Favorite Comedians
 

Okay, since we have done other categories, who are some of your favorite comedians?

One of my all-time favorites is Abbott & Costello - and this, to me, is the ALL TIME CLASSIC:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37HOam7E-g&feature=share]Abbott And Costello Who's On First HD - YouTube[/ame]

In addition, of course, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Robin Williams, Dom Deluise, and a host of others.


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Abbott and Costello is a must see. Good for the heart. Red Skelton was my all time favorite as he consistently made me laugh out loud. The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Audrey Meadows I have been on youtube where you can finds clips of all of the above mentioned.The Honeymooners are on every year in CT on New Years Eve. The 39 episodes are still funny today and I enjoy them immensely. The episode where Ralph goes bowling and needs to take a doctor physical the next day at work is my favorite. Norton takes Raplh's temperature and puts the termometer under his cigarette lighter to read and starts crying as it reads 111, cracks me up every time. The other is when is called to the IRS office for his tax return.

Ensemble shows like Barney Miller and Taxi were shows that produced a lot of laughs. Fish asking Barney for time off so he could down to payroll to prove he wasn't dead. LOL When a friend of mine said Tessio was funny, I ddidn't believe until I saw it for myself. Good ole Abe Vigoda. They were great comedic shows.

Trivia - "Whos On First", routine is the only thing in the Baseball Hall of Fame that is not baseball related.

http://youtu.be/sShMA85pv8M

There was a retired NYC detective who lives in the Villages who said that Barney Miller was the closest approximation of what it is really like to be a cop in NYC. Second was Blue Bloods.

I like Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, George Carlin, Mark Twain, the Monty Python crew, Tina Fey, Jerry Seinfeld, & Larry David.

The first ones to make me laugh as a kid when my older brother took me to the movies: Lary, Mo and Curly. When I got a little older I liked Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Basically, I like all of them so it's too difficult to think about picking favorites. They were all great in their own way.

George Carlin

Tim Conway...especially when he was with Carol Burnett and Harvey Corman...Classic!!

Andy Kaufman always cracked me up on SNL. Jackie Mason and Elayne Boosler, always got a good laugh out of me.

George Carlin, Red Skelton :BigApplause:

Favorite Comedian
 

Rodney Dangerfield is my choice.

There have been a lot of great ones and all of those mentioned certainly deserve recognition, but I think that Robin Williams is in a league of his own.

Currently, I enjoy Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Kathleen Madigan....but there was this segment that always makes me laugh....
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4]WKRP Turkey Drop "As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly" - YouTube[/ame]

How did I forgot about Mr No Respect. I agree he was hilarious. :smiley:

Red Skeleton was doing his Heathcliff and Mergatroid skit (they were two seagulls).
Heathcliff: "Is that a mail plane"?
Mergatroid: "No, that's just the landing gear"!

Cracked me up when I was younger.

Rush

I am a fan of virtually all good comics, but my all-time favorite is Robin Williams' mentor, Jonathan Winters. Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, and the Monty Python crew would be near the top.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail....one of the funniest movies ever!

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. I empty my nostrils in your general direction!

I love them all, but no one could tell a story like Myron Cohen.

Among many already mentioned, there is also Soupy Sales!http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/x...ie_in_face.gif

... and Rip Taylor http://www.carforums.net/images/smil...d/confetti.gif

Myron Cohen story.....An elderly man who lives in a retirement village is talking to an elderly women. He says to her "We are both alone and we both have our own apartments. Why don't we move in together. That way we would still both get our social security, but we would only have to pay one rent."
She says "Before I decide, I have to ask you....how's by you your sex life"
He says "Infrequent"
She thinks for a moment and then says "Is that one word or two"

I forgot one of my early favorites, and one of the pioneers of today's comedy: The Great ERNIE KOVACS

Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robin Williams, Bill Hicks, Eddie Murphy, just to name a few.

Boy are you right!
He is so quick that by the time you "get" one thing he said, he is on the fifth joke. He is amazing!

Someone interviewed him, together with Johnathan Winters. The interviewer just threw out a word and the two of them ad-libbed for several minutes.
Unbelievable and hysterical. (Had to change my underwear LOL).

Bill Maher, Rodney Dangerfield and the KING himself: Groucho Marx

Bob Hope

Red Skelton was the master of comedy. He was so versatile. He could do pantomime better then anyone. His show made me laugh for a solid hour.

Robin Williams is a close second with Mork and Mindy when he had to register as an alien. And his HBO routine about golf which can't be posted as the language is a little rank is a classic.

And who could forget Laugh In.

I don't think any comedian has made me laugh harder than Richard Pryor.

Check out Robin Williams' YouTube on golf. It had a lot of very foul language in it, so I am not posting it via a link bt it should be very easy to find. Hilarious.

Looks like he is playing in the Orlando area in January 2013.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/Robin-Wi.../artist/731635

http://www.robinwilliams.com/

I think Chris Rock is hilarious although his routines are R rated.

Lethal Weapon 4 with his routines with Joe Pesce.

No one could make me laugh harder than the late Sam Kinneson, though he was very rough around the edges. Of the current comics the choice is black and white! Lewis Black and Ron White.