The Top Ten Earning Comedians - who's the worst?

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i have never heard of jeff dunham

I only recognise 4 of those names.

xxxpnever heard of fator or peters. dunham is the dummy guy right? then it's him.

who is seinfeld?

dunham AND fator are dummy guys.

xp. The funny one.

Dane Cook is the worst thing to ever happen to comedy.

not so funny anymore if you ask me
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This really has to come down to Dunham vs. Cook

apparently terry fator signed a $100 million deal with mirage in vegas

god damn ventriloquists are terrible

in what world is this not dane cook?

in a world where a ventriloquist can make $30 million dollars

i mean, there's plenty of incredible badness to go around here, but sometimes you have to make a stand

how did chris rock make $42 million during that time period?

how did seinfeld make $85 million??

not so funny anymore if you ask me

He was quite funny in 30 Rock. I was going to do 'who is the funniest?' but watching 5 minutes of Dunham has made me curmudgeonly.

According to Forbes the bulk of it comes from syndication (Seinfeld's money that is) - so how does that work?

as much as i hate dane cook, this needs to be a landslide victory for dunham

dunham

madagascar 2 made more than $600m worldwide, that probably doesn't hurt rock's placing

Plus his successful TV show, Everybody Hates Chris. Plus his HBO concert special. Plus his No Apologies tour. Plus signing on for Madagascar 3.

42 million dollars is an amazing amount of money though. I wonder what Chris Rock's house looks like

I bet big

i mean, dane cook is awful, and it's hard to defend dane cook, but being a huge asshole usually allows for some humor either way. for an extended set he really grates & is pretty unbearable, but he has some hilarious bits where the social commentary is pretty spot on. my big problem with him is that he allows for his fans to be really misogynistic & horrible without understanding that dane cook is an y'know a comedian. i feel basically the same way about larry the cable guy.

the ventriloquists are just so plain & horrible & offensive to anyone that has a personality and/or might try and discern what is funny and what isn't funny

admittedly i have no idea if the other ventriloquist is shittier but even asking that question is kind of like which fire is hotter when you put your hand in it so im going with the one ive inadvertently been exposed to

However much you might dislike Dane Cook, I do not understand how anyone could possibly name him the worst of a list that includes Jeff Dunham and Larry The Cable Guy.

"social commentary"

larry the cable guy is the most deplorable in his own way for being such a hackish panderer but he is no ventriloquist

explain to me what dane cook's stand up is, dean of comedy

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Or what J0rdan said. Although that might be another poll: whose fans are the worst?

I've seen some funny ventriloquist/puppeteer comedians before, BTW.

I accidentally saw 5 minutes of a Jeff Dunham 'special' on cable, it was some of most wretched comedy I've ever seen. This poll belongs to him.

I reflex voted for Larry without knowing that we had that ventriloquist guy (and there's another one??) on the list. Sorry Larry.

Larry the Cable Guy means never having to say you're sorry.

(and there's another one??)

I'm amazed people haven't heard of this guy. Does winning America's Got Talant really mean so little?
Technically he seems better than Dunham, is about all I can think of to say about him.

explain to me what dane cook's stand up is, dean of comedy

― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:14 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

observational comedy + yelling

alright, observations on society

how did seinfeld make $85 million??

― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:00 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you know how his show still airs twice a day on three different stations on your cable system? it does that on everyone else's local channels too, and he gets paid for every single one of those airings.

yeah yeah yeah. $85 mill still seems awfully steep tho but \(o_O)/

jordan is like the tuomas of cuomedy

syndication money's crazy. i mean if you created a show like Seinfeld, that's basically the TV equivalent of owning the Lennon/McCartney songbook.

voting Jeff Dunham because until a couple years ago I thought the guy's career was just this little '90s blip and had no idea he had a hugely popular character named "Achmed the Dead Terrorist"

i need to create myself a sitcom

syndication money's crazy. i mean if you created a show like Seinfeld, that's basically the TV equivalent of owning the Lennon/McCartney songbook.

― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, September 27, 2009 6:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

alright yeah this makes sense

However much you might dislike Dane Cook, I do not understand how anyone could possibly name him the worst of a list that includes Jeff Dunham and Larry The Cable Guy.

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xxxpost yeah the dvd I had to sit through a few years back had a bunch of weird racist shit iirc

i remember kind of enjoying Dunham and Brian Regan in like 1991, and am amazed that they are both amazingly famous and fucking terrible in 2009

Is this top ten American comedians? I'm assuming it is - I have to admit I've only actively heard/seen 2 out of this whole list (Seinfeld and Rock). I've heard *of* about 2 others (Cook and the Cable Guy). Who the eff are the rest.

this is a pretty weirdly skewed list, imo, because there are probably a ton of comedians who crossed over to movies/TV that make as much or more, but presumably aren't on there because unlike Rock or Seinfeld they haven't done a standup tour in years. but at the same time only a fraction of Rock or Seinfeld's totals are from ticket sales.

for instance Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey would all be in the top 5 of this list if they'd been counted

Damn, I voted Larry the Cable Guy before I realized who Dunham was.

I’m standing beside this guy, I don’t know this man, never met him before in my life or in a past life, I can sense this. Standing next to this man, never met him before. He turns towards me and he sneezes like this, he goes: FUUUHH!!! He actually did like the robot from 85. FUUUHH! Yea, He turns TOWARDS me and he sneezed and there was no blockage, there was no hand or the mouth. I turned to the guy, I say “God Bless you” by the way when somebody sneezes. I don’t say “bless you” I don’t say that because.. I’m not the Lord. I can’t do that. I’m just a messenger for Big Guns up stairs, you know what I’m saying. And I never go with “gezundheit” I don’t know who even says that. If I say “gezundheit” I feel like I’m honoring Hitler like I should be like “gezundheit!!” I end up on the history channel cause the guy sneezed. God Bless You. This is what guy comes back with, this is where it starts to get out of control. Guy looks at me, and very condescending, He goes “*sniff uh… yea.. I’m an atheist.” Yea, what a jerk right? I’m trying to be polite, I don’t know you’re an atheist, and even if I did, what am I supposed to say when an atheist sneezed, “Uh, when you die nothing happens.” SO now, I start getting into like a religious debate with this guy. And it is awful, he’s questioning my beliefs, “Well what about you, what did you grow up?” And I say “Well I was raised Catholic, I was raised Catholic. As I’m telling him about my religious background he is laughing at me. He is laughing at me, he is giggling. He’s like “You believe this? This is ha ha. ha aw..” Now for his own entertainment, he says to me “Let me ask you this. What do you believe happens to you after you die?” And I said, “Well, ok um. Hopefully I live a good life and my soul goes to heaven. And when I get there, all of my ancestors will be waiting for me like it’s an airport. “Hey! What’s up? Guess who’s dead sucker, Ahaha! Come here.. come here, float over here, check this out.” I’m telling him this, he’s laughing even more. He’s so condescending, he’s so snarky with his f*&#king attitude. Yea, snarky. So he’s laughing at my beliefs, and finally I just snap and I go “What about you? Ok, what about you? Alright. What happens to you? You’re an atheist, what does that mean? What happens to you after you die?” Now he gets very serious, like he’s going to school me. Ok. He looks and he goes “Oh I can tell you young man. I can tell you. I know what’s going to happen to me after I die. After I pass on, my body will become one with this earth. From there, I will become a fertilizer for this planet. And with that, I will return as a huge beautiful tree.” That’s what this guy believes. He’s laughing at me, he’s gunna come back as a f*&#king ficus, Johnny Weeping Willow over here. I wanted to slam this guy so bad for this, right. But then I stopped. I stopped, you guys please hear me out. I let it sink in and I want you to as well. I hope when he dies he does become a tree. I hope he’s in the middle of the wilderness. And he’s doin his tree thing, whatever it is trees do. I know they do alot of work with breezes. And wouldn’t it be fantastic if while he was out there just enjoying his treeness, thru the woods a huge sweaty guy with an axe comes along. Sees him. Chops him down. SMASH! Put a chain around him, drag him through the mud and the muck, throw him into a saw mill, grind him up. Then you pound him down into paper. Once he’s paper, you print the Bible on him.” ~ Dane Cook

