saintflannel
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- Oct 6, 2011
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Pryor was the greatest all time, in my opinion. These days guys like Louis CK, Bill Burr, Bob Kelly, Colin Quinn and Jim Norton are the funniest guys around.
I think in 10-20 years Louis CK will be considered the best stand up comic of all time. I think he already is but longevity seems to elevate celebrities.
Joe List and Mark Normand
Norm is the funniest person of all time, but I wouldn't consider him the best stand-up (although he's still excellent). It's best just watching him in any conversation with someone (doesn't matter who; it can be with the most entertaining person in the world or the least entertaining person in the world) where he plays off of people. He still dominates the conversation anyways so he may as well be doing stand-up at times, but it's just a different dynamic.
Louis CK is easily the best stand-up I've ever seen. He's just consistently hilarious. Must be a generational thing but I've never been a fan of Carlin, Pryor, etc.
I saw this for the first time last week, then proceeded to watch it each of the next 3 days
Favorite comedian alive
Greatest comedian of all time, this should pass over many heads:
...and boy was he right, with the last 9 years after he died as proof.
Scary how spot on Carlin was on a lot of things.
I didn't care for older Carlin. I found him to be more bitter than funny, was just a ranting old man to me.
I love Carlin, old and young. When a man is that on point, both in content and performance/delivery, you let him be as bitter and ranty as he god-damn pleases
I've been watching stand ups almost daily for a really long time, I had to buy/rent them before Youtube
What an amazing way to watch them now, old and new. Also can't believe how long it took to see Jimmy Carr and Billy Connolly's names. In no order:
The Classics
George Carlin
Richard Pryor
Robin Williams (No mention?)
Andy Kauffman
Billy Connolly
Eddie Murphy
The One Liners
Steven Wright
Milton Jones
Stewart Francis
Mitch Hedberg
The Funniest Men On Earth
John Cleese
Norm MacDonald
The Hard Hitters
Jimmy Carr (huge fan!)
Frankie Boyle (the most offensive I've heard, love him in small doses)
David Cross
Dice Clay
Anthony Jeselnik
The Other Ones I Love
Lewis Black (Can't believe I'm the first to name him, one of my all time favorite)
Jim Jefferies (been a fan for years)
Bill Burr
David Mitchell
Jon Dore
Dave Attell
Tommy Tiernan (love the marathon bit)
Solid post, yeah Robbin Williams was funny , forgot about him.
As someone that views stand up alot from what you say.What are your thoughts on Gilbert Gottfried? Idk why but he just makes me laugh.
I also like Louie CK
Robin Williams wasn't everyone's cup of tea. I didn't like his speedy delivery, you could barely understand what he was saying. It was like a mishmash of unintelligible words. To me, a bunch of nonsense that "sounds" funny isn't really worthy of putting him up there in the all time comics list. To me, if you're up on that list, you have to have actual content or "Hot takes" so to speak. Everyone knows Carlin because he was unafraid to speak his mind (7 dirty words bit). Williams, people just know him because he spoke really fast.
Patrice was so funny because he was so off the cuff (see Tough Crowd) and he always called you out if you were a hack. There are just so many stories of him and how honest he was. I remember on Robert Kelly's podcast they had this story of he just called out this club owner "Those your real teeth man?" and the club owner got all pissed off and banned him from the club. Patrice was never scared to make his opinion known, that's why he was one of the best.
I saw Louis CK live in person too. His delivery was kind of drab but I still was entertained. Right now I'd say the best is Bill Burr. Go see him live in person. He's way too funny and he also has that Patrice "I'm going to say whatever I want and I don't care about the criticism".