Worst Comedian In History?

[MoseyWalker]

I think of old stand up comedians, and there were a bunch of crummy ones, but.........

hell, I don't know, I'll laugh at damn near anything!

Who do you think was the crummiest comedian of all time?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Jerry Lewis, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Dennis Miller all come to mind.

[Shell Beau]

I can't listen to Bobcat to even see if he is funny!

My husband feels the same about Gilbert Godfrey!

[Xipe Totec]

11. Jerry Lewis is underrated

He is actually very funny, and has inspired many copy cats. Jim Carrey comes immediately to mind.

And Professor Frink in the "The Simpsons" is a direct copy of Jerry Lewis' "The Nutty Professor"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Maybe - but I just don't think he's funny. Same goes for Benny Hill. Bleh.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Benny Hill is a different genre

British for one, and definitely focused on humor through political incorrectness.

I was watching Jerry Lewis in "The Nutty Professor" a few days ago.

I will grant you that, on the whole, the movie is not all that funny.

But I saw some scenes of completely silent visual comedy that were hilarious. The mannerism, facial expression, timing... It all worked together to deliver a hilarious punch. The scene of the professor going to the Dean's office after blowing up the lab is one such example.

Few modern comedies rely on the comedian's ability to convey mood an emotion though expression. Most rely on word play rather than acting. It is a throwback to the days of comic radio and as such, a waste of visual bandwidth.

[Buddyblazon]

65. The original is hilarious

Buddy Love: Try this....What'll it...

Bartender: What'll it....

Buddy Love: What'll it be....

Bartender: What'll it be....

Buddy Love: What'll it be...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?


I don't find a lot funny. But that scene...and his execution...his smooth character...and that "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" at the end....it still brings me to tears.

[barb162]

68. I never saw anything funny about him

[cmkramer]

97. I love the old Martin and Lewis comedies

There was a lot of funny going on in those movies.

I was never that crazy about Bob Hope as a comedian although his movies were good. Funny thing, my dad shared his politics more than I did, but he didn't like him either.

[mainegreen]

136. Jerry Lewis is a physical comedy GENIUS!

Seriously.

[Throd]

2. Andrew Dice Clay

[Lyric]

12. Damn, you beat me to it. n/t

[Starlight]

37. I agree.

[EFerrari]

57. Maybe not THE worst but on the short list.

:evilgrin:

[BlueIris]

122. Yeah. Disturbing. And not at all funny.

I can handle disturbing, even offensive, sometimes, if in the context of the satirical objective the comedian is going for, the jokes are actually amusing (ie; Chris Rock is funny to me, despite some of his sexist remarks, and the fact that his desire to reclaim terms of opprobrium in his stand-ups means that yes, he uses "racist" language during the routines). But Andrew Dice Clay was just flat-out not funny. Ever.

[Mad_Dem_X]

149. Definitely

He was the first stand-up who ever offended me. I remember watching him, and hearing the audience laughing, and thinking, "This isn't funny at all, it's just stupid!"

[BikeWriter]

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[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Rupert Pupkin (n/t)

[Initech]

5. Larry The Cable Guy and Carrot Top come to mind immediately.

[Shell Beau]

18. Carrot Top FOR SURE!!!

:puke:

And any of the BLue Collar Comedy Tour!

[Ediacara]

38. Ron White (who wears all black) I think can be funny

Foxworthy can also crack an accidental joke.... They're not all unfunny, but Larry the Cable Guy is like an unfunny blackhole that sucks all the humor out of everything on TV that week, thus ruining The 'Blue Collar' (actually, they're all multi-millionaires) Comedy Tour."

[Shell Beau]

41. Is Ron White the guy who always has a drink in his hand?

I can find some things he says funny? But Git-r-done, or whatever, makes me want to hurl!

[Ediacara]

42. Ya, he's the one

Git-R-Done is the asshat in the sleeveless flannel who calls himself "Larry the Cable guy" (real name: Daniel Whitney). He's a Freeper of the first order.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Gilbert Gottfried

[Shell Beau]

7. Well I totally misspelled his name!

[Xipe Totec]

24. More respect than he deserves n/t

[hfojvt]

78. I saw his act once, He went on and on about Kurt Waldheim

not funny at all IMO. But he played the bird in Aladdin cartoons and that bird was freaking hilarious.

