Favourite Living Comedian?

[Badgers]

Of course you meant to say Leary stole it from Hicks...

I never said it, Hicks did:

Hicks told an interviewer: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

 

[Sadken]

I think Hicks was probably being sarcastic there. He was better than Leary in every respect, for me. Not that I really dislike Denis Leary per se.

 

[Badgers]

I think Hicks was probably being sarcastic there. He was better than Leary in every respect, for me. Not that I really dislike Denis Leary per se.

Hicks?
Sarcastic?

I am shocked and upset by this claim

 

[RaverDrew]

Good to see so many Jerry Sadowitz fans on here, I think he shades it as my all time fav.

Harry Hill is also superb, he mixes the bizarre with the daft and is never offensive with it.

 

[Sadken]

Hicks?
Sarcastic?

I am shocked and upset by this claim

Right.....sorry, to clarify, are you saying that Leary stole from Hicks or Hicks from Leary or what? What the fuck are you trying to say?! Cos you originally posted two contradictory quotes from Hicks and everything...but you said you liked Leary better...

 

[Badgers]

Right.....sorry, to clarify, are you saying that Leary stole from Hicks or Hicks from Leary or what? What the fuck are you trying to say?! Cos you originally posted two contradictory quotes from Hicks and everything...but you said you liked Leary better...

I said But Leary did it better than Hicks which was me being sarcastic and referring to a long running discussion about Leary just stealing Hicks work.

 

[Part 2]

Blimey, never knew the Total Abuse Show was online too.

If you've got 55minutes to spare

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4096673142597017908

 

[Sadken]

I said But Leary did it better than Hicks which was me being sarcastic and referring to a long running discussion about Leary just stealing Hicks work.

Oh. Right. So, we agree then? Sorry, it just didn't come over that you were being sarcastic or whatever.

 

[FunkyUK]

Sadowitz

 

[Ranbay]

Badgers and Sadken

 

[editor]

I think, for me, it's between David Cross, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Rob Newman....

I've had the last three at Offline!

*proud

I rather liked Josie Long live too.

 

[Badgers]

Badgers and Sadken

We bounce off each other well

 

[Sadken]

I've had the last three at Offline!

*proud

I rather liked Josie Long live too.

Yeah, I saw that....and it impressed me.

I'm glad you said you like Josie Long - I had heard a lot of good things about her but went to see Rich Herring presenting himself, Stewart Lee and her at Shep Bush recently and she was absolutely awful and it was gutting. Like a child doing stand up, really and it was one of those performances that was painful for performer and audience alike as loads of people went to the bar etc.

I just couldn't even see the nucleus of a good act in what she was saying, what is it about her that you like? I'm not trying to dig you out, I'd just really like to hear someone who likes her explain why cos I just didn't get her at all and, like I say, I was pretty disappointed.

 

[Melinda]

Stephen K Amos was on the Apollo last night (paramount comedy) he was too funny

 

[Sadken]

We bounce off each other well

Hahaha, you can't buy a rapport like we've got

 

[Ranbay]

Hahaha, you can't buy a rapport like we've got

you can, in a sex shop.

 

[skyscraper101]

Ed Byrne, Adam Bloom, and Andrew Maxwell for me.

 

[Sadken]

you can, in a sex shop.

No, that's a gimp mask.

 

[stavros]

Armando Ianucci's book of short sketches is one of the funniest things I've evre read. As a stand-up and script-writer he's pretty patchy though.

You think? His monologues on the Armistice were always pretty good, and he co-wrote I'm Alan Partridge and was the main writer of The Thick Of It. He gets it for me because of his versitility, from the surrealism of The Day Today, to the character analysis of Partridge, to the satire of his columns, The Armistice and The Thick Of it.

 

[Sunspots]

I was a bit disappointed by Doug Stanhope, after all the hype. He just IS Bill Hicks, even more so than the Bill Hicks impersonator doing the rounds last year! His delivery, his subject matter...his entire schtick. Don't get me wrong, I like him but I can't help but think Hicks did it better every time I see Stanhope.

Hicks was better, but yeah, sadly Hicks is long dead.

Stanhope is alive though. I've just been to see him tonight, and thought he was very funny.

Others also currently around that I find funny are David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Bill Bailey, Frankie Boyle, Daniel Kitson, Coogan, Gilbert Gottfried, Larry David, Mark Watson, Stewart Lee, Ian Cognito, and (-sometimes) Will Ferrell.

Hardest I ever laughed at a live stand-up: Mark Thomas, circa '95, before he got serious. -Frenzied stuff (-or maybe I was just very pissed... ).

RIP: Hicks, Carlin, Mitch Hedberg, Laurel & Hardy, Ronnie Barker, and of course loads of others.

 

[Dhimmi]

Bill Bailey is almost unique in using music as part of his act, and some of his funniest gags are musical.

I'm fickle though, if a comedian can make me laugh I like them, all of them.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to state once again "Jim Davidson is a shit."

 

[xenon]

You think? His monologues on the Armistice were always pretty good, and he co-wrote I'm Alan Partridge and was the main writer of The Thick Of It. He gets it for me because of his versitility, from the surrealism of The Day Today, to the character analysis of Partridge, to the satire of his columns, The Armistice and The Thick Of it.

Charm Offensive on R4, though hit and miss, is worth a mention too.

 

[xenon]

Bill Bailey is almost unique in using music as part of his act, and some of his funniest gags are musical.

I'm fickle though, if a comedian can make me laugh I like them, all of them.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to state once again "Jim Davidson is a shit."

I have occasionly laughed at Davidson, in the past. Though IIRC there was fuck all else on telly and I was a bored 17 year old.

I OD'd on Bialey. Made the mistake of downloading his NY tour circa October 2001. Then saw the exact same act a few weeks later. 5 years after, saw him again. Many of the routines were the same.

 

[Dhimmi]

Sounds like he's pulling a Kay... one year's worth of material dragged out to form a career...

 

[harpo]

Haven't read the thread in entirety but Paul Whitehouse.

 

[scooter]

I think Lee Mack's pretty funny

 

[fogbat]

Stewart Lee for me, without a doubt.

When I saw him live around last Christmas time (thank you, quimcunx, by the way), I could barely breathe from laughing so hard. Especially the stuff about seeing Jesus one night after drinking too much.

I love his way of thinking and his delivery.

 

[Sadken]

Re: Bill Bailey - the thing that fucks me off about him is I saw him in 1996 and thought he was really funny but he is still using a lot of the same material from that show to this very day.

 

[hermitical]

I was a bit disappointed by Doug Stanhope, after all the hype. He just IS Bill Hicks, even more so than the Bill Hicks impersonator doing the rounds last year! His delivery, his subject matter...his entire schtick. Don't get me wrong, I like him but I can't help but think Hicks did it better every time I see Stanhope.

never saw Hicks and to be totally homest I haven't overdosed on his stuff, I know what you mean though. Anyway Stanhope was cracking last night, had me wheezing with laughter.... and loving that there was someone else who hated humanity as much as I do

Others...Patton Oswalt, Mitch Hedberg, Daniel Kitson, David Cross, Stewart Lee, Jim Norton, Richard Herring, Todd Barry, Steve Hughes, Frankie Boyle.

But I think Stanhope is my favourite living comedian

 

[Threshers_Flail]

I think Lee Mack's pretty funny

Oh no you don't do you?

Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran are my favs.