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OP, you should check out some vintage Kudzudemon.

Patrice was the nuts when he was alive

Gaffigan IMO has never had a sub-par special that i have seen

Chappelle, Rock, Oswalt, Cross, Bernie mac are all right at the top of my list

Frankie Boyle is great if you don't mind offensive material. He's just an evil man.

Watched Elephant in the Room with some friends over the weekend and had the best laughs ever. I'd seen O'Neal on a Just for Laughs DVD a few years backs but i'd completely forgotten about him.

Thanks to everyone so far, my 'to-get' list continues to grow.
Thanks especially DC11GTR, you really know your ****. Those Oswalt letters, genius. He should do a book.
Having a hard time finding Tomkins, Showalter & Behrendt.
I also stumbled upon the entire Lenny Bruce discography, about 30 albums. Pretty old school stuff but it should be interesting.
Paul Mooney is one of the guys i'm steering away from. I didn't single him out but before basically I don't want to listen to any more material from him. kudzudemon should listen to Race and Jesus is Black. Granted Race come out around the Rodney King incident.

I somehow missed Pryor. Insane and Outrageous are permanently on my mp3 player. Likewise, Live in Concert makes my famed top 5. Which I'll publish as soon as I make the necessary additions to collection.

Also, I might add, Sick and Tired continues to make me laugh. I find some of the best material from people I hadn't heard of or thought would be funny and that adds to the enjoyment. Comedy isn't about impressing people, it's about making people laugh.


I like Frankie. Live was very funny. If I could reach was... ok. Easily, the funniest guy I follow on Twitter. But he's not really a family man comics. I'm surprised when I see parents taking their kids to see his act. Maybe it's a cultural thing.

Got to second that Twitter part. He's the only one I follow that constantly makes me laugh and gasp with his tweets.

1- louis ck - chewed up and shameless (the other two are weaker)
2- jim jefferies - alcoholocaust and I swear to god
3- eddie murphy - delirious

also for the patrice o neal fans, he has a hilarious stand up album Mr. P that was released relatively recently.

Greg Giraldo - Good day to cross a river (love it)

Brian Regan - Something's wrong with the Regan Boy (CLASSIC) - funny and clean *rare*

Dave Attel - Skanks for the memories (a real new york comic)


There's just a few.

I'm an avid stand-up fan and there's few that I think are okay... I usually love them or hate them.

You can also tell a lot about a person from their sense of humour. A quick bar conversation about stand-up comics will tell me if someone is awesome or lame.

And he did. It's pretty good. The audio version is better, just cause I prefer hearing jokes then reading them, but it's not quite as good as David Cross's book.

We talked a little about that in the RIP thread. Really wish he had more material available.

I remember when I was a kid (about 18 years ago) I watched a HBO comedy special which involved this guy who did crazy impressions. I remember he was bald and he had a whole set built and he would run within the set and keep changing his costume and act as all the people in the presentation.

I remember dying every time I watched this and would be forever grateful for anyone who could post his name. I would owe you BIG.

This thread just reminds me they need to bring back the Tough Crowd TV show.

Bob Nelson

Classic HBO One Night Stand!

There is another special he did for HBO which I think you are referring to.

+1.

Another great show that was ahead of it's time was Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind. Preceded Inside the Actor's Studio.

I wonder where I can get some more of this guy.