Comedy 101
You know we have talked at length about music, politics, weather, prices, and so forth. but the one subject that we haven’t really got onto is comedy and comedians. So take into all of the past questions we have had and apply them to the comedy world.
Who is your favorite Comedian of all time?
What comedy album/recording would you want on a island?
What is your favorite Comedy Movie?
What is the best comedy club that you have ever been to?
What is your favorite joke?(Clean Remember) If it’s blue just give the basic idea of it.
I have just been listening to a lot of comedy lately (the Sat has 3 Channels) and I am interested in what you guys think.
You know that the Laugh response is one of the major reflexes that the human body has that scientists can not explain, so this is one thing that everybody is different in, but we tend to gravitate to friends that share the same commedic tastes. I have never seen 2 friends together that do not agree about at least 1 comedy bit or comedian. So lets discuss.
March 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Just one? No way.
Here goes:
Bob and Ray
Ernie Kovacs
Stan Feeburg
Johnathan Winters
Richard Prior
Eddy Murphy
Lilly Tomlin
Lord Buckley
Robin Williams
Lenny Bruce
Mort Saul
George Bush (for very dark humor. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry)
Nichols and May
and the ones I forgot
March 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Addendum:
Whoopie
I’m still thinking.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
And, if you were a kid then, who can forget Soupy Sales?
March 31st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Bob Newhart
Yeah, Jonathan Winters is awesome.
Guilty pleasure: Chris Rock
April 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Red Fox….”on a cold day I can’t hardly find it.”…..commenting on size.
Moms Maibly (sp?)
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Like Anon, one only is hard….. I’d have to go with Richard Pryor and his album that has “Little Feets” on it….. I have the CD collection of his albums and what’s on what gets mixed-up in my head….. I have never been to a “comedy club”, but, I did see Steve Martin open for “The Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band”….. That was worth the price of admission alone…..
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Crap, how could I have forgotten Steve Martin. Did he play banjo?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Not only banjo – the mandolin, guitar, and slide guitar on a baby-sized guitar with a large baby bottle for a slide…… It was great….. He also sit-in on a couple of numbers with the band…..
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I forgot the Monty Python gang.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Thanks for all the comments, here’s mine.
My favorite of all time has to be Richard Pryor, He had something for all and his career spanned almost 30 years, He even managed to laugh in the face of death( Several Times) Doing his last gig from a wheelchair.
On a island I would want to have, Monty Python at the Hollywood bowl. I can laugh at it anytime.
My favorite Comedy Movie would have to be Animal House. (Say No More)
In the late 80’s I saw Howie Mandel at the original Improv in LA.
I have been to a few comedy clubs but there was nothing like the improv.
My Favorite Joke: There’s a magician doing a show on a cruise ship. each night for 5 nights. The Captain has a parrot that gives the trick away each time. “Braack It’s up his sleeve, Braack It’s under the table.Etc. Finally one night the magician pulls out a gun and shoots at the parrot, But he misses and hits the fuel tanks. the ship blows up, the only survivors are the magician and the parrot. The Parrot comes floating by on a piece of wood and says “OK I give up, Wheres the Ship?
April 6th, 2008 at 1:12 am
All of the above are very funny folk–Jonathan Winters is one of the funniest people alive. I think we’ve left out the Firesign Theatre. My favorite comedian is Bill Hicks. If you deleted all the expletives from
Bill’s material, there would only be half as much of it, but it would still be very funny. “I’m calling this my Flying Saucer Tour, because I too have been appearing in small southern towns before handfuls of hillbillies who sit there staring at me like a dog who’s just been shown a card trick.” Dennis Leary is not very funny despite the fact that he stole his best material from Hicks, who died in 1994.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:15 am
If we’re talkin’ all-time, we musn’t leave out Groucho Marx or Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Groucho and bros, May West got a few off, Will Rogers, Jack Benny, the list keeps going on.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hold on to your f-ing hat, we’ve left out W.C. Fields. What’s the name of that old western farce where Fields and Mae West appeared on screen together. In the final scene, Fields says to West, “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime ?”, and West replies,
“Perhaps I will my little chickadee, perhaps I will”. One of the Firesign boys does a good W.C. Fields voice in TEMORARILY HUMBOLT COUNTY–” ‘Pon this historic occasion, it behooves us to dedicate the Stinking Desert National Indian Monument & Nuclear Testing Range”.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Burns and Allen….”Say goodnight Gracie”
What are we missing from radio?