So I love stand-up comedy. Probably the biggest thing I miss about Raleigh is being able to consistently see good acts at Charlie Goodnights. So this thread should be dedicated to favorite stand-up comedians, new ones you just discovered, ones that are touring in the area, stories about particular acts you've seen, etc.

Popular Favorites:

Dave Chappelle (saw him at Charlie Goodnights in '04 or '05...guy before him was actually a little better...but Killing me Softly is pretty classic)
Dave Attel (Skanks for the Memories is probably my favorite stand-up)
Mitch Hedberg (most unique delivery...saw him downtown Raleigh before he died...sad stuff)



Others:

Mike Birbiglia (two drink mike)
Daniel Tosh (trust stories i made up)
Mitch Fatel (funny as shit, but delivery starts to get annoying)
Robert Kelly (just the tip)
Rich Voss (on the list not necessarily because I think he's that funny, but because I saw him at Charlie Goodnights and he had no prepared act, but just did an hour of making fun of people in the audience...fucking hilarious...I got made fun of a little bit, but paled in comparison to other audience members...one of who was a guy who picked up a chair and threatened to get on stage and beat him up with it...classic)

7/20/2008 11:45:09 PM

daniel tosh, raleigh, next month

nuff said

7/20/2008 11:50:52 PM

ITS MY COORS LIGHT LAW



i hate standup comedym for the most part

7/20/2008 11:51:13 PM

did you see John Heffron a few years ago?

one of my favorite shows ever

7/20/2008 11:51:18 PM

David Cross is a snarky, elitist asshole

and he is undoubtedly my favorite comedian. he talks about feeling out of place when he grew up as a jew in the south. i kinda related to that growing up in a rural southern small town. (tho im not jewish)

7/21/2008 12:10:03 AM

FTMFW

7/21/2008 12:23:01 AM

Never saw Heffron...will have to check him out.

Also forgot to add Demetri Martin (these are jokes).

7/21/2008 12:25:26 AM

Gallagher is coming, haha.

7/21/2008 12:25:27 AM

Ralphie May is pretty funny, find him on youtube, but I find that he is kind of a one dimensional stand up who's jokes are almost all racial.

7/21/2008 5:26:35 PM

my boss went and saw jim gaffigan in richmond this weekend

i was quite the jealous

7/21/2008 6:01:39 PM

the most underrated comedians cuz their names are hard to spell or they arent on anything that popular except Comedy Central Presents:

Zach Galifianakis (the guy who fell asleep in the car in Out Cold, from NC apparently)
Brian Posehn (the sterotypical big creepy guy in everything)
Jon Reep (Hemi guy, From Hickory NC)

more well known and IMO on the same level as Chapelle:

Kat Williams

I have more but I only remember their routine not their name




[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 8:05 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2008 8:01:30 PM

Brian Regan is an act I've seen several times and each time it's better.

Others I've seen that I really enjoyed:
Mitch Hedberg
Mike Birbiglia
Jim Gaffigan
Jon Reep
Greg Warren
The Amazing Johnathan

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 9:58 PM. Reason : Birgaboo]

7/21/2008 9:57:37 PM

Lewis Black's "White Album" is great... didn't like his Broadway special a few years back
Chris Rock's "Bring the Pain" and "Bigger & Blacker" are classics
Carlin has tons of AAA stuff on youtube

7/21/2008 10:17:26 PM

Patton Oswalt owns Jim Norton owns

Jeff Dunham suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

7/21/2008 10:25:53 PM

my favorites in no particular order . . . or correct spelling

Zach Galifianakis
kevin nealon
louis ck
adam ferrara
lewis black
pablo francisco
greg behrendt
stephen lynch
jim breuer
dave attell
brian regan (one of the nicest people i've ever met next to jim gaffigan, kevin nealon, and dave attell)
jim gaffigan
nick griffin
todd glass
the amazing johnathan
steve byrne
jo koy
sebastian maniscalo
jeremy hotz
kevin james
greg fitzsimmons
tom papa
ron white
nick swardson
tracy smith

can't stand:
Jeff Dunham
bill engevall and the other blue collar idiots minus ron white
dat phan
I used to like mitch but it got run into the ground before i even got out of highschool
carlos mencia
chris rock
tracy morgan (huge, huge asshole)
craig shoemaker
rich voss
ralphie may
pretty much any of the last comic standing people from that season and the mouthy italian from long island whatever her name was

7/21/2008 11:06:23 PM

^Forgot about Stephen Lynch. Pretty sure he opened up for Mitch when Mitch was in Raleigh. Hilarious.

I liked Ron White once...the first time I heard his stand up. Then I realized he didn't come up with anything new. Saw him in Raleigh too...and it was the exact same thing he's been doing for the past 10 years. Kind of disappointed.

7/21/2008 11:12:16 PM

yeah he does have a pretty finite schtick doesn't he?

ahaha and kill a kitten is one damn catch song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCyyhmHICU

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:17 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2008 11:15:22 PM

It doesn't bother the Blue Comedy Collar fan group...they short term memories.

