stand up comedy, whoddya like?

[emef]

thanks to soulseek i`ve been finding quite a few great stand up comedians.

always liked bill hicks,peter kay, lee evans, lucy porter, noble and silver, eddie murphy

but been on a total soulseek mission the last few months
and now listening to great stand up from
george carlin, larry the cable guy, jeff foxworthy, dave chapelle and mitch hedburg.

top stuff, any good ones i`m missing and should check?

[Weishaupt]

mark hawkins

[tsr_robban]

i think steve martins old stuff is cool and richard pryor has some great standups if you like eddie murphy

[DsD]

george w. bush?

[emef]

Originally posted by tsr_robban
i think steve martins old stuff is cool and richard pryor has some great standups if you like eddie murphy

yeah i like richard pryor, not been able to soulseek anything of his

[Daddys Girl]

Originally posted by emef


yeah i like richard pryor, not been able to soulseek anything of his

My Mum has some of his Stand-Up routines he released on Vinyl YEARS ago - always give me and my sister a rude laugh when we listen to it.

Early Eddie Murphy is wicked too.

D_G ;o)

[Me?]

Originally posted by Weishaupt
mark hawkins

LOL

In the same vein I would have to nominate Emef :)

[jukka]

hahaha..........

so bring on the M&M show :D

[Weishaupt]

m&m?...who´s the brown and who´s the red one...?

[bitconductor]

someone said lenny bruce

[V Knid esq]

Apart from the aforementioned:

Steven Wright, Emo Phillips, Mark Steele, Nige From Vidz, Sean Hughes (no, really), Alan Davies (no, really!!), Lenny Bruce, Johnny Vegas (of course!)...

[FiST]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
Apart from the aforementioned:

, Nige From Vidz,

i saw him make a total tit of himself at T in the park last year, drunk off his welsh tits and giving the bbc producers minor heart attacks by falling over and cutting his face open, whilst trying to roller skate back to his room. amazingly he was on top form the next day when they started filming.

[dOn`T dO iT]

HARRY HILL is my god... the way he constructs his own ridiculous world and then procedes to romp around in it is genius... his standup is class
I also have a top top Steve Martin Video from 1979 (i think) where he wears a white suit, plays the banjo (very well) , and clowns around relentlessly proving that he is a "wwild and craaiizy guy." This is my favourite ever standup set

[dOn`T dO iT]

oh... and bernard manning of course

[goone]

emef you forgot billy connelly




dave allen is cool too

[goone]

bill hicks is my fave by a million miles
if there was too people i coiuld raise from the dead to see perform
it would be nill hicks and bob marley
jimi hendrix would be a close 3rd

the beatles wouldnt get a sniff
theyre shite

[goone]

except for that bit at the end of strawberry fields that rules

[databombers]

Originally posted by dOn`T dO iT
[B]HARRY HILL is my god..

oh... and bernard manning of course B]

hey, ur joking right?

I cant stand harry hill, dunno what it is but he really pisses me right off, and bernard manning well he's a f***in wan**er, up there with roy chubby brown but thats just my opinion.....

sorry J

i used to really like the mary Whitehouse experience, back in the late 80's, early 90's

[databombers]

also like bill hicks and peter kay. Peter Kay, is great at observational comedy...

[emef]

Originally posted by goone
emef you forgot billy connelly




dave allen is cool too

yeah dave allen is well funny, watched some reruns of his 80s shows recently, crackin

billy connelly`s ok-ish but i`m not that fussed

[platinumray]

Originally posted by goone
emef you forgot billy connelly




dave allen is cool too

Dave Allen is my mothers cousin but I never found him that funny.

[V Knid esq]

Billy Connoly back in the day was a true artist of standup.

I actually do like harry hill - his stand up is different to his TV shows as it has insane structure and he will build all the running jokes up through the thing then tie them together at the end brilliantly.

