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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #25 on: January 04, 2011, 04:56:31 PM »
Mitch Hedberg
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2011, 05:55:24 PM »
Joe Biden's pretty good, too. He can make me bust a gut without even trying.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2011, 08:10:46 PM »
Richard Jeni

Died much, much too soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDM_96X40BU  (Link NSFW - language...)
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2011, 08:11:57 PM »
I miss Bill Hicks.  Died in 1994 at the age of 32 I think.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2011, 08:18:36 PM »
Steve Martin.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #30 on: January 04, 2011, 08:50:03 PM »
Quote from: GigaBuist on January 04, 2011, 08:11:57 PM
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.
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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.
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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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #31 on: January 04, 2011, 09:23:49 PM »
Quote from: mtnbkr on January 04, 2011, 11:29:04 AM
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. 

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Even better is he does it clean.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #32 on: January 04, 2011, 10:01:55 PM »
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.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #33 on: January 04, 2011, 10:19:14 PM »
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #34 on: January 04, 2011, 10:48:18 PM »
Steve Martin, Andy Kaufman, John Belushi...I forgot about them. Hilarious.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #35 on: January 04, 2011, 10:56:29 PM »
 ???  Many of these comedians are not lost. Very few of them are "forgotten."

One of the lost, Phil Hartman.  =(
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #36 on: January 05, 2011, 11:12:57 AM »
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!"

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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #37 on: January 05, 2011, 12:40:33 PM »
Rudy Ray Moore
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #38 on: January 05, 2011, 03:02:38 PM »
not that he's dead, but [popcorn]

oh and Carson, the real one not the mtv boob. and Pryor was good to. =D
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #39 on: January 05, 2011, 03:09:10 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on January 04, 2011, 10:56:29 PM
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #40 on: January 05, 2011, 05:05:45 PM »
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #41 on: January 05, 2011, 06:48:26 PM »
I would have mentioned Belushi, but I'm still peeved at him for dying.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #42 on: January 05, 2011, 09:08:10 PM »
The original Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players.   Magic in a bottle....
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #43 on: January 05, 2011, 11:15:29 PM »
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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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2011, 11:31:58 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on January 05, 2011, 11:15:29 PM
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #45 on: January 06, 2011, 07:46:53 PM »
bill cosby,  (still have one of his ALBUMS!)  bob newhart,  robin williams.
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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #46 on: January 06, 2011, 10:33:18 PM »
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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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #47 on: January 07, 2011, 09:15:48 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on January 06, 2011, 10:33:18 PM
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #48 on: January 09, 2011, 10:19:18 AM »
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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Re: Comedians lost and forgotten
« Reply #49 on: January 09, 2011, 11:42:09 AM »
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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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