Which Stand Up Comedians are you enjoying?

I know there's a couple of comedians on the site. I think Mads... who I watched some clips from (good stuff dude!) and ozjesting who also had some great material on youtube. Kudos to you guys for doing what I wish I was doing. But I focus too much on music to have time for developing good material.

Lately I been listening to Bill Burr. His stand up special "Let It Go" has been on my iPhone for some time now. I must have listened to it like 15 times in two weeks. I also picked up Norm Macdonald's "Me Doing Stand Up" a while ago and loved that too. It was mostly material I've seen him do live but it's nice to have a copy for myself.

Some of my other favorites include.

Louis CK
Bill Cosby
Doug Stanhope (that's how I found out about Bill Burr, I follow these guys on Twitter).
Steven Wright
Mitch Hedberg
Todd Glass
Artie Lang (Jag and Coke is hillarious in most of the wrong ways)
Steve Huges
Jackie Vernon
Hell, even Rodeny Dangerfield ("The only reason I get any women at all is because of my line of work... I'm a rapist!")

I'm curious who other people love because I'm on a huge kick of stand up these days... It's all I listen to now.

Comedy albums, specials, whatever... lay it on me.

edit: this is in the wrong category... can someone move it to catchall for me?

Active:
Louis CK
Ricky Gervais
Godfrey

Two dead ones:
Bill Hicks
George Carlin

I've seen Eddie Murphy's Raw recently, that was great, too.

I'd like to write a comedy routine. I'm a student union official, so I get to say a few words in front of a crowd occasionally and I tend to get good laughs if I prepare something.

I went to Jerry Seinfeld two days ago. Excellent energy, timing, delivery and transitions. And he's great at working a room, even if that room has 10,000 people in it.

This was the first live comedy show I've been to. I've had opportunities in the past (Scott Thompson, Bill Cosby, Steven Wright, George Carlin, Norm MacDonald, Martin Short, Lisa Lampannelli (sp?)) but unfortunately some other plans always kept me from being able to go. A shame since I probably won't get a chance to see any of these people again up here in Saskatchewan.

Schweig! wrote: I'd like to write a comedy routine.

I sometimes wish I got into comedy in my younger years (though it's crazy the number of comedians with depression and/or addiction problems). This is the closest I got:

Bill Hicks
Eddie Izzard
1980s Eddie Murphy (back when "they come home with that AIDS on they lips" was an acceptable joke)
Richard Pryor
Rudy Ray Moore
Lenny Bruce
Andy Kaufman

The rest are crap.

Oh, Carlin...I do like Carlin. Not crap.

George Carlin
Eddie Murphy (in the 80s)
Robin Williamsn (in the 80s)
Lenny Bruce
Sam Kennison
Don Rickles

and, surprisingly, last time we went to Vegas we saw Tim Allen -- he was hilarious. Great show, and much to my delight, didn't include any of his "tool time" comedy.

And, since no one is listing a woman, Wanda Sykes is great live.

EDIT: Steven Wright is amazing live....but a little mentally exhausting. Someone not good live -- Gallagher.

Of the guys still touring and not yet mentioned, Lewis Black cracks me up.

No one can beat Eddie Murphy Comedian. No one is even close.

That said, you have to have Louis CK on this list or you're a bag of dicks.

My friend Peter-john Byrnes is trying to make it (still!) as a comedian. He's a Twitter superstar, @peterbyrnes

Also a Twitter favorite: @pat_healy

Garfunkel & Oates is fucking great, do they count?

Classic Eddie Murphy is as good as it gets...Delirious is so, so funny...and so, so not PC.

His SNL stuff was golden too,..the fifth Beatle, his daddy come home plea to Ronald Reagan, when he disguised himself as a white guy...

Thinking of Ronald Regan.

I can't believe I forgot to mention Brian Regan's "I Walked on the Moon" special. I've seen it maybe 8 times in the last year and a half. You can watch it with kids and grandparents. The guy is a phenomenal technician. It's in parts on YouTube, thanks to it's cleanliness it 's unedited too. Unlike Bill Burr's awesome let it go.

I've recently watched and enjoyed Danny Bhoy, Ed Byrne and Ricky Gervais. Can't remember the last American stand-up comic I saw, although I always enjoy Robin Williams.

I don't watch a lot of recorded stand-up. It can't really compete with neither a tv series/movie nor the real deal. But Izzard is great and so is some of the later Gervais stuff. He might not be the best jokes smith around, but his delivery is impeccable. There's also a few clips with Daniel Kitson on youtube and he's really amazing.

Eddie Murphy on the other hand has never appealed to me as a stand-up. I can see he's very talented, but his choice of material does nothing for me.

Maz Jobrani

We get BBC Entertainment for the month and I've really been enjoying Live at the Apollo and McIntyre's Roadshow. Good stuff all around, but the ones that've stood out:

Sean Lock
John Bishop
Michael McIntyre

This is clean cut comedy for the whole family though, not too much politics, sex or religion.

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It seems youtube links are converted magically, I hate that.
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I love Bill Hicks and a couple people have mentioned him. Great stuff. I also love Mitch Hedberg (saw him open for a couple people when I didn't know him from Adam and he blew me away). Richard Pryor is fantastic, I have listened to his two CD greatest hits more times than I can count. I loved Dave Atell's first album, but his most recent special was disappointing. There are a ton of people I'd love to see live, but there isn't a good club close to us.