Posted in Comedy, Stand Up Comedy, funny, humor, tagged Comedy, Dane Cook, Harmful If Swallowed, Insomniac, Rough around the Edges, Stand Up Comedy, Vicious Circle on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
When Dane Cook released his second album, Retaliation, in 2005, he made history. It debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart, the hottest-selling comedy album since Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. That year was called one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, listed at #34. In November of 2006, he [...]
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John Cleese, needs no introduction, he is an institution of comedy by himself. Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Frost Report, A Fish Called Wanda, need I go on? An asteroid and a species of lemur are named after him in his honour. He is the smartest of comedians, the greatest of comedic actors, a great innovator [...]
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Sarah Silverman is unique and should be celebrated for her edgy, politically incorrect humor, and her fearless style of addressing social taboos, and controversial topics. She is so bold that she actually stood up and in the 2007 MTV movie awards, in a dumbstruck audience, said “In a couple of days, Paris Hilton is going [...]
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A lot is not known about Garry Shandling. The most imprtant thing being that he is a genius and a true pioneer of comedy. There are the comedies before “The Larry Sanders Show” and the comedies after “The Larry Sanders Show”. His top-rated, award-winning show about the trials, tribulations, and double- dealing that goes on [...]
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Jerry Lewis could do it all. He is one of the greatest comedians ever, a mime of the stature of Chaplin and Laurel, a great actor, and most important of all one the greatest filmmakers of all time. His impact on the art of filmmaking is enormous. Yes, he also directed most of his films [...]
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The legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield liked young and then unknown Jim Carrey so much, that not only he hired him to perform at The Comedy Store, but also signed him to open his tour performances. Jim Carrey began as a stand up comedian, then continued to share his talent with us in the Wayans Bros [...]
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Can you imagine what it was like to be someone around in the mid 70s, you have already seen your Monty Python, you are desperately searching for something new, something funny, something groundbreaking and then you go to see Steve Martin perform in a comedy club, and soon afterwards in a stadium (yes whole stadiums) [...]
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Bill Bailey is one of the most original comics around today. You’ll probably see him all around tv in QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, sharing his unique style of humor with his friends. He is also a brilliant stand up comedian and a great comedic actor, check out the cult series Black Books, for [...]
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Groucho Marx is too wise to be identified only as a comedian. He was also too funny, so much so that he is considered to be a landmark of comedy, by all of us and also by so many great legendary comedians like Woody Allen and Bill Cosby. This brilliant man, once wrote in a [...]
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Well, if you don’t know Robin Williams, there is something wrong with you, so I don’t know how to introduce this comedy genius to you! I don’t even know how you managed to find your way to this blog. (Have a computer, Turn it On, and so on… 
Robin Williams is one of the most [...]
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