by iKe7in on Sun Dec 25, 2005 4:40 pm
My favourite by far is Lewis Black, because not only is he hilarious, he's also really smart and has good ideas.
Steven Wright and Mitch Hedberg have some good stuff. Unfortunately with Hedberg there were more misses than hits.
Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Chris Rock are/were all great, which is why Chapelle has had so much material to steal and tried to make his own, and thats why I don't like him.
Robin Williams, George Carlin and to a lesser extent, Sam Kinison have some good stuff, but they rely too much on their vulgarity to get laughs.
Some newer ones I really like are Jim Breuer (formailly of SNL), Dane Cook and Jim Gaffigan, but they can get too repetitive at times.
So my top 5 would probably be as follows
1) Lewis Black
2) Jerry Seinfeld
3) David Cross
4) Bill Cosby
5) Jim Breuer