Comedians that you never thought were Funny

[Sandpiper]

If I had to cast a vote for the most unfunny comedian of all time, it would be:


Pauly Shore


I don't think I've ever even cracked a smile over anything he did.


How about the rest of you?

[XanaDUer]

1. Dennis Miller.

nt.

[Undercover Owl]

7. I second Dennis Miller

political partisanship aside, John Stewart is a MUCH funnier political humorist.

[bigwillq]

8. I second that (nt)

[Undercover Owl]

20. I already seconded it.

So, you third it.

[tcfrogs]

52. I'll disagree

I always thought he was funny, until his conversion to the dark side after 9/11. He's still occasionally funny, but not nearly as good as during his days on SNL & HBO.

[Sandpiper]

61. I always thought of him as a poor man's George Carlin

But found him funny before his fascist turn.

[Nailzberg]

86. I agree with your disagreement.

He was pretty funny before he decided to get political. Good observational humor, effectively could work big and small rooms. And don't forget television. I think he was one of the better SNL news hosts.

And then one day he decided to become a complete and utter loser, and he has sucked royally ever since.

[kick-ass-bob]

96. I have to agree with this assessment.

The only reason I watched SNL at that time was for Weekend Update with Dennis Miller.

That Dennis Miller is dead.

[WeRQ4U]

92. I agree with the guy who Agreed with your Disagreement

Dennis Miller was darn funny... still is. It's just too bad that I can't listen to him anymore because he's nuttier than squirrel shit.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

98. he seemed funny---BUT

BUT, then i learned how much of his comedy bits were written by barry crimmins, who miller owes his best lines to Barry Crimmins. Miller is a no-talent, spineless fraud and a shill.
---------
crimmins, on the other hand, still rocks, and has a great essay on miller's conversion to dumbed-down rw stupidity worth checking out:

"More than a decade since I wrote my last joke for the man, I can only watch in stupefaction as this once hip and inside comic completes his transformation into a lout whose act sounds as if it were ghostwritten by George Jessel. Actually, that’s not fair ... to George Jessel.

No longer the youthful and sassy anchor of SNL’s "Weekend Update" of all those years ago, Miller has become a national father figure. And what a lousy dad he is. Listening to his act is no longer something we look forward to; it is more like getting stuck in the back seat of your pop’s station wagon while he lectures you on "Americanism" through 30 miles of heavy traffic. In front of your friends."

more at:
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02731746.htm
----
and he writes bits for randi rhodes now.

"The world would be a much better place if the court-appointed Bush Administration knew the difference between Americana and Ghengiskhana."
--Barry Crimmins

[The Zanti Regent]

2. Tom Greene

Freddy deserved to get the RAZZIE Finger!

[Sandpiper]

6. He was a good sport about it though

I think he's the only Razzie nominee to ever show up and actually accept the award.

[bigwillq]

12. Tom Greene was funny on his MTV show

I haven't seen any of his movies.

[driver8]

53. I can't stand Tom Greene...

and I never thought anything he did was funny. His career, plus his marriage to Drew Barrymore would have to put him in the running for "the luckiest man alive."

[AlCzervik]

3. emo phillips and Andrew dice clay

[lpbk2713]

71. Gotta go with Emo Phillips. He scares me.

Is he an out-patient or what?

Clay is just plain dumb. He's a has been that never really was.

[Patiod]

85. I like Emo - he makes me laugh

Saw him in person once.

[Hans Delbrook]

4. Carrot Top

Does he even count?

[Longgrain]

5. Andrew Dice Clay

Other than the shock factor, I'll never understand why he was ever famous.

[maveric]

26. A foul, ignorant, mysogynist, homophobe.

Not funny at all.

[Longgrain]

29. Agreed, if that's the only thing that made him "funny"

he should have never been famous.

[Nailzberg]

89. I can't say I NEVER laughed at Dice

I saw a special on HBO or something called "For Ladies Only" where he completely turned the table on his "Diceman" character and spent most of the routine insulting male attitudes and stereotypes.

