Top 5

[Softball Bat]

Post your top 5 stand-up comedians of all-time.

[Screw_Michigan]

Chris Rock
George Carlin
Robert Schimmel (saw him and met him)
Dave Attell
(old) Dave Chappelle

[Softball Bat]

HMs to...

Yeah, it is extremely difficult to list only 5.

Some very tough cuts must be made.

[Screw_Michigan]

Schimmel wouldn't probably be my favorite now, but I loved him and his blue humor in my 20s. He also recorded one of his HBO specials in Kalamazoo, why, I have no idea. But that was great. I read his book, Cancer on $5 per day, about how, guess what, beat cancer. It's really inspirational. Dude had a pretty interesting life.

I met Schimmel in 2008 in Kzoo at a book signing. I was kind of depressed at the time. I was living in South Bend and just got dumped and was feeling not very upbeat about my future. I went to his book signing and the place was absolutely packed with cancer survivors who were spilling their guts to Schimmel about their REAL problems and that woke me up pretty quick. Schimmel stuck around to talk to EVERYONE who wanted to talk to him. What a guy.

[L45B]

1. Rodney (respect)
2. Pryor
3. Carlin
4. Norm
5. Chapelle
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6. Dice
7. Seinfeld

[Kierland]

That have made me laugh the hardest.

In no specific order
Ron White
Doug Stanhope
Joe Rogan
Bill Burr
John Pinette


HMs to
Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, George Carlin, Anthony Jeselnik, Richard Jeni, Daniel Tosh, Jim Jefferies, Dave Chapelle, Dice, Roseanne Barr, Patrice O'Neil, Robin Williams, Dave Atell, Jim. Norton, Howie Mandell

Mostly right wing trash. The others would laugh at you if they read your shit takes.

[Wolfman]

Old school of course, no profanity,etc.:
Bill Cosby
Bob Newhart
George Carlin
Jackie Vernon
Johnny Carson

[Diego in Seattle]

Johnny Carson

2rd

[Softball Bat]

Old school of course, no profanity,etc.:
Bill Cosby
Bob Newhart
George Carlin
Jackie Vernon
Johnny Carson

There is a lot to be said for a stand-up who can kill it without using profanity.



1. Robin Williams - Simply electric. Wind him up and watch him go.
2. George Carlin - A comic genius.
3. Bill Hicks - Brutal, smart, creative.
4. Don Rickles - Master of improvisation, master of insult.
5. Jay Leno - Not good as Tonight Show host, but great as a stand-up.



I could easily rattle off a dozen more who just missed the cut.

[L45B]

Don Rickles - Master of improvisation, master of insult.

Rack Mr Warmth, wish he were still with us.

[Softball Bat]

Chris Rock

Bill Burr

Norm, Seinfeld

Richard Pryor

Johnny Carson

All made my HM list.

[Softball Bat]

3. Bill Hicks - Brutal, smart, creative.

5. Jay Leno - Not good as Tonight Show host, but great as a stand-up.

Bill Hicks torches Jay Leno...

[L45B]

I’d have to put an asterisk next to Rodney, that when he would go on the Tonight Show it was just another level of brilliance.

He’d do his standup routine, completely kill it, then go sit in the chair next to Johnny and continue his routine. Johnny was a great straight-man, played the part beautifully (how’s your health these days?).

Those dynamics were once in a millennium.

[BSmack]

1. George Carlin
2. Richard Pryor
3. Bill Burr
4. Bill Hicks
5. Price of shit rapist Bill Cosby (Appreciate the talent, hate the rapist)


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[Kierland]

Finally the right answer. If you don’t have Carlin first you are not paying attention.
And still no Lenny Brice, shame on every last one of you.

Oh hey and fuck all you 1-6 traytors, you might thinks it’s funny but it’s not.

[Softball Bat]

And still no Lenny Brice, shame on every last one of you.

He was a little before my time.

[smackaholic]

Richard Pryor
Dave Chapelle
Eddie Murphy
Doug Stanhope
Norm Macdonald


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lol

The Brice is wrong, bitch!

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[Kierland]

Finally the right answer. If you don’t have Carlin first you are not paying attention.
And still no Lenny Brice, shame on every last one of you.

Oh hey and fuck all you 1-6 traytors, you might thinks it’s funny but it’s not.

Yeah. No Lenny Brice.

Do you even read what you post, fucking idiot?

You really are a sniveling little bitch, why don’t you make it a dig and wear it for a decade like BrokenPsyche?

[Kierland]

Proving once again you fucks know nothing about comedy.
But I’m sure Dims loves the blowjob.

Brody Steven's

Hilarious.

Sin,
Fatmelt

[L45B]

Proving once again you fucks know nothing about comedy.

[Kierland]

Whoosh! Right over your stupid head.

[Kierland]

Like I said, dumb as dirt, even Brody Steven’s thinks so.

[L45B]

^Heres a 5th one to add to your list, a favorite of ours too:

Lenny Brice

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Lenny Brice