^ copy into Word and set font to comic sans for maximum daneage

We should do a separate poll for British comedians. I imagine most of the top ten are individuals most right-thinking people would punch in the face without a moment's hesitation.

i remember kind of enjoying Dunham and Brian Regan in like 1991, and am amazed that they are both amazingly famous and fucking terrible in 2009

― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know people will throw tomatoes at me for admitting this but this is more or less how i feel about Dane Cook, when he was just some slightly animated stand-up that would pop up on late night shows and Comedy Central showcases now and again i thought he was pretty funny. he's gotten overly loud and annoying over the years but i still don't really think of him as the bottom of the barrel.

that dane cook bit is good to funny until he gets into the vindictive circle of life part

We should do a separate poll for British comedians. I imagine most of the top ten are individuals most right-thinking people would punch in the face without a moment's hesitation.

― Soukesian, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:52 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

really wanna see catherine tate attempt an american breakthru

Yeah, Cook is like some local comedian that I wouldn't mind seeing in a showcase or something, but not someone I could ever become an actual stan of, and definitely not someone who should be as huge as he is. The thing is, he actually has the ability to be occasionally funny, which several people on this list do not.

So is Howie Mandel still doing stand-up, then?

God, that Dane Cook conversation, if its real

Asshole meets asshole

two butts beating as one

it's real, it's like the centerpiece of one of his standup specials

yep, and everyone in the audience gets all scary "YEAH... YOU TELL THAT GODLESS FAGGOT"

I know a lot of people have problems with Cook, but Dunham and Larry make Cook look like Carlin in his glory days. I mean, this and this and, especially, this manage to sum up everything about Dunham without really accurately conveying just how godawfully BAD he is.

And for Larry the Cable Guy, David Cross's wicked takedown of him is still pretty much accurate.

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i finally actually watched a few minutes of larry the cable guy. it was some special, and he really wasn't bad. if you ignore the schtick pretend his jokes are being delivered by some deadpan hipster comedian most of it's pretty funny. even drole at times!

i taped jeff dunham on a "just for laughs" performance maybe almost twenty years ago, and haven't really heard of him since. agog that he is making 30 million dollars now. when/how did that happen? who likes him?

Dane Cook is a funny guy who needs more funny material, but i kind of like him.

Howie Mandel?

how can you ignore the schtick when he's 99.9999% schtick?

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― Aimless, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:31 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Russell Peters is a Canadian.

Is this top ten American comedians? I'm assuming it is - I have to admit I've only actively heard/seen 2 out of this whole list (Seinfeld and Rock). I've heard *of* about 2 others (Cook and the Cable Guy). Who the eff are the rest.

I think this is a worldwide list. I don't know of any British/Australian/Belgium comedians who make this kind of money? Although I wonder if Ricky Gervais might have made it on a good year with the right exchange rate. Although I don't know when the last time was he did a tour.

he's probably not in fact the worst, but I felt howie needed a vote. The other 9 don't make annoying Boston Pizza commercials on my teevee every day

I hate Dunham a lot, but I think he exhibits a sort of folksy craftsmanship. He seems like a guy who should rightfully be a big hit on the local scene, but has achieved more fame than he rightfully deserves ... whereas Cook is just this useless douchebag.

The others are all clearly better than either of them apart from Peters, who I don't know.

"a useless douchebag" is a pretty 100% otm description of dane cook

i finally actually watched a few minutes of larry the cable guy. it was some special, and he really wasn't bad.

yeah he's def. better than i thought he was based on probably the same some special. don't really know the deal w/ dane cook, i know i saw at least 15 minutes of some set, whatever

a poll where i didn't have to read from option 2 onwards. nice time saver.

