Topic: Favorite Standup Comedy Acts (Read 2933 times)

Julians_Wife · « **on:** Jun 25, 2006, 08:40 PM »

What are your favorite stand up comedy acts that you can buy/watch?

These are a few of mine

Eddie Murphy - Raw and Delirious
Chris Rock - Bigger and Blacker
Denis Leary - Lock n Load, No cure for Cancer and his roast
Sam Kinison - Louder than Hell, Breaking the Rules
Kings of Comedy - Bernie Mac, DL Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Steve Harvey

Jdub · « **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 08:52 PM »

Eddie Izzard

Julians_Wife · « **Reply #2 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 08:54 PM »

Quote from: Jdub on Jun 25, 2006, 08:52 PM

Eddie Izzard

how'd I guess you'd say that LOL

Saucy Bastard · « **Reply #3 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 09:29 PM »

Jeremy Hotz

"Once seen, you'll always remember Hotz for his trademark mannerism. After almost every line, he coyly draws his thumb and first finger up to his mouth, half turns away from the audience and smiles a silent, smug smile.

Rich with superiority, this affectation straddles the line separating the endearing from the hugely annoying. But whatever else, as a quirk to set him aside from other comics, it certainly works.

If he seems all-too pleased with himself, it's for good reason. Many of his one-liners are devastatingly accurate. Cruel, sardonic, hilarious they're the sort of gags other comics envy. In a tight set, the relentless bam-bam-bam of sharp, crafted gags is unstoppable and unassailable."

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trailerchick · « **Reply #4 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 09:33 PM »

I love Jeremy Hotz! He rocks. His take on the attempt on Chretiens life is hilarious.

Mitch Hedburg
Bill Hicks
Dave Chapelle

sohcahtoa · « **Reply #5 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 09:57 PM »

Oh man Saucy, I saw Jeremy Hotz live a couple years ago and nearly shat myself laughing.

Some other standup acts that I love though...

Scott Falconbridge(saw him live)
Russel Peters(saw him live)
Dennis Leary
Dave Attel
Dave Chappelle
Shaun Majumder(saw him live)

For any standup fans out there I HIGHLY recommend going to the Just For Laughs Tour if it comes anywhere near you. It's one of the only events that does come near where I live so I've gone to it every year for the last 4 years now.

Julians_Wife · « **Reply #6 on:** Jun 25, 2006, 10:12 PM »

Quote from: Saucy Bastard on Jun 25, 2006, 09:29 PM

Jeremy Hotz

"Once seen, you'll always remember Hotz for his trademark mannerism. After almost every line, he coyly draws his thumb and first finger up to his mouth, half turns away from the audience and smiles a silent, smug smile.

Rich with superiority, this affectation straddles the line separating the endearing from the hugely annoying. But whatever else, as a quirk to set him aside from other comics, it certainly works.

If he seems all-too pleased with himself, it's for good reason. Many of his one-liners are devastatingly accurate. Cruel, sardonic, hilarious they're the sort of gags other comics envy. In a tight set, the relentless bam-bam-bam of sharp, crafted gags is unstoppable and unassailable."

yeah he's a funny fucker forsure, I've seen him on many a comedy show and his stuff never gets old.

SgtMeowsteen · « **Reply #7 on:** Jun 26, 2006, 02:31 AM »

Larry the Cable Guy (More fun than a Tornado in a Trailer Park)
Dom Irrera ("I don't....do yoo??")
Carlos Mencia
Chappelle
Norm MacDonald
Robert Schimmel (I've seen him like 6 times)
Uncle Larry ("that's a tip from your uncle Larr")
Harland Williams ("It's great to be here in Tampa I MEAN Tempe...sorry")
Eddie Murphy ("Oh you just seen Rocky.")
Dennis Miller (Before he went Republican on me)

and I can't forget the king.......Rodney Dangerfield ('Hey ! you scratched my anchor !")

Canuckguy · « **Reply #8 on:** Jun 26, 2006, 03:59 AM »

Andew Dice Clay

Djet3k · « **Reply #9 on:** Jun 26, 2006, 05:44 AM »

Lol seen him on stern recently the guy has become a charactar of himself , a joke , deffently not the cool ny loudmouth he used to be..

