Worst comedian ever?

[Bicoastal]

First of all, if you haven't seen Little's groan-worthy "comedy" act at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, here it is in its entirety].

As painfully unfunny as this was, it did represent George Bush's spectacularly incompetent, out-of-touch presidency to a T. So assuming that things get even worse next year, which "comedian" would be a good representative follow-up in 2008?

Carrot Top?

Carlos Mencia?

Kathy Griffin?

Rob Schneider?

Gallagher?

[Droopy]

1. I'd like to see Bush get splattered with some watermelon

If we really want to torture Bush, though, we'll send Carrot Top.

[Evoman]

2. Again, because I'm evil....

[TommyO]

14. EWWW! What about a content warning!

Cut off the head, and the body is OK, add the face, the hair, and the lack of talent, and it's deadly.

[Vidar]

3. Andrew Dice Clay.

[MissMillie]

9. yep

by a long shot

[Guava Jelly]

4. Dennis Miller

Even before he drank the koolaid

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Tom Green

It's amazing that he doesn't get his lights punched out. Unless his "victims" are also part of the act.

[rug]

6. Jackie Mason.

[Joe Fields]

12. Appropriate choice.

[peekaloo]

7. Larry the Cable Guy. He and Boo$h could have a fake-accent -ff to the

tune of 'Dueling Banjos' or for the Spanish speakers 'Dueling Banos'.
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similar to the Colbert/Penn duel, except for the English challenged.

[Little Wing]

8. There's one guy, kinda tall, short dark haircut, and he delivers every single punchline

like he's going to cry about it. Terrible.

[peekaloo]

10. Emo Phillips?

kind of looks like Pee Herman with a Moe Howard hairdo?

[Little Wing]

16. No, emo was funny.

[peekaloo]

20. since I'm avoiding work my next guess would be Harland Williams.

Yay for your appreciation of Emo and AK(down thread). :D

[Little Wing]

21. He's a lot like Harland, but twice as whiny

:hi:

[Joe Fields]

11. any one of a thousand lame comedians on comedy central

[Crazy Dave]

13. Andy Kaufman

I never thought that stupid "tank yew berry berry much" was funny at all. Besides insulting women all the time it was his only gimmick.

[Little Wing]

17. Jesus. Please attempt to know something about anything before

making a statement like that.

[Crazy Dave]

26. You like him, I don't

Is that a demand you're making? Or do you always pop-off like that when you disagree with a different opinion than yours?

[Little Wing]

29. He had more than one thing than that character on Taxi

Think about that

[Crazy Dave]

36. Nothing that impressed me

But you liked it and so should everybody else right?

But I'll concede his "Elvis" wasn't too bad

[no_hypocrisy]

37. I'll go one better. I think Andy Kaufman was a genius.

I read as much as I could about his life and his work. He wasn't a comic per se, but used comedic mechanisms. What he did was play with reality. The audience would be led into believing one thing and Kaufman would take another reality to replace the one he has just established (even at the expense of the audience becoming HOSTILE to Kaufman).

Without being introduced to Andy Kaufman, I never would have been able to understand how Karl Rove's mind works. It's very similar as you are not told the truth and misled purposely by his message away from the truth. Almost like pathologic lying for recreation.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Well, I'll Make It Too

If you think he was funny, you got fished in.
The Professor

[Joe Fields]

38. I liked Any Kauffman, and I don't get reeled in by anyone.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. We Disagree

Your statement is self-contrdictory.
GAC

[Joe Fields]

47. And your statement is insulting and presumptuous, assuming that

anyone who liked Kauffman was duped somehow. I thought he was fresh, innovative and funny. He made me laugh. That's the bottom line.

