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Red Skelton (not known as a stand up comedian, my sides hurt so bad from laughing after seeing him in Vegas)
Don Rickles (brutal, but always ended his shows with apologies and a bottle of campaign to all he picked on)
Bob Hope
Alan King
Buddy Hackett
Groucho Marx
George Carlin
Richard Prior
I hate to say it, Bill Cosby. Loved his stand up, didn't like his TV show and hate him now for being a perv!
Phyllis Diller
Tody Fields
Nipsy Russell
Moms Mabley
I feel lucky that I saw most of them. (BTW, when we saw Jerry Lewis, he was awful)
Strange list. I like some of those people. But I've never heard Alan King say even one thing that was remotely funny. In fact, I remember people would refer to him as that comedian that's not funny if someone wasn't sure who you were talking about, and they would know right away.
There's no way I can limit it to 10, but I just thought I'd mention this guy. He is so clever:
Ismo Leikola
If you haven't seen him, I'd say he's in the vein of comedians like Mitch Hedberg and Demetri Martin (two more greats) as far as playing with language. And he's Finnish, so he does a lot of stuff about trying to understand the idiosyncrasies of the English language. Really funny. Great low-key delivery.
Strange list. I like some of those people. But I've never heard Alan King say even one thing that was remotely funny. In fact, I remember people would refer to him as that comedian that's not funny if someone wasn't sure who you were talking about, and they would know right away.
We saw him twice. Once in Atlantic City and once in Vegas. I'm telling you, I was gasping for air I was laughing so hard. My ribs hurt for days
Add Wanda Sikes to that list and I'm all in. Red Foxx was pretty good too.
I was going to list Red Foxx and forgot. I have to admit that Wanda Sikes is funny, but I don't find her funny enough to make my list.
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No particular order, few more than 10
