Please rank these comedians from best to worst.

Chris Rock is above average.

The rest are terrible.

GOATs.

Carlin, Pryor, Patrice O'Neal, Dave Chappelle, Greg Giraldo, Doug Stanhope, Bill Burr.

Rock

Seinfeld

Williams

Goldberg

Carrot Top

Behar

Most of my favorites have already been listed, but my top 5 (in no order) are probably:

Eddie Murphy (Delirious and Raw might be the 2 best complete shows I’ve seen)

Chapelle

Bill Burr

Norm McDonald

Aziz Ansari

Honorable mention:

Hedberg

Steven Wright

Nate Bergatze

Chris Rock

Dmetri Martin

Names I don't think I've seen but belong in this thread (recognizing that taste is a personal thing):

Mike Birbiglia

Iliza Schlesinger

Richard Pryor

Russell Peters

Trevor Noah

John Mulaney

Bo Burnham

Taylor Tomlinson

Tom Segura

Ali Wong

Jimmy Carr

Hannah Gadsby

Ellen Degeneres

Michelle Wolf

Craig Ferguson

Michael Che

Adam Sandler

Christina P

Whitney Cummings

Ricky Gervais

Tig Notario

Michael McIntyre

Brian Regan

Deon Cole

The best have already been mentioned, and are:

Eddy Murphy, Louis CK and Norm McDonald, with honourable mentions for Dave Chappelle and Sarah Silverman

The worst popular ones (imho):

Jeff Foxworthy, Jeff Dunham, Larry the Cable Guy and all the other idiots in that group, plus Kevin Hart, Tracy Morgan

There are a lot of other names I haven't mentioned because I could take them or leave them. I love good stand up. The best stand up comics are among the smartest people walking among us...

I don't know if they have the brightest minds but they seem to have the quickest minds.

No... your externalized victimhood fetish is the problem.

Are there hilarious women comics? Sure. But there's WAY more men.

The best comics are virtually all men. This isn't sexism any more than the NBA being all men is sexism.

Finally some sense. HAVE to have Norm and Eddie. And Chris Rock is way better than Jerry. Are we talking stand up here? Is chapelle a stand up? I feel like he talks about stuff in a funny way but doesnt make actual stand up jokes. Kind of like a genius writer.

There's different kind's of stand up. Stand up is about making the crowd laugh whether it's through social commentary like Carlin and Chapelle, one liners like Wright and Dangerfield or anything in between.

Actual stand-ups all consider Chapelle to be one of the greats.

A random bit of history.

I was at Ding Ho's in Cambridge, Massachusetts the night that Wright was discovered by a Tonight Show producer in 1982. The next week he amused Johnny Carson on national tv.

I agree generally with you on women and standup. Ellen DeGeneres was actually great back in the day and belongs on my list. Kathleen Madigan is my favorite female comic and she belongs on my list. I think Tig Notaro is very good and belongs on my list. Roseanne was interesting early on. Unfortunately, too many of the other female comics, especially the current ones (like Nikki Glaser) rely on sexual humor which can be funny, but it's easy, so I'm not impressed by that.

Norm Macdonald (notice the proper spelling) was a glaring error. He might be my all-time favorite. Another omission from my list would be Mike Birbiglia.

You are all missing the Late, Great John Pinette!!!

That is cool. He talked about how he was discovered on his first show with Carson. Cool that you were there.

Not me! I mentioned him. He was great.

John Mulaney was another glaring omission on my list. Hopefully he can keep his drug addiction under control.

With Mike Roche and Randy Thomas. I think that Tommy Ratcliffe might have been with us as well. It was a Pro-Am night hosted by Lenny Clarke. Easy to remember the date as it was Randy and mine birthdays.

Gallagher and Tim Allen would be on my list

Does Gallagher even perform still? His act grew old pretty quickly.

Williams

Rock

Seinfeld

Colonoscopy

the rest

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