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Your current and all time favourite comedians

  • 28-09-2013 07:26PM
    #1
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Currently I think Louis CK is untouchable, he's gone from "who's he?" 5 years ago to stand up specials for HBO

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JFPePh6yM


    The best of all time is a trickier one, George Carlin, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy would all be contenders but I think Richard Pryor takes the gold

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmZm2HBMtTQ


    Who's your current and all time favourite comedians?


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  • #2
    starlit
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    Mostly from fr ted really. Exception mrs brown and few irish comediens. I like brendan g and pat s and john kenny but not tommy t his gags not great anymore.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    George Carlin


  • #4
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Kevin McAleer, with his long rambling stories involving mundane stuff like watching TV in the 90s.

    Classic, so droll!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6KY87xwWI


  • #5
    jjbrien
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    To me has to be Tommy Tiernan he is a national treasure to us and always makes me laugh my misses likes him too and shes a yank so its saying something



  • #6
    kaimera
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    Bill Hicks

    /thread


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  • #7
    starlit
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    Mostly those from irish, uk and american sitcoms have a few as mentioned previously but zoe d in new girl is v funny and neil patrick harris. Eddie murphy and chris rock are gas too.


  • #8
    D1stant
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    Eddie Izzard


  • #9
    Tombo2001
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    Wont be the 'hip' choice....

    ...but Peter Kay is a funny man.

    Others

    I do like Dave Chapelle.


  • #10
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Dylan Moran my favourite of the Irish comedians.

    Also, Foil, Arms and Hog are incredibly funny.


  • #11
    guillespe
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    Roy Chubby Brown


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  • #12
    Sleamhain
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    Current is Micky Flanagan

    All time is a tough one but maybe Eddie Murphy!


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    guillespe wrote: »
    Roy Chubby Brown

    about 20 years ago maybe...


  • #14
    Cosmicfox
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    dylan moran or kevin bridges


  • #15
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    Frankie Boyle


  • #16
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    OP did say current and all time fav

    Dave Chappelle yea, he's making a come back to standup isn't he?


  • #17
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    jjbrien wrote: »
    To me has to be Tommy Tiernan he is a national treasure to us and always makes me laugh my misses likes him too and shes a yank so its saying something



    I f%^king hate him


  • #18
    MurdyWurdy
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    Bill Hicks, Trevor Noah and Russell Peters. I love stand-up but those are comedians where I can watch their stuff over and over again.


  • #19
    MickFleetwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    Carlin, Pryor and C.K.

    Never found Hicks to be that funny, very intelligent just not hugely comedic, at least in my opinion.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    I honestly never heard of the Louis CK guy until he was mentioned here a few days ago, must look him up


  • #21
    Legs.Eleven
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    Adam Buxton. So many great clips to choose from I didn't know which one to go for.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1rmsCPbQU


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  • #22
    frozenfrozen
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    Dave Allen


  • #23
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    A great Chris Rock clip here, as far as I know he's only played Ireland once?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dGhsRsHXP8


  • #24
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Billy Connolly is my all time favourite.

    I also love Joan Rivers, Chris Rock and Bill Burr.


  • #25
    claypigeon777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭claypigeon777


    Bernard Manning.:D







  • #26
    forgotten password
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    roy chubbt brown, not my fav comedian but def. makes me laugh the most:D:D


  • #27
    The Backwards Man
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    Tommy Cooper, just has to appear on screen and I burst out laughing.

    Wouldn't want to see him in a live show though.


  • #28
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    claypigeon777 wrote: »
    Bernard Manning.:D

    Manning and Roy Chubby Brown are from a long gone style of comedy.

    Thanks be to fúck.


  • #29
    mitosis
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    Woody Allen was a true great at stand up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCufsHa8wU



    Currently I like Frankie Boyle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTF-cyYOfUc


  • #30
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    current: Dylan Moran

    all time: Spike Milligan


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  • #31
    claypigeon777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭claypigeon777


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Manning and Roy Chubby Brown are from a long gone style of comedy.

    Thanks be to fúck.

    You mean funny comedians?
    Any of the so-called comedians knocking about today spend half their time walking up and down backwards and forwards telling a long winded story with a crap unfunny punch line.
    If a comedian cannot fire out the laughs like a machine gun and he/she cannot go into a prison with the psychopathic scum of the earth or go into the Royal Albert Hall and make both audiences laugh at the same material then he/she is not a comedian.
    I've seen jokes on sickipedia posted by anonymous jokers that are ten thousand times funnier than the family friendly PC crap that is served up as comedy these days.
    I like sophisticated humor as much as the next man but the best comedy is still the primitive crude rude filthy demeaning humor people have always laughed at.
    Frankie Boyle is the only living comedian I would have time for.
    His humor is disturbing vile evil misanthropic and sociopathic and hilarious.


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