[outofbounds]

93. I totally agree

He makes me wish for bamboo shoots to be plunged repeatedly under my fingernails, I had rather listen to dogs bark than 2 seconds of his voice.

[dysfunctional press]

133. Gilbert Gottfried was the FUNNIEST live act i EVER saw.

much better than Andy Kaufman
the worst- George Carlin in Vegas about 8-9 years ago...just PAINFUL.

I've seen A LOT of the Big Names- the BEST three shows- Gilbert, Sam Kinison, and Emo Phillips.

[NYCGirl]

142. Gilbert is a comedy god and I love Emo, too! NT

[Tyrone Slothrop]

153. Carlin was awful when I saw him about 10 years ago

[zanne]

171. Agreed.

He's really gone downhill. Now he resorts to sex to get his laughs.

[QMPMom]

8. Who is the guy that sounds like he is about to start sobbing

when he talks? I cannot stand him.

[philosophie_en_rose]

15. Ben Stein?

Sounds like Droopy the cartoon dog.

[QMPMom]

22. No, he's in his thirties and has dark hair.

He has to be the worst on the planet.

[YDogg]

36. richard lewis?

I know he's older than that, but I find him more than a bit grating.

[QMPMom]

49. I finally found out his name. It's Jeremy Hotz.

The most annoying comedian on the planet.

[MysticalChicken]

104. I must...

respectfully disagree, I watched his Comedy Central special (or maybe it was HBO, I forget) and was laughing pretty hard the entire time.

I haven't seen it in a while, though. Maybe I'll check YouTube.

[u4ic]

117. He's my pick, too!

I think he corpses during jokes, and it just became part of his act.

I think he's Canadian, too. x(

[asthmaticeog]

9. Buddy Hackett.

By a million lengths.

[Fenris]

23. Shecky Green was fairly horrible.

[stanwyck]

10. Joan Rivers

is excruciatingly unfunny and her plastic surgery has rendered her frightening looking. I also didn't care for San Kiniston.

[Shell Beau]

17. My aunt saw Joan while in NYC one time, and she said

she is crude!! NO one was off limits! But she said she laughed her ass off!! :shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

21. Oh! Oh! Can we talk?

She's funny in very small doses.

[smirkymonkey]

98. Ugh - Sam Kinison (sp?) is the worst .

What a loud, obnoxious jerk.

If it's not funny at a normally audible tone of voice, it's REALLY not funny when your screaming it at people.

[MysticalChicken]

105. Lines from a poem

by a friend of mine, Daria O'Neill (the entire poem can be found here):

"The earth shook and quivered, the topsoil burst loose
And in a great roar like the bray of a moose
Who's just drunk a vat of moose-maddening juice
From the grave sprang the doctor, whose last name was Seuss.
Nine years under had left him a corpsy-heart stiller
Blue-tinged and flesh-frayed like an extra from Thriller
A post-mortem figure to give the heart quivers
He still looked more pleasant than a living Joan Rivers."

Joan Rivers is my number-one most hated person on the planet. Every time I see her I can feel my blood start to boil. One of the reasons I rarely, if ever, watch the E! network.

[idgiehkt]

176. I have to disagree on Joan

I saw a show of hers (on tv) from Vegas recently and she was hysterical, just fucking hysterical. I was really surprised. Even her jokes that offended me were funny, which is saying alot.

[idgiehkt]

177. Lisa Lampinelli gets my vote. Oh yeah, sorry, Howard Stern, too.

It's not funny. Racism/sexism as a punch-line is not funny. Carlos Mencia is another one that goes too far to the right sometimes, although I like his comedy on occasion. That dumbass that used to come on after the Daily show, can see him...Colin someone, and every other loudmouth jerk that used to be on his show, except that one that told Ann Coulter to get lost and redeemed himself for ten seconds of his life.

I don't like Howard Stern for the same reason I don't like Lampinelli. Or Andrew Dice Clay or the ones like that. There is comedy and then there are fetishes, and I think alot of these people I mentioned have a fan base of people who want to say 'fuck-you' to a whole segment of other people that they think have gotten too much power in society, there's some kind of fetishistic wanking off/meeting of need going on there, but it's not comedy. Funny ha-ha. Of all of them, Lampinelli grates on me the worst. She's a huge flashing sign of just how far to the right we've swung that someone like her can make a living by saying 'spic'/'jap'/whatever over and over again for a half an hour. The day that someone, male or female, gets up out of the audience and punches her will be a good day.