Jim Gaffigan is one of my favorite new time comedians and a must see imo ,warning though his stand up is 95% about food

Carlos Mencia is also one of the better of the new league imo allthough he seem to be suffering now from mass production, doesnt help the quality of his act..

Classics i like allot :

Seinfeld
George Carlin
Bill Hicks
Dennis Leary
Chappelle
Chris Rock
Eddie Murphy
Dice
Artie LAng
Mitch hedberg
Dave Attel
Some of Dane Cooks Stuff

All these are in my dvd collection..(exept Mitch ofc cause hasn't got a dvd released..)

Wish i saw more of Norm macdonalds stand up act..ony seen bits..

RumNCoke · « **Reply #10 on:** Jun 26, 2006, 07:50 AM »

Most of the heavyweights have already been mentioned. I'm really enjoying Dane Cook's stuff. Oh, and Lewis Black also.

Shit machine gun · « **Reply #11 on:** Jun 26, 2006, 08:15 AM »

I like watching Last Comic Standing as they are amatuers and some are really funny. Plus you'll never know who's going to be the next Ralphie May. That's one fat funny motherfucker.

letsgo2smokes · « **Reply #12 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 01:26 AM »

I cant remember who it was but anyways...I was listening and he had a funny act throughout...It was in Montreal and He was Canadian....Well he goes somewere along the lines of "Anybody from the USA here"....Couple people start clapping then he goes where yeah from then the guy in the crowd says New york then the comedian goes i got a friend in Los Angeles you know him?? ....He kinda did it in a way that he reminded me of Dane cook...It probably sounds really stupid here but some acts have to actually see or else it just sounds stupid.

Djet3k · « **Reply #13 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 02:05 AM »

stephen wright is another good one

DavidB_Bubbles · « **Reply #14 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 10:55 AM »

Quote from: Djet3k on Jun 27, 2006, 02:05 AM

stephen wright is another good one

Hell Ya Djet Stephen Wright is hilarious

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Last week, I went to a furniture store to look for a decaffeinated coffee table. They couldn't help me.

What's another word for "thesaurus"?

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child . . . eventually.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

I have a switch in my apartment that doesn't do anything. Every once in a while I turn it on and off. One day I got a call from a guy in France who said, "Cut it out!"

I replaced the headlights on my car with strobe lights. Now it looks like I'm the only one moving.

All delivered in his unique style, just too funny.

I also like

Jerry Seinfeld
Robin Williams
Eddie Murphy
George Carlin
Dennis Leary
Sam Kinison.... and others that I cannot remember right now.

Djet3k · « **Reply #15 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 12:01 PM »

hehe reminds me of Mitch hedberghs style too when you read it like that

theres no dryer comedian then wright though

hehe heres a Stephen Wright story thats a fun read imo

Quote

The Beach by Steven Wright

Originally Published in Rolling Stone Magazine - Summer 1986

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE BEACH.

I, Phillip, a small boy of twelve, lay exhausted, not knowing if I was sleeping or if I was daydreaming that I was sleeping. Gently I rocked back in forth in my hammock, a hammock woven out of the eyelashes of 1000 deer. There was always a gentle breeze at the top of the 300-foot stainless-steel trees where my hammock was located. All the trees were stainless-steel in the Shiny National Forest. Some of the trees had been sawed down and cut into 60-foot lengths, then sold as flagpoles to people who lived in reality, many, many years away. I had never worked so hard in my life as in these past few hours. My clothes proved that I had labored, stained with confusion, compliments and criticism, all things that are not machine washable.

I was living on Water Island. A small island, sizewise. The island had no shore. All islands are above sea level, but this was ridiculous. The entire land mass was 200 feet above the ocean. All sand. Not one human had ever been near the water. And why the hell should they? You don't see fish trying to get on the roofs of buildings.

