so yeah....just added Patrice O'Neal into my top 5 comics of all time.....
 

few comics can walk the fine line between being funny and philosophical....Carlin comes to mind....but this guy did it with conviction and swag. Shit was almost like an ongoing jedi mind trick on stage.

Chappelle, Murphy, Prior, Rock,

Patrice Oneal is in my top 5 as well.

He got in there a few months back.

Cerebral af w/ it at times.. & I like that shit.

U still a faggot tho.

he speaks....
 

ditto


happy late birthday nigga, 2 days before mine

Comparing Patrice to Carlin is insulting

Funny guy but....that's a reach.

He's really not in the same tier as ur other top 4 either honestly lol

An it's PRYOR. dickhead. Smh.

I put patrice over everyone mentioned. My personal favorite. Not purely standup tho im biased from his like 500 hours on opie and anthony.

Katt williams.

fuck this.


i'm not being sarcastic, the world is ending. NOTHING fucking matters except being content with the cruelties of this world because you understand where your eternal soul will reside.


i'm fucked. i didn't prep but i bought a gun, yet, the bible says i can't live by the sword for i will die by it. i must live thru acts of kindness, by spreading the word. i'm fucking fucked, and 95% of the population is in the same boat.


get familiar with the Book if you haven't. the goings on in the world is an elaborate illusion.

Pretty much, yeah. Rejoice phil.

Top 5 lololololol fuck out of here

i'll accept people putting carlin and pryor over him because its the equivalent of putting biggie and pac over people.

they're not technically better but its the commercially acceptable viewpoint

carlin put out alot of mediocre trash. he put out good shit too, don't get me wrong. but comedy more than anything is preferential.

patrice would never put himself up there with carlin and pryor, but his peers do.

he gets alot of credit since he died. the big l/biggie/pac syndrome both hurts and helps. he only did one real special. i think he had a comedy central half hour, maybe a showtime special or hbo i forget as well, but i can't find it.

but his standup was rock solid all around.

again i'm biased cuz i've literally listened to him spew his woman hating viewpoint for hundreds of hours, off stage on radio shows and shit. so when you hear him actually putting his opinions out, and then you hear him on stage putting it all together he was a fucking BEAST.

to me he's the black thought of standup if black thought died lol. you'd have the ignorant laugh him out of top 5's, but he should be in top 5's off his skillset alone.

he'd dismantle hecklers. he'd walk a whole room no fucks given. he could sit on a stool with no energy and keep everything together.

his only mainstream roast was the charlie sheen one, and he went off the head for 90 percent of it.

there is really no point in defending him tho, if he's not in your top 5 its gotta be because you haven't seen and heard enough from him.

Brian Regan
Richard Pryor
Dave Chappelle
Katy Williams
Chris Rock

Landslide top 3 tbc

Respectable list imo

I don't think I'd put Patrice in my top 5 (granted I never tried to rank them) but I could see a strong case

Y'all sleeping on Mitch Hedberg

Unless he's not as funny as I remember..

I haven't watched that much standup in the last decade, but my favorites are Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Mitch Hedberg, Patrice O'Neal, Bill Hicks, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Robin Williams ...

Ugh I hate Louis ck he is so miserable an depressing to listen to.

Bags I was not comparing to Carlin....Carlin and the way he saw world and the way he relayed it to the crowd was his niche....his own philosophy


Patrice niche was explaining his logic regarding females and relationships in his own philosophy....not to mention his impromptu. Social issues, double standards were also strong points. He was the underdogs unsung hero

in which aero lists brian regan, the cleanest one-note comic in the business, in his top 5.