[undeterred]

13. Dennis Miller

[speedoo]

175. Second Dennis Miller.

Not funny and obnoxious at the same time. Plus he's a RWer.

[philosophie_en_rose]

14. Colin Quinn and Carlos "Ned" Mencia

:puke:

Same brand of so-called comedy.

[EFerrari]

53. Who is the one that used to be on Colin Quinn all the time?

The one who thought he was cute, from NYC, no material. Dark hair, late 30s/early 40s but he'd never admit to it.

He's a major @sshole. We did a NYE night with him. He didn't know his date's name and refused to say "Happy New Year" to the audience. AND he wasn't funny.

:puke:

edit: Nick Dipaolo

[stanwyck]

55. I remember him. You're right

I think Colin liked to him people who were even less funny than him on his show. And he succeeded with DiPaolo.

[sakabatou]

20. Dane Cook!

[ruiner4u]

29. second that...

he moves around waaaay too much...

and... did he forget to be funny?

[Patiod]

100. I'll third it

I don't get the love - he must be a marketing genius, because it's not his "comedy", that's for sure

[Redstone]

25. Whoopie Goldberg. Has she ever said ONE funny thing?

Redstone

[bertha katzenengel]

64. Did you ever see her original Broadway show?

I didn't find rolling in the aisles funny. But it was funny. It was entertaining, politically savvy, poignant, sweet, thoughtful, and a little shy.

Has she ever done standard stand-up?

:hi:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

92. seriously.

no pun intended.

[chknltl]

26. Al Franken

I never liked his comedy much and it diminished greatly his otherwise excellent political commentary.
I used to watch his show on the Sundance Channel often, even invited friends to watch as well but his retro-vaudeville comedic interludes really turned us off.

[Shell Beau]

27. He was a great writer for SNL though! Or at least I thought so.

[chknltl]

39. I forgot about that.

I can not comment on his writing, having been a writer for SNL is impressive, but what he did on the Al Franken Show was embarrassing to say the least. All too often I found myself apologizing to my friends, (whom I had urged to watch the show), whenever Al would bust out with one or more of his "nutty relative" routines. I always felt that his show was 75% excellent political commentary and 25% utter nonsense. Even-so I was saddened when his show went off the air.

[Yukari Yakumo]

28. Gallagher [nt]

uguu...

[sleepyhead]

30. Jackie Mason.

I got dragged, kicking and screaming, to one of his shows in (I think) 2000 and he was still doing Monica Lewinsky jokes. Not to mention that I must have been just about the only one in the audience under 100 years old. And the only one not laughing. Blecch. Unfunny.

[Common Sense Party]

81. Two words: Caddyshack II.

Jackie Mason should be tried for crimes against humanity for what he did to that movie.

I also think this new asshat, Dane Cook, is painfully unfunny.

[Strawman]

121. Hey, pop top. silverbird. I'm talking to you

how'd you like to be President of Texaco oil?

[AlCzervik]

31. there are so many named already so i'll, go with Richard Jeni

not funny then, even less funny now.

[gmoney]

85. Ugh... a definite contender for worst ever.

Also, a rotten actor!

[pstokely]

32. Fundie Comedians

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. I didn't think there were any.

Fundies tend to be deeply unfunny.

[Cathyclysmic]

45. Actually, there is: this asshole:

http://www.bradstine.com/

Totally unfunny. Tries to pass off the usual RW/wingnut garbage by coming off as a cringe comic. Any time I'd hear him on XM, I'd tune out.

[Redstone]

75. Christ, I made the mistake of searching for him on youtube. You're right, he's the

worst ever, hands down.

Redstone

[TheBaldyMan]

79. link please

Is he the guy that does excruciatingly bad stand-up dressed in a black cowboy hat and a Nudie suit?

on second thoughts a Nudie suit would be too high class for this guy.

