Favorite Comedians? Male and Female
 

What are your fav. comedians?

Male: Definetely a tie b/n Robin Williams and Jerry Seinfeld, although Larry David comes in a close second.

Female: 3 way tie....Judy Tenuta/Paula Poundstone/Rita Rudner

~Alex

Re: Favorite Comedians? Male and Female
 

Crazy!! Those are my three choices for female comedians!! Margaret Cho is pretty funny as well...

As far as males go: Eddie Izzard, Jerry Seinfeld....

Well, I know I've seen some others both male and female that I loved...but I'm awful about names....

Male - George Carlin

Female - Ellen DeGeneres

Easy...
 

Male:

George Carlin
Sam Kinison
Eddie Izzard
Cheech & Chong

Female:

My Mother (I have her sense of humor which gets me in trouble way too much)

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If I HAD to pick one.....I would probably have to lean towards Judy, b/c she is so mean to her audience, that it justs cracks me up. I hope to her live one day (it could happen!)...I just better watch out for her flying gum!

~Alex

Buddy Hackett, George Carlin, Elaine Boozler, Paula Poundstone. There's one I saw years ago - I think her name was Diane Ford or Carol Ford.

- Jake

My faves:

MARGARET CHO (!!!)
George Carlin
Roseanne (don't stone me)
Caroline Rhea
Dave Chapelle
Sarah Silverman (who could forget her appearance on Conan?!)
Mo Rocca (love him to death!!!!!!!!)
Tracey Ullman

I like Roseanne. And she was something of a pioneer.

Speaking of which, who was that Moms lady from the Sixties who would perform in a housedress & without any teeth?

- Jake

Males:

Will Ferrell
Chris Rock
Eddie Izzard
Eddie Murphy
Chevy Chase (I know it's not cool)


Females:

Tracey Ullman
Ana Gasteyer
Ellen DeGeneres
Brett Butler

I don't really know any male comedians, but my favorite female comedians are Margaret Cho, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paula Poundstone. :D

Moms Mabley :)

George Carlin, Bill Murray, Lucy & Desi.

I <3 Mitch Hedburg, Eddie Izzard, Lewis Black and Dave Attell.

Don't really have many female favorites. Ellen DeGeneres is pretty good but I can only take most others in small doses.

Thanks, that's what I thought. Boy, could she deliver a line.

- Jake

Robin Williams is hysterical!!!
George Carlin
Eddie Murphy (IMO, should go back to stand up)
Chris Rock
Steven Wright
and even Bill Cosby was good back in the day....(I loved his Noah bit...even as a kid I found it hysterical...and nobody here probably knows what I'm talking about :eek: )

As far as females go...I liked Roseanne in the beginning, but later on she just went all crooked...I like Ellen DeGeneres, I thought she did a great job with the Emmy's...and she's great with her guests...and that's about all I could think of:confused:

I was thinking Lucy but wasn't sure she counted since I assumed the thread was about stand-up. If not, she's at the top.
Also, I haven't seen her stand-up act in many years, but Whoopi was funny in the 80s with all of her characters.

- Jake

If it's not confined to stand-up then yeah...Lucy is my #1!!! I adore her!!

I also saw Ellen on HBO last night (I love house-sitting for people w/cable :D ) and laughed my ass off....so I'm gonna have to add her to my list of female comics...

I also forgot about George Carlin, Brain Droppings is one of my favorite books...I haven't read the ones that came out after that...I'm very behind lol....but yeah...he's great...

Her "House of Yap" skit was hysterical.

"To make sho he wife do not adulter another man, he pooooot guillotine on her poobic region."

:laugh:

Have you seen the stand-up video she did with Billy Connoly? it's classic.

Never saw that, just her act that aired on cable years ago, plus I own the Fontaine tape from '88.

- Jake

The Fontaine tape rocks. :nod:

You should try to get her audiobook reading of "Book" from the library. It's funny to read the book, but listening to it be read by her will make you lose control of your bladder.

Now what makes you think I have any control to begin with?:cool:

- Jake

Good point. ;)

-George Carlin
-Eddie Izzard
-Margaret Cho
-Joy Behar
-Sarah Silverman
-Dennis Miller
-Dennis Leary
-the boys from KITH

Joy Behar hurts my everything.

DennisX2<3 though

Aww....see now, I think for me it's more Joy's personality that I like moreso than her actual standup act. I have much love for the Dennis's :nod:

:eek:

Have you seen Miller's new show on CNBC?

I'd usually have a wise-ass, bitchy remark about it, but I'll just have to stick with calling it bad. Very bad.

Or, should I say, the V-chip has come in very handy when it comes to that channel.

I love Dennis Miller to bits and miss his HBO show dearly. I think it really loses something when he can't curse.

The CNBC show is unbearable.

I used to like Dennis Miller - but he has become too political. I not only disagree with his politics, but I find he isn't very funny anymore. Just pointed and mean.

He used to be my favorite comic.

For now, I like Chris Rock - kills me.

My female fave, by a mile, is Wanda Sykes. Her show was not great, but her stand up is deadly.

I'm not sure Bill Cosby agrees.;)

Absolutely.

She used to say some mean things about Stevie a few years back so no I don't care for her that much.:mad:

???

:nod: :nod: :nod: AMEN!!!! I love Wanda Sykes!!!

"There's nothing random about airport security. You get to the gate and they're standing there with their Sherwin-Williams paint chart. If your ass is darker than khaki, you're getting searched!!"

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

ROTFLMFAO!!! Where did you get that quote Dissention? That is too funny!

I *LOVE* Wanda.....I just came back from her website and found out she is coming to West Palm!! :D

I'll be there!

~Alex

It's in last weeks Entertainment Weekly, but she had said it on one of her stand-up specials for Comedy Central originally.

Her addition to "Inside the NFL" has made that show watchable. :nod:

I need to find that special....that line is just too funny...very true;)

~Alex

LOL....So I guess I'm not the only one who thought Bill was totally annoyed by Wanda at the Emmys was it?

"We spoke English..." didn't he say something like that to her? LOL...whatever it was...it was pretty funny...

Hmmm...wouldn't surprise me. He's gotten extremely uptight and humorless these past few years. I preferred him in the Fat Albert days, which is one of my favorite cartoons ever.


"Fat Albert, you're like a schoolroom at 4 o'clock....no class."

Re: Favorite Comedians? Male and Female
 

Male: Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Carlin

Female: None come to mind...

Judy Tenuta??!!? Isn't that the weird, psycho lady who says "off the wall" sh*t?? Is she a stand up comic?

Rob:cool:


Oh....I just saw a Dave Chappell show and was almost in tears...that dude is funny.

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She's the one with the accordian.
Last I heard (years ago) she was dating Emo Philips. I hope there aren't children.:(

- Jake