favourite comedians

ro09

I really like Lee Evans, He puts everything into his performances, its just amazing to watch.

grames_bond

lee evans is a sweaty mime artist on crack! but has some very good bits....unfortunatley you will be fighting a losing battle here, he is not liked around these parts!

Mr. Presentable

Lee Evans is Poo!
Frankie Boyle is my current fave!

NothingMan

Lee Evans just isn't funny. Hyper and loud does not equal funny. People should tell that to Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne too.

Quite liked the Jim Jeffries show on Comedy Central. So will give him more of a look in. Frankie Boyle is a legend though.

trashcan

Agree Lee Evans is muck. Frankie Boyle is great, Bill Bailey, Dara O'Brian too. Eddie Izzard has some great moments too. Check out his "Death Star Canteen" routine with the video done with the lego Star Wars figures on Youtube. Brilliant.

campo

cant stand Lee Evans just dont thin he is funny my current fav is Michael Mcintyre that man would me you laugh just by looking at him also watched Jimmy Carr last night on Channel 4 and he was very good and previous to that was not a big fan

furiousox

Dead: Bill Hicks
Alive: Jimmy Carr

(But Hicks was the best ever)

Boom_Bap

Mitch Hedberg and George Carlin where the 2 greatest stand up comedians

eth0_

At the moment: Jon Richardson, Stewart Lee, David O'Doherty, Robin Ince.

racso1975

Peter Kay, Tommy Tiernan's early stand up, billy connolly, tom stack and eddie murphy

Rebel021

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Mitch Hedberg and George Carlin where the 2 greatest stand up comedians

I wouldn't call them the 2 greatest but very very good.
I love Mitch's stuff even though most people I know who have seen his stuff just shrug their shoulders.

Rebel021

NothingMan wrote: »

Lee Evans just isn't funny. Hyper and loud does not equal funny. People should tell that to Tommy Tiernan and Jason Byrne too.

Quite liked the Jim Jeffries show on Comedy Central. So will give him more of a look in. Frankie Boyle is a legend though.

Jim Jeffries is absolute muck,
If I ever want to hear a drunk ramble on about his life story whilst not being funny I'll look him up.

Son Of A Vidic

Lee Evans is surely a Norman Wisdom impersonator.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Lenny Henry, Bill Bailey, Frankie Boyle, Lee Evans, Russell Howard, Michael McIntyre. They're my favourite British comedians.
My favourite Irish one's are Dara O'Briain, PJ Gallagher, Tommy Tiernan, Jason Byrne, a fella that I can't think of his name but he has a DVD coming out/out now, Neil Delamare.

I've a feeling I'm gonna be raped over some of the names I have in there.:o

keane2097

George Carlin ftw.

_Buck Rogers

Billy Connolly.

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elshambo

At the mo probably Simon Munnery

keane2097

_Buck Rogers wrote: »

Billy Connolly.

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/thread my hole

carlinftw

keane2097 wrote: »

George Carlin ftw.

I second that! (obviously)

Bill Hicks is a close second though. Those guys really weren't afraid to rock the boat.

krudler

George Carlin
Bill Hicks
Mitch Hedberg
(why are all the funny comedians dead and Dave McSavage is still walking around)

Of the living, Christopher Titus is way up there, his Love is Evol show is well worth a watch, some priceless stuff on there

Rented Mule

Sm Kinison and George Carlin are the two greatest comedians that I have ever seen.

grames_bond

krudler wrote: »

(why are all the funny comedians dead and Dave McSavage is still walking around)

Dave McSavage is the writer and star of the best comedy show to come out of rte in the last.....god knows how many years. Savage eye is brilliant!

mink_man

bill bailey and frankie boyle!

fillmore jive

mitch

"Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something."

krudler

grames_bond wrote: »

Dave McSavage is the writer and star of the best comedy show to come out of rte in the last.....god knows how many years. Savage eye is brilliant!

But he's a raging knob...

pappyodaniel

Brendan O'Carroll.

