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Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:57 pm
by JAS
Started out as 10 but I couldn't get below 14 :-?? ah well...most would probably go over the 10 anyway :lol: ;)

Can be any funny people..male, female, actors, stand-up.
The ones that can always make me laugh, in no particular order...

Eddie Izzard
Bill Bailey
Dave Allen
Bob Newhart
Billy Connelly
Jacque Tati
Dermot Morgan (Father Ted)
Tim Allen
Steve Buscemi
Buster Keaton
Tony Hancock
Victoria Wood
Johnny Depp
George Clooney (especially Oh Brother Where Art Thou)

Regards
JAS

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:08 pm
by bayman
groucho marx
chico marx
harpo marx (& probably gummo as well)
zeppo marx

all 5 actors from the 3 stooges
larry fine
moe howard
curly howard
shemp howard
curly joe de rita

phil silvers

stan laurel
oliver hardy

bob hope

john ritter

jonathan harris

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:13 pm
by Pseudo
As above: Billy Connolly, the Marx Bros, the Stooges.

Add Spike Milligan to that.

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:38 pm
by bayman
if mal would log in i would add mal to my list....because any bloke that would yell out 'to put a slip in' after 2 deliveries in a row went over mid wicket for 6 has to be a comedian

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:15 am
by SABRE
Sorry, had to be 24 for me...
:lol:
1) Groucho Marx
2) Harpo Marx
3) Chico Marx
Then daylight …
4) W.C. Fields
5) George & Gracie Burns
6) The entire cast of ‘Laugh In’
7) Mae West
8) The Goons
9) Bob Hope
10) Jackie Gleason
11) Bill Cosby
12) Dave Allen
13) Graham Kennedy
Can’t stop now …
14) Phyllis Diller
15) Milton Berle
16) Paul Hogan
17) Rodney Rude
18) Billy Connolly
19) Benny Hill
20) Johnny Carson
21) Rita Rutner
22) Don Riccles
23) Dick Emery
24) Anyone but Seinfeld :Hangman:

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:06 am
by Magpiespower
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Dave Chappelle

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:08 am
by hearts on fire
Will Ferrell
John C Reilly
Jim Carrey
Eddie Murphy
Dave Chappell

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:45 am
by Snaggletooth Tiger
Stand-Up Commedians
1.) Bill Hicks (R.I.P.)
2.) Dave Chappelle
3.) Dylan Moran
4.) Al Murray
5.) Bill Bailey
6.) Andrew Dice Clay
7.) Alexei Sayle
8.) Greg Fleet
9.) Dave Allen (R.I.P.)
10.) Rodney Rude
11.) Rodney Dangerfield (R.I.P.)
12.) Kevin Bloody Wilson
13.) Roy 'Chubby' Brown
14.) Ardall O'Hanlon

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:25 am
by Baron Greenback
1. Dave Chappelle
2. Ricky Gervais
3. Rodney Rude
4. Carl Barron
5. Merrick and Rosso
6. Eddie Murphy
7. Kevin Bloody Wilson
8. Noel Fielding
9. Jason Byrne
10. Dave Callan

That's all I could get.
Basically anyone but Wil Anderson or Martin Lawrence.

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:55 am
by The Ash Man
George W Bush

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:11 pm
by Leaping Lindner
Top 12 in no particular order...

Bill Hicks
Lenny Bruce
Will Durst
Lewis Black
Bill Maher
John Clarke
Shaun Micallef
Greg Fleet
Rachel Berger
Flacco (aka Paul Livingstone)
Lynda Gibson
Anthony Morgan

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:11 pm
by Booney
Leaping Lindner wrote:Top 12 in no particular order...

Shaun Micallef


I find this bloke about as funny as genital warts.Each to thier own.

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:48 pm
by Pseudo
Booney wrote:I find this bloke about as funny as genital warts.Each to thier own.

But genital warts are funny - if they're on somebody else...

Re: Your top 14 comedians

PostPosted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:57 pm
by Felch
Pseudo wrote:
Booney wrote:I find this bloke about as funny as genital warts.Each to thier own.

But genital warts are funny - if they're on somebody else...


Not if you have had sexual relations with that somebody else... :lol: