Meh!
Posted on 06/24/2010 9:23:55 PM PDT by TaraP
Just a fun question, to see who your favorite comedian might be, past or current?
I would say mine is Flip Wilson, especially when he did *Geraldine*
Here is one of his funny ones he did with Joe Namath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-355kMZxUN4
They just don't make *em* like this anymore!
Meh!
So many of you are saying Tim Conway. Some of his humor is genetic — his son is on KFI 640 am in L.A. now in the evenings, and while he is very different from his Dad, he has a very likable dry humor and great attitude. He’s obviously a conservative, and his take on news and current events is refreshing.
He has this show every Thursday evening at 8 pst called “What the Hell Did Jesse Jackson Say?” where people win prizes for deciphering small snippets of a REVrund Jackson speech. It’s fun and DIFFICULT!! :)
Add to that Dave Allen, The Two Ronnies, The Goonies. Terry Thomas. Cook and Moore. George Formby.
They had some great ones of 20+ years ago.
Darned funny program.
Still holds up today
Honestly, they’re all pretty dang funny. Walter’s a hoot too.
I don’t think anyone is being forgetful. Picking a favorite is impossible. The epitome of a long and fast thread.
Back in high school my nightly routine was Benny Hill, then Dave Allen at Large.
Lucille Ball
George Carlin
Ray Romano
But I think the true comedy is in the writing in various sit-coms.
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I can't argue with that but Peanut is still my favorite.
Peter Sellers, not necessarily a comedian, but he just slays me. In interviews and so forth, not just in his movie roles.
Norm McDonald is killer in interviews.
Dennis Leary also one of my favorites, I love this one:
And I also don’t go for this other thing now, with MTV being so big where you get a band that gets a hit video, and all of the sudden they think that they’re like icons and they can tell us how to feel about environmental issues and how to vote and stuff. You know what I’m talking about?
Like R.E.M. “Shiny Happy People” “Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey! Pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike, alright!? I want everybody off the bus. I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over here, ok! I represent angry gun-toting meat-eating f’ing people, alright!” Sit down and shut the f-— up Michael!
Don Henley’s gonna tell me how to vote. I don’t f-—ing think so, ok? I got two words for Don Henley, Joe F-—ing Walsh, ok!? Thanks for calling, Don! How long’s your pony tail now? Ok!
An on going laugh I have is Billy Crystal, wondering out loud on the Tonight Show more than 20 years ago, what Howard Cosell sounds like when the phone rings in the middle of the night and he answers it.
I just love the classics LoL
Gleason/Carney were classic. perfect foils and compadres.
Dave Allen was a riot
This one is great. Carson Roast~
Johnathan Winters is hillarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VrNURaMhnA
Why so cranky Rembrandt? This is a fun thread. You have to jump on folks for comma splices?
Bob Newhart or Jerry Seinfeld.
No flames necessary. He's one of the greatest.
I miss when humor was mostly clean. It took creativity and a real understanding of human nature to produce laughter you could enjoy even sitting next to your pastor. Now so much that passes for humor is scatalogical, profane or vicious. And we are becoming a crude, crass civilization.
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