Comedian Jim Gaffigan on our favorite meal…
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Comedian Jim Gaffigan on our favorite meal…
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Nine minutes of “You can’t ignore my talent” from a very young Jim Carrey.
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Comedian Gallagher, who recently passed, made a smashing reputation by understanding the true desires of the American male viz-a-viz watermelons and sledge hammers.
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Comedian Brian Regan with a very funny segment on favorite foods.
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I liked the laid back delivery of this comedian, Ralph Barbosa.
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Funny, smart comedian, Sophie Duker is new to me. Quite adept at walking a fine line. The Apollo is a comedy club in Hammersmith, England.
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What was that, like 500 jokes in under 4 minutes? Henny Youngman’s brain must have been an enormous filing cabinet of jokes.
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British comedian Bill Bailey explains the English psyche–and maybe yours and mine, too…
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And Canada’s greatest comedian…
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If you’re a fan, you probably know a lot of these by heart already; still, having them strung together rapid fire is a treat in itself.
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Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, heads off the high dive…
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Comedian Sarah Cooper’s been getting a lot of attention recently for her mesmerizing lip-synchs of Donald Trump. But she’s also a gifted stand-up comedian, as witness this recent smart and hilarious five minute set.
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When I watch videos of Mitch Hedberg I’m amazed. His appearances are always precarious—you sort of know that he would never succeed at anything else, and you feel like there’s no way this guy is going to make it through the set, but somehow he does. He’s like a clueless guy from the audience who grabs a flaming torch from the circus fire-eater and manages not to get burned. But I am grateful that he did, because his off-kilter humor really makes me laugh.
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Jim Gaffigan does ten minutes on horses–and yes, it’s funny as hell even to this city dweller.
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I once heard someone describe Shakespeare’s lead actor, Richard Burbage, as the powerful impetus for Will’s complex characters. “Okay, Richard, you think you did well acting the jealous Moorish general, and the evil humpbacked King, and the young moon-y swashbuckler Prince? Well how about a senile old King who goes insane in the middle of a thunderstorm? Take that!”
While not Shakespeare, I think the very funny Jim Gaffigan must constantly challenge himself to come up with comedy about the most unlikely comedic subjects: horses, brain surgery, hiking, glasses. In this clip, he talks about… his colonoscopy. No, it’s hilarious.
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Always fun when a comedian identifies a shared pet peeve and is hilarious about it. Rod “Rod Man” Thompson hits the nail on the head with this bit.
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The classic Bob Newhart piece done live, some 50 years after the release of his record The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, which first contained the routine. Sorry for the abrupt ending, but at least it’s all there. Newhart’s timing is as impeccable as ever.
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Theodore Gottlieb, better known as Brother Theodore, was a Holocaust survivor whose entire family was wiped out at Dachau. He subsequently created a stand-up act that was one of the strangest and funniest comedy monologues I’ve ever experienced. He performed regularly in New York City in the 1980s at the 13th Street Theater, where I saw his show several times.
He billed himself as “Brother Theodore…Philosopher…Metaphysician…Podiatrist. ” (He once demanded of my date as to why she was going out with that comic book character next to her.) He lived on the Upper West Side of NYC, and if you were feeling a wave of insomnia, you could often catch him playing chess in the middle of the night at the local chess parlor.
He performed essentially the same show unchanged up until the age of 94. Yesterday’s post reminded me of this comedic genius. Click on the picture above to see the video.