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Originally Posted by uh-oh
you can name a million guys who are better than farley at standup, or other narrow versions of comedy
there were better comedic actors, there were better sketch guys (maybe)
but all around no one can contend with farley in my mind. from just a that dude is hilarious standpoint
i like mitch hedburg but i dont even put him in my top 5 standup let alone top 5 funniest people ever
but im not huge on one liners and shit. i prefer stories peppered with jokes that all culminate in awesome shit
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Who is your favourite stand up comedian?
George Carlin is probably mine, I like him not just as a comedian but also as a writer, he very rarely had a word out of place, he didn't waste a syllable, everything was essential for the jokes to work as well as they did. Those lists he did (people who need to get an inoperable tumour on the base of their spine etc) were pure genius, because they were hilarious but also written and performed to absolute perfection. He was an artist.
In terms of just being a naturally hilarious person I would personally go for Billy Connolly, he was unbelievable, he would do 80 nights and every night the show would be completely different because he didn't really write so much as he just got up and spoke about his life, and the way he spoke about it was funny. watching him was like having a conversation in a bar with a really funny friend, he just said what came out and what came out just happened to always be funny. His stand up probably isn't known much in America tho, but over here he would generally be regarded in the same way as Carlin and Pryor are in the USA.