Funniest actors of all time?

[MNDude]

There have been actors that have made people laugh since the days of Charlie Chaplin. We all have our favorites whether it's John Candy is or Robin Williams. Who do you think are the three funniest actors of all time?

[Mike Darancette]

1. Jack Benny
2. Bob Hope
3. Cary Grant or Stan Laurel

[Mike Darancette]

Then I stopped smoking dope and grew up. They aren't as funny now. Sorry, I could only come up with two

Forgot the rest.

[Morgana]

I found it...don’t know who he is. It’s not POW POW POW it’s BAM BAM BAM that he shouts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0AdtgFbqOc

[Stepan12]

I loved the Three Stooges. My mother met them at party and they were all short.

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[Cvengr]

Henny Youngman
Jonathan Winters
Groucho Marx
Johnny Carson
Ernie Kovacs
Sid Caesar
Bob Newhart
Red Skelton
Carl Reiner
Tim Conway
Carol Burnett
Sam Kinison
Steve Martin
Don Rickles
Rodney Dangerfield
Michael Palin
John Cleese
Bob Hope

[Charles Henrickson]

1. Curly Howard
2. Groucho Marx
3. Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean

[driftless2]

"Williams...never made me laugh"

ditto. In his forty year career I never laughed at one William's joke or bit. Yet I've seen him act in some serious roles and do an excellent job.

[Cvengr]

Henny Youngman,....I went to my doctor. I told him, Doc, Doc,... it hurts when I do this. ..He said, Don’t do that!

[GeronL]

that is just ridiculous

[greene66]

I was watching one of Buster Keaton’s cheapo 1930s ‘talkie’ short-subjects, made for low-budget Educational Pictures about a year ago, and even though the shorts are usually derided as Keaton at his weakest, a sight gag in one of them gave me one of the biggest laughs I’d had in ages.

He played a gas-station attendent out in a dusty desert, and a woman drives up to the station, her auto covered in desert sand/dust. Keaton is using a rag to knock the dust off the car and windshield, and then goofily continues on to actually dusting the woman in the driver’s seat as well. He stops and curiously twists the end of his little rag (making you wonder what he’s up to) into a point. And then he directs it towards the woman’s ear, as if to wipe the dust from it. She naturally slaps his hand away, annoyed at his ridiculous affrontery.

Just marvelous, totally visual humor. A weird little visual gag that seems to just come out of the blue.

[rockinqsranch]

Jonathon Winters, Carol Burnett, Mel Blanc

[Busko]

John Cleese, the silly walk. Any Monty Python sketch with Cleese, Idle, Palin.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd

[HandyDandy]

As Guy Caballero? I used to wreck every weekend by staying up very late on Fri nights to watch SCTV.

[Mygirlsmom]

Ernie Kovacs :)

[Batman11]

Chubsy Ubsey and the whole Little Rascals gang!

[dfwgator]

That whole SCTV crew was great: Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Catherine O’hara (Not Guilty I might add), Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, John Candy, etc.

[Cowman]

I find it hard to believe that no one has mentioned the great Red Green.

“Harold! You're getting dangerously close to quaint — And You know how I feel about QUAINT!”

Keep your stick on the ice.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Lou Costello - Susquehanna Hat Company and taking on the Wolf Man:
"When the moon comes out I turn into a wolf"
'You and a million other guys".....

[HandyDandy]

“If the ladies don’t find ya handsome, at least they’ll find ya handy!”