Favorite Stand Up Comedians

#1: Eddie Izzard
#2: Mitch Hedberg

Everyone else I find irritating or unfunny.

Oh, wait, you said comedian.

Steve Martin and Bill Cosby. It doesn't get a whole lot funnier than Bill Cosby's old stand up stuff. And Steve Martin should be in some sort of standup Hall Of Fame.

David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Demetri Martin, Mitch Hedberg, Richard Pryor, Sarah Silverman, Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn, Bill Hicks, Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifinakis. When Dave Chappelle is on, he's as good as it gets, but some of his bits are really, really unfunny.

Locally, all the People's Republic of Komedy guys are pretty good. I like Daniel Carroll in particular, but he's...not for everyone. The Entertainment Show at the Sunset is also a lot of fun.

Wow that's old. Jim Gaffigan is my favorite.

Eddie Izzard a hair over Louis CK (even though Circle was mediocre and I don't know what the hell he's doing trying to act). I have tickets to see him on tour this summer, so I'll see first hand if he's fallen off for good. Louis is fucking brilliant, though – I've watched everything he's ever done and saw him live about a year ago. Much further down the list, I'll take Eddie Murphy, then everybody else.

A friend of a friend, for reasons still unknown, was asked to emcee a stand-up show in the cocktail lounge under the Ramada Inn in Hollywood, which is exactly as Lynchian a place as it sounds. This guy shows up in nothing but tighty whiteys and Indian war paint, along with two friends who are tripping balls on mescaline and are dressed in homemade full body felt monster costumes. The guest emcees set up lawn chairs and a tent on stage, along with a portable electric griddle off of which they served toad-in-the-holes during the stand-up acts. The comedians were universally cringe-worthy, though, to be fair, notably distracted. I only mention this because Brian Posehn was the last act to go, and he started to make a half-hearted attempt at his routine before muttering "Fuck this shit, I need to have a long talk with my agent" and walking off the stage.

David Cross's Shut Up You Stupid Fucking Baby = classic, as well.

I bought a Woody Allen stand up cd some months ago. I only laughed maybe once, but I was amazed at how many jokes and routines he did that I had heard in movies or television before but hadn't realize were originally his. That was impressive.

Aside: Last summer I was on a car trip to Spokane with a few girls. We were talking about stand up comedians, and while we were listing comedians that we liked (Hedberg, Demetri Martin, Nick Swardson, etc), this one girl piped in with "Have you ever heard Jerry Seinfield before? I like him. And Chris Rock." We didn't get along at all for the rest of the trip.

But I also haven't been exposed to a lot of these comedians you're into, so I need to check out their stuff and see what the hype's about.

but I like Patton Oswalt over all of these guys.

Go get a copy of 'Feelin' Kinda' Patton' and enjoy!

1. D-Tosh
2. D-Cross
3. Demetri Martin
4. Hedberg
After those four, everyone's interchangable
4. Megan Mooney-only funny comedienne
5. Nick Swardson's pretty good
6.Chris Rock is good I suppose
7. Louis C.K.-I've only seen one of his routines but it was funny.

Hated
1. Cook-obvious
2. Ellen DeGeneres-Immature comedy
3. Jeff Dunham
4. Stephen Lynch-Gimmicky comedy
5. Most Fat Comics (Oh Really? You're fat? I didn't notice.)
6. Comics who try to get by on goofy expressions alone.
7. Dane Cook

David Cross
Mitch Hedberg
Dave Chappelle
Louis C.K. (though I have not heard very much. But I've listened to Dane Cook, so I probably have heard a lot of Louis C.K.'s stuff.)
Nick Swardson
Demetri Martin
Dave Attell
The Stella guys

And Greg Geraldo is underrated, in my mind.

I'm a bit young (or maybe just closed-minded) to get into a lot of the older stuff -- the George Carlins and the Steve Martins.

The ones I don't like:
Ralphie May (the worst of all time, ever.)
Sarah Silverman (she has moments of greatness, but overall I find her obnoxious and just not funny)
Eddie Murphy
Robin Williams

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xRkA6zugNMQ

P.S.: That's not safe for work.

P.P.S.: How the fuck can anyone embed videos nowadays?

although I haven't heard Cross, Gilifanaikas or Posehn's standup.