OK, you're on my Christmas card list.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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!
“See this? This is sand. You know nothing can grow in this sh*t? Here, eat some. Taste it you little...
It’s Sand!
Ya know what it’s gonna be in a thousand years?
IT’S GONNA BE SAND!!
Nothing grows here!
Nothing’s GONNA grow here!”
I'll second that. Unexcelled master of deadpan delivery and the three-second-delay punch line.
Funny, they were both some of my favorites, too...
I must’ve mentioned I travelled down the road (US 95) where Kinison died (south of Las Vegas) three weeks after it happened back in ‘92. Creepy, you saw him three weeks before he died, and I saw where he died three weeks after...
"When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box.
I was an only child. Eventually."
I saw Richard Jeni in Vegas. He had me and my date laughing so hard, he stopped the show to ask if we were going to be okay.
I always enjoyed the Carol Burnett show and recall skits where Korman would try to keep a straight face but start cracking up. Something about that just made it funnier to me. Korman was great in Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part I. And I remember Tim Conway and Don Knotts movies making me laugh when I was a kid. Not on par with other comedians, but good memories anyway.
Dennis Leary was one of my favorites, too.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin is probably my favorite only because I enjoyed so many of his movies.
Larry Miller’s observations in his book Spoiled Rotten in America kept me chuckling.
Others include- Chris Farley, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Lucille Ball, Steven Wright, Albert Brooks, Dave Chappelle, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Hicks, Dennis Leary, Louie Anderson, Billy Crystal, Robert Klein, Jackie Mason, Phil Hartman, Bernie Mac, Robin Williams, George Burns, Ben Stiller, Johnny Carson, Eddie Murphy, Roseanne Barr, Dick Van Dyke, Mike Myers, Sandra Bernhart, Dana Carvey, Harry Shearer, Martin Short, John Leguizamo, Garry Shandling, Jennifer Saunders, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, George Carlin, Rich Little, Richard Lewis, Dennis Miller, Rodney Dangerfield, Tina Fey, Eric Idle, Dom DeLuise, Ron White, Drew Carey, Chris Tucker, and Glenn Beck!
I’m answering the question this way *PING*
OK, you're on my Christmas card list.
Cheers!
How about you?
What do you think of me?
Carol Burnett & Company
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Cloris Leachmann, Dom DeLuise, Clevon Little
John Cleese - Faulty Towers, and the rest of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
First cast of Saturday Night Live
The entire cast, including Spencer Tracey, of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The original The Producers, Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, Dick Shawn & the rest
Can’t pick just one.
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