Comedians who were funny for about 5 minutes in 1986?

[dolo amber]

Subtitled: Who here remembers the beginnings of Comedy Central? :D

Kevin Meaney. :hi:

[Fenris]

1. Paul Reiser

Ray Jay Johnson
Gilbert Gottfried
Rita Rudner
Elaine Boosler
Pretty much any of the pre-Seinfeldians

[dolo amber]

2. Ah yes

I fear history will not be kind to the "pre-Seinfeldians". Rather like the Cossacks. :(

[Fenris]

4. My grammy never gave gifts. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.

:D

[LostinVA]

3. Rita Rudner had her moments

[dolo amber]

5. "The saleslady told me 'Trust me, this dress will look better on'..."

"I said "On what? On fire?"

:D

[LostinVA]

8. SOME moments. Compared to the rest of the list!

[Left Is Write]

11. I saw her in Las Vegas in '95...

She was pretty funny then! Or maybe it was the vodka sours.

[Beaverhausen]

49. I saw her in Vegas in 92. I thinks she's great...but low key

She opened for...oh what's his name...I love him he's so funny and sweet. He's very large and blond...Louie something...anyone?

[Left Is Write]

51. Louie Anderson?

[Beaverhausen]

54. Yes! Thanks

What happened to him? I thought he was great!

[Left Is Write]

55. It looks like he's only done a couple of TV things since Family Feud...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004706/

But for all I know, he's still out there doing live stand-up.

Do you remember the cartoon Life With Louie? It was a Saturday morning show, and I was already about 30 when it came on. I watched it anyway. :D

[Kerrytravelers]

6. Elaine Boosler subbed for Stephanie last week. She's great!

[Nailzberg]

32. Yeah, Boosler was awesome!

She could definitely have her own show. I imagine someone with the stand-up chops she has was only taking the opportunity on a short term basis. But if she ever decided to do talk radio on a daily, she'd be a hit. Momma better watch out.

[fleabert]

7. way funnier than five minutes...

SAST

short attention span theater- my absolute favorite show on Comedy Central of all time!

[GOPisEvil]

12. Jon Stewart and Patty Rosborough!!!

What ever happened to Patty?

MON-KEY Boy...:rofl:

[Deja Q]

9. Joe Piscopo

He wasn't funny, but that episode of star trek next generation he was in sure was a joke...

[IsIt1984Yet]

24. Joe's 5 minutes was "Johny Dangerously"

D.A. Burr: The public sees him as a knight in shining armor.
Danny Vermin: This goes through armor . . . and it goes through the victim, through the wall, through a tree outside.

[long_green]

50. His best line in that movie was...

he pulls a pistol with a ridiculously long barrel out of his jacket.

flunky: they made it special for him...it's an .88 magnum.

Piscopo: it shoots through schools.

[mikeytherat]

53. "My mother hung me on a door once. Once."

JD: "I always wondered what happened to you."
Vermin: "Well, I fulfilled a lot of people's expectations about me; I turned into a real scumbag."
JD: "That's great! A lot of people go their whole lives without realizing what they want to be."

mikey_the_rat

[SaveElmer]

10. Yakov Smirnov....

Was he still funny in 1986?

[CanuckAmok]

19. In Soviet Union, Yakov Smirnov hates me.

[dolo amber]

21. ...

:rofl:

[mitchum]

39. I was so glad when the USSR fell, because I knew that schmuck...

would no longer have a schtick. He was the worst stand up EVER

[no name no slogan]

13. Dennis Miller doing the SNL news

Loved that mullet. Unfortunately for him it's been downhill ever since.

[AlCzervik]

14. Kevin Meaney--"We're a big pants family" i think that was his whole act.

[Fenris]

16. ***ROFL***

:rofl:

[WeRQ4U]

48. Nope, you forgot..."You'll poke your eye out"

He did that about 30 times each night.

[Common Sense Party]

15. Whoopi Goldberg was never funny.

Steven Wright still is.

[begin_within]

27. Whoopi did do a "valley girl"-type character in her standup that was funny

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. Awww, she had her moments

Some of her characters, like Fontaine, were pretty funny.

