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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: grislyatoms on January 04, 2011, 02:50:33 AM
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Ray Stevens - the original "Larry the Cable Guy" and Jeff Foxworthy rolled into one
Don Rickles
Redd Foxx
others?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOHOHKBEqE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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Henny Youngman. A true craftsman and the author of a lot of one-liners still in use today.
Take my wife... please.
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
You know why divorces cost so much? They're worth it.
<rim shots>
I'm pretty sure he's the one who came up with "Doc, it hurts when I do this." / "So stop doing that."
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Jerry Clower.
Chris
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Hudson and Landry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_%26_Landry)
Hudson and Landry in a shortened, animated version of "The Prospectors". (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1DTMP8-nc)
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Red Skelton - an alltime class act all the way around.
Justin Wilson
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Red Skelton - an alltime class act all the way around.
Saw Red Skelton live at the Arizona State Fair many years ago. He was the best.
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Red Skelton - Big thumbs up.
Don't know Jerry Clower or Hudson and Landry - I'll take a listen.
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Foster Brooks
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"I'm pretty sure he's the one who came up with "Doc, it hurts when I do this." / "So stop doing that."
Not much experience with Henny Youngman sorry to say - I was always led to believe the Doc bit was Groucho Marx.
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George Carlin
Bill Cosby
Tim Conway
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Groucho Marx. Ok, so he didn't officially do stand-up, but who are we kidding, the movies were mostly just to provide a setting for Groucho's comedy.
Mentioned the Marx brothers to someone a while back, she couldn't figure out why I was such a fan of communism. :facepalm:
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Carol Burnett -she did some stand-up, but was more of a comedic actress, known for short skits. (Though I didn't like her Eunice & Mama routines.)
George Burns
Bob Hope (More of a comedic actor, but did some good stand-up, especially with his USO shows.)
W.C. Fields (WAY before my time - his routines varied between hilarious and rotten.)
Dave Allen (Irish comedian, I remember him for his briefly-televised show Dave Allen At Large. I found him consistently funnier than Benny Hill, who was just silly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia178T1i8ss&feature=related )
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Jonathan Winters. His mind was warped enough that things just sprung out of it.
I always liked David Brenner, although he wasn't a pioneer.
Lenny Bruce was funny, and was a pioneer, although not necessarily in areas that I'd approve of today.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOHOHKBEqE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU&feature=channel
I have always enjoyed Ray Stevens' Mississippi Squirrel Revival. I have the CD somewhere just for that song.
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Bill Cosby
I still laugh while watching "Bill Cosby: Himself". That concert has to be nearly 30 years old by now.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I rented it because it covered a lot about childbirth and raising kids. She laughed so much, I thought she was going to squirt the kid out right there. :D
Not only a funny guy, but a smart one as well.
Chris
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I still laugh while watching "Bill Cosby: Himself". That concert has to be nearly 30 years old by now.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I rented it because it covered a lot about childbirth and raising kids. She laughed so much, I thought she was going to squirt the kid out right there. :D
Not only a funny guy, but a smart one as well.
Chris
A comedian has never made me laugh as hard as Bill in that show.
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Carol Burnett -she did some stand-up, but was more of a comedic actress, known for short skits. (Though I didn't like her Eunice & Mama routines.)
George Burns and Gracie Allen
Bob Hope (More of a comedic actor, but did some good stand-up, especially with his USO shows.)
W.C. Fields (WAY before my time - his routines varied between hilarious and rotten.)
Dave Allen (Irish comedian, I remember him for his briefly-televised show Dave Allen At Large. I found him consistently funnier than Benny Hill, who was just silly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia178T1i8ss&feature=related )
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I still laugh while watching "Bill Cosby: Himself". That concert has to be nearly 30 years old by now.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I rented it because it covered a lot about childbirth and raising kids. She laughed so much, I thought she was going to squirt the kid out right there. :D
Not only a funny guy, but a smart one as well.
Chris
Definitely one of the funniest men ever born. Imagine trying to remain still when my favorite hottie dentist starts doing Bill's "Smobaboke coming out of my mouth!" routine while she is grinding on my molar!
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while she is grinding on my molar!
That's an interesting dance.
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I just checked, BC: Himself is 28yo this year. Dayum.
Some quotes in case anyone is interested: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083652/quotes
Just reading through them, I was chuckling. :D
Chris
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Sam Kineson.
Rest in peace - I hope you found in death the tranquility that eluded you in life..... :'(
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I just checked, BC: Himself is 28yo this year. Dayum.
Some quotes in case anyone is interested: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083652/quotes
Just reading through them, I was chuckling. :D
Chris
"How long can you tread water?"
"Lord, what's a cubit?"
And my all-time favorite from an album I can't remember the name of: the schtick he did about ordering from the speaker-thingy at the drive-thru, ending with the speaker-thingy saying "...and six beers" and Bill saying "We'll take it!"
stay safe.
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For Christmas, I got my dad the Dean Martin Roasts. Ten Dvd's in the initial pack then one a month from there on out. We were rolling on the floor...
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Total reading fail on my part at first.
Getting deeper and deeper in this thread, I'm thinking to myself, "WTF? These guys weren't Canadian!"
:facepalm:
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Red Skelton - an alltime class act all the way around.
Flip Wilson
Jonathan Winters
Sid Cesar
Jimmy Durante
Dom DeLuise
Shelley Berman ("Flying is the safest way to fly." "They have seatbelts on airplanes in case the plane comes to a sudden stop ... like against a mountain.")
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Mitch Hedberg
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Joe Biden's pretty good, too. He can make me bust a gut without even trying.
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Richard Jeni
Died much, much too soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDM_96X40BU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDM_96X40BU) (Link NSFW - language...)
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I miss Bill Hicks. Died in 1994 at the age of 32 I think.
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Steve Martin.
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I miss Bill Hicks. Died in 1994 at the age of 32 I think.
Beat Tuco to the punch. Bill Hicks is Tuco's first choice.
Hooligans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnEpaSOFwk
10,000 Year old earth!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmglGWMsdk
Presidential Politics and the controlling elite!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MRykTpw1RQ&feature=related
Bill Hicks was a master - "Noam Chomsky with dick jokes"
Sure to offend
Andy Kaufman was a genius, too, assuming he was doing his later stuff intentionally - otherwise Tuco thinks he was just a very, very strange man.
http://tinyurl.com/7ss36o
Belushi, too - watch it through to the end. Tuco remembers seeing this one on a SNL broadcast.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/dont-look-back-in-anger/280236/
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I still laugh while watching "Bill Cosby: Himself". That concert has to be nearly 30 years old by now.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I rented it because it covered a lot about childbirth and raising kids. She laughed so much, I thought she was going to squirt the kid out right there. :D
Not only a funny guy, but a smart one as well.
Chris
Even better is he does it clean.
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My brother and I had a record or something from Bill Cosby when we were little kids. The only part I remember was him talking about getting his tonsils removed, but there was lots more.
Of course, we watched Fat Albert when I was a kids. I doubt that would be put on TV these days. I still like that introductions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WT-fxBNKs8
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Jack Benny
Gracie Allen. George wrote two books you should read. I have both and just finished them.. Gracie and My 100 Favorite Stories.
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Steve Martin, Andy Kaufman, John Belushi...I forgot about them. Hilarious.
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??? Many of these comedians are not lost. Very few of them are "forgotten."
One of the lost, Phil Hartman. =(
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Hawkmoon mentioned Sid Caesar. Gawd, how could I have forgotten him? (AFAIK, he's still living in Queens, NY. My mother met him once or twice on this or that occasion.)
And that brought up memories of watching Ernie Kovacs. Now there was an innovator!
I still remember Cosby's bit on his father getting "...the.....Belt!"
It was 12 feet long.... and it had hooks on the end to tear the flesh from your body...
It made my mother's 12" wooden spaghetti spoon pale by comparison.
"Terr-ENCE! Get... the.. Spoon!"
<sphincter-shrink>
Terry, 230RN
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Rudy Ray Moore
Although there is nothing I can quote of RRM's here.
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not that he's dead, but [popcorn] (http://www.kevinmeaney.com/)
oh and Carson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson), the real one not the mtv boob. and Pryor (http://www.richardpryor.com/0/4107/0/1239/) was good to. =D
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One of the lost, Phil Hartman. =(
I remember him from such self-help videos as Smoke Yourself Thin and Get Confident, Stupid.
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I will second (third? fourth?) Bill Cosby. I have a bunch of his routines on CD, and pull them out every so often. I remember seeing 'Himself' on HBO as a kid, and literally having to leave the room so that I could breathe.
No one else here is a fan of Abbott and Costello?
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I would have mentioned Belushi, but I'm still peeved at him for dying.
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The original Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players. Magic in a bottle....
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The original Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players. Magic in a bottle....
I often wonder if SNL back then was really that much better than in later years, or if it was just me aging. Or maybe it was just an original idea and an unmatched group of unknowns.
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I often wonder if SNL back then was really that much better than in later years, or if it was just me aging. Or maybe it was just an original idea and an unmatched group of unknowns.
They were pioneers, broke new ground and really pushed the envelope. And yes, they were that good.
You know it's good, if you still go back to years later and it's still funny. If it makes you laugh over and over, then it's timeless and classic.
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bill cosby, (still have one of his ALBUMS!) bob newhart, robin williams.
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You know it's good, if you still go back to years later and it's still funny. If it makes you laugh over and over, then it's timeless and classic.
It's even funnier now that I'm not stoned. ;)
I was wondering if/when someone would mention Robin Williams. I think he was a brilliant comic (not as funny these days), but am also a bit gun shy about mentioning him here.
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It's even funnier now that I'm not stoned. ;)
I was wondering if/when someone would mention Robin Williams. I think he was a brilliant comic (not as funny these days), but am also a bit gun shy about mentioning him here.
i remember watching the emmy(?) awards co-hosted by whoopi goldberg, billy crystal, and robin williams. all very funny improv comics, but robin had the other two laughing so hard that they couldn't even talk.
oh, i forgot steven wright.
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Two black stand-up comics from my youth... Nipsey Russell (Sp?) and Godfrey Cambridge. It may have been the age I was, but they were hysterically funny. Lots of funny people being mentioned, such as Belushi, but I never saw them do straight stand-up.
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Lots of funny people being mentioned, such as Belushi, but I never saw them do straight stand-up.
Belushi did sight gags, much like Hillary Clinton.
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Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. (Hard to separate the pair.)