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Funniest stand up comedy you've seen

  • 05-02-2012 11:02AM
    #1
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    For me it has to be Eddie Murphy "Raw" or "Delirious. Can't believe he didn't do more stand up.


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  • #2
    bitemybanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭bitemybanger


    Jeff Dunham is pretty damn funny but Michael McIntire is hard to beat.


  • #3
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Omid Djalili cracks me up every time


  • #4
    tigger123
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    Dara O'Briain. I saw him years ago, about 1999, in the Laughter Lounge on the Quays, before they'd done it up. At that stage he was "yer man from Echo Island". I had a pain in my face from laughing so hard. :D

    Saw Barry Murphy in the Olympia years ago, he was excellent too.


  • #5
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee




  • #6
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Frankie Boyle or micheal mcintyre

    Billy connelly too


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  • #7
    shockwave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭shockwave


    Ricky Gervais's standup is pretty good, not a fan of his tv stuff though. Sean Locke is also very good.


  • #8
    telekon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭telekon


    shockwave wrote: »
    Ricky Gervais's standup is pretty good, not a fan of his tv stuff though. Sean Locke is also very good.

    Funny, I'm the complete opposite...


  • #9
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Bill Hicks


  • #10
    Benicetomonty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭Benicetomonty


    Live it has to be dara obrien. Hes the best iv seen when it comes to interacting with the audience. Of all time is Bill Hicks. Big hopes for mcintyre in november!


  • #11
    Go Tobban
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭Go Tobban


    Billy Connollys HBO special from 1990 is absolutely hysterical. Prob my favourite stand up routine

    Stewart Lee can be excellent aswel

    I love Bill Hicks but I didn't necessarily find him side splittingly funny, usually just found myself nodding along with agreement on most of the points he made


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  • #12
    derfderf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    I can never decide between Dylan Moran, Sean Locke and Richard Pryor.


  • #13
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Billy connolly in the early 90s at the theatre royal in limerick.hes not great today but back then he was the funniest comedian on the planet.


  • #14
    Broads.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Broads.ie


    Dara o Briain... he's the only comedian that makes me laugh out loud all through the DVD.

    Worst is Neil Delamere.


  • #15
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Dylan Moran.


  • #16
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,037 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Jim Jeffries.

    Saw him once in the UK a good while back, honestly the funniest show I've seen in a long long time.


  • #17
    telekon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭telekon


    Saw Dermot Morgan in 1994. It was pretty much 2 hours of Scrap Saturday material, mainly impressions of Charlie, Pj Mara, P Flynn, Peter Clohessy etc. and his experiences living in London as he was filming a little known series called 'Father Ted' at the time.

    God, I miss him. :(


  • #18
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Saw Dara o Briain in a small venue doing a charity fund raiser gig at the Cat Laugh's festival one year. I had to stop laughing in the end because my sides hurt so much. It helped that he spent half the show taking the piss out of a friend of mine. Then Ed Byrne came on and did the same thing! :D


  • #19
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I think Peter Kay is great. Hate Lee Evans


  • #20
    Will I Amnt
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    Go Tobban wrote: »
    I love Bill Hicks but I didn't necessarily find him side splittingly funny
    Because he wasn't.
    He was 2 parts political activist 1 part comic.

    By all means admire him for what he preached but as a comic he was distinctly average.


  • #21
    Icaras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    Richard Pryor live in concert (in long beach) funniest stand up I have seen. Still cracks me up every time I watch it - killing his car, sex monkeys, fighting Ali it has it all. In the Eddie Murphys interviews on his delirious dvd he even says the stand up was based on Richard Pryors performances.


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  • #22
    Ishmael
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    The old Billy Connolly stuff from back in his earlier days would be hard to beat. Dara O'Briain is very good live also but very fond of Reginald D Hunter at the moment.


  • #23
    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    Peter Kay The Tour That Didn't Tour-Tour.
    This was recorded live in 2011 in front of 14000 people.The best ending to a stand up ever.
    Robin William's.We are Amused.


  • #24
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


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


  • #25
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    Milton Jones
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzDRhphRYjw


    Stewart Francis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab9iCVwcQYE


  • #26
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Stewert francis is very good.

    Milton jones is only good on mock the week in short bursts...saw his live show on dave....it was ****e.


  • #27
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Jimmy Carr
    Frankie Boyle


  • #28
    jdee99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭jdee99


    Saw Dara O'Brien live tonight at Castlebar - brilliant


  • #29
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    In rough order of reccomendation...

    Dylan Moran
    Jimmy Carr
    Jason Manford
    Ricky Gervais
    Tommy Tiernan
    Peter Kay
    Rhys Darby
    Stewart Lee
    Omid Djalili
    Bill Bailey
    Chris Rock
    David Cross


  • #30
    Slunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    Jimmy Carr and john Bishop were very good. Didn't think much of Dylan Moran which is a shame cause I loved black books. That Scottish fella Kevin bridges is good too.
    Older ones would be Billy Connolly and the best of the best richard Pryor. That live in concert DVD has me in tears of laughter every time.
    As for Peter Kay. Is he still doing jokes about his Nan and tea. Wads funny at the start but don't like hum anymore


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  • #31
    luketitz
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    Louis CK - my new hero!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-otAJrtY-w


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