On the heels of Carlin passing away, list some of your favorites.
Jerry Seinfeld is #1 for me
Robin Williams
Richard Pryor
Carlin (early years)
Dane Cook
Some less well known
Pablo Francisco
Mitch Hedberg (a stoner that is deadpan funny)
I must be a bit more twisted than you guys, my favorite is Stephen Lynch.
Carlin's "Class Clown" is a classic, my first copy was an eight track so that puts it in a time frame for you.
Brian Regen
Dane Cook
GC
Steven Wright
Todd Barry
Larry
Ron White
Jeff Foxworthy
Mitch Fatel
Dave Attel
Lewis Black
Caliendo
Carrington
Jim Gaffigan
Lisa Lampinelli
Robert Schimell
Another vote for Bill Cosby
The Smothers Brothers (Mom always liked you best)
George Carlin
Mark Lowery, Christian Comedian (Most MMers wont know who he is).
I never got the whole Lenny Bruce thing, I didnt think that he was funny but he always shows up on lists like this.
Mine are, in no particular order:
Craig Gass
Sam Kinnison
George Carlin
Eddie Murphy
Dave Chapelle
Steven Wright
Joel Hodgeson (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
Richard Pryor
Bill Cosby
Eric
Ultra liberal, wolf loving, illiterate, gay, hippie midgets on crack piss me off!!!!
Jerry Clowers
If you never heard him find a a tape or disc of the One about the one About "the dogs I have known"
I had a bunch of his stuff But loaned them out and now I have none, If any of you listen to his stuff you will agree he's the top.
Gator, I grew up listening to Jerry, or as my Dad pronounced it, "Jayree". So many cool stories about the Ledbetters and coon huntin'. My Dad and I listened to 4 hours worth of his stuff on our way hunting last year. My Dad got to have dinner with "Jayree" and his wife back in the 70's and said that there are few men on this earth as nice and genuine as him. His material is pretty dated and tame by today's standards but I still love it!
Eric
Ultra liberal, wolf loving, illiterate, gay, hippie midgets on crack piss me off!!!!
LAST EDITED ON Jun-29-08 AT 08:33PM (MST)[p]Bennet Brauer here.............
"That's right, Bennett Brauer back with another commentary. Thought you've seen the last of ol' Bennett, perhaps. Thought the network bigwigs would have sent Bennett and his negative "view rating" on a slow boat to shanghai.
Well, maybe I don't "look the part".
I'm not "felt".
I don't "look comfortable on camera".
I'm not "gabby".
I don't "understand what'd going on in the news".
I'm not "likable".
I don't "get along with people".
When I go to work, I don't "make eye contact".
I guess I don't "fit the mold".
I don't "wear the latest clothes" or even ones that don't "reek".
I don't "change my underwear".
I'm not "buff".
I don't have "firm breasts".
I don't "exercise".
And when I do sweat, I don't "shower".
I'm not "spick and span". I don't "clean the area between my crotch and legs".
But, for the time being, I guess the network "enforcers" are opting for my approach, until Joe Consumer tells them he'd rather get his 2 cents from commentators who don't "make babies cry" and don't "drink maple syrup straight from the bottle," and don't "leave old dried up deodorant cakes under their arms for weeks at a time,