I tell you who I can't fucking stand - Al Murray The Pub Landlord. OK, a few good gags, but 99% of it is exactly the sort of out-and-out racist nastiness it claims to be taking the piss out of. He always says it's like Alf Garnett - BOLLOCKS is it. Alf Garnett had a cast of characters around him to make him look a twat. Murray doesn't make the character look dumb, not at all - he makes him look very clever in fact... e.g. reeling off all the lists of people britain has beaten in wars. He's not a pisstake of jingoism and prejudice, it's dumb fucking playing to the thugs' gallery of the worst sort. Cunt.

[V Knid esq]

Roy Chubby Brown (real name Royston Vasey, comedy geeks) might be offensive, but like Jerry Sadowitz he makes up for it by hating EVERYBODY. And he does have some really good lines, and serious guts.

When he played in Cleveland just after the major child abuse news story he said "I'm surprised you've turned up - I thought you'd all be at home fucking yer kids".

And when he played in a catholic social club in liverpool, he caught sight of the huge crucifixion statue at the back of the hall and went "oh I see you got the guy who nicked yer video!"

[Sheridan]

see if you can find stuff from chris tucker. he played smokey in the movie friday and was in those rush hour movies with jackie chan. the old stand up he did in the 90's on def comedy jam were so funny.
and david cross has some awesome stand up as well.

[bitch one]

league against tedium

[Paddy]

bill hicks.

the big yins older stuff (billy connelly).

[databombers]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
Roy Chubby Brown (real name Royston Vasey, comedy geeks) might be offensive, but like Jerry Sadowitz he makes up for it by hating EVERYBODY. And he does have some really good lines, and serious guts.

When he played in Cleveland just after the major child abuse news story he said "I'm surprised you've turned up - I thought you'd all be at home fucking yer kids".

And when he played in a catholic social club in liverpool, he caught sight of the huge crucifixion statue at the back of the hall and went "oh I see you got the guy who nicked yer video!"

ha, ha, totally agree..... Jerry Sadowitz in the USA was top as well - quality late nite TV

[dOn`T dO iT]

@Esther.. i`m joking about manning but Harry hill is really my favourite.. sorry

[databombers]

ok, well i'l let u off this time !!>)

Harry Hill is actually a really clever bloke innit, didnt he study @oxford or summat and used to be a doctor (G.P) ? I know loads a people who really like him, but there's something about him that just annoy's me.. each to there own aye...

[JE:5]

Try and find some Derek and Clive (Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore)

[Loz]

surprised no one has mentioned Eddie Izzard.

Saw him in the absolutely massive Wembley Arena just before Christmas, but still enjoyed myself, didn't stop laughing throughout the entire show. He is a fucking genius, in my book.

League Against Tedium, as afore mentioned, is brilliant, one of my favourite comedy quotes comes from them:

"I never know what to say after sex. 'Thank you' always seems too much, and 'I'm sorry' never enough."


Also, Ed Burn was brilliant when I saw him. He played to about 60 people in a 600 seater venue, and didn't tone his show down at all, so much respect to him.


And possibly my favourite stand up - Stewart Lee. Yes, he performs the same 6 jokes every show he does, but every time I see him, I still laugh my arse off. Plus he's a genuinely nice guy, too.

[emef]

Originally posted by dOn`T dO iT
@Esther.. i`m joking about manning but Harry hill is really my favourite.. sorry

harry hill went a bit not so funny for a while, but he`s killing me with that tv burp programme... surreal :)

@loz completely forget about him, i`ve got dressed to kill, funny stuff

[Paddy]

Originally posted by JE:5
Try and find some Derek and Clive (Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore)



ive got a derek and clive cd. my favouite is 'cancer'. totally un-pc!

[owain_k]

Peter Kay .......... best live act i ever saw !

[filthydom]

Got really into going to comedy nights recently as Nottingham has a great little comedy night on sunday nights and finishing of a messy weekend by drinking yourself stupid and laughing your tits off is a great idea in my book.

