favourite standup comedians

[emm7]

who are your favourite standup comedians and what are their best jokes?

[puppydog]

rodney dangerfield
richard pryor
eddie murphy
john oliver
dave chapelle
chris rock
jim carey

that's all i can think of for now.
i won't write out their best jokes.

<edit>
ok one.
rodney dangerfield....

"my wife, she don't give me no respect. The other day she says, 'I wanna have sex in the back seat of the car.' And then she asked me to drive."

[Hiking Fox]

Shouldn't this thread be in 'Culture'?

Anyway, I really like Peter Kay. Anyone who can rant about things like biscuits dissolving in tea or the use of 'emergency chairs' at Christmas for ten minutes and have me laughing so hard I can't breathe gets my vote.

Here's a clip I found: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9ekTf0xc

[Hiking Fox]

Oh, and don't for get the 'Crap Pop' sketch...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=41zqlgjAByg

It could well be that you have to be a 20-40 summat Northern English person to 'get' this humour, but I don't care. It's better than endless jokes about sex and politicians.

[Travelgal08]

Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, Dara O'Briain...

[emm7]

oh fox PETER KAY makes me laugh so hard my innards hurt

me BISCUIT's fallen in me BREW

[ninearms]

David Cross
Brian Posehn
Mitch Hedberg
Demitri Martin

Writing jokes down won't do these guys justice. Youtube is your friend.

[emm7]

ninearms have you got some good links then

[Hiking Fox]

There's a Manchester comedian called Steve Harris who isn't well known outside the area. When I went to see him, the whole audience was completely creased up.

I haven't been able to find a very good example of him online. There's this badly-recorded sketch from a local low-budget comedy club (N.B: Not for the easily offended!):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQzKZJ0fBg

He can be a lot funnier than this, though, if what I saw is anything to go by.

Also, there's John Cooper Clarke, of course. More of a punk poet than a comedian, but fuckin' funny!

EDIT: Here's a link to a recording of 'Chickentown'.
'Bloody colour scheme is brown. Evidently Chickentown.'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FcejJH_FSqc

[moggy]

Peter Kay - possibly because I'm a Northener

[Big Good Wolf]

I like the old ones.

Tommy Cooper;

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, "Have you got anything for wind"
So he gave me a kite.

So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.


Les Dawson;

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I wouldn't say my mother in law was ugly, but she got undressed with the curtains open once and a peeping tom turned himself in.

[Hiking Fox]

I like the old ones.
Tommy Cooper;

Now he was a master.

Typing his jokes doesn't do him justice. His delivery was so spot on.

[Hiking Fox]

I like the old ones.

Ok. Last word from me.

This is a bit long, but is a classic:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

[Big Good Wolf]

I like the self deprecating style of humour some stand ups use.


Alexie Sayle;

I'm an alternative comedian. I'm not funny.


Bob Monkhouse;

People used to laugh at me when I told them I wanted to become a professional comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

[Hiking Fox]

Alexie Sayle;

I'm an alternative comedian. I'm not funny.

Alexi Sayle, of course! I'm going to have a quote from him as a sig, I think...