Favourite Stand Up Comedians

[Guineveretoo]

Jerry Seinfeld
Jack Dee
Peter Kay
Gervais

This is interesting, since Gervais admits to being a crap standup

Apparently, he is a comedy actor rather than a standup, and only did standup after he had become famous, and was persuaded to do it for a dvd.

Or something like that.

 

[jugularvein]

Rich Hall is very clever.

Did a fantastic bit about Tom Cruise and his films.

Can't find any decent links though

 

[Paris Garters]

Fuck, I forgot about Peter Kay. Quality.
And Eddie Izzard, to which, may I add, Phwoar.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think Eddie Izzard has lost it a bit. His performance at the Secret Policeman's Ball wasn't very funny compared to his old material. Russell Brand was far funnier, and he's not even all that.

My faves:

Bill Hicks
Mark Thomas
Adam Bloom
Terry Alderton
Dara O'Briain
Shappi Khorsandi
Ricky Gervais
Eddie Murphy

 

[Guineveretoo]

You're mostly talking about people you have seen on telly, but the majority of standup comedians never make it to telly!

If you want to see some comedians who are just starting out (along with a few who will never make it for good reason!), you should go along to one of the many small clubs in London.

For example, there is a club dead near Elephant and Castle (so virtually home for lots of folks from here!), which is dirt cheap, never very busy, and you should all go there! This is the link

Cheapish beer, too.

 

[camouflage]

You're mostly talking about people you have seen on telly, but the majority of standup comedians never make it to telly!

If you want to see some comedians who are just starting out (along with a few who will never make it for good reason!), you should go along to one of the many small clubs in London.

For example, there is a club dead near Elephant and Castle (so virtually home for lots of folks from here!), which is dirt cheap, never very busy, and you should all go there! This is the link

Cheapish beer, too.

I was going to go to Jangluers in Camden once, but the woman I was going to go with (a date, as it were) never got in touch.

Comedy Clubs = Pain and Rejection

 

[nino_savatte]

Proving the op's point really - Sayle's best stuff was in the '80s and Hicks has been dead 10 years.

There you go.

I forgot to list Mark Steel.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Emo Phillips

 

[PacificOcean]

My faves are:

Bernard Manning
Roy Chubby Brown
Jim Davidson

The holy trinity of stand up.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Richard Pryor.

Cant believe he's not been mentioned .

man was genius .

 

[zoooo]

Noel Fielding
Bill Bailey
Robin Ince
Dylan Moran

Ricky Gervais doesn't think he's a crap standup or he wouldn't keep doing it. He just knows he's not one of the best, and hasn't worked his way up to TV by doing years of standup, like most comedians. I think he's pretty good.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I was going to go to Jangluers in Camden once, but the woman I was going to go with (a date, as it were) never got in touch.

Comedy Clubs = Pain and Rejection

What, you got stood up (ooh, notice the pun there - stand up comedy, standing up a date) once, and that means that all comedy is crap?

Love it!

 

[Guineveretoo]

Ricky Gervais doesn't think he's a crap standup or he wouldn't keep doing it. He just knows he's not one of the best, and hasn't worked his way up to TV by doing years of standup, like most comedians. I think he's pretty good.

Does he keep doing it? I thought he just did a couple of recorded shows and then moved on to the next thing

I did think that him saying that he was crap at standup was probably just covering himself incase he wasn't actually very good, rather than because he really believed. He is an arrogant git. Innit.

 

[Guineveretoo]

My faves are:

Bernard Manning
Roy Chubby Brown
Jim Davidson

The holy trinity of stand up.

*shudder*

 

[zoooo]

I think he's one of the most self effacing TV type blokes around actually!
Oh well. Yeah he's doing another stand up tour called Fame.

 

[jugularvein]

nobody heard of rich hall then

 

[zoooo]

He's good too. And Arj Barker. Jon Stewart was ace too, before he became a world famous TV presenter. Does he still do any stand up?

 

[Guineveretoo]

Jimmy Carr called me a slapper one time, when I was sitting in the front row of one of his gigs.

I actually liked him as a standup (despite that? Or because of his insightfulness?).

Can't stand him on telly!

 

[PacificOcean]

*shudder*

My Mother in Law is so fat that she has her own postcode.

You can't beat quality like that.

 

[zoooo]

Ooh, Russell Brand!
I just bought his stand up dvd. Surprisingly excellent.

 

[spanglechick]

bang up to date, not treading any old territory - i recommend Josie Long.

We saw her at edinburgh - fab. tiny-scale tour now on, i believe.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Daniel Kitson, as often seen at the Brixton comerdy club.

 

[zed]

I went to see Mark Steele in Covent Garden a couple of months back. Was a stand-up show based around the French Revolution. It was good.

Hicks and Pryor were the best stand-ups ever in my opinion.

 

[Orang Utan]

Russel Brand is the best 'new' stand up in a long long time. Don't understand why people don't like him - they just think of Big Brother and don't actually listen to a word he says and nearly everything he says is comedy gold

 

[zoooo]

It is frustrating, because in my experience the people that say they hate him are exactly the ones who would love him if they gave him a chance.

 

[dynamicbaddog]

You're mostly talking about people you have seen on telly, but the majority of standup comedians never make it to telly!

If you want to see some comedians who are just starting out (along with a few who will never make it for good reason!), you should go along to one of the many small clubs in London.

For example, there is a club dead near Elephant and Castle (so virtually home for lots of folks from here!), which is dirt cheap, never very busy, and you should all go there! This is the link

Cheapish beer, too.

That place sounds really good, I'll definatly be up for checking it out as I've been wanting to see more stand up.
I went to see Gina Yashire at the Albany in Deptford last November and it was on of the best nights out I've had in a long while

 

[ccorces1]

i forgot to mention lewis black, he's done one of the best stand-up sets i've ever seen one weekend in Vegas with Russell Peters, i'll never forget it!

 

[bellator]

My other half introduced me to Richard Pryor (apart from the films I'd seen), bee godz - did I larff!! Funny Guy!

 

[zoooo]

ooh, Rob Newman.

And Richard Herring and Stewart Lee!

 

[Paris Garters]

Richard Pryor.

Cant believe he's not been mentioned .

man was genius .

Yes, very, very funny, especially the later stuff.

But the thread's about contemporary stand up, muppet

Which is why I didn't mention the man himself, Bill Hicks.

Bill Bailey's good too, now I come to think of it. There was a woman called Jo caulfield (?) I heard on radio 4 once who had me pissing myself.
God, I'm rubbish at this.

*gets coat*