Hey Guys,
I recently launched a stand up comedy video site, http://www.jokereel.com featuring 15 popular stand up comedians.
The comedians are:
Eddie Murphy
Louis CK
Jim Jefferies
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
Jimmy Carr
Bill Hicks
Ricky Gervais
Doug Stanhope
George Carlin
Lewis Black
Denis Leary
Richard Pryor
Jim Carrey
Pablo Francisco
What do you guys think of this line up and if you could improve it, who would you replace or add?
Peter Kay
Dara O'Briain
Ken Dodd
Jimmy Tarbuck
Tom O'Connor
Bob Monkhouse
Dave Allen
Jim Davidson
Stan Boardman
Chubby Brown
Jim Bowen
Mike Reid
Bernard Manning
Eddie Izzard
Steve Coogan
Alexei Sayle
Robin Williams
Patrice O'Neal
Tony Woods
Maria Bamford
Sean Lock
Jason Manford
Eddie Izzard
Dylan Moran
Paul F Tompkins
Maria Bamford
zach galifianakis
Tim Key
Marc Maron
Steve Martin
Demetri Martin
Bo Burnham
Patton Oswalt
Mitch Hedberg
Quote: Justin Butlion @ April 5 2012, 3:17 PM BSTHey Guys,
I recently launched a stand up comedy video site, http://www.jokereel.com featuring 15 popular stand up comedians.
The comedians are:
Eddie Murphy
Louis CK
Jim Jefferies
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
Jimmy Carr
Bill Hicks
Ricky Gervais
Doug Stanhope
George Carlin
Lewis Black
Richard Pryor
Jim Carrey
Are great, maybe add Sam Kinison, Greg Giraldo?
To see or in front of a firing squad?
Linda Smith
Steven Wright
Spike Milligan
Arthur Smith
Barry Cryer
Morecambe and Wise (obviously)
Jimmy Edwards
Michael Bentine
Mike & Bernie Winters
Max Wall
Good line up, some very pioneering too. And it is odd why not many mention double acts when talking about stand ups, or performers who do characters like Coogan for instance. There's a lot of modern snobbery with fans of 'stand up', I'm not sure if they want to acknowledge the whole wide genre that it is.
They don't make 'em like they used to. Jim "what's-my-appeal" Davidson, OBE, patriotic former tax-exile, racist Dubai landowner and winner of a New Faces Heat about 38 years ago, is playing at The Monaco Ballroom in Wigan where I live. They're having a whole 1974 themed night, pints for 50p, protests for the Guilford Four, and all the wives in the audience have black eyes because it's okay to thump 'The Mrs' so long as you make it up with flowers and treat your ma' with over-exaggarated respect. Like they do in Eastenders. Because the Krays did it. When copying from the Italians.
Steve Coogan (as Paul Calf)
Sean Lock
Larry David (he was a stand up before Seinfeld)
Jack Dee
Bill Bailey
Steven Wright
Stewart Lee
Dylan Moran
Frank Skinner
Dave Gorman
Stephen Merchant
Woody Allen
Louis C.K.
Tim Vine
If we can include deceased stand ups I'll add:
Richard Pryor
Tommy Cooper
Dave Allen
Laurel & Hardy (they toured Europe with a stage act in the 1940's. Voudeville was essentially the stand up of it's day)
Louis C.K
Jimmy Carr
Woody Allen
Jerry Seinfeld
Conan O'Brien
Stephen Merchant
Stewart Lee
Dylan Moran
Eddie Izzard
I could have a line up of deceased . . .
Dave Allen
Bernard Manning
Bob Monkhouse
Mike Reid
Max Wall
Tommy Cooper
Frank Carson
and, topping the bill . .
Max Miller
Compered by Colin Crompton
What would you pay to see that line up again?
Not 1 woman?
Sarah Millican
Jo Brand
Catherine Parkinson (although, does she do stand up?)
My standup line:
-Aziz Ansari
-Donald Glover
-Nick Swardson
-Sara Schaefer
-Jon Friedman
-Rob Delaney
-John Mulaney
-Jo Koy
-Gabriel Iglesias
-Jon Reep