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Which stand-up comedian is the best?
http://www.channel4.com/entertainmen...dups/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 
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04-12-2006, 18:37
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04-12-2006, 18:40
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Bill Hicks or Jack Dee. purely based on laughs, Jack Dee
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04-12-2006, 18:47
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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.
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04-12-2006, 18:50
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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.
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04-12-2006, 18:51
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Simple & Red
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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 |
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04-12-2006, 19:00
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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.
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04-12-2006, 19:30
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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.
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04-12-2006, 19:34
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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.
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04-12-2006, 19:34
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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.  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
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