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The Funniest People Who Have Ever Lived (Vanity)

Posted on 04/12/2013 6:00:41 PM PDT by fhayek

In a recent thread about the death of Jonathan Winters, it was stated that he was one of the funniest men who ever lived. He WAS funny, but he wouldn't be on my list of the funniest who have ever lived. And by "ever", I mean since the dawn of recorded media. My list of the funniest people who have ever lived would be as follows:

Groucho Marx
John Cleese
Mike Myers
Bill Cosby
Peter Cook
Rowan Atkinson
Charlie Chaplin
George Carlin
Mel Brooks
Woody Allen
Douglas Adams.

The sole criterion is that they make me laugh. Hard. Everybody is different. What makes you laugh might make me cringe. And verse visa. So list away...


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To: DonnerT
Spike Jones.

I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk.

141 posted on 04/12/2013 8:14:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fhayek

Forgot Lisa Lampaneli.


142 posted on 04/12/2013 8:23:21 PM PDT by Gefreiter
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To: fhayek

Buster Keaton
No, I’m not THAT old, but he was good.


143 posted on 04/12/2013 8:23:39 PM PDT by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: fhayek

Fred Allen - old time radio
Abe Vigoda - Fish on Barney Miller
Flip Wilson - esp. as Geraldine


144 posted on 04/12/2013 8:26:00 PM PDT by choirboy
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To: fhayek
George Carlin

Mel Brooks

Foster Brooks

Tim Conway

145 posted on 04/12/2013 8:27:12 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Conspicuously absent, Lucille Ball, and
Carl
Hiaason.


146 posted on 04/12/2013 8:29:23 PM PDT by theneanderthal
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To: Revolting cat!

Did you just call Bob Hope unfunny?

I guess everyone has their own ideas but that one is so far off as to by weird.


147 posted on 04/12/2013 8:40:02 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: fhayek
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the funniest things ever written in the English language.
148 posted on 04/12/2013 8:41:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: yarddog

Yes, Bob Hope as a standup comedian reading off cue cards jokes he had purchased for a few dollars. He certainly wasn’t Henny Youngman.


149 posted on 04/12/2013 8:41:51 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: choirboy

Myron Cohen, probably the best of the “Borscht Belt” comedians.


150 posted on 04/12/2013 8:44:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: fhayek

Peter Sellers
Mel Brooks
Martin Short
Mitch Hedberg
Rodney Danger+ield
Tim Conway (the single best piece o+ comedy I have
EVER seen was a skit where he played a Nazi
interrogating Lyle Wagoner, with a thick German
accent. Not getting anywhere, he reaches into his
jacket and pulls out a tiny Hitler handpuppet
and starts striking Wagoner with a tiny pencil
or baton with every question. I almost choked
as the skit went on. I think it’s on Youtube
but it’s a bad print.
A comedian named Geo++ Bolt -—he did only ONE
great bit, also on youtube, I think it was one
o’ those “Young Comedians” things, hosted by John
LaRoquette, which also involved his handpuppet
“Danny”. Bolt never made it into the Big Leagues
o+ Comedy, but this skit remains one o+ the best pieces o comedy I’ve ever seen.
Steven Wright.
Just to name a +ew, o++ the top o’ my head.
——Gotta get this +riggin’ letter +ixed!


151 posted on 04/12/2013 8:48:15 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Revolting cat!

How do you know how much Bob Hope paid for his jokes, How do you know if Henny Youngman didn’t do the same thing.

I guess we have different tastes but Bob Hope certainly was far more popular.


152 posted on 04/12/2013 8:54:07 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: dynachrome

Flip Wilson

Joey Bishop

Rodney Dangerfield

Red Skelton

Kathleen Madigan, (funny but a democrat)

Mr Bean

Red Green


153 posted on 04/12/2013 8:55:57 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: yarddog

It doesn’t matter to me how much who paid for his jokes. I know that Hope did buy his jokes. I also know that “more popular” never ever means better, and in fact more popular among comedians means to me appealed to the lowest common denominator. Scatology, etc. (I don’t mean Hope, whose jokes were just square and lame.) But Bob Hope the standup never made me laugh, and never made laugh the guys that sat next to me in various taverns.


154 posted on 04/12/2013 8:57:41 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Vision
Are you crazy? You missed the the king of them all. Jack Benny.

Jack's most classic masterclass in comedy was when he got an increasingly hysterical laugh from simple silence.

"YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!!"

Silence. The laughter grew and grew.

155 posted on 04/12/2013 9:02:55 PM PDT by InMemoriam (Cyprus initiated the transverse distribution phase of this SHTF event.)
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To: Old Flat Toad
113 posts and no Cheech and Chong?

Cheech ain't here, man...

156 posted on 04/12/2013 9:05:01 PM PDT by InMemoriam (Cyprus initiated the transverse distribution phase of this SHTF event.)
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To: Revolting cat!
The funniest man who’s ever lived (rarely a woman) is someone you’ve known personally, not somebody you watch from a distance on a screen reading somebody else’s jokes

Made me think of one of the first lectures I attended as a university freshman. The professor, a Cambridge-educated Brit, decided to provide us with a critique of our (American) campus architecture. That might not sound promising, but he was a brilliant guy, and once he got rolling -- well, you had to be there. I laughed so hard that I actually fell off my chair.

157 posted on 04/12/2013 9:05:36 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives.)
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To: InMemoriam
Cheech ain't here, man...

Dave? Dave's not here.

158 posted on 04/12/2013 9:08:33 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Rocky

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.


159 posted on 04/12/2013 9:09:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

He stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococo’s pocket.


160 posted on 04/12/2013 9:12:40 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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