Who is your favourite comedian?

[Boob Johnson]

Ok ill go first :whistle:


"Eddie Izzard" by a country mile, not a single person is even close to the level this guy is on IMHO. John Cleese has even said he is the funniest man in Britain, quite a compliment I would say.

Check out "Dressed to Kill" and or "Glorious".

utube has plenty of clips as well as the full show of the above I mentioned (in parts of course).


2nd would be "Rich Hall", an American comedian. Here's a clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1E7QLWy-w&feature=related) or two (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2qt0sATz8&feature=related)



Here's a lil clip of Eddie from "Dressed to Kill"
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[crazefox]

MIKE KING is the man

[crazefox]

and eddie murphy

[yod]

mike king is a fookin amateur hack

eddie's alright

billy connolly, bill hicks, bill bailey, george carlin,

[sosman]

Jamie fox is pretty hardcase too

[Gubb]

Dylan Moran is absolutely amazing.

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Peter Cook (RIP). And Dudley, of course :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btS7-UoK2Oo

[crazefox]

mike king is a fookin amateur hack

eddie's alright

billy connolly, bill hicks, bill bailey, george carlin,

Yeah right:gob::gob:

[Boob Johnson]

billy connolly, bill hicks, bill bailey, george carlin,
Legends for sure :niceone:


"The seven words you can't say on TV" is classic comedy as is the entire album "Class Clown" :clap:

[rachprice]

I like eddie izzard too british humour is sweet, and eddie murphy (old school shit - delerious and raw) and chapelle is pretty sweet too.

[kiwifruit]

that guy & Rhys Darby

[smokeyging]

We've just got to have Billy T., shit he had a wide range of talents that guy.

[Cajun]

Dennis Leary, Andrew Dice Clay

rude & crude

[Trudes]

Julian Clary

[homer]

rodney rude ....

[Nagash]

Ed Byrne, Dylan Moran, Bill Hicks for sure, John Cleese, bloody heaps...

All with their own attractions and unattractions. Too hard to pick one.

[McJim]

For stand up - Billy Connolly...but I suppose that's coz I'm fae Glesga. Saw a young fella in Auckland though Danny Bhoy. He was quite good too.
Bill Bailey "Part Troll" is a very worthwile watch. Dylan Moran had his moments but didn't quite have me pissing masel'

I used to like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor too.

Stand up comedy is one of the single hardest things in the world to do well and I take my hat off to anyone that tries it....even those that die horribly on stage.

[Trudes]

I've always loved Billy Connolly's style of starting on a topic, going way off topic and then ending up back at the original topic, very clever. And his honesty is hilarious!! I love his "arse-hole pants"!!

[Boob Johnson]

None of you buggers have watched the clips I put up have you :girlfight:

:weep:

[Oakie]

Billy Connolly.

[Mikkel]

Denis Leary holds a special pleace in my heart... :yes:

[Robbo]

Billy Connelly and Robin Williams doing stand up, especially the clip about the Scotish inventing the game of golf. It's on youtube.

[DingoZ]

This fecker s not bad

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Dara O'Briain



I laughed my feckin arse off at this guy..


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[Lias]

Billy Conolly, Billy T, Kevin Bloody Wilson for the "big ones"

If you do a youtube search for "Russell Peters" you'll find some hilarious clips by this canadian based indian guy. I particularly love the "White people, please beat your children" skit.

I've also recently discovered a guy called Pablo Franciso who's pretty damn funny.

On the local front, Michele A'Court, Jeremy Corbett, Ewen Gilmour, Raybon Kan, Oscar Kightley / Naked Samoans, Laughing Samoans, and plenty of others.

[nodrog]

George Bush, some of his stand up is farkin Hilarous!

[Swoop]

Ben Elton.
The Dover.

[Str8 Jacket]

Dave Chapelle!! :yeah:

Tourettes guy!! :innocent:

[Hitcher]

At the moment I'm hugely enjoying the collected works of Bird and Fortune on Ewechube. Funnier than a funny thing being tickled to death.

[Boob Johnson]

Sweet! Some names I hadn't heard of to check out, cheers :niceone:

[HornetBoy]

:gob: No-one has said Liegh Hart as in Moon Tv ????

That guy is bloody hilarious :2thumbsup,is a combination of other actors too ,but he creates the skits.

Technically not standup but i had to say it as alot of the time is better than any standup ive seen.

Not everyones taste but ive got a weird/dirty sense of humour apparently :rolleyes:

[BIGBOSSMAN]

How about these two...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZK_w1bUpYA

[Hitcher]

These two are funny as well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAt311OlM7U

[Hitcher]

But wait, there's more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6h8i8wrajA&feature=related

[Hitcher]

And the Army doesn't get off unscathed either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrzovxAsGLE&feature=related

[Hitcher]

And, you'll pleased to know, George Bush is a genius!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptzml1qQvZE&feature=related

[peasea]

Schollum and Rickards? They're pretty funny.

[el_scor_cho]

dredge
this is an Eddie Izzard skit which is really well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muaAZE0M3LU

and saw this fella on just for laughs the other day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj8FDjORKpk
much better on just for laughs, cant find a decent vid of him

[Fatt Max]

Eddie Izzard and Tommy Cooper for me

[FlangMasterJ]

Ricky Gervais.

Will Ferrell's 'You're Welcome America' is really good.

[MaxB]

Bill Hicks doing what he did best.

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[fire eyes]

Billy Connelly gets my vote for fav .. I would actually pay to see him.

So many other though .. Billy T James, Eddie Murphy (esp in Delerious), Richard Prior, Those fellas off the Young Ones, The Two Ronnies, Gish, Laughing Samoans etc etc ....

