C&L: Top 100 Standup Comedians of All Time (Carlin at #6)

[Bake]

1. Lenny Bruce
2. Richard Pryor

(Hard to argue with those two)

3. Woody Allen
4. Mort Sahl
5. Buddy Hackett

(Ahead of Carlin? C'mon ...)

6. George Carlin

And on it goes. Fun to argue about!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/26/cls-top-100-stand-up-comedians-of-all-time/

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[graywarrior]

1. I sort of agree with it

Lenny and Mort were great for their time. Buddy Hackett still cracks me up.

[Bake]

11. Hard to argue with Lenny Bruce at the top of the list.

He pretty much defined the genre for everybody else who came afterwards.

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[bicentennial_baby]

2. Sarah Silverman ahead of Bill Hicks?

:crazy:

[DS1]

4. Billy Connolly behind 95 people?

[tigereye]

16. that ain't right...

no way.

[LynneSin]

3. Wow - Dane Cook & Carlos Mencia must really suck to not be in the Top #100

seriously!

[Bake]

6. You beat me to it (see below)!

And yeah, they do. Suck, that is.

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[CreekDog]

18. Cook and Mencia wrote this list

surprisingly, it's the only funny thing they've ever written. :eyes:

[Bake]

21. But they didn't mean for it to be funny ...

And that's what's really funny ... no wait ...

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[Bake]

5. In a shocking omission, Dane Cook did NOT make the list!!!!

The Dice Man, Andrew Dice Clay, did make it at #45.

Lewis Black at #94???? That doesn't sound right ...

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[redqueen]

7. "Fun to argue about!"

No it isn't.

[Bake]

8. You're just pissed that they snubbed Dane Cook ...

and Carlos Mencia, too! Admit it!!

:rofl:

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[redqueen]

10. Am not!

I just don't like arguing about lists. x(

[Zavulon]

9. I don't think Allen, Sahl or Hackett belong ahead of Carlin, either.

Then again, I don't think Pryor does, either. Bruce - maybe.

The rest of the list is an utter crock, but I don't have the time to dissect it and the only people who will agree with me are those who don't believe Steven Wright belongs on the list at all.

[Bake]

12. My top three would be Bruce, Pryor and Carlin.

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[tigereye]

17. well, you could argue that without all the ones ahead of Carlin

particularly the political and issues comics like Sahl and Bruce - Carlin might not have done things the way he did.


Even Allen had that great quirky intellectual style as a stand-up...

[Zavulon]

23. A lot of it is just personal taste.

In my case, and I can't really explain why, Allen's standup "great quirky intellectual" style makes me cringe. Only Andy Kaufman's and Steven Wright's are worse. Lewis Black is right up there, too. It doesn't matter how good their material is, they really can't make me laugh because I keep hoping a sandbag will fall and knock them out or something.

Obviously, I mean no offense by using your words as a quote, I'm just pointing out that our tastes are different.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Bill Cosby 10 spots behind GILBERT FUCKING GOTTFRIED?!?

Burn this fucking list. :grr:



Wait... Eddie Izzard 41?? Steven Wright 52?!?



NUKE this fucking list and everybody who had anything to do with it! Fuck, nuke C&L altogether! Wait, no — just nuke the entire fucking INTERNETS!!!


:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Bake]

14. Yeah, that one's kinda hard to figure ...

They must've caught Gottfried on a really GOOD night ...

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[MrCoffee]

15. This list is crap

12. Jerry Seinfeld

23. Sarah Silverman

55. Mitch Hedberg

Fuck that.

[Bake]

20. Are you pissed that they're that low? That high?

On the list at all?

Please specify ... :rofl:

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[Burma Jones]

19. Woody Allen belongs in the top ten, his standup was brilliant.........

But Sarah Silverman better than Bob Hope?


When I was a teenager, Pryor and Carlin were Gods and Robin Williams and Steve Martin were pretty amusing too. I mean, we also had Monty Python, Cheech and Chong, Firesign Theatre and the original Saturday Night Live - so there was a lot of comedy......

[Bake]

22. Jonathan Winters was brilliant

Watch him and you'll see where Robin Williams came from.

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