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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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Barack Hussein Obama


335 posted on 08/08/2016 6:22:25 PM PDT by JT Hatter (Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
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Red Skelton or Bob Hope

Others as well

Neither of those could act well

Steve Martin can act and do stand up

Nicholson can act and be funny doing so


338 posted on 08/08/2016 6:30:37 PM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
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Bob Hope. There is no other person who dominated Vaudeville, Radio, Movies and TV and did so for decades.
339 posted on 08/08/2016 6:33:14 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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Cagney could do it all. He sang, danced, and he was a great actor.


341 posted on 08/08/2016 6:35:02 PM PDT by forgotten man
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Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield. Both did good stand-up and both were great in Back to School.


342 posted on 08/08/2016 6:37:05 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Mel Brooks.

Slim Pickens.

Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine


344 posted on 08/08/2016 6:46:28 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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Excellent topic. Very, very good comments. Thanks.

Red Skelton. Saw him live in 1984. One and a half hours of pure joy.
Conan. His Youtube videos crack me every day.

Writers in Hollywood always said there was one guy to write for: Sid Caesar.


348 posted on 08/08/2016 6:55:17 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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Charlie Chaplin


352 posted on 08/08/2016 7:04:16 PM PDT by albertabound
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Greatest male comedian, Jerry Lewis, and greatest female comedian, Lucille Ball.

Greatest actor, Charlton Heston.


353 posted on 08/08/2016 7:04:54 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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Greatest actor: Robert Duvall
Greatest comedian: Carol Burnett


354 posted on 08/08/2016 7:07:20 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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Sam Kinison.


355 posted on 08/08/2016 7:19:20 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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Wouldn’t say #1 but deserves a mention for making people laugh

PAUL LYNDE Hollywood Squares


356 posted on 08/08/2016 7:21:44 PM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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When I was a kid, Laurel & Hardy were my favorites. Abbott & Costello, too.

Have to give Buster Keaton props, his comedic stunts are amazing to this day.

Jackie Gleason’ Honeymooners established so many sitcom basics.

Carlin was rude and crude, but always laugh-out-loud funny

More recently, loved the Airplane! and Naked Gun movies.
MST3K reruns still make me laugh.

Of the more recent comedians, I like Brian Regan and Jim Gaffigan.


362 posted on 08/08/2016 8:07:38 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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I been diggin on ol Red Foxx as Fred Sanford lately.
That show is hilarious. He’s an old black bigot but, it’s so funny, it’s from back when we could still laugh about such things.


367 posted on 08/08/2016 9:09:58 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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Agreed: W. C. Fields. You nailed it.

Plus the Marx Brothers.


370 posted on 08/08/2016 9:32:47 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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couple of points. I want to put Jerry Lewis into nomination. In the 50s and early 60s he was king. I do like the Marx brothers Fields and the others. Robin Williams more recently.

I think Jim Carey was the new Lewis. His work in The Mask was great. There were times I couldn’t tell whether he was doing his physical schtick or it was special effects. I know he imploded, but he’s a great physical comic.

I’d add best entertainer of the last century. Bob Hope, radio, movies, comedy, TV, the military, and sang and danced some. I don’t think anyone can touch him for all over entertainer.


375 posted on 08/08/2016 10:06:22 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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I may take some flack for this however; in spite of her utterly reprehensible political views Barbra Streisand (along with Ryan O'Neil) was absolutely hilarious in the movie:

"What's Up Doc?" ..."Love is never having to say you're sorry" ..."That's the STUPIDEST thing I ever heard of."

Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis & Marilyn Monroe, in: "Some Like it Hot".

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Peter Falk & Natilie Wood in: "The Great Race". (Jack Lemon said this was the one film in his entire career that he loved the most... "Brandy, throw more brandy"... WHAP, he gets hit in the face with another pie: ... "Rum, blech... I never mix my drinks!")

Peter Falk & Allan Arkin: "The In-laws". ..."Serpentine Sheldon, SERPENTINE!"

376 posted on 08/08/2016 10:08:19 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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Peter Sellers....John Cleese....that Mr Bean actor?????

Bill Murray in What About Bob?

Undercover Hero...Peter Sellers 1975


383 posted on 08/08/2016 11:16:47 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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I’m surprised that this thread could get to almost four hundred posts without a mention of Ernie Kovacs. Now there was one funny guy who died way too soon.


400 posted on 08/09/2016 10:41:11 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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Jerry Lewis. Period. End of discussion.


402 posted on 08/09/2016 1:59:45 PM PDT by YankeeinOkieville (Obamanation [oh-bom-uh-nay-shuhn] n. -- ignorance and arrogance in the highest offices)
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