[Common Sense Party]

46. Never could stand her in movies...

I don't remember much of her stand-up...just that it was profanity-laced. I wasn't impressed.

[nytemare]

17. accidental dupe

[nytemare]

18. Andrew Dice Clay.

I can't remember if I actually thought he was funny. Now, I think if I did, I must have had some really fucking bad taste.

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. He was funny for maybe 15 seconds

Maybe even not that long.

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Judy Tenuta, Bob Nelson, Dave Coulier, Geechy Guy....

[gatorboy]

30. I loved Judy!

"Suffah, Pope!!!"

Looks like she's keeping busy!

http://www.judytenuta.com/blog/

[specimenfred1984]

22. Howie Mandell, But It Only Lasted About 30 Seconds

Then his stupid voice became grating as hell!

[jane_pippin]

23. Jake Johansen.

Was he popular? I don't know. He had a joke about a cow, I think. Also he was after 1986.

Actually, in or around 1986, (I was a kid--the memory is fuzzy), Jerry Seinfeld had an HBO half hour special that my brother and I taped and watched about a billion times. The beginning got cut off though so we didn't know his name. We called the tape, "Funny Guy." Eventually we stopped watching it, and pretty much forgot about it, but still randomly quoted it from time to time.

Imagine my confused surprise when the Seinfeld show came out.

Kevin Meany. *sigh* His mom never thinks anything's right. :o

[Floogeldy]

33. I remember Jake.

I think is still around. :)

[jane_pippin]

40. Yeah, I think he does still turn up once in a while.

I've got nothing against him. In my fuzzy memory he looks like a mix between that black and white stick-figure guy that was popular in the late 80's/early 90's, and Funky Winkerbean. (I know he looks a little different now.)

[begin_within]

25. Sam Kinison? Gallagher? Bobcat Goldthwait?

[DainBramaged]

37. If only Kinison was still alive

I enjoyed his humor immensely.

[IsIt1984Yet]

26. Robin Williams

Now he makes my skin crwal with his coke/methed up freakishness. :scared:

And... WTF did I EVER see in Gallagher?

[WCGreen]

28. Emo Phillips....

Who, by the way, spawned an awful whinny pop music sub genre, populated by guys too mediocre to wear all black, they dabble in grey, and pine and threaten to kill themselves if the girl doesn't like them...


Too "deep" for pop music...

Too chicken for Heavy Metal....

[gatorboy]

29. You making fun of Kevin Meaney?

That's Not Right!

[nutsnberries]

42. was he the "we're big pants people" guy?

You're gonna poke an eye out! :D

[bmbmd]

44. Wipe that puss of your face

what will the neighbors say?

[wickerwoman]

31. Colin Quinn

was a little bit funny on that MTV game show with Ben Stiller.

Ellen DeGeneres had a pretty funny stand-up act too.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Tom Kenny

Dude used to rip me up with his "geek" bit.

And this is a bit pre-1986, but Carrie Snow did some of the best stand-up EVarr. I still quote her once in awhile.

"And, ladies — you always have to have your toes done, because then even if you're naked, you're all dressed up."

[6000eliot]

35. I still love Kevin Meaney

I've even seen him in person.

[Writer]

36. Actually there were two networks, as I recall...

One was named "HA!" and the other was "The Comedy Channel." Eventually they merged to become Comedy Central.

I'm thinking Carol Leiffer. Where's she been lately?

[DainBramaged]

41. Carol Leifer

Fee Range: $10,001 to $15,000

http://www.internationalspeakers.com/speakers/Celebrity_Speaker/ISBB-55336Z/Carol_Leifer/

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Everybody!

"January...February...March, April...."

:hi: dolo!

[KamaAina]

47. Ronald Reagan

"We bomb Moscow in five minutes... Is this thing on?!"

[Taverner]

52. Paula Poundstone, Rita Rudner, Ellen DeGeneres

I consider them the triage of "just OK" commediannes.

They weren't unfunny, but they weren't exactly funny either. They were, just OK.