[bertha katzenengel]

130. Oh, my god. That guy makes me sick.

He is so sure he's right. :puke:

[deutsey]

88. Mike Warnke was big among evangelicals until he was exposed

to be a fraud. http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/warnke_index.htm

Still, he seems to have a following. http://www.mikewarnke.org/ :eyes:

[bluedogyellowdog]

126. Funny thing about Warnke

he had two very different schtiks. One, the reformed "ex-Satanist high priest" who supposedly led thousands of devil worshippers in California and claimed to have inside knowledge of all sorts of creepy activities. The other, the goofy, silly, longhaired, slightly hippified, puppy-eyed, Vietnam vet, "Christian comedian".

His claims of having been a Satanist leader were thoroughly debunked. He never was. It effectively killed both his careers.

But what is he trying to do today to restart his career? The alleged ex-Satanist thing. During the 80s he found that playing up the "ex-Satanist" angle brought in a lot more money - and attention in mainstream media where he was frequently cited as an "expert" on Satanism - than his comedy shows ever did.

[Ian David]

52. I saw a Fundie comic once

"The Lord Jesus came unto me in a dream and he said, 'I haven't had a bite in three days.' So, I killed a homosexual." (rimshot).

"Take my wife... and stone her! She's an adulterer!" (rimshot)

[MethuenProgressive]

33. John Kerry! :O)

c'mon, you were thinin' it too...

[Haole Girl]

40. Do you remember Teresa Heinz Kerry saying in 2004....

...in an interview...that John Kerry isn't one of those funny Irish men? I guess she wasn't kidding. :eyes:

[ikojo]

128. I don't think John Kerry is of Irish descent....

I am pretty sure at least his dad was Jewish...anyway, He's not a funny Jew either.

[gmoney]

86. epic bad... makes me wonder if he's an undercover Republican

The "botched joke" even if it had been told correctly, might have been fodder for the faux outrage machine... timed just perfectly to swing voters away from the Dems.

[WildEyedLiberal]

179. Wow... that is the worst thing I've read on DU in a while.

"Undercover Republican?" That's disgusting. I guess that's why he raised $15 million for Democratic candidates in 2006... because he secretly wanted them all to lose.

Ugh, I love how this subthread dragged inane flamebait political bullshit into the lounge. Way to ruin a perfectly harmless thread. :thumbsdown:

[BlueIris]

123. Classy.

Jesus. Let it go.

[Ediacara]

34. Rodney Dangerfield

"I get no respect"

Maybe that's because you haven't updated your act since 1657...

[Shell Beau]

43. Aw, but he's dead now!

:cry:



:P

I liked him enough I suppose!

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

174. He's funny just for what he wanted on his tombstone

"Let Me Out Of Here"

[smitty]

44. Pauly Shore, no contest.

[smitty]

46. Also Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Dice Clay and the current SNL

lineup.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

47. david steinberg

[Quantess]

48. Neil Hamburger!

Has anyone seen him? He's current. He's so awful he's...........awesome!

I love Neil Hamburger.

[Lautremont]

56. I was prepared to roast you with words of flame

until I saw the body of your post. Yeah, he's awesome!

[Quantess]

58. it's ....... NEEEEEEEEEEIIIL HAMBURGER!!!

cough cough. Bwoohoohoooo cough cough.
whuh boy.

:loveya:

[Lethe]

50. roseanne barr

seriously i know a lot of people like her, but i cant stand her for 1 minute.

[Patiod]

156. It's a chick thing

I have memories of sitting in a hotel room with my college roommate after our friend's wedding, laughing so hard at Roseann's standup that we both were CRYING.

She's expresses a lot of hostility to men, which I think men find both uncomfortable and unamusing

[Ian David]

51. Dennis Miller! He sucks! Now Sinbad, THAT is a COMEDIAN!

It's no wonder that Sinbad beat Dennis Miller on Star Search!

[NNadir]

54. Richard Lewis.

[bullwinkle428]

59. Nobody's mentioned Brad Stine? Poster boy for wingnut fundie Xtian demographic?

:shrug:

WHOOPS! I guess he was mentioned...just not in the post title.

[Broken_Hero]

60. Dane Cook...

I'm probably going to get flamed, but there it is...:)

[sarcasmo]

108. I completely agree with that, Dane Cook I second the motion.

[Frank Cannon]

148. Strep throat is funnier than Dane Cook

I just don't get what the hell anyone sees in him. I've seen drunk-off-their-asses college frat boys who do the same kind of shtick and are twice as funny. He must be doing an Andy-Kaufman-like stunt where he's playing a joke on the dumbasses who would pay to see him perform.

