Favorite Comedians

[FrostyV3]

What are your favorite comedians of all time, living or dead?
I'm also really interested to see which countries like which comedians, so could you please put your country somewhere in your post.

My favorites are:

Carl Barron
Demetri Martin
'The Chaser's War On Everything' Crew
Hamish & Andy
The Umbilical Brothers

And I'm an Aussie
~Frosty.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Uhh

Michael McIntyre (if I spelt it right)
Frankie Boyle
Billy Connolly
Jimmy Carr
Don't know his name but he's an aussie with hair like Bill Bailey.
Lee Evans

I'm from UK and I might be missing some names.

 

[chaser[phoenix]]

George Carlin and I suppose Mitch Hedberg.

A "rest in peace" to them both.

 

[The-Big-D]

Ross Noble

 

[SimuLord]

George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Dennis Wolfberg, Mitch Hedberg, and Jeff Dunham.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Christopher Titus
Luis Black
Patton Oswalt (not sure if I spelled that right...)

 

[OneHP]

Don't know his name but he's an aussie with hair like Bill Bailey.

Tim Minchin?

 

[traceur_]

Danny Bhoy

Adam hills

the Umbilical Brothers

Billy Connolly

 

[GonzoGamer]

George Carlin FTW

Bill Cosby (as a child he was my favorite)
Lewis Black
Eddie Murphy
Richard Pryor
Cheech & Chong (just saw them a few months ago and they're still hilarious)
Dice
Eddie Izzard
Vic Henly
Mike Britt
Kurt Metzger

As you might be able to tell from the last three, I'm from NYC.

 

[Lord Krunk]

My favorites are:

'The Chaser's War On Everything' Crew
Hamish & Andy
The Umbilical Brothers

And I'm an Aussie
~Frosty.

I noticed.

Put one under The Chaser and The Umbilical Brothers to me, but Bill Bailey and Dylan Moran are up there as well.

Why hasn't anyone mentioned those two yet?

EDIT:

Don't know his name but he's an aussie with hair like Bill Bailey.

Tim Minchin?

Oh yeah, forgot him.

Saw a comedy gala the other day with him in it; pure gold.

 

[Fingerprint]

Bill Bailey,
Jimmy Carr,
The guys from The Mighty Boosh,
The guys from The Flight of the Conchords,
Frankie Boyle,
Russell Howard,
Dara O'Brien.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Don't know his name but he's an aussie with hair like Bill Bailey.

Tim Minchin?

Yes! Thank you!

I'd also like to add Eddie Izzard (before he got to Hollywood and became a normal person)
And there's a scottish bloke too, he did a funny "visit scotland" fake advert once..

 

[Neonbob]

George Carlin, Jeff Dunham, Katt Williams, Ricky Gervais, Luis Black, and Dan Cummins are a few of my favorites.

 

[PeterDawson]

I have ten, in no real order:
Jimmy Carr
Jon Stewart
Demetri Martin
Steven Colbert
Craig Ferguson
Michael McDonald
George Carlin
Woody Allen
Ryan Stiles
Colin Mochrie

 

[Shrubery]

Dylan Moran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0PovDYAoNM&feature=channel_page

 

[I Am Pigeon]

Either Bill Hicks or Mitch Hedberg, can't decide which.

 

[Crash486]

Todd Barry
Louis CK
Jim Norton
Doug Stanhope
Robert Schimmel
Lewis Black
Mitch Hedberg
Demetri Martin is alright, it seems like he tries for a mitch hedberg of comedy, but doesn't quite hit the nail on the head.

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

Chris Titus
The Amazing Jonathan
Dane Cook
Dimitri Martin
John Pinette
George Carlin
Mitch Hedberg
Nick Swardson

 

[internutt]

Bill Bailey and 2 the Ranting Gryphon (even though I am not a furry).