Still wouldn't go see his act, but I can't say he never made me laugh.

[realisticphish]

9. Rodney Dangerfield

Jerry Seinfeld (sorry)
of course, Carrot Top
Gallagher
Adam Sandler (except for the Hanukkah songs and lunch lady land)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[maveric]

25. Rodney was a comedic giant.

Just who do you think is funny?

[realisticphish]

36. Lewis Black

Richard Pryor
Chris Rock
George Carlin
Dave Chappelle
Milton Berle
Henry Rollins
The Marx Brothers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Roy Zimmerman

I just don't like his style, so sue me.

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[maveric]

44. I love all you mentioned so you cant be all that bad.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

70. whew, I'm so glad you said that. I thought I was the only one

who didn't find Rodney funny. But Lewis Black is hysterical, so we have to part ways there. On edit: Oh sorry, thought you were continuing the list of comedians you don't like. Good picks, except for Chris Rock. Not so much.

[realisticphish]

103. i saw chris rock live

and that changed my opinion of him... hes much better live

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[coloradodem2005]

10. Colin Quinn

[Menshevik]

30. agreed

I can't stand him

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

101. he's taken 1 Remote Control bit and stretched it out 15 years

who knew 'sing along with colin" would drag on in one of the worst careers ever. how this guy has the respect of folks like janeane garofalo and david cross baffles me

[Maddy McCall]

11. Sam what's-his-name.

Kinneson?

[yellowdogintexas]

18. oh yeah, the screamer. I could never figure out what was

supposed to be funny about him...ever.

[blue neen]

38. I couldn't stand that screaming!

He was not funny or entertaining at all.

[Zomby Woof]

46. I LOVED Sam Kinison!

He had balls. An ex-preacher not afraid to tell the truth about his past, or about religion. LOL. His bit about the crucifixion was priceless. Or the time he would get a guy in the audience and phone an ex who cheated on him, and then embarrass her on live HBO.

I saw him live and he had masterful timing. He was the real thing. No fake, forced, clichéd humor from him. No tired one-liners. I miss him. Killed by a drunk driver just after getting married. Fuck!

[Enraged_Ape]

63. Sam Kinison was awesome

I'm sorry you never made a "love connection", but if you ever saw Sam Kinison live, he was pee-your-pants funny from start to finish, with a style all his own.

He is on the list of my favorite comedians headed by Bill Hicks, another comic who was taken from us way too early.

[immoderate]

79. Kinison was the best.

and he taught you cool stuff, "lick the alphabet" works every time.

--IMM

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

100. screaming your punchlines doesn't make them funnier

god, i hated that sexist prick

[mwb970]

13. Jack E. Leonard

Anyone here old enough to remember?

[x-g.o.p.er]

14. Soupy Sales and Jackie Mason

Ray Romano's stand up is lame, but his TV show is hilarious.

[Undercover Owl]

34. that's because

the other characters on Everybody Loves Raymond are all really funny together. Ray Romano could never carry the show on his own. He's no funnier than the other characters (especially his parents).

[tuvor]

15. The you-can-call-me-Ray guy.

[maveric]

28. He was funny the 1st time you saw him. After that he's a 1 trick pony.

Is that his whole act?

[Bronco69]

16. Steve Martin

Robin Williams
Chevy Chase
Go ahead, flame away. :-)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

21. Well....................

Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!:)
I never thought David Brenner was funny.................

[Burma Jones]

17. Dame Edna

And most of the others listed here

[BlueJazz]

19. Jerry Lewis. I just don't care for his brand of slapstick ...But...

...I'll really get flamed for this>>> I don't care for the 3 stooges...just don't like them. (as comedians)
I DO love Laurel & Hardy.

[ChemEng]

22. I agree....n/t

[maveric]

23. Ellen DeGeneres

I dont see the humor in her.

[Zomby Woof]

40. Agreed!

Her entire ouevre is based on this self-conscious, giggle-laden, shallow 'observational' "wit", which is about as funny as root canal done with rusty pliers dipped in acid.

