Guest Youth N Asia Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Some of these people who's job it is to be funny...just are not funny. Ben Stiller Jimmy Fallon Richard Lewis Continue on Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20 Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Jimmy Fallon. Whenever we need to kill an Mtv Awards Show, give him a call. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mikey2Dope Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Bill Maher Chris Tucker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sandman9000 Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Jay Mohr. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bob_barron Report post Posted December 7, 2002 I think the MTV Awards Shows kill themselves on their own Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20 Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Chris Tucker You were joking........right ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mikey2Dope Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Chris Tucker You were joking........right ? Nope. The guys is bloody annoying. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20 Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Go down to your local Blockbuster and rent "Friday". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mikey2Dope Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Go down to your local Blockbuster and rent "Friday". I actually do own Friday and thought his performance in that was great but besides that movie the man has annoyed me in every other role. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Carrot Top, is at the bottom of the gimmick prop comedy style, below The Amazing Jonathon and Galliger White comedians on BET, they are doing Chris Rock jokes! "white people is like this....yall be like diss" Aeres Spears from Mad Tv and the current cast sans Will Sassel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted December 7, 2002 I don't judge people's comedic abilities based on their movie performances unless they wrote it themselves. As such, I don't think Chris Tucker is very funny. Jimmy Fallon is Adam Sandler v. 2.0, and is only kept around to get the "swooning Emo girls" demographic, because he isn't funny at all. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted December 7, 2002 Carrot Top, is at the bottom of the gimmick prop comedy style, below The Amazing Jonathon and Galliger White comedians on BET, they are doing Chris Rock jokes! "white people is like this....yall be like diss" Gallagher is actually pretty funny when he isn't doing the fruit smashing. I have yet to figure out why that ever took off. Believe it or not, Carrot Top is actually very crass and vulgar in his live shows. Bah, any comedian on BET is a good one. Especially the dude who said how Snoop Dogg had one of those faces that tells you everything's going to be just fine. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted December 8, 2002 did you see the show yesterday? it had an eminem comedian doing jokes about pimps/players past their prime. prop comedy rankings: Penn & Teller Gallagher Amazing John - love the blue windex joke! Carrot Top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 Whoever said Bill Maher...**kicks you in the nuts** I forget the guy's name, but he had a One Night Stand special on HBO in, like, the 80's, and it was AWFUL. Not a single good joke, he looked like he had trouble seeing ANYTHING (squinted the entire night), and HBO didn't even have the niceness to pump in canned laughter (the audience didn't make a sound). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted December 8, 2002 I've always found Ben Stiller funny, but i can see why some wouldn't. He's like a British comedian where he doesn't really do "haha" humor with obvious jokes that tell the viewer when they should laugh. I was going to say Bob Saget, but I've heard that he was actually a good stand up comedian. I hate Dave Coulier Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted December 8, 2002 Are we talking comedic actors or stand ups here? Margaret Cho is the most unfunny person on Earth to me. Especially sense the last time I saw her on t.v. she basically just listed pop culture references to get cheap pops. I've seen Gallagher twice live and his non-prop stuff is very hilarious and insightful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 As a juxtaposition to the topic of this thread, I must say that Eddie Izzard is among the greatest comedians...EVER... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Karnage Report post Posted December 8, 2002 I was going to say Bob Saget, but I've heard that he was actually a good stand up comedian. He did direct the movie Dirty Work and said a line that you would never expect him to say in Half Baked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MrRant Report post Posted December 8, 2002 Carrot Top should die a horrible death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ravenbomb Report post Posted December 8, 2002 best: George Carlin Bill Cosby Eddie Izzard honourable mention to Steven Wright worst: this chick on Comedy Central Presents. I forget her name, but I remember her saying stuff about George Forman being old and still boxing and peeing when he gets hit in the gut. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. I haven't seen Carrot Top's stand-up, but he's annoying as all shit in the stuff I've seen him in Pauly Shore sucks ass. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LaParkaYourCar 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 I don't know the guy's name but he has hair like Larry from the Three Stooges and talks like he's falling asleep. I don't know why but he annoys the crap out of me and I don't find him funny at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Special K Report post Posted December 8, 2002 Ben Stiller show was great, and he wrote that. Comedians I like: Carlin and Pryor and Rock are the top eschelon IMO. Others: Steven Wright, Dane Cook, Robert Schimmel. Janene Garrafello was pretty good too. I like Seinfeld a lot. The woman from Grace under fire was funny too. Margaret Cho is awful. Sandra Bernhardt is often too out there for me, but she is at least is unique. Gallagher's crap. Ellen DeGeneres was an awful standup. Foxworthy can elicit a chuckle, but is completely one note and gets ld fast. Tim Allen was just awful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 That would be Steven Wright... ...and his jokes are said so calmly that you might not get them, or even hear them, but the fucker is funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted December 8, 2002 Eddie Murphy was funny during his SNL days. Rodney Dangerfield was good. No offense. But women comedians aren't that funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted December 8, 2002 It's kind of like what Jerry Seinfeld once said about women comedians, "It's like how all women know how to cook, but the best chef's are men." A little sexist perharps, but I think he means that women are generally funnier than men on the whole, but men traditionally have been more adapt at harnessing their humor on a grander scale. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dames 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 I find Paul Reiser incredibly unfunny. He's never made me laugh ONCE. Dames - Unlike Reiser, CAN Bring The Funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ravenbomb Report post Posted December 8, 2002 everybody I know personally knows my hatred for Paul Reiser. I like how Steven Wright doesn't tell funny stories or political things like other comedians, just random thoughts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bravesfan Report post Posted December 8, 2002 The definitive answer to this thread is TOMMY DAVIDSON. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Gamengiri2002 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 The Best Comedians, by far are: George Carlin (far and away the funniest and most entertaining comedian ever! Bill Hicks (like a George Carlin who is capable, though rarely, of coming off as misinformed and/or pretentious) Eddie Izzard (Dressed To Kill is the second best comedy show ever, next to Carlin's "Jammin in New York") Other good ones: Steven Wright, MITCH HEDBURG, The Amazing Johnathan, Stephen Lynch There are so many bad comedians that it hurts. Just check out Friday Night Stand Up, at least half of everyone on it is horrid. One guy I WILL single out is Mario Cantone. *shudders* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conspiracy_Victim 0 Report post Posted December 8, 2002 I agree that it seems like most female comedians that I've seen are pretty bad. Cho is too dependant on pop culture, Sandra is too abstract (in a where-the-hell-is-she-going sorta way), Ellen and Rosie were just flat out bad. Other comdians (I've seen on TV, never seen one live) who should be beaten with a 9 iron and thrown out a helicopter include the oft mentioned Carrot Top and Dave Coulier. On the other hand, I love Wright, most Carlin, Dennis Miller, old school Murphy, Izzard and The Amazing Jonathan (I too love the Windex joke and the "magic powder" gag). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites