The greatest comedians of all time

Mr Bean was [b]NEVER[/b] funny. Repeat that as your mantra!

Flood.

Get your hashpipes out, and have a Cheech & Chong marathon.

Monty Python, Andy Kaufman, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, WC Fields… I would have added Rowen Atkinson too if he hadn’t let Mr Mean run completely out of hand.

I never really understood stand-up comedians though. Go up on a stage, make some slightly abnormal observations about everyday life, and that is supposed to be funny for a crowd of office workers having an evening off sitting around a table with a pitcher of beer. I can do that. In fact, i think i am doing that right now. And is it funny? Nope. Would i like making money that way? Yes, but i think there are better ways to make a lot more money on people being made drunk with beer-by-the-pitcher.
But then again, if the audience settles with stale US beer from a pitcher, i’m sure they’ll think i’m funny too.

If you could ask any of the great comedians who they idolised, the majority would probably say Laurel and Hardy

Not a great fan of them generally but The Two Ronnies classic “fork ‘andles” sketch always gets me going. Likewise with Morecombe and Wise doing “The Stripper”.

Boy, for a bunch of people supposedly talking about the greatest comedians ever, you sure do keep misspelling Monty Python 😀

For some excellent stand-up comedy, the only answer is Denis Leary 😎

Originally posted by Flood
The late Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – together.

For example their Bedazzled knocked the recent turkey to the ground and buried it! Not so sure about Derek and Clive – very acquired taste from what I have heard…

Apart they both had their moments – and both had their low down deeply depressing moments too… 🙁

Flood.

Pete and Dud were a superb double act mostly because Peter Cook had such a style and vision about him and was able to improvise and leave Dud in fits of giggles,not in to there Derek and Clive stage as to me it was just bit too vulgar at times,Laurel and Hardy were completly different double act and are timeless,i would rate other comedians such as Dave Allen,Billy Connolly and the late Bob Monkhouse as the best stand up comedians in my view,ps i love Jethro too,and Alan Davies,and Lee Hurst are worth seeing live.

JETHRO. a brilliant piece of devonshire comedy

TOMMY COOPER!

So it was an early remake?;)

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
[b]THERES A STORY?
But it was the Marx Brothers!
Good Grief!
Um… Its the one with Groucho as the President of Fredonia waging war with his scheming neighbours…No music but does have the lemonade stall and mirror sequences – ‘Marxism at its best!’ Info from Halliwells Film Guide.

Flood. [/B]

Your half right, laurel and Hardy did it first
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Originally posted by cbstd
Laurel and Hardy are timeless. The outdoor staircase used for the Piano Movers still exisits here in LA.

I would also offer a couple of timeless classics:

Charley Chaplin and Buster Keaton… oh and Harold Lloyd also.

Of the modern guys and gals Richard Prior in his prime.

Scott

And also the Keystone cops and the cross eyed Harry Langdon

Laurel and Hardy are timeless. The outdoor staircase used for the Piano Movers still exisits here in LA.

I would also offer a couple of timeless classics:

Charley Chaplin and Buster Keaton… oh and Harold Lloyd also.

Of the modern guys and gals Richard Prior in his prime.

Scott

Originally posted by Ren Frew
Especially the talking fish gag.:D

I have met several of them… Why do pensioners think they are exceedingly funny?:rolleyes:

Kiora?

Flood.

I quite like the Bing and Bob Road movies of that era as well, Road to Utopia is a class act. Especially the talking fish gag.:D

Re: Re: The greatest comedians of all time

Originally posted by HURRICANE 477
I agree Laurel & Hardy are timeless, and I wanted to say how they came to such a tragic ending. They died in poverty on the streets of New York, it was a tragic story. I’m not completely sure, but that’s what I heard.

My personal favourite was Peter Sellers and dear old Bob (Monkhouse, r.i.p).

You heard wrong, both were wealthy men, Oliver Hardy died from a stroke in 1957 and Stan Laurel died of a massive heart attack at his Hollywood mansion in 1965

Re: Re: The greatest comedians of all time

Originally posted by Comet
Duck Soup was a Marx Brothers film, dating from 1933. The Marx Brothers are my favourites and I’ve seen their films.

Laurel and Hardy were very good though.

Duck Soup was the first talky movie Stan and Ollie did together in 1927, there was also a movie called duck soup made by the Marx bros in 1933
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I would watch your wallet if you are going to hang around here! There are certain unsavoury characters here that would make off with your trousers if you took them off – just to watch your face drop when you realised!!!

There was a Ch4 comedy many years ago called Whoops Apocalypse which was totally the hounds dangly bits! NOT the film – which starred Peter Cook (amongst others); it is dire, especially when compared to the original!

The Young Ones is good, too! I tire of Fawlty Towers – familiarity breeding contempt.

How about some popcorn?

Flood.

no they are big boggies that have been stuck together. anyway i will watch more if i can. who else shall i watch?

Then watch a few more, and ye shall be enlightened!

These sweeties? Are they…winegums?:confused:

Flood.

well i didnt know he does the same jokes. ive seen his video and i just think that he is a funny bloke