[EFerrari]

61. I notice that most of the guys named in this thread aren't

"old stand ups" -- they're mostly under 50 and couldn't carry a lunch bucket for "old stand ups" like Dick Van Dyke or Jack Benny.

[Orrex]

132. That's true, but...

"Old stand ups" didn't hit the national consciousness until they'd cut their teeth in a thousand anonymous dives and shitholes around the country. I think that today's comedians suffer from earlier visibility, which allows us to see a greater proportion shitty, unfunny stuff than would ever have made it onto TV in the "old" days.

[EFerrari]

137. That's right. Today you can bomb bigger and better and faster.

:)

[Generic Brad]

62. Professor Irwin Corey

Now that is real old school.

[mitchum]

63. Three way tie between Sinbad, Rosie O'Donnell and Howie Mandel

[gmoney]

87. Sinbad = sin + bad

seconded as a finalist in the worst "comedian" ever.

[Taverner]

66. Dane Cook n/t

[madinmaryland]

67. The worst Canadians in History are those two Molsen Beer guys

[spacelady]

69. That King of Queens guy, Kevin James.

[Common Sense Party]

82. Does he do standup? I've never watched King of Queens...

...but did you see "Hitch"? He STOLE that movie from Will Smith. He was hilarious.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

116. His brother on KOQ is Patton Oswalt, a REALLY funny comedian.

Don't know if you'd like his stuff, but he is insanely hilarious. :thumbsup:

[spacelady]

134. Oswalt is great; didn't know they were related. Kevin James' standup

routine seemd too forced, like he 's trying too hard.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

139. Sorry, I meant Oswalt plays James' TV brother, not his real one.

[spacelady]

141. Ha! LOL, I wondered why none of the funny rubbed off! n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

143. LOL!

Do you have Oswalt's regular CD or his uncut one?

http://www.chunklet.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=15

[spacelady]

144. Just have seen him on TV, probably better uncut I'm sure. Thanx for the link.

[Schema Thing]

70. This Dane Cook idiot is sure vying for the title

[Hand]

71. Yakov Smirnoff is right down there. nt

[Strawman]

119. I saw a "Middle Eastern" comic use the same shtick, forget his name

He was awful. Worse than Yakov. It was almost like Karen Hughes was writing his jokes.

[Robeson]

125. Hard to argue with that.

[Hand]

72. Lewis Black!

JUST KIDDING! :hide:

[MysticalChicken]

106. whew!

Thank God... Lewis Black is my absolute favorite comedian. I'd have had to whack you upside the head with a dead trout.

[Hand]

111. Heh heh.

Sorry to make you nervous--Lewis is my man, too. He's one of the few people who can actually have me laughing uncontrollably--well, and Robin Williams when he really gets out of control. :hi:

[Codeblue]

73. Gilbert Gotfried, Ben Stein and the list goes on

Richard Jeni, Dennis Miller, Larry the Cable Guy, many I've forgotten the names of.

I find many black women to be especially unfunny. Anybody who includes too much sex in their acts. Even Eddie Murphy got unfunny when he talked about sex too much.

[johnnie]

74. Jeffery Dahmer

Not funny one iota

[wildhorses]

94. you win!!!!

:rofl:

[hickman]

76. Lenny Schneider,

Launched his career by posing as a priest for a leper colony, and used the money he raised to fund his stand-up career. Then changed his last name to Bruce. Much more Anglo-Saxon. Much more profitable.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

77. Go to some of the comedy clubs in your area

On open mike night you'll begin to appreciate someone who's decent enough to get a TV special.

[CanuckAmok]

80. David Spade....

Actually, there's a new breed of lousy comedians: The Zoolander Guy, David Spade, Owen Wilson, Adam Sandler...

I guess those are more comedic actors, not comedians.

Whatever. I still don't like them.

[bluedogyellowdog]

83. Mike Warnke

no contest here. Worst ever.

[OllieLotte]

84. Sam Kinison

What he lacked in talent, he made up with volume.

