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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: Paladin2

Sam Kinison


81 posted on 08/08/2016 3:43:42 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: clearcarbon

I’m a big Grant fan. (Arsenic and Old Lace!)

But Martin would get my vote. Got to see him on stage when I was in college. He was a hoot. And he shows up occasionally at festivals in the area where my mom lives (Ashville) to entertain and play his banjo. They love him.


82 posted on 08/08/2016 3:44:00 PM PDT by lizma2 (')
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To: aomagrat
Buddy Hackett

He was great. I once had a beer with him while sitting at a bar at Snowmass in Aspen. He was exactly the same in person as he was on screen.

83 posted on 08/08/2016 3:45:10 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Liberty Valance
"I'm starting to appreciate William Powell and Myrna Loy more as I get older. Asta too. ;o)

The Thin Man series
- Outstanding!
84 posted on 08/08/2016 3:45:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: henkster
Sellers was English.

So was Chaplin, though he lived here long enough.

85 posted on 08/08/2016 3:45:28 PM PDT by x
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To: Liberty Valance

You beat me to it :-) William Powell was urbane, but Myrna Loy is probably the most underrated comedienne in movies.

Come to think of it, Carole Lombard comes close, but her untimely death kept her from creating a large enough collection of work.


86 posted on 08/08/2016 3:45:44 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: gigster

Laurel and Hardy...
Peter Sellers...Pink Panther series


87 posted on 08/08/2016 3:46:09 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: gigster

I would not put him among the great comedians but for a serious actor, Leslie Nielsen had a remarkable comedic career in his last years.

I think the first movie I saw him in was, “Forbidden Planet”.


88 posted on 08/08/2016 3:46:36 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: trisham

Yes that is the name. . You can always tell when he is on SNL. I watch it then. You can tell which skits he writes.


89 posted on 08/08/2016 3:46:49 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: nikos1121

I met Red Skelton on a plane in July of 1980 on my way to Juneau Alaska one day. I’m 6’3”, and he saw me and quipped “Look at this guy, He’s big enough to be his own state!”


90 posted on 08/08/2016 3:47:01 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: gigster

Children! I love them. Baked with gravy and mashed potatoes.

Go away kid, you bother me.

Prestidigitation!

Only Mae West could match him with short, one liners that left you laughing in the aisles.

“Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me”? to Cary Grant.


91 posted on 08/08/2016 3:47:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: chajin

Groucho Marx!!! Yes love those movies.


92 posted on 08/08/2016 3:47:55 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: nikos1121

Jack Benny


93 posted on 08/08/2016 3:47:58 PM PDT by NelsonEddyFan
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To: gigster

Don’t like the unclean stuff, but Robin Williams was hilarious and no slouch in the acting department.


94 posted on 08/08/2016 3:48:05 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: gigster

I don’t know who is/was the greatest, but John Ritter was one of the most underrated.


95 posted on 08/08/2016 3:48:07 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: ColdOne

He seems like such a nice man.


96 posted on 08/08/2016 3:48:49 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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To: gigster

Rodney Dangerfield and Redd Foxx.

Two funny ones!


97 posted on 08/08/2016 3:49:26 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Sirius Lee

Agreed! I’d forgotten about him. He died far too young.


98 posted on 08/08/2016 3:49:31 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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To: clearcarbon; Liberty Valance

One of my favs...


99 posted on 08/08/2016 3:49:42 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: Liberty Valance

good comedy team. The thin man

He’s walking around the patio with a cocktail She says ‘dahling I would ask you to help me set up this lawn chair, but you might get all sweaty and die’

They’re introducing their baby to the socialite who says he’s adorable. Myrna Loy says “oh we just adore him ‘ Powell says, smiling, ‘we may as well, we’re stuck with him’


100 posted on 08/08/2016 3:49:46 PM PDT by stanne
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