Favorite Comedian??

[Ochocinco!]

My favorite comedian right now is Jimmy Carr, his laugh is creepy but he has an amazing ability to put hecklers to shame on the spot.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzLlLM7Rgm8

 

[HaloMagic]

Louis CK. Anyone else is a distant second.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Kathleen Madigan is hilarious. Also a fan of John Caparulo, Henry Cho and Steven Wright. Biggest disappointment: saw Jeff Foxworthy live for the first time, did not hear one joke I had not heard before, no new material. Would like to see Bill Engvall live, but his shows here are rather pricey.

See Rocky LaPorte if you ever get the chance. Ditto Gary Mule Deer.

Edited October 18, 2014 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Stradling]

Favorite living would be Steven Wright. The best I saw live was Richard Jeni, he was amazing. About 5 or 6 years ago we went to the improv and saw Todd Glass, it was right after he was on Last Comic Standing. My son was only about 13 or 14 back then and he was a fan because of the show. Well before he goes on stage Todd is kind of roaming around the club. My wife sees him and tells him that our son is a big fan. Todd says, "Well let's call him". He uses our phone calls and talks to my son for a few minutes. That was an incredibly cool thing for him to do. Then he mentioned him a couple of times up on stage.

[Ray McKigney]

Begins and ends with George Carlin. After him, there are a bunch that are funny. Bill Hicks, Chris Rock, Nick DiPaolo, and Louis CK are a few who come to mind. 

Edited October 18, 2014 by Ray McKigney

[Ochocinco!]

It's Bill Burr.  

 

Has been for over a decade now.  

 

he's very under-rated love him

[deepdrive]

Madigan

[Lou]

Jim Jeffries

Louis C.K.

Bill Burr

Dave Attell

Barack Obama

[Lou]

Jim Gaffigan deserves some love.

 

hell yeah

[nate]

Lewis Black

Mitch Hedberg RIP

Madigan

Burr

[TobiasFunke]

Bill Hicks

Chris Rock

Mitch Hedberg

[Tyler]

It's Bill Burr.  

 

Has been for over a decade now.

Owww, my neck. Stop it youre hurting me, oowwww.

[eaterfan]

Jim Gaffigan is my favorite. Louis CK is by far the best going right now. At the odd ball comedy festival with about 5 headliners and several guys mentioned in this thread Louis CK destroyed them all with his set.

[AngelsLongBall]

Jim Gaffigan deserves some love.

Yessir

[Adam]

Louis CK

[Brandon]

It's Bill Burr.  

 

Has been for over a decade now.  

 

I was going to write the same exact thing.

 

It's Bill Burr for me and as i knew I wanted to write him in thought about how long it's been. I've been to a ton of his shows and his podcast is probably better than his shows.

[Blarg]

Growing up it was Bill Cosby that made me roll on the floor laughing.

 

Later I got to hear the leader of the comics that that now cuss words as a foil, Lenny Bruce when I got into the stash of one of my friends father's collection that included Richard Pryor's early work.

 

Listened to a lot of comic musicians like Stan Freberg, Alan Sherman and Tom Lehrer.

 

Saw Tim Allen on stage at the comedy club one year before he did his sit com Home Improvement. Me and my friend both fell off our bar stools as our wives looked at us like we lost our minds.

 

It has been too long since a comedian got to me as much as Cosby, Pryor or Allen.

[Adam]

Cosby is probably my all time favorite.

[Slegnaac]

Jim Gaffigan has an upcoming gig in Long Beach Thursday Dec 4. I read the first chapter of his book on a friend's Kindle was laughing out loud.

Richard Jeni was a favorite.

David Steinberg comedy albums.

Also Comedians in cars getting coffee.

[JAHV76]

Some of my favorites unfortunately are no longer with us Rodney Dangerfield and John Pinette.

[LBHalos17]

Please post some of your favorite bits!  I've heard of all these comics, but haven't seen much of them.

 

One of my favorites was Sam Kenison.  And (sorry to the haters), I really like Dane Cook...  Of course, I used to watch the Diceman all the time back in college too.

 

Basically, I'll give any of them a chance tho there's only a few female comedians I can stand (Amy Schumer is one).

[Hot Damn!]

Bill Burr no doubt.

[Brandon]

LB, if you have HBO Go or HBO On Demand they have some older Bill Burr shows. Same with Netflix.

I'd recommend his podcast too if you're into them.

[mrwicked]

Nick Dipaulo always makes me laugh

[Brandon]

I'll have to check, but I think someone was talking about Nick Swardson having new material out.