Russell Peters is nearly funny on occasion. For instance you think he's going to do a bit about how it's kind of amazing that doing an Indian accent is still considered hilarious in many quarters and then he gets the lols from...doing an Indian accent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw6RgIf6epQ

a poll where i didn't have to read from option 2 onwards. nice time saver.

Wait, are you saying Rock is the worst?

no 2 inclusive

We should do a separate poll for British comedians Did a search and this is the best I could find from 2006, http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2006/12/29/4870/where_the_funny_money_is I guess SBC, Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand would make the list now.

ricky gervaise and SBC would be the list

xxp saying Seinfeld is a lock for worst is only slightly less challopy

imo, imo

If I was to make a list of all the UK comedians who do arena tours I guess it would be close to a list of the biggest ones? So it'd be Brand, Gervais, Michael Mcintyre, Eddie Izzard, Harry Hill, Al Murray, Little Britain ppl, Mighty Boosh ppl and apparently Russell Howard (! - or is it?)

Coogan at one time probably made a large chunk of his income from large-theatre tours but now he can probably make 10x that from a cameo in a Hollywood movie (hence interrupting rehearsals for last autumn's "AP and Other Less Successful Chars" for a stint in NATM2...lousy early reviews for the former followed).

Oh and Steve Coogan for a round 10 xp

jimmy carr?

Other big Brit stand-up earners - Lee Evans, surely? Both Carrs. And yr old guard like Roy Chubby Brown? These figures at the top of the thread put British comedy into perspective though. I mean, yr Mock The Week/HIGNFY/8 of 10 Cats staples have probably paid off a chunk of their mortgage on a semi in the suburbs and that's it.

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that fat guy? that dude with all the tics? jack dee?

why can't i remember the name of that fat guy? peter kaye!

I seem to see Bill Bailey on the back of a lot of newspapers

mock the week. we have a thread on this show, right?

Yeah I assume that the ones from the UK list who have got their foot in the Hollywood door will be the biggest earners by quite a distance

fwiw my list was less the product of deep consideration and more the first ten that popped up when I googled the listings for my local arena venue and saw what comedians were listed there

If we had a British list based purely on stand-up earnings (and video sales of same), you might end up with the likes of JETHRO in there somewhere.

jethro?

a quick GIS intrigues me. who is this jethro chracter and what is his angle? flat caps seem to be a part of it.

Comedy based on badger-gassing, scrumpy and shooting townies.

he works blue.

He is Cornwall's funniest man.

wkiw Jethro tbh

I've seen Jethro, he's weird. Sort of chuckles to himself while saying "cock" a lot.

there's an app market for that

xp wkiw?

Where does Ted Chippington fit into this?

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would kick it with

glad i only know the top two

i voted for dane cook. i'd probably pick dunham if i were more familiar with his repertoire.

This is a pretty accurate video of the experience of watching Jethro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arlI7iJyEM4
I suppose he's only pretending to be pissed?

Hugh Laurie would be the top earning Brit perhaps?

Stretching the definition of comedian there a bit. John Cleese? Though he's always crying poverty due to various divorce settlements.

he still had the income at some stage, we're not allowing those complaints to stand.

thread title makes me want to start Top Ten Ealing Comedies

Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Mulville and Jasper Carrott have all made a fortune from their production companies

and rory mcgrath can be added to that, right?

ha, no.

the reason he's in the state he's in is that he cashed out early and his buddies didn't.

iirc anyway.

Good call on Prod Comp comics. Mulville probably the 4th wealthiest Everton fan after Sir Paul Mc, Bill Kenwright and, er, Sly Stallone.

Rowan Atkinson is HUGELY rich I think.

didn't know that about mcgrath. just assumed he was on that bandwagon with the rest of them.

it's local folklore at any rate that mcgrath was on board hat trick but got out too soon. wiki suggests he was involved for longer than i'd thought, but i guess the founders flipped it after he left or something. talkback was sold off for millions some time in the 90s or 00s iirc.

what about billy connolly? he must have some money. and he does sell-out shows, right? or do scottish people not count?