Saw Ross Noble recently who was funny as fuck and pretty much completely adlib. Reg D. Hunter was really entertaining as well, just a captivating public speaker who I'd happily listen to with out the punchlines. Bill Bailey is dead good, and musical too as he seems to be able to play about every instrument known to man and make it funny at the same time. Mark Thomas is always dead funny but I've not seen him live yet. Ricky Gervais's "Animals" dvd had me in stitches over xmas as well.

Oh and I go with Me?'s suggestion of Emef as well. Definately potential for a career in stand up...

[love_tempo]

Originally posted by Loz
surprised no one has mentioned Eddie Izzard.


Me too...he is a genius. I always remember the bit about the 'cats per square ironing board' when I am conducting scientific experiments.

Did you notice how all the divx online seem to be corrupt though? I think he is planting fake ones the devil !

[tsr_fredrik]

hmm I would squeeze in Pablo Fransisco. he is funny

[tsr_robban]

Originally posted by dOn`T dO iT
I also have a top top Steve Martin Video from 1979 (i think) where he wears a white suit, plays the banjo (very well) , and clowns around relentlessly proving that he is a "wwild and craaiizy guy." This is my favourite ever standup set

YEAH

[Ruben A]

nonono..the one and only (two) shows..
Eddie Murphy "Delerious" and "Raw"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeehaaa

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by nik-nak




ive got a derek and clive cd. my favouite is 'cancer'. totally un-pc!

"my old man's got cancer he's got cancer up 'is arse, he's got cancer all the way up 'is fuckin arm cos he's fuckin working class"

The worst thing about that is that Dudley Moore's dad actually had just died of cancer when Peter Cooke did that. Nasty. But funny.

[Yer_Maw]

no one mentioned eddie izzard? hes crap now, but the first few videos are still amazin.

[Me?]

I love the Derek and Clive stuff.
I know what you mean about Harry Hill, I can see he is clever but I fine him totally annoying too.
I cant remember his name but the guy that won celebrity big brother, hes funny, he wasnt funny in big brother but his stand up is.

[Loz]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw
no one mentioned eddie izzard? hes crap now, but the first few videos are still amazin.

Circle was crap, his new show is right back on form.

[dOn`T dO iT]

I also went to wembley to see Izzard but i found it was a little .. erm, well , for example he kept being quite out there and "wacky" but then kept ruining it by stopping and saying things like "WOW.. I`m talking about gorillas choosing dungarees - how wacky am I ?"
The first 3 videos are spot on but sorry eddy, you`ve lost me as a die hard fan.

[Daddys Girl]

Angie Lemar is quite funny

D_G ;o)

[anarchosyn]

* Eddie Izzard ("funniest man in england" - John Cleese)

* Doug Stanhope (standup, not tv show)

* David Cross (album came out on SubPop, it's a double disc live of his standup tour across the US lastyear.. amazing stuff).

[Mice Elf]

Derek and Clive were amazing
"jump you fucker" is a class song
and there was me thinking dudley moore was a geek when I was a kid!

[penciLneck]

D&C Huurr.

[tsr_robban]

oh oh oh !! dont forget Robin Williams !

and he can sweat too =)

[philsmum]

It's all about The Diceman Andrew Clay. Fuck everything else.

[Mui]

dave hughes is great.
judith lucy also.

[river]

Hicks
Chapelle (to the gods, I had perma-grin MDMA style the last time I saw him)
& Izzard.

In that order. ;)

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by philsmum
It's all about The Diceman Andrew Clay. Fuck everything else.

No.

Peter Cook could have murdered him with a single word.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1021544069804_20 02/05/17/ent_comedy18.jpg

Bling motherfucking bling.

[emef]

Originally posted by philsmum
It's all about The Diceman Andrew Clay. Fuck everything else.

why am i not surprised that hate filled fuck is a big hit with you?

now i see his influence working through you bigtime.