[Burma Jones]

89. Dane Cook - Superb Marketer, not particularly funny

I watch him and think, "What's the big deal?"

[Chiyo-chichi]

90. Rita Rudner.

Can't stand her.
There was a Simpsons episode last year where Marge was going to babysit the Flanders kids. Ned told her not to let them watch cable TV because they had recently seen Comedy Central and now he has to check the closets every night for Rita Rudner.
HA!

I also don't understand how Dane Cook got so big so fast being so unfunny.

[Orsino]

91. Are y'all afraid to invoke the name of Carrot Top?

He and Gallagher seem pretty terrible. Larry the Cable Guy would make my short list, too, except that every once in a while he is hilarious.

[Initech]

103. See my post.

[Gatchaman]

95. LARRY THE FUCKING CABLE GUY

Actually, all the redneck comedians on Comedy Central.

[terrya]

96. Does anyone remember Jack E. Leonard?

He used to show up on "The Ed Sullivan Show" a lot. Can't figure out why...because he...wasn't the LEAST BIT funny. There were funeral home employees who were funnier than Jack E. Leonard.

[acmavm]

99. He was bad but what about Don Rickles? To this day I think

that he's the worst so-called 'comedian' since we climbed down out of the trees and started peeling our bananas.

[momophile]

101. Howie Mandel

back when he had a lot of hair. I didn't like the way he made fun of audience members.

[momophile]

102. am I thinking of the right guy? is it Howie Mandel?

[MysticalChicken]

107. Let's see here...

Carrot Top (natch)
Todd Glass (I watched part of his Comedy Central special and did not laugh once, plus he's kind of egotistical)
Joan Rivers (see my reply to the post mentioning her)

...feh! I haven't watched any stand-up for a while... I know there are more but I can't think of them.

[Yavin4]

109. PAULEY SHORE!!

Thread over. I win.

[mykpart]

110. I know he's thought of as a genius, but

I never saw anything funny about Andy Kaufman.

[ironflange]

112. Brian Mulroney

What? Oh, sorry, I thought you said Canadian.

[u4ic]

115. That's down the page a bit more

I thought they were teaching y'all in Cowtown reading? :eyes:

[ironflange]

138. Aw, ya big bully

I've only ever said nice things about Admonchuk, er, Edmonton.

(I can say that; I'm a Ukie whose family is all from east of Admonton. In fact, I was born in the Alex.)

[u4ic]

146. And I'm a Ukie from southern Ontario

I just diss everyone. :P


(quite frankly, I'm jealous of your location. There's nothing around here...)

[jakefrep]

113. Carrot Top

nt

[qnr]

114. Certainly not the worst comedian, but in 1,000s of viewings, I'm 90% sure Bob Hope NEVER made me

laugh once, though I found some of the Road movies mildly amusing. Well, maybe not thousands, but many hundreds of viewings....

[Dastard Stepchild]

118. Victoria Jackson...

I know she dropped off the face of the earth, but she makes my teeth involuntarily grind regardless. I'm not a big fan of bimbo humor - there were some lesser known varieties of this ilk in the late 80s, early 90s, but I can't remember any of their names or, ahem, jokes.

Gallagher was mentioned upthread. I concur. Heartily.
Carrot Top. Yes.
Judy Tenuta. Yes.
Jimmy Fallon. YES.

And I say this with a disclaimer. I think she is marvelous. Fabulous. Wonderful. Intelligent. But I hate her stand-up: Janeane Garofalo.

[SmileyBoy]

120. Laura Kightlinger (sp?), Jeneane Garafalo, Sarah Silverman

Telling a story and all the little quirky details in it does NOT make you funny. WAAAAAAY too much observation, and... Like, NO humour.

And I am NOT biased against female comics, BTW. Lisa Lampanelli is one of the funniest fucking people on the PLANET, IMO.

[MysticalChicken]

127. I like one of those...

I do think Janeane Garofalo is very funny. I have a burned CD of her HBO special from like 1997 and I laugh every time I listen to it, and I've seen her live and ROTFL'd the whole time.

Laura Kightlinger and Sarah Silverman I can take or leave.

I've never even heard of Lisa Lampanelli...

[BlueIris]

124. I think Tom Green is the (second) worst comedian ever.

If I listen to him very long, I get itchy. No, literally.