Yeah I meant to mention him, he very much counts... he's about to do a shit ton of consecutive nights in the SECC in Glasgow, if you added them all up it would be like a stadium show

xposts, dont know when this was published, but

Rowan Atkinson is revealed today as Britain's richest TV star, thanks largely to his nerdy misfit creation, Mr Bean.

The 48-year- old comedian has impressive homes in Chelsea and Oxford, drives a collection of luxurious fast cars . . . and is worth around £60million.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-172901/60m-Mr-Bean-tops-TV-rich-list.html

i think larry the cable guy is a fucking GENIUS. cuz this is what he was like before he came up with his million dollar character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWO5LgUZ28

i mean, to go from 4th-rate hack comic playing crap dives for years to second-rate hee haw rip-off multi-million dollar industry is pretty inspired and inspiring.

i agree he's shrewd etc, but i don't hold it against him, since he's a performer...what comedian doesn't cop an alternative personality on stage

carrot top?

i think maybe his stage persona ate his normal self and now he is twice as big

logically, it works.

lol @ the way the britishes took this thread over while the yankees slept

i think it was due to a sterling/dollar swing overnight, tbh.

took this thread over

lol Americans. So insecure.

we're all people

I mean they already have 9 of the top 10 earning comedians - ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?!

Is it Peters and Mandel that you you think are American? (they're both Canadians)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Everyone in that list is horrible except for Russell Peters. Voted for Dane Cook out of pure hatred for the man.

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I voted Jeff Dunham. That guy's truly the worst.

my racist coworker (who I hate for many reasons) constantly tells me to youtube Akmed the Dead Terrorist because she thinks Dunham is the funniest man alive. Never heard a second of his act but willing to vote for him anyway!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Is this ILX's endorsement of Foxworthy?

How in the name of fuckity fuck does Jeff Foxworthy have a multi-million dollar career in this day and age??

What was Bill Engvall doing last year?

well tbh snrub i never pictured you as a redneck

Whenever I'm in any -50,000 town more than 30 miles outside a metropolitan area, it seems like there's a poster for a coming or just-passed Bill Engvall show.

Dunham just came to our campus and I had to see posters of him and his foam rubber playthings, everywhere, for weeks.

Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock are the only ones I know on that list

i misread the thread title as top ten EARRING comedians

http://www.topnews.in/files/Jamie-Foxx-5993.jpg

Uh, excuse me. Jamie Foxx is an actor/singer, thank you very much.

Don't worry about these ventriloquist guys. They'll get theirs in the end.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFm9ElQdJU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLj7V5sxFu4

Why is Howie Mandel on this list? He makes his money as a game-show host. He probably hasn't done comedy in 20 years.

so furious the Larry the Cable Guy didn't get every single vote in this poll

middle fingers to all of you

Howie Mandel on 10/14/2009 9:00PM at Hollywood Theater - MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV
Howie Mandel on 10/17/2009 8:00PM at St. Georges Theater in Staten Island,
Howie Mandel on 10/18/2009 4:00PM at Mystic Lake Showroom in Prior Lake, MN
on 10/18/2009 7:00PM at Mystic Lake Showroom in Prior Lake, MN
Howie Mandel on 10/20/2009 8:00PM at Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, SK
Howie Mandel on 10/22/2009 7:00PM at Desert Diamond Casino - Diamond Entertainment Center in Tucson, AZ

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Comedy Central has some truly awful programming, doesn't it?

watching ads on comedy for dunhams new show where he features his hi-larious pimp puppet make me v v happy this poll turned out the way it did

And yet, Dunham is still funnier than Larry the Cable Guy!

no but no

racism as embodied by a puppet is better than racism as embodied by Larry the Cable Guy

"If you get put in a who's-the-worst poll and come out unscathed, well, yes, you might be a redneck."

