Once again, I'll start first:
1. Richard Pryor
2. Martin Lawrence
3. Michael Keaton(before he became a drama actor)
4. Eddie Murphy
5. Ben Stiller
A special accolade for the late Rodney Dangerfield.
Once again, I'll start first:
1. Richard Pryor
2. Martin Lawrence
3. Michael Keaton(before he became a drama actor)
4. Eddie Murphy
5. Ben Stiller
A special accolade for the late Rodney Dangerfield.
Nobody is as funny as Sam Kinison, but James Belushi is pretty good. Eddie Murphy kills me. I don't know if you consider them comedians, but Trey Parker and Matt stone are savagley funny,
"Is that my *** that I smell burning?" ... Helmet Stogie from "Death spasms of the Mabuchi"
!. Groucho Marx
2. Stan Laurel
3. Oliver Hardy
4. Robin Williams
5. Monty Python (all of them)
Honorable mentions:
The rest of the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis and Buster Keaton
Last edited by grogg; 01-04-2005 at 07:18 AM.
Top five in order:
Buster Keaton
Stan Laurel
Groucho Marx
W.C. Fields
Harry Langdon
P.S. There hasn't been a decent movie comedian since Peter Sellers died. The best movie comedians these days are in the Jack Lemmon mold, i.e. actors who are exceptional in comedy roles: Kevin Kline, Jeff Bridges, etc.
1. Richard Pryor
2. Buster Keaton
3. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall & and gang.
4. Mel Brooks (for his writing more than his acting)
5. Red Skelton (gotta include a Hoosier)
Richard Pryor
Mel Brooks
Woody Allen (early on)
W.C. Fields
Chris Rock
Have a very blessed day!
1. Jim Carey
2. Jonathan Winters
3. George Carlin
4. Red Skelton
5. Rodney Dangerfield
* Jerry Lewis - "The Day the Clown Cried"
* Tommy Davidson - "Plump Fiction"
* Paul Reubens - "Meatballs, Part II"
* Jackie Gleason - "Smokey and the Bandit, Part III"
* Bill Cosby - "Leonard, Part 6
"Foyt's mere presence is a punch in the face, an inoculation against milquestoast corporatism. There wasn't a car anywhere anyhow anytime that Foyt wouldn't put the boot to, and there hasn't been a race devised he couldn't win."
- Jeff MacGregor, Sunday Money
1. Jerome Howard, aka Curly
trailing at a distance,
2. Buster Keaton
3. Mel Brooks
4. Bob Hope
5. Christopher Guest/Michael McKean/Eugene Levy/Harry Shearer
"Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." - Federalist 55
“My first reaction as a race car driver was to jump out of the car and use the Foyt technique of driver development - grab him and pound some sense into him.”
"Make way. I'm Reaganing."
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