilarious
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Old 01-25-2007, 03:38 PM     Post subject: Re: Favorite Stand-Up Comic! #19 (permalink)  
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Bill Hicks is my all-time favorite comic. Dave Chappelle and Mitch Hedberg are way up there too. George Carlin and Chris Rock are good. I saw some pretty hilarious stuff by Demetri Martin recently. Sarah Silverman is hit or miss, but when she hits, it's pretty damn funny.

From what I've seen of the comedy central show, Carlos Mencia is just repetitive and stupid. I've never seen his stand-up but I can't imagine it being much better.

Also, I really don't understand the fuss over Dane Cook. His jokes are generally predictable, and those that aren't are generally only a little funny.
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Old 01-25-2007, 05:59 PM #20 (permalink)  
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Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran...

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Dane Cook and Mitch Hedburg.

Carlos Mencia is the worst comic I've ever seen. It's the same damn joke.
QFT...agreed with all...but I'd put Hedburg ahead of Cook
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Old 01-25-2007, 08:44 PM #23 (permalink)  
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Dave Chapelle kicks ass.
I also like www.frankcaliendo.com
you should watch his free videos on the site, He does a John madden impresion, George Bush, and a whole bunch of other peeps too.
He does them better than the people them self.
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 1) Mitch
2) Demetri Martin

No one else is half as good, Sarah Silverman and Richard Pryor are excellent but the above are beyond genius.
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 Oh wait we all forgot Jerry Seinfeld...dont underrate him
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1) Tie: Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks
3) Mitch Hedbeg
8) Tie: Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Andy Kaufman
10) Tie: Patton Oswalt, Chris Rock
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 Demetri Martin was funny on the daily show if it's the guy I'm thinking of. Haven't seen his standup..TO YOUTUBE!
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I wish Mitch didn't die.

I also wish I would have gone to see him when he came to Kansas City. My (now) wife and I had just moved in together and money was tight, so we couldn't justify spending $45 apiece on a comedy show at the time. "We'd see him when he came back to Kansas City."

Dude dies the very next month.

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I wish Mitch didn't die.

I also wish I would have gone to see him when he came to Kansas City. My (now) wife and I had just moved in together and money was tight, so we couldn't justify spending $45 apiece on a comedy show at the time. "We'd see him when he came back to Kansas City."

Dude dies the very next month.

RIP Mitch.
gg for actually liking him before he died, unlike like 99% of his other fans
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I wish Mitch didn't die.

I also wish I would have gone to see him when he came to Kansas City. My (now) wife and I had just moved in together and money was tight, so we couldn't justify spending $45 apiece on a comedy show at the time. "We'd see him when he came back to Kansas City."

Dude dies the very next month.

RIP Mitch.
gg for actually liking him before he died, unlike like 99% of his other fans
Yeah, my (now) wife and all of her roommates got turned onto him while in college. She had a few bootleg CDs of his. She made copies of those CDs and I'd listen to them on the way to visit her while we were still in college. Made time fucking FLY.


 
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 I saw John Stewart, he's great @ stand-up
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 Mitch's jokes aren't funny his delivery is phenomenol though!
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 Yeah, had tickets in Richmond right around the time Mitch died. He was scheduled but didn't show up. No one at the show said as to why at the time. It was later revealed a couple days later that he wasn't there because of him dying. Shame I was literally a day late to see him live.
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I wish Mitch didn't die.

I also wish I would have gone to see him when he came to Kansas City. My (now) wife and I had just moved in together and money was tight, so we couldn't justify spending $45 apiece on a comedy show at the time. "We'd see him when he came back to Kansas City."

Dude dies the very next month.

RIP Mitch.
I got lucky enough to see him about 15 times. Almost every time he came to Dallas in the last 4 years of his life my wife and I saw him at least twice. He was great - the only comedian of his fame I've ever see take requests. There was nothing like seeing him get to the ned of the show and here people shout "Dufresne!" in the same way folks shout "Free Bird!" at a Skynyrd concert.
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Dennis Leary's "No cure for cancer" CD is an almost verbatum ripoff of Bill Hicks material. Leary is widely known in the industry as a hack. Carlos Mencia is a huge thief of all kinds of material. Mitch Hedberg is a Steven Wright clone. Period.

Dane Cook is one of the best stand up comedians I've ever seen. The reason? A good stand up comedian doesn't tell jokes as much as stories. He brings you on a funny journey. This is why Bill Cosby is legendary. Hedberg tells jokes. Therefore he is not a great comedian. If you hung out with him offstage, he would not be funny. Neither would Rodney Dangerfield. Dane cook and Bill Cosby would be. John Stewart would be hilarious to hang out with. So would Conan O Brien.

A good comedian is an improviser first, comedy writer second. Writing cookie cutter jokes is not respectable stage comedy. I would rank Chappelle higher if he didn't use the comedy crutch known as the race card far too often. He does improvise well, but it's almost always about race.

I will admit Mitch Hedberg is probably the best writer of jokes stand up has ever seen. Some of his jokes are absolutely genius.
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 yea, dane cook is probably the best comedian of the last ten years or so, not really that close.


An interesting topic: why do all female comedians suck ass?
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An interesting topic: why do all female comedians suck ass?
That's not true. It's just that most of them suck.

Because they talk about:
1) being fat
2) PMS
3) making babies
4) guys making them shave their hoo-ha
etc

All inherently unfunny topics. Or she's attractive and she got there because guys laughed at her jokes hoping they would get laid.
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Who, that guy whose real name is Ned Arnel Holness? Oh, and he's not mexican? Yeah, that guys a hack.
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An interesting topic: why do all female comedians suck ass?
That's not true. It's just that most of them suck.

Because they talk about:
1) being fat
2) PMS
3) making babies
4) guys making them shave their hoo-ha
etc

All inherently unfunny topics. Or she's attractive and she got there because guys laughed at her jokes hoping they would get laid.
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And it doesnt help that most female comedians are fat black women. Something not funny about them.

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in no order dane cook, chappelle, eddie murphy

edit: ive only seen jamie kennedy once for like an hour long thing he did on comedy central but that was extremely funny so he gets in there too
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Dennis Leary's "No cure for cancer" CD is an almost verbatum ripoff of Bill Hicks material. Leary is widely known in the industry as a hack. Carlos Mencia is a huge thief of all kinds of material. Mitch Hedberg is a Steven Wright clone. Period.

Dane Cook is one of the best stand up comedians I've ever seen. The reason? A good stand up comedian doesn't tell jokes as much as stories. He brings you on a funny journey. This is why Bill Cosby is legendary. Hedberg tells jokes. Therefore he is not a great comedian. If you hung out with him offstage, he would not be funny. Neither would Rodney Dangerfield. Dane cook and Bill Cosby would be. John Stewart would be hilarious to hang out with. So would Conan O Brien.

A good comedian is an improviser first, comedy writer second. Writing cookie cutter jokes is not respectable stage comedy. I would rank Chappelle higher if he didn't use the comedy crutch known as the race card far too often. He does improvise well, but it's almost always about race.

I will admit Mitch Hedberg is probably the best writer of jokes stand up has ever seen. Some of his jokes are absolutely genius.
Philosophically I agree, although I don't think you are right. A comedian is both things you mention. Some like one better than the other and vice versa.

I used to think Dane Cook was funny. Now I think he's a yawn-fest.
In terms of your definition, no one can beat Steve Martin. He NEVER told a joke and is funny as shit.
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 I like Dane cooks CDs, I can't stand watching him flop around on stage.

I like what Mitch Hedburg tried to do, but I can't stand his delivery. He sounded like a retarded kid who struggles to put sentences together.

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