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Greatest/Comedian/Actor in our History
Posted on 08/08/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by gigster
Who do you think is historically our greatest actor and comedian?
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: bestcomedian; comedy; genewilder; grouchomarx; stevemartin; timconway
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To: Shanghai Dan
One of the best movies ever made!
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posted on
08/08/2016 3:58:03 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ColdOne
Grant in His Girl Friday is funny
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posted on
08/08/2016 3:58:12 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: gigster
I’d probably pick a ssilent comedian. Silent comedy is the only comedy that stays fresh to me. Jokes get old, but silent gags stay fresh. So, I’ll go with Buster Keaton.
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posted on
08/08/2016 3:58:23 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
("Come back David Dewhurst; all is forgiven!")
To: fhayek
John Cleese has become predictably left wing. But he was great in A Fish Called Wanda.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:00:24 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: gigster
Best comedian? Easy. Richard Pryor.
Honorable mention. Eddie Murphy, because Delirious is still as funny now as it was back then, and very un-PC.
To: ColdOne
One episode of the Carol Burnett Show that cracks me up is where Tim Is playing a Gestapo officer interrogating an American pilot(Lyle Wagoner). At one point Tim puts on a hand puppet of Hitler and puts a pencil in the puppets hands. Tim looks straightfaced at Lyle and says “ he’s gonna hit you with that club!” Lyle completely loses his composure. OMG, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
CC
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:01:31 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: gigster
To: Mears
It's a chat. Thanks for saying what I wanted to say.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:03:26 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: gigster
The correct answer is Jack Benny.
There will be other opinions for second best comedian, however.
To: gigster
I don't consider politics in these kind of things. The funniest television program I ever watched was Fawtly Towers. Cleese was hilarious.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:04:07 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: gigster
Take your pick.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:04:17 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: gigster
The greatest (in my humble opinion) was W.C. Fields, especially for his films Man on the Flying Trapeze, and It’s a Gift. Second place goes to Bob Hope (best line: “In a dirty glass!”)
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:04:25 PM PDT
by
realEmperorNorton
(Trump 2016 - Is This America, Or What?)
To: SamAdams76
I think Judge Reinhold has largely faded away.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:04:36 PM PDT
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gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: Stentor
One of the greatest scenes ever.
“Good teacher. He really seems to care. About what I have no idea.”
To: gigster
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:05:59 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
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To: Billthedrill
Madeline Kahn died too young.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:06:22 PM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: gigster
Cary Grant - he could be funny or not just serious but even threatening and you believed it.
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:06:50 PM PDT
by
Let's Roll
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
To: JoeProBono
LOL, tying in with Eddie Murphy....
“Norton....come down here....I wanna show you somethin.....”
I never looked at The Honeymooners in quite the same way after that.
To: clearcarbon
To: Migraine
hillary clintoon...she always makes me laugh (with gagging and frequent nausea).
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posted on
08/08/2016 4:08:11 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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