Those guys must have made a deal with the devil (White is the best of all of them though...I think he saw his gravy train and hopped on).

7/21/2008 11:17:58 PM

Bruce Bruce is hilarious.

Sinbad use to be solid back in the day.

7/21/2008 11:56:31 PM

Chris Titus: Norman Rockwell is Burning

Not only is it on Comedy Central right now, but its fucking hilarious

7/22/2008 2:46:32 AM

argh! I forgot about him^

7/22/2008 6:47:02 PM

Brian Regan is hilarious.

And that sinbad routine with him in the ridiculious purple windbreaker suit is hilarious.

7/23/2008 3:13:16 AM

Quote :

"my boss went and saw jim gaffigan in richmond this weekend i was quite the jealous"

I AM QUITE JEALOUS

I would've been in Richmond if I had made a phone call differently.

7/23/2008 4:28:49 AM

Saw John Caparulo in Raleigh a few months back...dude is hilarious. I thought is delivery was perfect, although he does say "right" a lot

7/23/2008 8:23:39 AM

Just listened to a John Heffron CD.

Pretty fucking hilarious.

7/26/2008 9:00:22 PM

Caparulo is the man.

7/26/2008 9:40:52 PM

i just saw kyle cease recently and thought his special was great. he's great at running a joke so far past where it's unfunny that it's back to being hillarious. good for tosh fans


while we're on the topic. here's my quick list of comedians that i honestly do not understand how people think they're funny. so if you like them, please come forward. they're so bad to me that i won't even hate, i just don't understand.

carlos mencia
bill engvall
jeff dunham

7/28/2008 8:27:26 AM

standup comedy that's actually funny is few and far between.

7/28/2008 8:45:47 AM

Quote :

"Sinbad use to be solid back in the day."

haha...agreed

7/28/2008 11:58:48 AM

Doug Stanhope.

7/28/2008 12:02:16 PM

Dana Carvey

7/28/2008 12:06:53 PM

Henry Rollins
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1573064479792014346&q=henry+rollins&ei=g_CNSIawH5v0qgLZsKSaDQ&hl=en

7/28/2008 12:16:17 PM

For me, this discussion begins and ends with the Comedians of Comedy

- Patton Oswalt
- Brian Posehn
- Zach Galifanakis

And while we're here, Richard Pryor is the best ever.

7/28/2008 12:41:22 PM

[FAIL]
Seinfeld is one of best stand-ups of all time, and not a single one of you named him.

I've seen in person (order of goodness)
Seinfeld (2x)
Lewis Black
Bill Cosby
Nick Swardson
Zach G
George Carlin (hated)



[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2008 1:34:19 PM

i like him, but

not really my favorite cup of tea

and, for the record

Quote :

"And while we're here, Richard Pryor is the best ever."

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2008 1:36:23 PM

The first time I saw him in Greenville SC, Seinfeld was amazing. The most recent trip to Raleigh was fair. But I have to give him credit for the first show.

Saw Lewis Black in D-Town.

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2008 1:38:22 PM

Does Zach have any stand-up CDs out?? I'm filling up my itunes with a shit-ton of stand up acts...but I can't find one for Zach.

7/28/2008 5:47:56 PM

Stand-kind of sucks today. Improv is where it's at (longform at that)

Pryor will forever be #1. Zach G. and Regan are baller as well.

7/28/2008 10:27:16 PM

I think there are some great stand-ups out there right now...you've just got to find them.

I'm kind of running out right now though...

7/28/2008 10:37:07 PM

Brian Regan
Bill Burr

7/28/2008 10:46:12 PM

i saw chris rock at chalie good nights

his political jokes (90% of his act) didn't go over so hot in that crowd. i dont really know what those people were expecting when they paid money to see a chris rock show.

7/28/2008 11:28:36 PM

7/28/2008 11:28:59 PM

Stop posting names and start posting youtube videos

7/28/2008 11:31:38 PM

^^^^ Bill Burr might be the funniest act I've ever seen. Too bad he was surrounded by Charlie Murphy and that guy Donnell (or however you spell his name) from Chappelle Show.

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 11:32 PM. Reason : ^^]

7/28/2008 11:31:58 PM

not exactly stand up, but still funny....

7/29/2008 12:05:26 AM

bttt

7/30/2008 2:45:04 PM

Anyone go see Tosh on Friday at Goodnights? First show?

8/23/2008 9:58:51 AM

^I'm goin tonight

8/23/2008 10:46:05 AM

Really funny, but a guy got sick in the middle of his set, and it was this whole big thing. He turned out to be alright and the group left... after that he came back on and we ended up getting a pretty original show as he made light of that situation. I already thought he was pretty hillarious before, and now I think even more of him that he was able to just come up with the shit he did.

8/23/2008 12:11:57 PM

yeah, i was at the first show. that was really bizarre, especially when the sick guy went from 'having a stroke' to walking out perfectly fine.

8/23/2008 12:30:49 PM