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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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I'm going out on a limb and proclaiming the great W. C. Fields as our greatest comic Actor.
1 posted on 08/08/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by gigster
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Red Skelton


2 posted on 08/08/2016 3:26:12 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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Wrong website, Giggy! You want Yahoo Answers:

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3 posted on 08/08/2016 3:26:40 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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Jack Benny


4 posted on 08/08/2016 3:26:56 PM PDT by tekriter
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Steve Martin. His comedy is funny. His movies are too. Plus he plays a mean banjo.


5 posted on 08/08/2016 3:27:02 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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Gene Wilder.


6 posted on 08/08/2016 3:27:05 PM PDT by Jhadur ("I'm shocked, Ricky, to discover that gambling is taking place in this establishment.")
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I will have to go with Judge Reinhold on this one.


7 posted on 08/08/2016 3:27:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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Steve Martin was good. Every generation has one.


8 posted on 08/08/2016 3:27:44 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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Charles Chaplin


9 posted on 08/08/2016 3:27:54 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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Steve Martin was good. Every generation has one.


10 posted on 08/08/2016 3:28:04 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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Will Rogers


11 posted on 08/08/2016 3:28:05 PM PDT by The Working Man
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Actor and comedian can be different unless you mean comedic actor.

I think some of the silent movie guys are some of the best - maybe Charlie Chan or Buster Keaton.


12 posted on 08/08/2016 3:28:13 PM PDT by Jim W N
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Bob Hope - 50 years of USO Shows.


13 posted on 08/08/2016 3:28:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
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Walter Matthau was good.


14 posted on 08/08/2016 3:28:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Are you asking best comedic actor? Because the best comedian and best funny actor are two different things.

And it also depends a lot on your age. I am Richard Pryor fan. Best funny actor? That’s a hard one.

But most of the folks on FR are in their eighties, so you will hear a lot of Bob Hope and Johnny Carson....


15 posted on 08/08/2016 3:29:24 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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The funniest comic ever, in my opinion, was Groucho Marx. No one else is even close. Second place is John Cleese.


16 posted on 08/08/2016 3:29:29 PM PDT by fhayek
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My favorite was Jonathan Winters.


17 posted on 08/08/2016 3:29:31 PM PDT by plain talk
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I like him.


18 posted on 08/08/2016 3:29:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Jack Benny


19 posted on 08/08/2016 3:30:06 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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Jackie Gleason.


20 posted on 08/08/2016 3:30:23 PM PDT by johniegrad
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