Comedian Recommendations

Really want to watch more stand up comedy but find a lot of comedians to be fairly uninteresting. Post your favorites, and bonus points if you attach a youtube video of good bits or full length specials.

Thanks

obvious louis ck is obvious, nothing rivals him atm afaik

maria bamford would be my second choice:

Second Louis CK, also Stewart Lee

neil hamburger, doug stanhope, dylan moran, tiffany haddish, maria bamford, louis ck

Bill Burr & Joe Rogan are favorites of mine. They both put out new specials in the last few weeks that are particularly great.

Louis Black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZh51bDuCmE

i love chris rock!!

also Hans Teeuwen - dat dan weer wel -> best, most hilarious thing i ever saw

(sorry for dutchies only)

yeah, chris rock, bill burr, louis ck, patrice oneil, the old stuff of Pryor, george carlin, colinn quinn.

just to name a few, im lazy.

some rogan stuff also.

Ill post a list later on of my favorites

i liked chelsea peretti's new special, which is on netflix. bill burr's newest special i found to be weak compared to his prior two or three. here's jim jefferies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSD9tiqgzdo

Definitely Louis CK and Doug Stanhope. If you have netflix most of their specials are on there actually.

ron white is very not popular, but I love him. I used to listen to him everyday at work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIW2Mz8eEtk

Bill Cosby.

mitch hedberg

yeah hedberg is great.

been checking out sam kinison lately. never knew bill hicks took so much of his style from him. some growls and cadences are just lifted from him, even. clearly hicks was very inspired by kinison. he did refine and expand on the approach, and portrayed his own character, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ5-IjxuHxI

nobody mentioned george carlin yet? too obvious? if you're not familiar with him, go for his older stuff, of which there is a lot. his last 2 or 3 specials were a little weak, relatively, imo.

Bill Hicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHOFMiQYKI

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mitch hedberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0MFg0tsjrE

All of the above mentioned. Maria Bamford is amazing.

Paul F. Thompkins, Hannibal Buress, Jim Gaffigan.

I forgot to recommend Jim jefferies. He's hilarious

All of the above, plus, don't completely vouch for, but do enjoy them on the Joe Rogan Experience: Ari Shaffir, Duncan Trussell, Joey Diaz. Saw Duncan and Ari at a show, and it was quality. They aren't legend level like Louis C.K., and Bill Burr though.

Here's a 24/7 shoutcast stream that plays stand-up bits. Listening to stand-up while going to sleep, is it strange? It's a nice change of pace from positive ambient. Sometimes you will hear repeats but there's lots of old jems. Sometimes I hear early Richard Pryor, Seinfeld, Carlin, etc. And lots of people I've never heard of and end up looking up on youtube.

I use winamp, and usually just search the shoutcast directory for standup or comedy, here's one:

http://108.61.73.115:8026

You can just open the url in winamp or whichever media player.

Everyone I thought of immediately has already been mentioned, except David Cross. For all his cynical snarky anger he's a really nice guy. He literally bumped into me and my wife at a free SXSW show and was like super apologetic and polite.

I like these folks though too:

http://youtu.be/l1Sa9hXA4mo

I love David Cross! He needs a new special.

bill hicks, richard pryor, david cross, george carlin, louis c.k.

Pretty much everything George Carlin ever did was hilarious.

http://youtu.be/fwMukKqx-Os

Jimmy Carr is pretty good too.

http://youtu.be/e6g3RmfTD4s

He had a handful of those bits, but they were far from dominating the entirety of his material...