Who were your favourite comedian(s) when you were a kid? Post a link.

[applegrove]

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Mine were growing up......

Don Rickles
Prof. Irwin Corey
Jonathan Winters

[leftieNanner]

2. Haven't got links yet.

Jackie Gleason

Smothers Brothers

Danny Kaye

Rowan and Martin (Alan Sues in particular)

Early SNL (but that was later)

Edit to add: Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett and Tim Conway

[yellowdogintexas]

3. Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs, Spike Jones

George Gobel, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam.

My mother was responsible for my love of Allen, Kovacs and Jones. Steve Allen was a true Renaissance man: author of light detective fiction, hilarious sketch comedian, musician/composer. Kovacs was simply light years ahead of his time and died far too young.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Cheech and Chong, Rodney Dangerfield, Benny Hill ...

Tom Lehrer (vis-a-vis my stepdad's old records)
Original SNL cast
Everyone in Mel Brooks' movies, such as Gene Wilder
Everyone on The Carol Burnett Show
Everyone on All in the Family & The Jeffersons
Everyone on M.A.S.H.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Red Skelton.

[csziggy]

15. Yep - he was brilliant

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Monty Python

Cheech and Chong
Lenny Bruce
Belle Barth

[sop]

7. George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Red Skelton.

[doc03]

9. Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton George Carlin and Flip Wilson

[Marthe48]

10. Soupy Sales and Jonathan Winters

Smothers Brothers and Rowan and Martin

Soupy Sales:

I heard he never knew what was going to be behind the door. Once it was a naked woman. Which didn't show up on the screen.

Jonathan Winters: I have a copy of Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. He's hilarious, fits in with the whole cast

Smothers Brothers:

Rowan and Martin:

I watched this, had some of the News of the Future segment. The more things change, the more they stay the same!

[lpbk2713]

11. Charlie Kallas ... aside from others above.

And Foster Brooks.

[Archae]

12. I won't post a link, for a big reason.

When I was a kid, and until fairly recently, I loved Bill Cosby.

He could make me laugh so hard, and at that time no one had any real clue as to what a pervert he really was.

Nowadays I can't stand him.

One though from my teen years, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, "The Two-Thousand Year Old Man."

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Ernie Kovacs

[Brother Buzz]

14. The Button-Down Mind Of - Bob Newhart

The Driving Instructor is the track I remember best

Jonathan Winters was another one, but I can't remember anything specific.

[love_katz]

19. I am an instructor for commercial drivers.

This is a scream! I can so relate to this. Thank you!.

[ChubbyStar]

24. I love Bob Newhart!

My Dad had all his records, I so enjoyed sitting on the couch with him and listening to Newhart. We also listened to Lenny Bruce, my Dad was a great guy!

[Brother Buzz]

36. So did I. My parents caught the acts at San Francisco's Hungry i.....

and all we got were the records.


I remember listening to Jonathan Winters and Phyllis Diller fondly, but I just remembered another one, Mort Sahl!

Note: Mort Sahl and Robin Williams became really close friends years later

[Wolf Frankula]

16. Tom and Dick Smothers

Wolf

[love_katz]

18. Thank you!

I had forgotten how great the Smothers Brothers were . Thanks Wolf.

[Va Lefty]

26. Mine too!

[Bradshaw3]

37. Me too! Affected my political thinking as well

Became a big fan of them in the mid-60s as a pre-teen. Then a big part of the late 60s and early 70s for me finding cultural and political perspectives. Love Dick and Tommie.

[Rhiannon12866]

17. I always thought that David Brenner was very funny!

[UniteFightBack]

20. Bugs Bunny. nt

[zanana1]

21. Soupy Sales

[mithnanthy]

23. Soupy Sales

..with White Fang and Black tooth....and Hippy and Pookie...it was so silly and I was a young teenager. I also liked many of the ones already mentioned. Recalling the days of my youth....ahhhhh.

[Fla Dem]

22. Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Lucille Ball

[applegrove]

39. Oh yes, Carol Burnett. I used to watch her after highschool. Genius.

[surrealAmerican]

25. Pat Paulsen

[Ohiogal]

27. Hands down

George Carlin.

[underpants]

28. Well I hate to say this but it was Bill Cosby

I memorized several of his albums. My mom won't have possibly let me have Richard Pryor.
Johnathan Winters was really really funny too.
My Steve Martin album got stolen during one of our moves.

[Sneederbunk]

29. Jonathan Winters

[Cartoonist]

30. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton

No, I'm not that old.

My real hero is Mel Blanc.

[Miles Archer]

31. Jackie freakin' VERNON, baby,,,JACKIE VERNON.

In a similar vein to Rodney Dangerfield.

He had a joke about a teacher named Sig Sackewicz..."If the kid was bad, he'd eat his lunch. If he was REALLY bad, he'd eat the kid."

So it was Jackie, Rodney, Bob & Ray, Jonathan Winters...folks like that. They'd all lure you into the joke and smack you down with the punchline.

[dameatball]

32. Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Rodney Dangerfield,Richard Pryor, Phyllis Diller

Maybe not strictly comedians, but Jackie Gleason, Three Stooges, Laurel& Hardy.

By the time George Carlin came along I was no longer a kid.

[demosincebirth]

42. You're about my age. I loved them , too. Saturday at the Rex theatre in downtown Oakland. I pissed

in my pants one time. Gleason on the Honey Mooners.

[calguy]

33. Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, Flip Wilson

[dawg day]

34. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Camp Granada Song), Allan Sherman

We played this record over and over. I can still sing the whole song.

[in2herbs]

35. ZaZu Pitts.

[Bayard]

38. Bill Cosby

My brother brought one of his albums home, and we listened to it over and over--especially the bit about Noah. No apologies, it was funny as hell.

Never missed a Smothers Brothers show either.

[Thunderbeast]

40. Red Skelton...Hands Down!

[Totally Tunsie]

41. George Carlin was King, but Shelley Berman was a close second.

[lillypaddle]

43. The three stooges, of course

Used to hurry home from school to catch their daily show on TV. Don't think I need a link, do I?

Okay, if you insist:

https://www.threestooges.com/