list of funny stand up comedians

[Tornado69]

Bill Hicks was hilarious and also at the same time so truthful. One of the better pure stand up comedians of all time IMO. Here's some of his stuff http://youtube.com/watch?v=Np6_b-72H3E ... http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8v0d-hxe...ed&search=

[React1oN]

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Jim Gaffigan

Brian Regan

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Richard Pryor

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Txp8B4ek_kk

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Also

Eddie Murphy
George Carlin
Pablo Francisco
Demetri Martin

[raju]

Billy Connoley, i have no links and i probably spelt his name wrong. Very good swearer. I spent a shed load to watch him and missed nearly all of the show as i was laughing so hard

[Tryptamean]

BILL HICKS IS GOD




that is all

[Tryptamean]

Oh yeah, I just scanned and didn't notice David Cross in there.... he is cool

[cognito20]

Dane Cook steals. Some of the stuff he does is funny, but he is notorious among other comics for his shameless theft of material. There was an entire Opie and Anthony show on XM Radio a few months back that pretty much just had eight or ten standups in the studio pointing out, in detail, how and from whom Cook steals. If I can find a link for that show, I'll post it.

Brian Regan is an amazingly funny comic, and he's even more impressive since he handicaps himself in a way by refusing to work blue. He is by far the funniest _clean_ comic working today, by a wide margin, and one of the funniest, period. He's coming to play Ithaca in October and I've already got the tickets.

Speaking of O&A, Jim Norton is an hilarious standup comic, but not for the squeamish or easily offended.

I agree with the immediately preceding posters about the late, great Bill Hicks. (i.e., The Man Who Gave Denis Leary His Entire Act)

In addition, Steven Wright may not be the _funniest_ standup comic ever, but he's definitely the _wittiest_.

--Scott

[dragonystic]

Demetri Martin
Patton Oswald
Paul Thompkins
Maria Bamford
Russell Peters
Brian Regan
Jim Gaffigan
Dave Chapelle
Doug Stanhope
Mike Birbiglia (highly recommended)
Daniel Tosh
Tom Stade
Greg Giraldo
Bill Maher

(I listen to a lot of comedy while I play poker. Makes the beats a little easier.)

btw, i think Dane Cook is terrible and it blows my mind that so many people find him hilarious.

[BostonArmenian]

Going to see Russell Peters tomorrow night--he is so undiscovered...