[Crazy Dave]

49. That's all that matters Joe

I liked Roseanne but I'm not going to blast "Rabrrrrrr" because he doesn't or tell him that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

I wonder if anybody here today even knows what's really funny as it seems nobody knows how to take a joke :hi:

[Joe Fields]

50. True that.

[Crazy Dave]

40. When people are really funny.....

....their fans don't have to go around explaining to everyone who doesn't why they should think they are. One of those "well if you don't think he/she is funny then you just don't get it man" types.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. We Agree

GAC

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Dane Cook

[jobycom]

19. I was going to say Sam Kineson or Bill Hicks, but you win.

Sam Kineson thought screaming about ex girlfriends was funny, Bill Hicks thought screaming about banal inside jokes was funny. Now and then, at least, they were.

Dane Cook... has anyone ever laughed at him without a cue card telling them to?

[Bicoastal]

22. Funny how those two guys...

...have practically been nominated for sainthood by the comedy community.

I think the people they influenced are probably doing it better...

[jobycom]

24. I'm surprised by people who like them but hate Andrew Dice Clay?

What, they're funnier because they died? They had the same schtick!

To be fair, a lot of people liked Hicks because they felt he was iconoclastic and even sort of liberal. He wasn't my brand of liberal, but he was trying, between insane screaming bouts, to say something. I never thought Kineson was.

Give me Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor over Hicks any day, though.

[MonkeyFunk]

31. I had never heard Hicks until fairly recently

but I saw some of his DVD's at the store and picked them up, expecting the best. A LOT of people whose taste I really admire just adored the guy.

Watched 'em and my response was a big, gaping "meh". I just don't get the worship.

The other one that people raved and raved about was Mitch Hedberg. I saw him live, and he was, undoubtedly, the very worst comic I've ever seen. It was excruciating.

[underpants]

46. I TiVoed a special of his this weekend

Heberg that is. I had read (here) wildly guffawing praise of him and had two friends who saw him live say that he was hilarious..

I didn't find much of it really all that inciteful, which he clearly was going for, and the delivery ugh that delivery I finally decided that it was a take on the dumb football player schtick that a guy did on a "Young comedians" special on HBO hosted by Dangerfield.

It was interesting but not near a level of what I had been lead to believe. No offense but I stopped taking advice about comedy or music* or movies from DU a while ago.


* with the obvious exception of Sheryl Crow ;-)

[Tektonik]

30. agreed

I wish he'd just go away :(

[PVnRT]

18. Jerry Seinfeld

n/t

[Burma Jones]

23. Jackov Smirnoff

He could even do the whole weepy Flag Waving Branson bit.....

[jobycom]

25. Meh, he was cute from time to time. Not brilliant, but I can think of worse.

I can see why he'd be on the list, though. :)

[LostinVA]

27. Bob Saget -- incest jokes are NEVER, EVER funny

Especially when you yourself have kids.

[youthere]

28. ugh..I'm with you.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. Sorry

no topic is NEVER EVER not funny.

Did you see "The Aristocrats"? Virtually every telling of the joke had incest references, and the movie was piss-your-pants funny. Saget was one of the highlights.

I saw Saget live last year - he was hysterical. He certainly didn't build a routine around incest, but his whole schtick WAS about being inappropriate, and it was very funny.

[LostinVA]

43. I've been in a relationship with an incest survivor

To me, it's never funny. Just like rape isn't.

I've seen his whole routine before, and he's not my cup of tea.

[MonkeyFunk]

48. I'm not asserting that

incest, per se, is funny. Not at all.

I'm saying there is no topic that is off-limits to comedy. Some do it well, some do it poorly.

[LostinVA]

52. Okay, I get what you're saying

[RFKHumphreyObama]

32. I'd have to go with post-9/11 Dennis Miller

He's become a propaganda-spouting boorish jerk and it reflects in his quality of comedy

[Joey Liberal]

33. Dennis Miller n/t

[bif]

39. Bob Hope

World's most unfunny guy.

[Redbear]

44. I had a prof in college who loved Bob Hope

He said everything Hope did post-1970 was horrible, but in the 40s and 50s he was really funny.

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. Carrot Top, Joe Piscopo, Rich Little, Roseanne Barr

[LaraMN]

51. I have to turn the channel if Carrot Top is on.

Ten seconds of looking at him would kill my libido for a week.