Margaret Cho also irritates the bejesus out of me. Where is the fucking humor??

[NightTrain]

24. Bob Hope, Flip Wilson, Minnie Pearl, the Marx Brothers (Go figure), and...

...80% of all the cast members of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE since about 1980. (Notable exceptions: Eddie Murphy, Al Franken, Mike Myers, and Dana Carvey.)

[Dr Fate]

54. Lewis Black- not funny- just yelling.

n/t

[Mojambo]

27. Dennis Leary

The guy just never did it for me at all.

[enigmatic]

55. Leary ripped off most of his material from Bill Hicks

And was 1/10 as funny doing it..

[Enraged_Ape]

66. I'm glad somebody else picked this up

I've been saying this about Leary since day one. I guess if you're going to steal someone's schtick, make sure it's from someone who was on the cutting edge when he died.

Unfortunately for Leary, he does not have Bill Hicks' congenial Central Texas good-ol'-boy personality to help sell his rants. He just comes off looking like an asshole. While with Hicks, you laughed WITH him, not in spite of him.

[Nailzberg]

90. NO CURE FOR CANCER.

The only reason Leary had material was because there was no cure for cancer. Fcuking graverobber.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

102. bill hicks helped write some of that

that special came out before his death-i'm no big leary fan-he's went too rw lately, but i don't think he's a total hick ripoff

[miss_kitty]

31. Jim Carrey. Not Funny. At. All.

:evilfrown:

[LDS Jock]

74. I'll second him and also add Robin Williams

both are just to over the top for me.

[mzmolly]

32. Paula Poundstone and/or Carrot top.

:puke:

[Jamastiene]

59. I liked Paula Poundstone

but I agree with you about Carrot Top. I thought he was a jock trying to pretend to be, well, whatever Carrot Top is supposed to be.

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[7th_Sephiroth]

41. gROVELBOT

ALSO chris rock and dave chapell

[Hobo]

35. Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Rob Schnieder,

nuff said

Hobo

[Eurobabe]

37. Dennis Miller

eom

[no_hypocrisy]

39. Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.

Guess I've really committed American sacrilege, huh?

[bif]

72. Bob Hope--world's most unfunny guy

But I thought Lucille Ball was pretty funny.

[Dervill Crow]

42. All of the above except Steve Martin.

He still cracks me up in Little Shop of Horrors.

Jerry Seinfeld. I loved his show but it was in spite of him, not because of him.

[Cornjob]

43. My trio - Judy Tenuda, Sinbad, and Richard Lewis

Ugh!

[DELUSIONAL]

45. Al Franken

I really really tried to like him and tried to laugh -- but have given up on him.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

47. John Byner.

He did a very hateful homophobic monologue about 20-30 years ago. I have mercifully forgotten his other material. I googled his name and was surprised to learn that he has appeared on Leno, Letterman, and various movies. He is 66 years old now. Do any of you remember him?? Is he retired now?

[Enraged_Ape]

68. Wasn't he the host of that "Bizarre" show on Showtime in the early 80s?

I looked forward to going over to my friend's house every week to watch it because just about every other skit featured TITTIES on display.

I have to thank John (and, of course, all his female colleagues) just for that.

[ragin_acadian]

48. that ridiculously stupid cheesedick

larry the cable guy.

flame me, or call me crazy, but he's from northwest florida, and i see sleeveless-flannel shirted nascar-fan redneck jackasses like him everyday. usually they live in trailers with no running water and listen to rush limbaugh at 90 decibels, stoned on oxycontin and natural lite while cooking meth in their microwave and their children are frolicking near the highway poking last nights roadkill with a stick.

somehow this larry guy made it to the mainstream with fart humor and a wobbly-box(trailer) attitude.

i just don't get it. i think he lowers the comedic value of the other three guys he toured with on the blue collar comedy tour.

[ComerPerro]

65. Same here. I completely agree

I just don't get that kind of idiotic right wing humor.

But I like the other three guys from Blue Collar.

Just, Larry the Cable guy is not funny.

At all.

