The funniest comedian ever

[Benholio]

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The only comedy show I've ever been to featured Mitch Hedburg, with Zach Galifinakis (wow, i bet i butchered that spelling.)

I'm a huge Hedburg fan, but Zach G. blew him out of the water.

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Cool, I will try to find some material for this guy. Google tells me its "galifianakis" btw.

[deacsoft]

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It is so, so, so, so sad that nowhere in this thread has anyone mentioned the greatest comedian of all time:



George Carlin.


Is is almost equally sad that no one has mentioned Lenny Bruce, who is probably the most *influential* comedian ever, and probably in the top 3 of all time along with Pryor and of course Carlin.

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Carlin, I believe, may be the most intelligent comedian ever. Maybe we should ask Mr. Sklansky to do a top en list of the smartest comedians. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[swede123]

You have to distinguish between the comedy all-stars and personal favorites. I agree with many people's lists of the all-star types, people like Carlin, Pryor, Cosby definitely belong up there.

When it comes to personal favorites it gets a bit more gray. I find Mitch Hedberg funny as hell, but obviously several posters here hate him.

Another couple of personal favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

Eddie Izzard - "Cake or Death???"

and Ron White "I didn't know how many of them it would take to kick my ass, but I knew how many they were gonna use!"

Great stuff!

Cheers,

Swede