I saw Jimmy Carr and Friends Who Kill and it was the cringiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. In any case the fact you couldn't even muster up a top 5 when America has dozens of standups who qualify shows British comedy sucks.
>lenny bruce
influential but comedy hasn't aged well and borderlines on being unlistenable nowadays. >george carlin
amazing talent with many great specials but started to fall off and got real political in the final decades >stanhope
Many great specials and probably one of the most underrated >Chappelle
was great once upon a time but hasn't done anything good in over 15 years. >woody
only put out one album and it's still amazing to this day and influenced a ton of people but he needed to do more in comedy >Dice
was probably the biggest comedian of his era but his comedy is not for everybody. Took me awhile to actually get into him >Norm
great comedian. good stand up specials. Feel like he shined more on talk shows or seeing him live randomly somewhere >Pryor
was great in the 70's, fell off in the 80's. >Rickles
funny guy but did the same exact act on stage for like 60 years. >patrice
put out one great stand up special and was incredible on radio but his half hour specials were pretty mediocre and we never really got to see him really shine outside of his hour special >Kinison
loud unfunny hack. Even hardcore Kinison fans admit everything he did after his original breakthrough comedy special was complete shit. >George Burns
pretty old school vaudeville guy with a decent act but most people nowadays wouldn't resonate >Attell
probably the purest comedian on the list and only put out great albums his entire career with bawds for the Memories arguably being the greatest comedy album of all time >Klein
pretty funny but humor is a little too israeli for my liking. >Gottfried
his old stand-up is kind of dumb wacky 80's hack comedy but as he got older he became one of the funniest and most ballsy comedians ever. Really underappreciated by people who think he's just the loud israelite guy they hear in cartoons. >Burr
use to be funny but the whole ranting on stage act instead of writing a joke gets old after awhile and now he's gotten pretty soft
>Louis Ck
great comedian but put out too many comedy specials to frequently which hurts the overall comedic value of his work. He should have spent more time on his material instead of needing to put out new shit almost every year. >Wright
basically a better Mitch Hedberg and is probably the king of deadpan one liners >Murphy
put out two great specials and then stopped so it's really hard to say where he ranks among all time greats. >Rodney
one of the top contenders for best comedian for sure. Nothing but great joke writing for decades along with Attell. >Hicks
occasionally funny but hindered by constantly spewing his political drivel instead of making people laugh. >Joey Diaz
pretty funny but doesn't really belong on here. >Hedberg
funny guy with great one liners who died too young. >Norton
Great on radio and one of the quickest comedic minds ever. Stand-up is pretty okay but it doesn't really show in his stand-up specials. More consistent overall than a Patrice but never delivered a great comedy special and is funnier seeing him randomly at a club. >Collin
one of the most respected and brilliant minds but sometimes I wish he would tell more jokes instead of giving the audience a history lesson.
>Louis Ck
great comedian but put out too many comedy specials to frequently which hurts the overall comedic value of his work. He should have spent more time on his material instead of needing to put out new shit almost every year. >Wright
basically a better Mitch Hedberg and is probably the king of deadpan one liners >Murphy
put out two great specials and then stopped so it's really hard to say where he ranks among all time greats. >Rodney
one of the top contenders for best comedian for sure. Nothing but great joke writing for decades along with Attell. >Hicks
occasionally funny but hindered by constantly spewing his political drivel instead of making people laugh. >Joey Diaz
pretty funny but doesn't really belong on here. >Hedberg
funny guy with great one liners who died too young. >Norton
Great on radio and one of the quickest comedic minds ever. Stand-up is pretty okay but it doesn't really show in his stand-up specials. More consistent overall than a Patrice but never delivered a great comedy special and is funnier seeing him randomly at a club. >Collin
one of the most respected and brilliant minds but sometimes I wish he would tell more jokes instead of giving the audience a history lesson.
Decent takes. Are you a standup comedian yourself?
no that shit is gay and moronic and also a big risk. Most comedians are usually broke and unknown for a decade before they develop any talent and success.
Patrice had the most incredible shit to say just casually. He's up there because of the vibe and energy you could get as a man from listening and interpretting his advice about women and Hollywood in your own life etc.
Doug Stanhope is still incredibly strong in his own manner and has jokes which are straight kidney punches in that you have no idea how he brings it together.
Bill burr and Jimmy norton are the same to me because they both provide hilarious anger rants which you can watch like gorillas fighting in an enclosure there is something really primal about their ranting.
Dave atell and Dave Chappelle both are strikingly funny and their punchlines almost make you think you should have known that like much more than any other delivery or comedy theme. When you hear what they say it's more hilarious because they both hit popular subjects with a real crispy relevance in their lines.
eddie murphy was the first stand up I ever watched the whole hour of and he is just a incredible performer in an of himself even outside of his material (movies).
Bill Hicks / Colin quinn say really poignant stuff and you feel they weren't given due credit and are really sharp when they want to be.