[PittPoliSci]

49. Mitch Hedberg

It's a really long bad joke that everyone gets and I don't.

GRR!:grr:

[WeRQ4U]

93. Couldn't disagree with you more....

That guy just slays me.

"I bought a cheese grater the other day. I'm going to change the name of it to.... sponge ruiner"

That's gold man. Especially with his inflection.

[MrSlayer]

50. Rich Little

Not only did all his impressions sound the same but his jokes while in "character" were even worse. Fuck him and the horse he rode in and out on.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

51. John Belushi

I probably will get flamed for this too.
I always thought he was overrated, amusing at best.
I grew up on the first cast of SNL too. I always thought his work was hackish and repetitive (Samurai bit and so forth).
If you think otherwise, I'd welcome some input.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

56. Adam Sandler and the cast of MAD TV n/t

[UdoKier]

57. Gallagher, Carrot Top and Jay Mohr.

Awful.

Honorable mention to Howie Mandel and his stupid hand-bag.

[B Calm]

58. Rush Limbaugh

[Spirochete]

60. Jack Benny

Carrot Top

[montana_hazeleyes]

62. I find Jerry Lewis annoying

[HughBeaumont]

64. Pretty much anyone in the Blue Collar thing besides Foxworthy

[Mr. Blonde]

84. I have to change that up a little bit

pretty much anyone in the Blue Collar thing besides Ron White.

[Patiod]

87. I second Mr. Blonde on that - love Ron White

[johnnie]

67. Bill Cosby (was he a comedian?)

Jerry Lewis
Jack Black

[Sentath]

107. Bill Cosby

Did some pretty funny stuff once upon a time.

But I guess that was in the late '70's and early '80's...

[BulletproofLandshark]

69. Gilbert Gottfried

I cringe whenever I hear his voice

[China_cat]

77. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

With Carrot Top a very close second.

[x-g.o.p.er]

73. The Ernest character (Know what I mean Vern?)

I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but Jim Varney got more mileage out of one of the lamest commercials than anyone else in the history of entertainment.

[Arkana]

75. Dennis Miller

I think he's a world-class asshole.

[DS1]

76. That British guy that wears makeup

I've forgotten his name, he has bit roles in movies.

[pres2032]

78. eddie Izzard?

[DS1]

83. Yes, that's the one

:-)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

99. Are you nuts?

dressed to kill is a work of genius. izzard has a great knowledge of histor and runs with it in his routines. he's one of my favs

[DS1]

105. I'm British. Does that make me double-nuts?

And does double-nuts cancel out each nut?

And why did my voice just change?

[MissMillie]

80. Chris Rock

Something about him just rubs me the wrong way.

[DelawareValleyDem]

81. Dana Carvey, Elayne Boosler, Bob Saget nt

[DrGonzoLives]

82. Jerry Seinfeld

Not funny...oohhh, another neurotic New Yorker. Wow, I'm so impressed.

So help me God, anyone says Bill Hicks I will personally hunt you down.

[Patiod]

88. Nobody mentioned Jonathan Winters???

Didn't like Bob Hope either, or Jerry Lewis (except he was great in "The King of Comedy").

Whereas I like Jack Benny and love Groucho Marx, so i guess it's not necessarily a generational thing.

Sam Kineson is probably funny if you're a guy. I never got him.

[Boswells_Johnson]

91. Jonathan Winters is a genius!

[WeRQ4U]

94. One of the quickest and one of the best.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

95. No votes for Tim Allen?

Always liked the critic who referred to him as "alleged comedian Tim Allen."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

97. robin williams

how many shit movies do we need with the plot (robbin wiliams is a low level _____who draws the scorn of his superiors with his unorthodox ways in the field of _____ but show that "through the power of laughter" you can bring hope to _______

and of course, it's always accompanied by the critic tagline "robin williams is magical in ______!"

[BiggJawn]

104. Ellen.

The only thing I ever saw of hers that made me laugh was "Buh-BYE!"

[A-Schwarzenegger]

106. The guy that was on that show

that's not on anymore with the neighbor
and the couple that live together and
the dog.