[Mekk]

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[Nagash]

Billy Connelly gets my vote for fav .. I would actually pay to see him.


And it'd be well worth your money.. saw him in Auckland a few months ago. He's truely an amazing comedian.

A wee list of comedians that i've gathered that are well worth checking out atleast on youtube, most have been mentioned already.

Dylan Moran, Bill Hicks, Bill Bailey, Marcus Brigstow, Billy Connolly, Ed Byrne, Stephen Lynch (Muscial comedy), Brendon Burns, and many.. many others..

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[Owl]

mike king is a fookin amateur hack

His recorded phone call to Jeremy Wells was rather funny.:laugh:

Anyway, I pick Billy Connelly, Alexei Sayle and Jasper Carrott.

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[Hans]

Keith Locke

[Mully]

Ricky Gervais
Dylan Moran (Stand-up)
Tim Minchin (Australian guy - a lot of his stuff is songs)

[ratusratus]

he is one funny guy

[marioc]

Billy T and George Smilovici,Rodney Rude
Also like that Chopper Reid fool or whoever he is

[wysper]

Like alot of others, Billy Conolley, Billy T, Bill Bailey - must be something in the name.

I was a fan of Ed Byrne, but he always seems to be making the same jokes. So I kind of got over that.

The Twelfth Man cracks me up.
Fred Dagg
Sinbad was a pretty good stand up without the filth.

TV comedians are another breed... for me there are few that top Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese.
Americans seem to fall well behind there.

Then there are the likes of Clive James who can be incredibly funny.

God - you can really go on about this one aye. The list seems to be pretty much exclusively male. Anyone have any top female comics? I reckon Dawn French is pretty funny.

[Murray]

Les dawson from the old Jokers Wild show, quite like Colin Montgomery

BUT THIS HAS TO BE THE FUNNIEST SKETCH EVER, EVER, EVER DONE

WATCH IT

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[firefighter]

Jimeoin (not a typo correct spelling)

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[SARGE]

George Carlin FTW


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[ckai]

Jimeoin (not a typo correct spelling)

Oh yeah...bling sent. He is the Shissle Stick. This is the dude I was trying to remember the name of. Eddie is brilliant but this guy would possibly be better. Maybe. Kinda. Possibly.

10 mins talking about eyebrows - my eyes starting stinging I was laughing so much. It's the simple things in life.

[vifferman]

Ricky Gervais

:shit:
Are you fkn nutz?!? He's the least funny 'comedian' in the world, next to Jerry Seinfeld.

I wouldn't like to pick just one - there are so many that have really had their moments (good and bad). The last two I watched were Dylan Moran when he was last in D'Auckland (he was SO clever, and so much better than the DVD I'd watched not long before the show), and a DVD of a live Robin Williams performance. He was so manic, and so funny. You'd think he was on meth, he's that hyped up. At the end of the show, he was soaking wet, and so was the stage, courtesy of the bits about cats 'owning' things by pissing on them ("That's mine! And that! I Like that too!"), and another one about taking viagra.

If you want a really good time, go along to The Classic on Queen St when there's some decent comedians there. We went twice with my wife's workmates, once as their end of year 'do'. They'd booked a table right at the front of the room, next to the stage, so of course everyone got picked on (except me - maybe I looked too scary?) The next time, we went to the small stage/bar upstairs, with just one comedienne, and every time we bought a round of shots, bought one extra for her too, so she wouldn't hassle us so much. Didn't quite work, but everyone including her had a good time.

[Boob Johnson]

dredge
this is an Eddie Izzard skit which is really well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muaAZE0M3LU
yeah that is a classic skit. I saw him live in 2000 for the Circle tour where this skit was saved till the end, bloody magic, just not sure what the lego thing is all about? Seems to be heaps of Eddie skits with lego :scratch:


ps: nice dredge

[retro asian]

At the moment DANE COOK, even though a lot of people hate him.

I think he's bringing something a bit new to the scene...

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Plus he doesn't make fun of Asians like that Russell Peters dude...

[Nagash]

At the moment DANE COOK, even though a lot of people hate him.

I think he's bringing something a bit new to the scene...

Plus he doesn't make fun of Asians like that Russell Peters dude...


But... but... he's so crap...

He makes comedy but acting like an absolute jumped up fuck wit... his comedy isn't intelligent in the slightest.

And it's nothing new.. Kyle Cease beat him to it... he's crap too.

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Sorry... just really don't like that guy haha. You're welcome to your opinion.

[PrincessBandit]

Julian Cleary, Kenny Everett, Steve Carrell.

[Jonno.]

Paul Ego, Ed Burne, Wayne Brady :wari:.

[slofox]

George Carlin FTW




This guy is tops in my book.

He's also dead fucking right on the button...

[Dirty_Harri]

Ricky Gervais by a mile for me :laugh:

[retro asian]

He makes comedy but acting like an absolute jumped up fuck wit...


Yeah, he's an idiot... I guess that's what makes it funny to me.


... sometimes I like a dancing plethora of cheese in my mouth, and then other times I am into a more solo cheese adventure, just a single one on one, me and one cheese ...


Has anyone heard the new Chris Rock Album? That's really good, especially the part about when its ok for a white guy to use the N word...

[peasea]

Funniest man alive?
Howard Broad.

[SixPackBack]

Funniest man alive?
Howard Broad.

Fuck he puts on a great show innit!

[puddy]

1. Carver.
2. Sidewinder.
3. Skiddy.
4. Raj.

[b1unt3d]

In no specific order, these are the comedians I have seen in the past year:

Joe Rogan
Tracy Morgan
Bill Maher
Ari Shaffir
Jason Rouse