Norm is the master of being funny without saying anything so long as you put him in the moment with other people. I don't find his newer stand up to be that good. the san francisco special he did where he goes into the lady who like cheese sandwhiches was great though.
Louis CK his strength is being on screen but not in the performer way like eddie or other comics it's ironic that he wrote for conan because i think after louis era of comedy nobody watches those talk shows for the comedians set more their personality on the couch. It's like he spelled the end of the monologist goal of getting the 5 minutes on the tonight show. I haven't seen anyone on those shows who is worth watching their hour of since louis.
Chappelle is definitely undisputable GOAT. Easily the best comedy sketch show ever made and fantastic stand-ups (even if they get admittedly preachy at times).
Then it's probably Gottfried who is just a fantastic comedian and character comedian. Arguably the only one who can deliver a joke as his persona and then immediately after as himself and still get more laughs.
3rd is a revolving toss-up between Carlin, Pryor, Murphy, and Norm.
>Chappelle is definitely undisputable GOAT
Except it's not undisputable and can easily be debated. >Easily the best comedy sketch show ever made
Arguably true and is an opinion I share but that has nothing to do with stand-up comedy and half of the show was written by Neal Brennan as well as a lot of joke writers so you can't give Chappelle sole credit for it. >and fantastic stand-ups (even if they get admittedly preachy at times).
He has two great stand-up specials and like 5 mediocre-shitty ones
Chappelle Show is great because you remember all the good sketches and not the 5 million cliche hack racial sketches. Key and Peele and Whitest Kids You Know are the only two sketch shows in which almost every sketch is great.
I wouldn't even put him in the top 15 realistically speaking. How can someone be the best when there's very little of his work out there. Most people know him more for radio than they do for traditional joke comedy.
give it another decade and I will bet Mark Normand could be added to the list. I'd include Shane as well but sadly his Netflix special was pretty disappointing and lazy. There's time to change my mind though if he works harder.
>American stand up?
HAHAHHAHAHA
>American stand up?
as opposed to what? literal who shit no one listens to?
men funny walking around on a stage to benny hill of course
>more like american sit down
That's like asking which piece of dog shit is the best, I don't want to look at enough pictures of dog shit to see which one I like the best
how long have you been doing comedy?
Rodney of course
Lee Evans
Stewart Lee
Jimmy Carr
Simple as.
Jimmy Carr has really been embarassing himself lately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THpYijtJKVI
>hr long shit podcast with some douche no ones heard about
> no timestamp
Kys
I saw Jimmy Carr and Friends Who Kill and it was the cringiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. In any case the fact you couldn't even muster up a top 5 when America has dozens of standups who qualify shows British comedy sucks.
Based stew enjoyer
Got tickets to see him in Feb for the 6th time
Chappelle if we are just talking pure stand up.
While I'm here, I just want to say how much I fricking hate Kinison.
I'm a mitch guy myself
Mitch and Rodney in a death match. Everyone else is just edgelords.
I know who it's NOT
It's NOT Bobcat Goldwaith
Unfunniest man on planet Earth
Eddie Murphy just for Delirious and Raw. I like a lot of Mitch Hedbergs stuff too.
Patrice and jimmy were best on the radio for actual standup i say stanhope
they are all killers who absolutely murder
>lenny bruce
influential but comedy hasn't aged well and borderlines on being unlistenable nowadays.
>george carlin
amazing talent with many great specials but started to fall off and got real political in the final decades
>stanhope
Many great specials and probably one of the most underrated
>Chappelle
was great once upon a time but hasn't done anything good in over 15 years.
>woody
only put out one album and it's still amazing to this day and influenced a ton of people but he needed to do more in comedy
>Dice
was probably the biggest comedian of his era but his comedy is not for everybody. Took me awhile to actually get into him
>Norm
great comedian. good stand up specials. Feel like he shined more on talk shows or seeing him live randomly somewhere
>Pryor
was great in the 70's, fell off in the 80's.
>Rickles
funny guy but did the same exact act on stage for like 60 years.
>patrice
put out one great stand up special and was incredible on radio but his half hour specials were pretty mediocre and we never really got to see him really shine outside of his hour special
>Kinison
loud unfunny hack. Even hardcore Kinison fans admit everything he did after his original breakthrough comedy special was complete shit.
>George Burns
pretty old school vaudeville guy with a decent act but most people nowadays wouldn't resonate
>Attell
probably the purest comedian on the list and only put out great albums his entire career with bawds for the Memories arguably being the greatest comedy album of all time
>Klein
pretty funny but humor is a little too israeli for my liking.
>Gottfried
his old stand-up is kind of dumb wacky 80's hack comedy but as he got older he became one of the funniest and most ballsy comedians ever. Really underappreciated by people who think he's just the loud israelite guy they hear in cartoons.
