I know - Higgz got us going musically but I had insomnia.

1. Rodney Dangerfield
2. Sam Kinison
3. Eddie Murphy
4. Don Rickles
5. Carson
6. Robin Williams
7. George Carlin
8. Steve Martin
9. Richard Pryor
10. Mitch Hedberg

Bill Hicks

Dave Attell
Doug Stanhope
Tim Conway ( Carrol Burnette days )

George Gobels

Wide range of styles I know.
But Id put Hicks as my fave

I should probably flip Carlin and Martin - the more I thought about George, the less funny I found him.

Tim Allen
Jeff Foxworthy
Galligher

Bob Hope, Jack Benny.

Jerry Seinfeld
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
Rodney Dangerfield
Alan King
Sam Kinnison
Norm McDonald
Bernie Mac
Dennis Leary
I could only think of 9

Ron

Foxworthy
Carlin
Cat Williams just kills me

Dave Chapelle
Daniel Tosh

Good list!

Eddie Murphy was nothing other than Richard Pryor II. Listen to Richard Pryor or watch Live on the Sunset Strip then see Eddie Murphy Raw. It was the same act, basically.

Rickles had an acid tongue and nobody was safe from him, not Johnny Carson.

Carson, quick and subtle.

Carlin - thinking man's comic

Robin Williams = Jonathan Winters II. Quick and manic

Rodney - act really worked in movie comedies. Caddyshack is the classic, but Back to School had some great lines.

I don't know Mitch. I'll look into that

Jeff Dunham

Louie Anderson
Steve Write
Buddy Hacket
Rodney Dangerfield

Carlin was cerebral but if I wanted that - I'll watch Dennis Miller.
Rodney - on Carson kept Carson crying and Johnny had seen it all - he's my #1 favorite of all time.

I generally placed Pryor too low - mostly because he worked too often with Gene Wilder. I have an irrational dislike for Gene Wilder. No clue why - always been there since I was a kid.

I have to find a spot for Red Skelton.

John Pinnette and Gabriel Iglesias are two I REALLY enjoyed but don't know about "top 10" giants of comedy...

John Belushi is also one that's in my top 10 but not a stand up guy so why I wasn't putting him there. Loved John's work on SNL.

I find Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor to be just foul mouthed blowhards. I can't stand either of them. You can be very funny without having diarrhea of the mouth.

Chappelle and Louis CK need to be in the conversation. Tom Segura isn’t yet but he has time to work his way in.

Joe Biden,what a jokester, I mean joke. Love it when he does the mumbling idiot, or the slapstick comedy of falling down the stairs . Would like to see more of the falling down the stairs thing !

I'll add:

Ron White
Lewis Black
Amy Schumer

Lewis Black - I like him.

Amy wasn't ever funny to me. Politics aside.

Justin Wilson

Mitch Hedberg was great! Much like Steven Wright.

Check Jimmy Carr, too.

Blast from the past.

Enjoy Bob Nelson’s “Jiffy Jeff”.

I liked Norm.

Richard Jeni, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Burr.


Pryor.

Jonathan Winters.

George Burns & Gracie Allen

Sid Caesar

Others mentioned here before.

L.W.

A “favorite comedian vs. age” matrix would be interesting!

IMO, Robin Williams was a weak imitation of the master, Jonathon Winters. Carlin had great insight. Smothers Brothers cracked me up.

Larry the cable guy...got to be in there and Rodney Carrington...

???????

Jerry Clower
Justin Wilson
Charlie Douglas
Andy Griffith
Brother Dave Gardner
Bill Dana
Rich Little
Mort Sahl
Henny Youngman
Jack Benny

The old guys are funny without being vile.

This

Interesting as I think of robin Williams as Jonathan Winters +P because he is so manic.

I'll throw Tim Conway out there for honorable mention.

Funniest man alive changed hands

Bill Cosby 1964
Flip Wilson 1969
Steve Martin 1975

Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Eddie Murphy
Chris Rock
Louis C.K.

My favorite is Brian Regan now.... when I was a little kid it was Jack Benny.

A Comedian thread without mention of Lucille Ball? FAIL

She's a comedienne

Red Skelton
Ernie Kovacs

Andrew Dice Clay
Carlos Mencia

Nobody mentioned Slum or Flava Flave ??? 🤣🤣🤣

Career basically ended because of Joe Rogan.

Wasn't Carlos basically stealing bits and Joe called him on it?

Joan Rivers

Seriously ???

Watch "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Pick any 10.

Add the Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello.

I think so.

I don't give a rip either way. Comedians are all trash anyway, just some of them are funny,

Bill Cosby.

Seinfeld.

Gaffigan.

I'm doing work for his mom right now, a really nice-looking 70 yr old woman, lol told me the other day she needed a boyfriend, hint hint.

Ron White & Jeff Foxworthy.

When I was in HS, Richard Prior was King

Had 2 of his albums. “Bicentennial Niqqer”
& “That Niqqer’s Crazy”

Can you imagine if someone released a CD with those titles today ! 🤪

Lenny Bruce
Redd Foxx

you all forgot : Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Tom Segura is hilarious. This skit is great.

Dave Chappell
Sam Kinnison
Jim Gaffigan
Jonathan Winters
Dana Carvey
Martin Short
Phil Hartman
Bill Murray
Louis CK
Eddie Murphy

Bob Newhart - especially doing his telephone routine.

I've always liked Pryor, carlin, and dangerfield a lot from that list. I loved Pryors routine about knowing some mobsters.

Bb

How about John Candy?

Chris Rock, especially when he partners with Will Smith