YbFocus

Billy Connolly and Dara O'Briain!!! Two best!!
Love Neil Delamere too though!!

mooman

Dylan Moran/Michael McIntyre

tech77

Rich Hall,
Jimmy Carr,
Mark Watson,
Stewart Lee,
Bill Bailey,
Steven Wright and
Frankie Boyle are pretty good.

Sean Lock as well.

foreman1916

dylan moran
frank boyle
dara obrien
andrew maxwell
sean lockhead
david odoherty
bill bailey
jimmy carr
noel fieldings
there are many more aswell just cant think of them.

therokerroar

Ricky Gervais is by far the funniest man alive, IMO.

davyjose

Stewart Lee by a stretch tbh.
I do really like Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr too, but there's a real intelligence about Lee. He doesn't just hand his punchlines out, he knows how to work a joke, build it up. And his timing is incredible.

winston82

Chris Rock. Saw him in Dublin last year. So funny. Not crazy about his tv shows though. Still my no. 1 all the same

mle1324

Tommy Tiernan for me,love the way he takes that one step further in what he says,Jason Burn isn't bad either.
Peter Kay and Omid Djalili would be my favorite British ones.

Sirsok

Eddie Murphy Raw and Delerious are probabley two of the best shows ive ever seen, unbeleivably funny!!!!

Pablo Francisco is amazing to, one of his shows (cant remember its name) is great.especially the "extacy at a techno club" skit.

Jeff Dunham is pretty ccol along with dmetri martin, frankie boyle, jimmy carr, lee evans, mitch hedberg and adam hills.

Not a big hicks fan, think hes fairly boring!!!!some i cant stand are alan carr, jason byrne and MAEVE HIGGINS to name a few

Boom_Bap

Sirsok wrote: »

Eddie Murphy Raw and Delerious are probabley two of the best shows ive ever seen, unbeleivably funny!!!!

Pablo Francisco is amazing to, one of his shows (cant remember its name) is great.especially the "extacy at a techno club" skit.

Raw and Delirious are exceptionally good.

The Pablo Frasisco show is called Bits & Pieces, really good. A friend of mine seen him in NY a couple of years ago and said he was brilliant.

mle1324

Sirsok wrote: »

Eddie Murphy Raw and Delerious are probabley two of the best shows ive ever seen, unbeleivably funny!!!!

Pablo Francisco is amazing to, one of his shows (cant remember its name) is great.especially the "extacy at a techno club" skit.

Jeff Dunham is pretty ccol along with dmetri martin, frankie boyle, jimmy carr, lee evans, mitch hedberg and adam hills.

Not a big hicks fan, think hes fairly boring!!!!some i cant stand are alan carr, jason byrne and MAEVE HIGGINS to name a few

Its funniest when Jeff Dunham has Walter with him.:D

peabutler

Peter Kay when he gets a good idea, but when he gets a bad one it can be oh so so so bad ( see Geraldine Mcqueen).

m83

Stewart Lee by a county mile.

Father Stone

Dylan Moran is the best comedian in this country if not the world. Got "What it is" for Christmas, one of the best stand-up DVD's I have ever seen.

JuiceTerry

ok, here it goes, greatest comedians ever and some great contemporary ones mixed in

• George Carlin ( the greatest comedian ever. pure genius)
• Richard Pryor (RIP)
• Bill Hicks (RIP)
• Dane Cook ( gets unfairly attacked - solid and tight he is)
• Stuart Lee
• Doug Stanhope
• Chris Rock
• Ben Elton ( in the 80s & 90s)
• Dylan Moran
• Tommy Tiernan
• Dave McSavage
• Robbie Bonham
• Michael Mee
• Russell Brand
• Frankie Boyle
• Billy Connolly
• Mark Thomas
• Eddie Murphy
• Jerry Seinfeld
  
• Daire O Brian

this is tiring.....I know that I am missing a vast number of worthy and hilarious acts!

Boom_Bap

JuiceTerry wrote: »

ok, here it goes, greatest comedians ever and some great contemporary ones mixed in

• Dane Cook ( gets unfairly attacked - solid and tight he is)

watched his latest standup dvd recently and was very impressed, really funny stuff. Wasnt expecting it to be as good as his movies normally blow.

