The Funniest People Who Have Ever Lived (Vanity)

[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...

[Third Person]

Jeeves!!!!!!

[0.E.O]

If you list Peter Cook then you have to include Dudley Moore. The two did their best work together.

[relee]

Al Bundy’s guardian angel, Sam Kinison.

[doc1019]

Too this day I still laugh so hard that tears come to my eyes every time I hear his “Elephant Story”.

[Vision]

All these men are greats, but Benny was timelessly ahead of Hope, Groucho, and Brooks. His humor lives forever...at 7am est an antioch.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’d throw Marty Feldman onto the list. People tend to see him as strictly slapstick for playing off of his very unusual physical appearance for laughs, and that he did, but there was some very sophisticated and subtle humor going on once you got past that. A clever, funny man with a very funny-looking face that had him laughing all the way to the bank, for decades.

[Vision]

That is strange. No worries. We'll miss you.

(:

[knarf]

For that matter ... Will Rogers.

[0.E.O]

Tim Conway (Siamese elephants routine) I laughed ‘til I cried the first time I saw that one.

He adlibbed the whole skit.

[namvolunteer]

Nobody said W.C. Fields?

[bigheadfred]

RICKLES TICKLES? Juuuuust kidding... that man..when truth spoken in sarcasm was jest and not a hate crime

[ohiobushman]

Don Knotts-Dick Van Dyke-Red Skelton-

[Sacajaweau]

Thank goodness....I don’t know who Will Rogers is!!

[mitch5501]

No Michael Palin? He plays the cheeky scallywag like no other.

[drewh]

Carol Burnette, Tim Conway, Harvey Koreman, Phyllis Diller, Lyle Waggoner everone on that show was funny

[napscoordinator]

Chevy Chase (Vacation movies)
Jimmy Fallon
Melissa McCarthy
Carol Burnett
Sandra Bullock
Leslie Nielsen (Airplane Movies)

[Gefreiter]

I’m with you on Jim Carey. Never thought he was especially funny, all the way back to In Living Color. Never liked the three stooges either.

Will Ferrell though definitely.

[muir_redwoods]

Richard Pryor

[Revolting cat!]

Uh, this thread is not funny at all! It's purpose is a mystery (or something that cannot be said).

[Bernard Marx]

I'm a great fan of Mr. Bean and Black Adder (Atkinson) and I own the complete Python series on video. I think the crew worked best as an ensemble, though Cleese did do some very funny solo bits (silly walks, etc.) I loved Peter Cook and his pairing with Moore. They did some classic stuff.

The one I've never heard of, probably because the genre doesn't interest me in the least, is Douglas Adams.

One of the funniest people currently (IMO) is Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory. The guy has some incredible comedy moves.