[UTUSN]

129. Red SKELTON n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

131. Jay Mohr. He should stick to playing assholes in movies.

[Kutjara]

135. Chalky White.

He was on the UK comedy circuit in the 70s, playing mostly working-men's clubs with occasional TV appearances. Chalky was a black man (called Chalky White, geddit?), whose routine consisted of endless 'jokes' about how stupid, lazy and promiscuous black people are. His humor was considered 'safe' because he was black, so white people could laugh without feeling like bigots. Nice, eh?

Chalky made Steppin' Fetchit look like Malcolm X.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

140. Reminds me of an SNL skit.

David Alan Grier played a Louis Armstrong-ish singer who lets white people rub his bald head and do other demeaning things to him.

At the end of the skit, the narrator said he was the only black person to be lynched by black people. :rofl:

[meegbear]

147. ...

:spray:

[Marie26]

145. Dane Cook or Andrew Dice Clay

It's a toss-up.

[NoPasaran]

150. Rip Taylor

Throwing confetti isn't even considered funny in France.

[T_i_B]

151. Jim Davidson

Never mind the fact that his politics are somewhere to the right of Mussolini, he's just hugely, hugely unfunny.

[MrCoffee]

152. Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up is NOT FUNNY

[EFerrari]

163. Not, it's not funny unless you're a big fan of lint.

:)

[deucemagnet]

154. Michael Richards -- end of thread.

They're going to have to rename the Laugh Factory the Uncomfortable Silence Factory.

[RedStateShame]

158. Well, Paul Rodriguez was playing that night, too,

...so the odds are that name was coming regardless of the Richards fiasco.

[Alexander]

155. Michael Richards.

[RedStateShame]

157. Comedian Rush Limbaugh

Olbermann's onto something by calling him that. He's less annoying that way.

[Zavulon]

159. Steven Wright.

I'm sorry, but that delivery of his and his stupid puns make me ill - and I have never met anyone in person who thinks Wright is funny.

[Perky]

161. I think he is oddball brillaint

but would never buy a video

[idgiehkt]

178. I loved him

had one of his albums. Loved his delivery. But we haven't met in person, so your hypothesis stands.

[Perky]

160. EMO PHILLIPS EMO PHILLIPS EMO PHILLIPS

[Little Wing]

162. You think Steven Wright is oddball brilliant, but hate Emo Phillips

That's really weird.

[Perky]

164. Wright gets tiring after 30 minites

Emo takes about 10 seconds

[Perky]

165. Wright gets tiring after 30 minites

Emo takes about 10 seconds

[Perky]

166. Wright gets tiring after 30 minites

Emo takes about 10 seconds

[Orrex]

167. Raise your hand if you read all three of Perky's responses re: Wright

I did, for example...

[baby_mouse]

168. I also. nt

[Perky]

169. I hate laptop mousepads

[Little Wing]

170. You feel quite strongly about that

:yoiks:

[annonymous]

172. Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kineson are the worst ever.

Trully misogynist humor. An old time comedian I hated was Foster Brooks. I don't think drunks are the least bit funny. I also think Carrot Top and Gallagher are truly lame.

[jmowreader]

173. Easy. Jerry Seinfeld.

Seinfeld's stand-up sucks, his TV show sucked, his specials suck. Seinfeld sucks so bad he should endorse Rietschle vacuum pumps, the only objects in the known universe that can draw more vacuum than Seinfeld's act. I can see the warranty: "If this vacuum pump doesn't suck harder than Seinfeld's act, call 1-800-555-1212 and we'll send you a new one."

He has a DVD out called "I'm Going to Tell You For The Last Time" or some shit like that. I looked at the cover of this thing and went, "Good."

Gilbert Gottfried is the second worst comic in the universe. Gottfried's act is real simple: he brings a chalkboard on stage and scrapes his fingernails against it until you laugh hard enough to shut him the fuck up.

And then there's Larry the Cable Guy. HIS whole schtick is "if I act dumb enough, people will give me money." Which works, but I prefer my comics to have a slight bit of intelligence.

I actually LIKE Bobcat Goldthwait. Once he knocks off the "Police Academy" screaming shit, which he does, he has some decent liberal humor...and he was just vicious toward Ronald Reagan.