View Full Version : Which stand-up comedian is the best?
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I'm so glad you can pick your top 10 - there is no way I could have narrowed it down to only 1 :shocked:
Dymetrie
04-12-2006, 18:37
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/C/comedy_standups/vote.html
I'm so glad you can pick your top 10 - there is no way I could have narrowed it down to only 1 :shocked:
Nor could I :embarassed:
Bill Hicks or Jack Dee. purely based on laughs, Jack Dee
I never really got on with Jack Dee's humour - some of it is ok, but I don't think I could sit there and watch a whole standup show of just him.
Bill Hicks was in my top 10 :) Mic isn't too keen on his humour but I love the bluntness of it. Read a couple of books on him too - very interesting stuff.
I think Bill Hicks was a genius but he didn't make the top 10 for me as there are people who make me laugh far more.
fair enough :)
personally, i hate comedians like Lee Evans, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, those guys, and i can't sit through their shows!
i can understand why people don't like Jack Dee though. he's very sarcastic. same with Bill Hicks...he was very close to the edge, didn't pull any punches. i respect him more for his backbone and political viewpoints than for his comedic talents
Billy, easy ;)
Bill Hicks I've never found funny. I wouldn't even brand him as a comedian. He stood on the stage and told the audience facts, and not in a funny way.
Jack Dee is funny, but I wouldn't put him in my top 10.
semi-pro waster
04-12-2006, 19:30
If I had to pick a top 3 I'd probably have Rich Hall, George Carlin and Bill Hicks with Billy Connolly as the outside pick but I've just voted and now I notice Phil Kay is in there and I didn't pick him, d'oh. There is quite an interesting spread in the choices, I'd like to believe that Peter Kay & Ricky Gervais won't be anywhere near the top because they have never seemed that funny to me but maybe their stand-up is better than their TV shows suggest.
Peter Kay's stand-up is good, but I wonder if you have to be northern or at least understand the colloqualisms to appreciate it.
With you 100% on Gervais. never seen him do a single funny thing.
Flibster
04-12-2006, 19:34
Had trouble getting it to 10 out of that list.
Did the usual of Hicks, Pryor, Williams and Carlin first though and built it up around that. :D
Was pleasently surprised to see Rob Newman in amongst that lot though. He's a very clever chap and his comedy is maybe a little too high brown for the general public - who just want knob gags and swearing.
I hope Hicks or someone like that wins, would hate it if one of the 'new' breed of comedians won who blatently AREN'T FUNNY! *Jimmy Carr - I'm looking at you, same with Peter Kay and the other knobbers like that...*
Simon/~Flibster
I really like Peter Kay and Ricky Gervais personally.
But I also don't particularly like Bill Hicks, he's interesting but not hugely funny imo.
Different strokes for different folk though. :)
Justsomebloke
04-12-2006, 20:14
Has anyone seen an Old video called RAW by Eddy Murphy.
That is the funniest stand up i have ever seen and only equalled by Richard Prior on stage.
Current faves are Peter kay and Jack Dee but comedy is hard and don't last.
Shame :(
Matblack
04-12-2006, 20:24
Love Hicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-AOot2FsOc
MB
I remember both Raw and Delerious. I also remember my dad walking in while I was watching it, hearing the language and giving me a right telling off. I was 17.
semi-pro waster
04-12-2006, 20:32
Peter Kay's stand-up is good, but I wonder if you have to be northern or at least understand the colloqualisms to appreciate it.
Maybe but a lot of my mates seem to think he is the best thing since garlic bread ;) and none are northern in the sense that you mean it. I don't think I've ever seen a full show of his as a stand-up so I'm prepared to believe that he is funny but Phoenix Nights did absolutely nothing to convince me that he could be anything more than mildly entertaining. I'll try and refrain from judging too harshly until I've actually watched some of his stand-up stuff though.
I had trouble selecting ten.
Blackstar
04-12-2006, 22:55
Bill Bailey is a funny man as is Ross Nobel
I had trouble selecting ten.
Same here. Had to stretch a bit one the last two.
Ricky Gervais as number 1 for me though. <3<3<3
I was about to boycott the vote because Stewart Lee wasn't in the list. Then I saw he was. He has to be in my top three at least.
Stan_Lite
04-12-2006, 23:52
Top three, easily:
Tommy Cooper, Billy Connolly and Frankie Howerd.
Definitely not on my list:
Gervais, Evans or Hill.
Stan :)
Izzard, Bailey, Moran, Hicks, Leary, Kinison, Chic Murray, Chris Rock, Victoria Wood and Robin Williams (in his cocaine days!).
Treefrog
05-12-2006, 08:21
No-one else voted for Emo Philips?
No-one else voted for Emo Philips?
No, but I did used to love him!
Haha I could never pick a top 10, I'm so easily pleased I laugh my ass off at pretty much everything!
Saw Jimmy Carr t'other night live and thought it was awesome!
:D
Matblack
05-12-2006, 10:45
Dylan Moran is probably my top pick, I also really like Shaun Hughes and Allan Davis both have a considered style tell a great story, Izzard is of course up there too but I don't think his recent stuff has been as good, I was gutted I saw Sexie live rather than one of the earlier shows.
MB
On a related Izzard note, metro man love for the person who can find me this (https://www.eddieizzard.com/thingie_things/tomtom/). Click the demo :D
"U-turn ahead... I'll stay here." :D
This may well have convinced me to buy the Tomtom 910 for Chrimbo, as I was on the fence.
I think we might have it. I'll give Leo a prod.
And after that, he'll give me the TomTom voice? :D
"U-turn ahead... I'll stay here." :D
Bear left, monkey right :D
Damn it'd make my driving dangerous hearing that sexy drawl giving me instructions.
AHAHAHAAA, I have it now, and I can see me laughing myself into some sort of crash :D
Imagine if Hugh Grant did one: 'Take the next left you dirty little bitch.'
Oh yes.
*crosses legs*
Wouldn't a Hugh Grant one be more like 'Oh... Um... right, yeah, classic... Umm, next left? maybe, if you don't mind...'
Matblack
05-12-2006, 19:12
If anyone else wants the Eddie Izzard one give me a shout
MB
I'd love it but I gotta get tomtom first. Soooo behind the times.
Mic always says who needs satnav when you've got Samnav :p
Wouldn't a Hugh Grant one be more like 'Oh... Um... right, yeah, classic... Umm, next left? maybe, if you don't mind...'
Not in my head it ain't!
Girls have no sense of direction, so everyone would :p
Mic always says who needs satnav when you've got Samnav :p
Samnav,like satnav but smutty?
Samnav,like satnav but smutty?
And more fun ;)
Treefrog
06-12-2006, 19:08
No, but I did used to love him!
If they ever do a film version of "The Silver Chair", he'll be perfect to play Puddleglum the Marshwiggle ;)
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