The year was a very long time ago. The island was ruled by a king. King Sammy. King Sammy lived in the Great Formica Castle, located at the bottom of Sand Valley. The king experienced temporary insanity every day. The Formica grew wild. There was much Formica left over after the castle was completed. The extra Formica would be sold to people who lived in reality, many, many years away. Nobody ever imagined that parts of King Sammy's castle would end up in kitchens.

The king was the king because he controlled gravity. That was the only reason he was king. Which was good enough when you think about it. If he didn't like you for any reason, he would snap his fingers and you would float higher and higher until he snapped them again and you would stay at that height forever or until he brought you back down again, maybe.

People were living at different heights all over the place. The people the king hated the most were very high up in the sky, sitting on stainless-steel chairs. The people who who lived in reality, many, many years away, would look into the sky and invent the word "star." They would also invent the word "shooting star," which was actually a person on a chair that the king was moving to another position.

The reason I lived in a hammock at 300 feet was I was a waiter at the castle, and one night, entranced by the beauty of the king's niece, I accidentally served soup on flat dishes. I smiled at the young girl, the king snapped his fingers, and I went up through a skylight and have been living at 300 feet ever since. I overtook Styrofoam Canyon.

To please King Sammy and again live on the ground was indeed my goal. I was notified of my chance to do this one day at about an hour before the beginning of time. A bird flew to my hammock delivering a small letter. An invitation to possible fate. It was from the king himself. It said, "Dear Phillip: As you know, this year I will be celebrating my birthday on August 11th. If you can arrange a unique festival I will again allow you to live on the ground or at least at eye level and maybe date my niece, Princess Sammintine. I know your great-great-grandfather invented socializing. That is why I'm giving you this chance. If not, I'm sure you will be reaching further heights. Sincerely, King Sammy."

Actually my great-great-grandfather was really a hermit and invented socializing just as a joke.

So here was my chance to redeem myself and live on the ground again. I decided I would go to sleep and dream about what to do. Often I would wave goodbye when I went to sleep. As a small boy I would sometimes sleep with my eyes open so all my dreams would take place in my room. It was raining. There was a great rainbow. Rainbows over Water Island were made of a light plastic.

I was standing on a cliff looking out into the great ocean. The ocean was called Land Ocean. Just then a herd of deer ran by. None of them had eyelashes.

The water was beautiful. The king loved water. Hmmm hmm. The king was very fond of water, to the point where he installed a pool that surrounded the entire castle. Other kings would later copy this idea.

King Sammy could not swim. People who were great swimmers were despised by the king and forced to live on twelve-foot chairs. My dream then switched to housekeeping, which startled me awake.

Yes, yes, the king loved water. If only Water Island had a shore.

I began to work. I got rid of the sand the only way I knew how, I vacuumed it. Night and day I vacuumed until the sand on Water Island got lower and lower, closer to the ocean. Inadvertently, I was inventing the beach.

It was the night of August 10th. I needed much help. So I hired hundreds of small children to help remove the sand. I gave them little plastic buckets and little plastic shovels. The children removed tons of sand. They worked very hard, although they thought they were playing.

Soon the land was level with the water. An unusually beautiful sight to see for the first time: the shore, the beach. I walked up and down this peaceful area trying to avoid the broken glass.

I wrote a letter to King Sammy. "Dear King Sammy: Meet me where I'm going to be. Sincerely, Phillip."

I then prepared the festival. I brought loads of food and ale packed in boxes that were built in the Styrofoam Canyon. I brought small, horizontal fireplaces that stood on little legs. I hired a group of minstrels who could only play music too loud.

Fate lessons of the past and present were now in session. Tradition was about to begin. King Sammy arrived at the beach with fifteen court jesters, his wife, Edna, Princess Sammintine, and several other men and women who were walking around at different heights. Some of them he really didn't like and made them arrive in their underwear. People in reality would do this willingly, many, many years away.

The minstrels began to play. The king danced with the waves. I danced with the shadow of the king, and the idea of Princess Sammintine kissed the back of my memory of the events that took place.

We drank until we almost drowned on land.

