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Topic: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore

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FearlessF

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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2022, 11:12:53 AM »
Everyone's sense of humor is different, and probably just showing my age, but Dave Chappelle & Jerry Seinfeld???

I had to look up Chappelle & never thought Jerry was very funny - never understood why the TV show was popular - never watched more than one or two episodes
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2022, 12:34:10 PM »
I always liked Jim Jeffries and Frank Boyle. Something about raunchy humor delivered with funny accents (Australian and Scottish, respectively) gets me in stitches. 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgPDX6ul9w
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2022, 12:37:18 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 27, 2022, 11:12:53 AM
never thought Jerry was very funny - never understood why the TV show was popular - never watched more than one or two episodes
Ed Zachery or his show either. Or Friends what a pathetic  charade.I Liked Home Improvement,Becker,Frazier,3rd Rock from the Sun,Two and a half Men.There were a few episodes with the Soup Nazi - all right then the double dipping episode at an after Funeral Reception about it though
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2022, 12:39:00 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 27, 2022, 11:12:53 AM
I had to look up Chappelle & never thought Jerry was very funny - never understood why the TV show was popular - never watched more than one or two episodes
I guy at work claimed that was a great TV show, so I watched 1-2 episodes and thought it was awful.  Over time, being bored, I started again on NF or whatever and started to "get it". I find it amusing at times, not really hilariously funny, but entertaining.

I saw Bob Hope live and almost didn't go, he was hilarious, I was laughing almost nonstop.  I saw Bill Cosby twice live before the Thing, and he was pretty funny.

Lewis Grizzard is more wistfully funny, but at times hilarious.
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2022, 12:42:15 PM »
Guy many have prolly never heard of Bobby Slayton - the pitbull of Comedy saw him twice live. Great Shows
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2022, 12:50:38 PM »
Seinfeld's stand up was never funny to me. But the show was hilarious- but that's largely because of Larry David's writing and Kramer and George Costanza characters and the actors who played them. Even on the show though, Jerry wasn't that funny. 

I don't really think of Robin Williams as a stand-up. More of an incredible performer. And by the way, as a stand-up he was notorious for stealing other peoples stuff.

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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2022, 01:07:29 PM »
Oh and Pryor and Carlin are the obvious 2.
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2022, 04:42:48 PM »
I personally love Hedberg, Jeffress, and Gaffigan, but I recognize they're not going to be on the Rushmore of comedians.  

I think Chappelle is 3rd for many under the age of 100 and then there's so much variety after that......
Acknowledging his genius, Robin Williams was just exhausting.
I feel like Eddie Murphy got by on one famous routine and Dangerfield was sort of a 1-trick pony (at least by the late 80s-early 90s).  

When comedians are asked about the best, they seem to always mention Bruce and Hicks.  I've never seen either.

I'd have Rock as my 4th.  
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2022, 05:32:46 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 27, 2022, 12:34:10 PM
I always liked Jim Jeffries and Frank Boyle. Something about raunchy humor delivered with funny accents (Australian and Scottish, respectively) gets me in stitches.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgPDX6ul9w
Check out Tommy Tiernan. Raunchy and Irish.

Quote from: MrNubbz on February 27, 2022, 12:42:15 PM
Guy many have prolly never heard of Bobby Slayton - the pitbull of Comedy saw him twice live. Great Shows
Funny, yes. Rushmore, no.

Quote from: Mdot21 on February 27, 2022, 12:50:38 PM
Seinfeld's stand up was never funny to me. But the show was hilarious- but that's largely because of Larry David's writing and Kramer and George Costanza characters and the actors who played them. Even on the show though, Jerry wasn't that funny.

I don't really think of Robin Williams as a stand-up. More of an incredible performer. And by the way, as a stand-up he was notorious for stealing other peoples stuff.
I'm the opposite. Love Seinfeld's stand up, no interest in the show.

And to an extent I agree on Robin Williams, and I put Steve Martin in the same category. An absolute force of nature on stage, but not a pure stand up.
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2022, 05:37:27 PM »
Will no one think of Gallagher
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2022, 05:47:55 PM »
I thought the beauty of the show Seinfeld was in large part that Jerry was the straight man surrounded by characters who had "drama" in spades.  He was the foil, the "normal person" in this menagerie.
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2022, 08:13:41 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on February 27, 2022, 05:32:46 PM
Funny, yes. Rushmore, no.
Because he wasn't mainstream but with the exception of Carlin was the best live act I've seen - friends agreed.Guy named Bobby Collins was decent also
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2022, 08:32:26 PM »
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Re: Your Stand-Up Comic Mt Rushmore
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2022, 07:34:34 AM »
When my kids were younger and living with me, I had a rule that we/they could not watch any TV show with a laugh track on it.  It was amazing how much that eliminated off the top.

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