>Burr
use to be funny but the whole ranting on stage act instead of writing a joke gets old after awhile and now he's gotten pretty soft
>Louis Ck
great comedian but put out too many comedy specials to frequently which hurts the overall comedic value of his work. He should have spent more time on his material instead of needing to put out new shit almost every year.
>Wright
basically a better Mitch Hedberg and is probably the king of deadpan one liners
>Murphy
put out two great specials and then stopped so it's really hard to say where he ranks among all time greats.
>Rodney
one of the top contenders for best comedian for sure. Nothing but great joke writing for decades along with Attell.
>Hicks
occasionally funny but hindered by constantly spewing his political drivel instead of making people laugh.
>Joey Diaz
pretty funny but doesn't really belong on here.
>Hedberg
funny guy with great one liners who died too young.
>Norton
Great on radio and one of the quickest comedic minds ever. Stand-up is pretty okay but it doesn't really show in his stand-up specials. More consistent overall than a Patrice but never delivered a great comedy special and is funnier seeing him randomly at a club.
>Collin
one of the most respected and brilliant minds but sometimes I wish he would tell more jokes instead of giving the audience a history lesson.
Decent takes. Are you a standup comedian yourself?
no that shit is gay and moronic and also a big risk. Most comedians are usually broke and unknown for a decade before they develop any talent and success.
Patrice had the most incredible shit to say just casually. He's up there because of the vibe and energy you could get as a man from listening and interpretting his advice about women and Hollywood in your own life etc.
Doug Stanhope is still incredibly strong in his own manner and has jokes which are straight kidney punches in that you have no idea how he brings it together.
Bill burr and Jimmy norton are the same to me because they both provide hilarious anger rants which you can watch like gorillas fighting in an enclosure there is something really primal about their ranting.
Dave atell and Dave Chappelle both are strikingly funny and their punchlines almost make you think you should have known that like much more than any other delivery or comedy theme. When you hear what they say it's more hilarious because they both hit popular subjects with a real crispy relevance in their lines.
eddie murphy was the first stand up I ever watched the whole hour of and he is just a incredible performer in an of himself even outside of his material (movies).
Bill Hicks / Colin quinn say really poignant stuff and you feel they weren't given due credit and are really sharp when they want to be.
Norm is the master of being funny without saying anything so long as you put him in the moment with other people. I don't find his newer stand up to be that good. the san francisco special he did where he goes into the lady who like cheese sandwhiches was great though.
Louis CK his strength is being on screen but not in the performer way like eddie or other comics it's ironic that he wrote for conan because i think after louis era of comedy nobody watches those talk shows for the comedians set more their personality on the couch. It's like he spelled the end of the monologist goal of getting the 5 minutes on the tonight show. I haven't seen anyone on those shows who is worth watching their hour of since louis.
Kinison and Dice are both characters.
Patrice
>I only watch O&A clips on youtube
otherwise you wouldn't say him
Chappelle is definitely undisputable GOAT. Easily the best comedy sketch show ever made and fantastic stand-ups (even if they get admittedly preachy at times).
Then it's probably Gottfried who is just a fantastic comedian and character comedian. Arguably the only one who can deliver a joke as his persona and then immediately after as himself and still get more laughs.
3rd is a revolving toss-up between Carlin, Pryor, Murphy, and Norm.
>Chappelle is definitely undisputable GOAT
Except it's not undisputable and can easily be debated.
>Easily the best comedy sketch show ever made
Arguably true and is an opinion I share but that has nothing to do with stand-up comedy and half of the show was written by Neal Brennan as well as a lot of joke writers so you can't give Chappelle sole credit for it.
>and fantastic stand-ups (even if they get admittedly preachy at times).
He has two great stand-up specials and like 5 mediocre-shitty ones
Chappelle Show is great because you remember all the good sketches and not the 5 million cliche hack racial sketches. Key and Peele and Whitest Kids You Know are the only two sketch shows in which almost every sketch is great.
Patrice. Best of the best
I wouldn't even put him in the top 15 realistically speaking. How can someone be the best when there's very little of his work out there. Most people know him more for radio than they do for traditional joke comedy.
give it another decade and I will bet Mark Normand could be added to the list. I'd include Shane as well but sadly his Netflix special was pretty disappointing and lazy. There's time to change my mind though if he works harder.
who has actually made me LAUGH the most - while i'm sober - is louis ck.
Probably laughed hardest at Pablo's stuff
Out of all those hacks it would have to be a top 3 of Kinnison Pryor and Bruce.
Jerry Seinfeld.
Redd Foxx should definitely be in the running. He is the Humphrey Bogart of comedy because of how much stuff he did that's timeless.
OP here. You're absolutely right and I'm ashamed for forgetting him.
How many of them are israeli?
9 of them
Where's Jerry Seinfeld?
Not funny. Just a israelite who makes obvious observations that wont do anything but give you a slight chuckle at best.
He was still hugely influential though
To who?