100 Greatest Stand Ups

[haveaguiness]

Vote below:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...d-ups/articles/greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time

My two-penneth worth:

- A vote for Stewart Lee is a vote for common sense
- Michael McIntyre's nomination is a travesty
- Bas Savage is a GLARING omission. Perhaps his inability to stay on his feet was a factor.

Just in case you would like to know, Stewart Lee is currently touring and is playing in Chelmsford on the 4th Feb. I see him up in London just before christmas, absolute Legend!!!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Vote below:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/...d-ups/articles/greatest-stand-ups-of-all-time

My two-penneth worth:

- A vote for Stewart Lee is a vote for common sense
- Michael McIntyre's nomination is a travesty
- Bas Savage is a GLARING omission. Perhaps his inability to stay on his feet was a factor.

I've seen around a 5th of those on that list live and IMO Daniel Kitson is easily the best stand-up around at the moment. Stewart Lee is though excellent.

It's become fashionable to hate McIntyre who isn't nearly as bad as his detractors make out (although not as good as his supporters make out either).

 

[MK Shrimper]

Where's Bernard Manning?


Answers on a postcode to........

The Left Wing Brigade,
Lefty Land,
Leftshire.
UK Council of Muslims.
Englandistan.

 

[BrettieAngell]

For me, Delirious was good, but not a patch on "Raw". I've seen it so many times, and it still makes me crease up.

I like Frankie Boyle, but most of his stuff is lifted from Sickipedia.

Richard Pryor is a ****ing legend. His 1979(?) show is the best. He is brilliant

Yeah Raw>Delirious both quallity though. Pryor is the man!

 

[Revell is a Hero]

Just in case you would like to know, Stewart Lee is currently touring and is playing in Chelmsford on the 4th Feb. I see him up in London just before christmas, absolute Legend!!!

I saw him in the Palace Theatre in November. The pear cider rant was genius!

I've seen around a 5th of those on that list live and IMO Daniel Kitson is easily the best stand-up around at the moment. Stewart Lee is though excellent.

It's become fashionable to hate McIntyre who isn't nearly as bad as his detractors make out (although not as good as his supporters make out either).

Agreed on Kitson, it's insane he isn't more well known, definitely one of the greatest stand ups we've got at the moment.

Perhaps I was a little harsh on McIntyre, but a lot of his material is weak and he's overly reliant on a lot of hair-wobbling, gurning and silly voices. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just the material I feel that lets him down.

Anyhow I voted for the following:

Bill Hicks
Richard Prior
Daniel Kitson
George Carlin
Stewart Lee.

Gutted Doug Stanhope wasn't nominated.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Dave Allen for me, with Mike Reid in second.

Dave Allen wasn't a stand-up :nope: as he always sat down. :D

 

[Beefy]

It's going to be so depressing when Ricky Gervais wins this

 

[Pubey]

Yep I think McIntyre is pretty funny. Will have to check out Kitson

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Cannot stand Macintyre.
For me Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor are head and shoulders above all other stand ups. Depressing when you see mediocre acts selling out the O2.

 

[EastStandBlue]

It's going to be so depressing when Ricky Gervais wins this

Indeed.

And if Jim Davidson places in the top 99 of this, the award loses all credibility.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Julian Clary - when he was doing the pub circuit circa '86 in London (with 'Fanny The Wonder Dog') - was the funniest stand-up I've ever seen. Saw Stewart Lee a few years after ('91, IIRC) down in Clapham. Droll, but nowhere near as cutting as JC.

 

[haveaguiness]

I saw him in the Palace Theatre in November. The pear cider rant was genius!
.

HAHA!!!

"Give it to me straight, like a pear cider, made from 100% pears."

So good. He was on Celebrity Mastermind the other week as well and is a very clever guy, I think he actually won on his night with a very good score.

What I like about Stewart Lee is how he tells a story that isn't particularly funny, yet he makes it funny, and then at the end just goes, "yeah well it didn't happen anyway" in a very ironic way. It's so clever because when you listen to other comedians they clearly just make up there story's but still try and make you believe them as if they actually have done it, when deep down you always know they never did.

I also love Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor is bit of a leg-end, but as a few have already said, michael mcintyre is the most over rated comedian, possibly of all time. I was really anticipating his live dvd, but when i watched it i felt i had lost a vast amount of brain cells! very poor for someone that is so hyped!

 

[GBJ]

Where's Bernard Manning?


Answers on a postcode to........

The Left Wing Brigade,
Lefty Land,
Leftshire.
UK Council of Muslims.
Englandistan
MU95.

You forgot the postcode :)

 

[BrettieAngell]

I think Lee Mack is a quality stand up, energetic and he has a very sharp wit!

 

[TrueBlue]

"Turn it in! we're be 'ere all night"

Quality stand up

Mike Reid for me too followed by Jim Davidson and Tommy Cooper

 

[Hotman]

roy Chubby brown

 

[C C Csiders]

Stewart Lee.

Michael McIntyre would be funny if he died.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Bill Hicks
Bill Bailey
Eddie Izzard
Ross Noble
Stewart Lee

 

[Smudger]

Agreed on Kitson, it's insane he isn't more well known, definitely one of the greatest stand ups we've got at the moment.

He doesn't want to be - he actually requested that his name was withdrawn from the list last time around and doesn't do TV.

 

[MK Shrimper]

He doesn't want to be - he actually requested that his name was withdrawn from the list last time around and doesn't do TV.

Kitson used to host the newbies night at the Comedy Cafe near Liverpool Street on a Wednesday night. God forbid you tried to heckle him, he'd rip you a new butthole and make you look an absolute twunt.