Favorite comedian

[The_voice_of_reason]

Who is your favorite comedian?
I am going to have to say that Bill Hicks is mine.

"Iraq incredible weapons, incredible weapons 'how do you know?' Well uhhh....... we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears, we're going in."

still gets me, every time.

[Skulhedface]

Either Bill Hicks, George Carlin, or David Cross.

[Spectre X]

mine are Dutch:

Youp van 't Hek ("Fuck a duck hey." cracks me up with the voice he says it with )
Hans Teeuwen ("Well..um...actually, I think all women are..um...FUCKING WHORES! YEAH!" the absurdity of it all )

[Protoclown]

George Carlin
Bill Hicks
Lewis Black

Though the single funniest stand up comedy cd I have heard is Dave Attell's "Skanks for the Memories".

I prefer comedy that has some social relevance though...and while Attell can make me laugh more often and harder than the top three up there, it's more of a pure entertainment value rather than actually making some good observations about society that get me thinking, while making me laugh my ass off.

Honorable mention:

David Cross
Eddie Izzard

[Esuohlim]

Currently, George Carlin. So far I bought eight of his comedy CDs, and they're all the best things I've ever heard.

[Geggy]

When Jesus comes back to earth, the last thing he wants to see is a cross. -Bill Hicks

[Rongi]

George Carlin

I need some of his cds . He is fucking hysterical on HBO.

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Conan O'Brien, David Cross, Lewis Black.

[Immortal Goat]

Lewis Black, and here is why...

"there is no reason to body build...NONE! Thats why God gave us The International House of Pancakes, because you'll always feel good about your body there, no matter what your body is, because there is always somebody there that weighs 350 lbs more than you'll ever weigh, it's guarenteed, it's on the back of the menue, read it sometime!"

[The_voice_of_reason]

I have to say that I love Eddie Izzard too. I'm just pissed I can't get any of his stuff on DVD.

PS did any one see him on Conan O'Brien last night, it was great.


Edit: I just looked it up on Amazon and Dressed to Kill is out on DVD and Glorious comes out Sep. 3

[Professor Cool]

Lewis Black and George Carlin are my favorite.

"If it wasn't for my horse I wouldn't have spent that year in college... if you think about that for more than 3 minutes blood will squirt out your nose!"

[Schimid]

I only saw one of his shows, but Pablo Francisco and Gabriel Eglasias (sp?) are really cool.

But yeah, George Carlin wins.

[timrpgland]

David Cross and I still like Denis Leary.

[Sam]

Dennis Leary has always been one of my favorites, and so has Lewis Black.

I just saw Pablo, and he was hilarious as well.

[Esuohlim]

Originally Posted by timrpgland

David Cross and I still like Denis Leary.

Denis Leary ripped off Bill Hicks

[Generator86]

George Carlin(obvious), Steven Wright, and Dave Attell's 'Skanks for the Memories' are my favourite comedic moments.

The 'Hobo Chili' line cracks me up every time.

[ShanghaiOrange]

George Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright

[Ninjavenom]

Louis Black
Pablo Francisco
Carlin
Mitch Hedberg
David Cross
Andrew Dice Clay
Seinfeld
Laura Kightlinger

Shit, just about everyone on Comedy Central Presents is funny as hell, but i can't stand Bill Dwyer.

[Geggy]

Hard to believe no one has brought up Max Burbank.

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Not really.

[HickMan]

Robin Williams
Lewis Black

[Les Waste]

Lewis Black, Dave Chappelle (his stand-up is fucking hilarious, especially the improvised shit), Mitch Hedberg, David Cross, Mark Maron, Laura Kitlinger, Steve Wright, Dave Attell, Chris Rock, The Amazing Johnathan, Todd Barry.

Just what I can think of off the top of my head. There was this one bald, black guy once on Comedy Central presents who was really funny, but I can't remember his name

[Ninjavenom]

Louis Ramey?

[Jixby Phillips]

Why hasn't anybody said Sarah Silverman

[Les Waste]

Because I forgot.

There was an older episode of SNL with her on the weekend update on recently. It was back when Kevin Nealon did the weekend update. She was funny.

And yeah, Louis Ramey was the black guy. I saw part of his comedy central presents stand-up special when they showed it within the past week. I thought it was really good.