Stand-Up Comedy!!!

[TOTALIMMORTAL]

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=DarkRed][CENTER][B]The ultimate art-form......next to music of course.[/B][/CENTER]

I'm a huge fan of stand-up comedy, what about yous guys? Recently I watched the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time on Comedy Central and it got me thinking. Hmmm, who's my favorite stand-up of all time? I could not decide. Stand-Up comedy - at least in my opinion - is the ultimate form of comedy. It takes humor, style, class, wittiness, intelligence, and endurance to make a good stand up. Being a stand up is one of my few dreams, and I consider myself to be pretty funny. Anyways, getting off subject...What do you people think about Stand-Up Comedy? Do you like it? Do you hate it? What's your favorite joke you've ever heard from a stand up? Who's your favorite stand up? Who's your favorite comedian? Why and all that stuff? Do you guys watch "Last Comic Standing"? Hmmm? :smirk:


Also, have any of you heard of Mitch Hedberg? He's by far one of my favorite stand ups. He's not like most comics, he doesn't just talk about stuff and add humorous puns like many, but his form of comedy is actually pretty random. He mostly just tells jokes, but he has the coolest voice, and the way he accents certain words and little things like that make him a great comic. Well? Just wondering...


:laugh: [CENTER][B]Please join me in this celebration of true genuises...comics![/B] [/CENTER][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] :laugh:

[Guest Vash331]

Stand up is great. I love it. I try to get my little brothers into it, but they won't even give it a try. Personally I like Nick Swardson, and Dane Cook. I did see Mitch Hedburg and he really is hilarious. Oh wait, there was this other comedian i really loved, I can't remember his name...he's on Tru Callings on Fox (I don't watch the show). I remember he made a joke once, he said he looked like fat jesus, not phat jesus, it was hilarious, and he really looks like that, it's a perfect way to describe the way he looks. At the end he pulled out a full choir and did a presentation, at the very end he pulled off his pants. Does anyone know who i'm talking about, what's his name?
No, i don't watch last comic standing.

[Morpheus]

I've been watching a lot of LCS lately, and I'm partial to Dat Phan and Alonzo Boden(should have won)

[badjesus]

I enjoy stand up comedy but only really enjoy English comedians because as a general rule they hate just about everything and have our famous sense of humour.

[Semjaza]

You know, I love comedy... but even with people I found outright hilarious on TV or in films or quotes, I just cannot sit and watch them talk standing on a stage. I don't find it entertaining and I very rarely laugh at any of the jokes. I just can't get into it.

[Dragon Warrior]

Though I don't agree it's the ultimate art-form (since acting or actual art as in drawing stands before music and comedy, IMO) I do enjoy doing it. I, in fact, have been told to be one numerous times so I've considered doing it as a side-job to my future acting career. It's quite fun to do if you've ever done it. I don't really admire any stand-up comedians nor have heard of too many, but I've seen them in action (like Last Comic Standing or whatnot).

It's an interesting gig, I tell you. If you have a funny bone in your body, can do improv., can memorize a load of material and perform it in front of an audience, please try this. It's fun in a box :3

[Patronus]

I'm not all that into stand up comedy, mainly because I find half of what the people say stupid. [b]Margaret Cho [/b]is a good one though.

[Mord_sith]

my fav comdeian is billy conally (sp) he is soo funny he used to have a t.v show but not anymore! i like him because he can make the lamest things funny.

[James P. Galvatron]

My two of my fan comedians are Dat Phan who won last comedic standing and Ralphie Mae the runner up I love Ralphie I heard one of his skits man it was so funny they both rock.

[Azure Rose]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue] I love stand up comedy! It's not the ultimate art form by any means, but it is good for a laugh. My favorite comedians would have to be Nick Swardson, Dane Cook, Lewis Black (Lewis is just awesome. Smart, funny commentary on life...it doesn't get any better!) Stephen Lynch (best singing comedian) and of course, Jim Gaffigan. He does some of my favorite jokes ever! Especially the ones about manatees, that's just priceless stuff. Yes, Comedy Central is my hero, because it has brought so many great stand-ups into my life, lol. [/COLOR]

[JC Goodwin]

I love stand up comedy. My favourite stand up is a guy called Bill Hicks. He was known as the rock n roll comedian and was no holds barred to what he said. He took whateva was happening in the world and made it funny. Unlike other stand up who beat around the bush with certain subjects he was straight in. Unforunatly bill died a couple of years ago but what he said still lives on.

I also like lee evens, eddie murphy and watch alot of those stand up shows. One thing i dont like about stand up is that you are given a certain time limit and i feel comedy should not be controled and just flow as it goes.

[araina rinu]

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray]oh do i love comedians!! jim breuer, espically his pulp comics stand up, i laughed over the boogeyman skit sooo hard; dane cook and his outrageous and offbeat persona, and a group named stella. absolutely love stella, its three guys, and they play off one another sooooo well its hysterical, recommend ya'll catch it sometime![/COLOR]

[Bullet Theory]

Stand up comedy is my life! Jim Breuer, Dave Chapelle, Stephen Lynch, Pablo Fransisco, and the man BRIAN REGAN! These men are the greaest comedians alive right now.

