It's time for someone to mention Woody Allen. Not only a great comedian, but also a great film maker.

peter cook, eddie izzard, sean hughes, mark steel (the guy is a genius), john sessions, jimmy carr, rich hall, bill bailey. ardal o hanlon, dermot morgan, dara o brian, lenny bruce, spike milligan, dudley moore, tommy tiernan, robin williams in his prime of mentalism, ed byrne, colm murphy, mark thomas, russel brand, ricky gervais, dave gorman, the guy i cant think of his name but he is funny believe me!, jo brand, steven wright, jasp[er carrott (for his mad uncle in the pub kinda guy), peter serafinowiz (sorry if i spelt that wrong), steve coogan, not so much in stand up but his characters are great,

no one has mentioned ben elton! you will all get rep points for that!!! tosspot of the highest order! or les dennis or the rascist bastard trhat is jim "chalky" davidson!

Not mentioned: Brian Posehn


"I've been a nerd for like.......30 years."

the mark steel lectures......"darwin"


part 1
part 2
part 3

rich hall.... live at the apollo

part 1
part 2

spike milligan....


on bbc tv show "room 101" excellent!!

part 1
part 2
part 3

spike milligan and the goons....


the first irish rocket to the moon
the irish olympics

enjoy em!

"& poeple always say to me, yr older than 30 bro."

BTW, I have to correct you...


I also forgot to mention, Maria Bamford.

I see, I see.

Bill Cosby at his peek was great.

Ah, I forgot to mention in my last post that I have an autographed Zach Galifianakis poster next to me. He's pretty great.

Gawd....Rodney Dangerfield!

Zach is definitely my favorite of the Comedians of Comedy.


Of course, I'm disappointed in myself for forgetting one of the greats. Thanks for the reminder.

I'll second Ed Byrne. I'm also VERY glad to see no one on this forum mention Dane Cook.

Pretty good list.

I'd add to mine Dara O'Briain after having sen him live. And Jeremy Hardy was very good as well.

Dylan Moran

He was on tv last night and I really enjoyed his stand up.

Patton Oswalt

Mitch Hedberg
Armando Iannucci
Chris Morris
The Futurama writers
Rich Hall
Adam & Joe (if they qualify)

And someone who hasn't been mentioned yet...

Frank Sidebottom

Yeah Dylan Moran is great. I think his Monster is the best stand-up performance that I've seen, though I wasn't keen on his next one. I like the way that while rambling and philosphising he will drop in random surreal details (which only register a few seconds later).

Good call on Simon Pegg (as someone you don't find funny): I hate that brand of comedy, which just relies on recognition, i.e., haha this bit is like that bit in Star Wars where they fight with lightsabres but they're fighting with baguettes instead, etc.

I hate how this stuff is mostly regional. I know, like, three or four people from the lists from the English, whereas I seem to know all the American comedians.

How come so few comedians from England cross over to the US?
Do many US comedians cross over there?

I really enjoyed that Dylan Moran thing last night as well, i enjoy the creativity of the way he links his main bits (I dunno about the word "jokes") rather than going "So i was walking down the road the other day..." so it all flows into one.

The Kids in the Hall

As this threads popped back up
I personally have never been one to like any of those things, but i think your assertion that he's the "lads mag" comedian of choice probably has alot to do with the fact that he's just popular with alot of people.
I reject the "because he's dead" bollocks as well. That business isnt romantic its just sad.