A seventy-two-year-old childhood friend of the king cut the plastic rainbows into circles and filled them with air to create colorful bouncing balls. As the king snapped his fingers to the music, people were flying up and down all over the beach. The children with plastic buckets were now heavily into the construction of little castles made of sand, so the king would feel at home.

The more the king drank, the more he liked the people, and the more he liked the people, the lower they were to the ground.

Soon people were actually lying down on little cotton flags all over the beach.

I invited a few of the great swimmers on twelve-foot chairs. The king ordered them to stay in their chairs unless someone was drowning. They wore bright orange shorts.

I had a waterproof pen. The ocean was very calm. The king wanted bigger waves. So I drew huge waves on the ocean. The ships didn't understand.

As the madness continued, I made my way over to Princess Sammintine. I asked her if she wanted a massage. She said, "Yes, but not physically." I said, "How do you like the beach?" She said, "Well, it's kind of sandy." I apologized for the beach's being sandy. Then I said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "No, you're boring, and besides I've seen fatter legs on a bird."

I smiled at Princess Sammintine and accidentally served clam chowder on flat dishes. The king snapped his fingers, and I went up 300 feet onto my hammock in the sky.

I lay there swinging in the breeze, knowing that a situation like that would never take place again.

Enrico_Gruen · « **Reply #16 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 12:06 PM »

There's a comic in Toronto named Mark Forward. If you ever get the chance to see him, do it...I laugh 'til it hurts every time.

Other good ones:
George Carlin (the master)
Denis Leary (like 10 years ago)
Dave Chapelle

Djet3k · « **Reply #17 on:** Jun 27, 2006, 12:08 PM »

yeah i noticed recently that dennis learys only good stand up is no cure for cancer, well he only made two! the other one is lock and load and is not that good

but i geuss noone can deny that no cure for cancer left quiet an impact! deffenetly in my top 5 stand up shows

SgtMeowsteen · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 29, 2006, 05:59 PM »

Quote from: RumNCoke on Jun 26, 2006, 07:50 AM

Most of the heavyweights have already been mentioned. I'm really enjoying Dane Cook's stuff. Oh, and Lewis Black also.

I can't believe I forgot Mr. Back in Black.

He puts the "fresh" back into Refuckingfreshing comedy.

Enrico_Gruen · « **Reply #19 on:** Jun 29, 2006, 09:06 PM »

I noticed a trailer for some teen comedy that casts Lewis Black as the school principal.

I'm ready to enroll now!!

Djet3k · « **Reply #20 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 08:13 AM »

I forgot one of my fav comedy central presents eps! Kevin nealon was hilarious on it imo!
He has this joke that he does allot , also on snl, where he says the lines that hes really thinking quickly between the things he saying,it will always crack me up!

Dam cant seem to find it on youtube

DavidB_Bubbles · « **Reply #21 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 09:09 AM »

Oh yeah Djet, the act or character was called Mr Subliminal

so maybe search for that

Funny act by him indeed.

Djet3k · « **Reply #22 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 10:55 AM »

Quote from: DavidB_Bubbles on Jul 14, 2006, 09:09 AM

Oh yeah Djet, the act or character was called Mr Subliminal so maybe search for that Funny act by him indeed.

Crap i should look it up again but that could take months i got the stand up episode somewhere.. maybe better to just download again and upload to youtube myself since i couldnt find anything on youtube or google video

Cappy · « **Reply #23 on:** Jul 14, 2006, 06:45 PM »

Lewis Black, hands down.

Djet3k · « **Reply #24 on:** Dec 14, 2006, 03:54 AM »

some great heckle moments!

Joe Rogan
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Bill Hicks
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Jamie Fox
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Bill Burr (10min of stand up against a wall of shouting)
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This clip is of Thomas Lennon(Lt. Dangle) and Ben Garant(Junior) of Reno 911 during a QandA of the movie they have coming out about ping pong. The idiot gets up to the mic and starts berating them with why they made a movie that is making fun of ping pong, and these two charge and give him a wedgie.

Jamie Kennedy
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Politically Correct Heckler Vs Comedian guy
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Bill Clinton
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