Duggy747

Boom_Bap wrote: »

The Pablo Frasisco show is called Bits & Pieces, really good. A friend of mine seen him in NY a couple of years ago and said he was brilliant.

Bits & Pieces is his 1st DVD filmed in Irvine, Ouch! is the 2nd DVD with the "Mitsubishi ecstasy" Both are excellent! Really would love to see this guy live.

My favourites (though I like quite a lot of the smaller comedians) are:

Richard Pryor - The way he tells a story and paints an image in your head is masterclass.

Bill Hicks - Just love his fùck off mentality.

Early Tommy Tiernan, nowadays all he does is shout like Jason Bryne, who I don't find one bit funny.

Dylan Moran - Why a lot of people don't know this guy is baffling!

Eddie Murphy - Lots of Richard Pryor-ishness to his routines but he was one of the best in the 80's. Shame what happened to him nowadays.

Omid Djalili - He is pretty good but he needs to stop stretching out some of his jokes. We get it the 2nd time.

Jimmy Carr - The master of one-liners and comebacks, he really is a cùnt to the audience

Frankie Boyle - Haven't seen much of his stand-up but he is one of the best things on Mock The Week.

Chris Rock - He does have genuinely funny pieces but his voice is like a nail in my head.

Michael Winslow - The "noise guy" from Police Academy, while not terribly great at stand up his sound effects sound more real than the actual things he portrays. Though he uses pedals for effects he really is to sound mimics what Micheal Jackon was to dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapQfbWylGs

I'm not really into the other big name comedians like Bill Bailey (don't like "random humour" but he is a talented musician who has his moments) or Ricky Gervais...............just

x0xgranzx0x

JACK DEE!!!!

trout

The late, great Bill Hicks and Stewart Lee are my personal favourites.
Frankie Boyle is good, he's really grown on me in the last year or so.

I think John Pinette is very funny too, though most people I talk to say "John WHO ?".

John Pinette ... check him out.

Sirsok

trout wrote: »

The late, great Bill Hicks and Stewart Lee are my personal favourites.
Frankie Boyle is good, he's really grown on me in the last year or so.

I think John Pinette is very funny too, though most people I talk to say "John WHO ?".

John Pinette ... check him out.

Ha he's the fa ice cream guy

Nic'name

David Mitchell
Russell Howard
Jason Byrne
Ed Byrne
Dara O'Brian
Jo Brand
David Mitchell
Shappi Khorsandi
Noel Fielding
Julian Barratt
Russell Brand
PJ Gallagher
Maeve Higgins
Billy Connolly
Andrew Maxwell
Eleanor Tiernan
Colin Murphy
Robert Webb
Bill Bailey
Dorothy Parker
Michael McIntyre
Simon Pegg
Tommy Tiernan
Ardal O'Hanlon
Jason Coughlan
Dawn McDonough
Rhod Gilbert
Adam Hills

grames_bond

Nic'name wrote: »

David Mitchell
Russell Howard
Jason Byrne
Ed Byrne
Dara O'Brian
Jo Brand
David Mitchell
Shappi Khorsandi
Noel Fielding
Julian Barratt
Russell Brand
PJ Gallagher
Maeve Higgins
Billy Connolly
Andrew Maxwell
Eleanor Tiernan
Colin Murphy
Robert Webb
Bill Bailey
Dorothy Parker
Michael McIntyre
Simon Pegg
Tommy Tiernan
Ardal O'Hanlon
Jason Coughlan
Dawn McDonough
Rhod Gilbert
Adam Hills

i was tryin to figure out who you were from your first post but after seein this coupled with your location ive got it!!

some very good choices there!!

Nic'name

I stalked your page but I'm clearly not as clever as you.....oh might one, what be your identity. :cool:

grames_bond

Nic'name wrote: »

I stalked your page but I'm clearly not as clever as you.....oh might one, what be your identity. :cool:

you dont remember me?! ah im heartbroken hun

it's graham duffy!

Nic'name

Ah righty, was that at Dawn's yoke? I added ya on facebook there.