[Guest ScirosDarkblade]

[quote name='TOTALIMMORTAL']I'm a huge fan of stand-up comedy, what about yous guys? Recently I watched the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time on Comedy Central and it got me thinking. Hmmm, who's my favorite stand-up of all time? I could not decide. Stand-Up comedy - at least in my opinion - is the ultimate form of comedy. It takes humor, style, class, wittiness, intelligence, and endurance to make a good stand up. Being a stand up is one of my few dreams, and I consider myself to be pretty funny. Anyways, getting off subject...What do you people think about Stand-Up Comedy? Do you like it? Do you hate it? What's your favorite joke you've ever heard from a stand up? Who's your favorite stand up? Who's your favorite comedian? Why and all that stuff? Do you guys watch "Last Comic Standing"? Hmmm? [/quote]
I disagreed with a large portion of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, heh. My favorite has got to be Seinfeld, followed by, in no specific order, Lewis Black, Jim Norton, Mitch Hedberg (yeah he rocks, we have all of his CDs even), Dave Atell, and, last but not least, Colin Quinn.
I have seen a number of them live, but my brother has seen more (including Seinfeld, who was just way too expensive for me ($90)).
Anyway I love stand-up comedy. And I've watched both seasons of Last Comic Standing. The first season blew (why did America like the worst comedian I've ever seen quite so much??), but the second one was much better.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]I like stand up comedians too. Of course I'm one of those easily amused peopel so one of my favorites is Jeff Foxworthy with the whole 'You might be a red neck if... skit.

I liked watching Last Comic Standing both seasons of it so far, but I dissagree with some of the voting and judges decisions. For example I didn't think that most of the people they got from San Fransisco or LA (I forgot which city in California they got the majority of people from) were all that funny so I think they wasted their time getting most of the people from that area since there were much funnier people in more of the other cities.

I also thought that Ant was much funnier than the guy (dammit if I can't think of his name right now) that beat him in the face off. And I don't think teh guy who won was all that funny either. The first season had much better comedians in my opinion. I loved Dat Phan and Ralphie Mae.

George Carlin is another good comedian. I have a few that I like, but I can't thik of them all off the top of my head. Besides it's late so give me a break.[/color]

[Sosogomi]

I like stand up comedy my favorite being Robin Williams from back in the day. In fact he's still hilarious.I wish I could do that. Most of my funnies are smart alec zingers made at my mom's soap opreas. :sweat:

Mom- What's he doing with all that lines to the picture stuff?

Me-Sorting out the plot line...

I am so lame...

[badjesus]

My favourite comedians are Jack Dee (the most miserable man alive), Richard Pryor,
Peter (garlic bread) kay and the most cynical comedian ever Jim davidson and also Jethro.

Heres a few examples for you:
"my friend Denziel penberthy went parachuting once and when he jumped out of the plane he pulled the cord and nothing happened, so he phoned up the main office and said "I just pulled the cord on the parachute and it didn't work"
Main office: "pull the second cord"
Denziel:"that don't work either"
Office: "it does"
Denziel: "it doesn't"
Office: "it does"
Angrily Denziel put the phone away.
After a little while falling down, he met a man, on his way up;

"do you know anything about parachutes?"

"no, do you know anything about gas cookers?"
By Jethro

The best war joke ever (this is not my joke its Jim's so if youre american, no offence)

The many differences between the americans and British armies:

Bravery:
Colonel (to soldier) : Boy I want you to prove your bravery by going up to the top of that tower and jumping off
Soldier: yes sir! (goes up jumps off and gets killed)
Colonel: thats sheer American bravery son.
British Colonel: really, turns to sergenat major "go up to the top of that tower and jump off"
Sergeant major (in scottish accent) Go screw yourself Sir!
British Colonel : Thats British bravery.

An American war story:
an american pilot is busy flying along at the low level bombing altitude of 80,000m
when he sees a drunk serb try and launch a missile (the missiles used by Iraq were made in Ireland and are, get this SLOWER than the plane your aiming at!)
so the american pilot does what the manuels says to do and ejects, the plane goes off and crashes into a childrens hospital (that always happens) and he lands in iraq and doesent turn his radio on,
In america the whole country comes to a standstill Bush:"were going find this brave young man nad bring him home alive" (women children and men crying etc)
the entire american military is diverted to find him in the the end they do and he gets sent around the world meeting all the leaders and becomes a hero for forgeting to turn his radio on!

British war story:
Same situation BUT when he ejects his plane turns around and goes home like lassie;
Genreal: oh dear knobbys plane come home on its own (to plane) "wheres knobby"
the plane tells the whole story and the man also put his radio on.
along comes a helecopter and picks him up he goes to the ship hugs his plane and goes out to war again.