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hahaha wait a second, who are the two insane motherfuckers who voted Chris Rock???????/ o_O

http://bambizzoozled.com/Film_Movies_TV_Including_Blackface/J/Jeff_Dunham_Arguing_With_Myself_2005/jeff-dunham-sweet-daddy-dee.jpg

to give him proper respect his name is sweet daddy dee

xxxxpost: dan tbh choosing one flavor of racism is like picking my least favorite child screaming at the movies it is unfair to make me choose

xxpost: haaaa

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― whiney g. fieri (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:49 PM (1 minute ago)

slashfic at its all time low

Comedy Central has some truly awful programming, doesn't it?

otmfm. i only watch it at my girlfriend's house and i haven't had cable in over ten years, but was it always this bad? or was i just stupider?

srsly CC, keep TDS & Colbert, South Park, and i'll let you skate on the old Landis and Ramis flicks playing at odd times. but for the love of fuck get rid of the rest. replace it all with reruns of Kids in the Hall or something.

Sarah Silverman Show is funny in very small doses, like say stumbling across it once every 6 weeks

^that's true. I didn't even realize it was still on.

(i watch cc/ cable sporadically at best, so maybe i should stfu?)

but on the other hand, carlos mencia's show is not on anymore so GLASS HALF FULL??

kinda surprised he's not on this list come to think of it

Strangers with Candy is the best thing CC ever did. they've never topped it, altho Colbert Report's come close

I think the entire world finally decided to be done with Carlos Mencia all at once.

Sarah Silverman Show is funny in very small doses, like say stumbling across it once every 6 weeks

i caught the abortion episode at my brother's house by accident last night, and it was brilliant

srsly CC, keep TDS & Colbert, South Park, and i'll let you skate on the old Landis and Ramis flicks playing at odd times. but for the love of fuck get rid of the rest. replace it all with reruns of Kids in the Hall or something.

this is basically what com central was about 10 years ago iirc

until you've seen "secret girlfriend" you have no idea just how low comedy central can go imo

oh god, this is so true

it makes "Drawn Together" look like brilliant, biting satire

yeah wtf at that show

xxxpost yeah the dvd I had to sit through a few years back had a bunch of weird racist shit iirc

― CharlieS, Monday, September 28, 2009 12:42 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Hahaha I recall this. Yes it did.

Would have voted Dunham had I seen this thread in time.

Dunham is pretty sketchy but I admit to guiltily snickering at "you got five different kinds of animal on!" in his commercial, which is more amusement than I've ever gotten from Larry The Cable Guy.

This might come down to the fact that I've never been forced to sit through an entire LTCG DVD.

I've never seen a Dunham bumper sticker or tattoo! I can't tell which way that swings it for me.

How is Jeff Dunham just now getting popular? I haven't seen his act since he was on Comic Strip Live in like 1991.

Jeff Dunham builds homemade helicopters.

better keep his kids away from them

I think Dunham started to gain popularity when he created that horrifically offensive terrorist puppet. At least that's when certain relatives of mine started fwding his shit to me all the time.

http://videogum.com/archives/hate-watching/the_jeff_dunham_show_is_the_wo_097221.html#more

^^^fire post

also

http://videogum.com/archives/backlashes/you_continue_to_only_hurt_your_053971.html

every single time i see this thread i see it as *The Top Ten Ealing Comedians* and i think what a good idea for a thread but then it isn't that at all it is this.

yeah how is jeff dunham getting popular is jaymc stopped following his career

if jaymc

managed to avoid this guy until right right now; sounds spectacularly shitty

kept seeing these halloween decorations everywhere that reminded me of the dunham terrorist puppet

http://i37.tinypic.com/2iuthew.jpg

His Christmas special was the most watched program in Comedy Central's history.

...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/01/magazine/01ventriloquist-span/articleLarge.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/01ventriloquist-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

I'd wager Lee Evans (did the largest sell out comedy gig in brit history) and Lucas/ Walliams (Little Britain guys) would be in the UK list? Maybe Izzard?
Also i'd have guessed maybe the likes of the old-skool mob like Jim Davidson but then i recall only recently that he was in the news for being potless.

Making a good living in Dubai last I heard. Lucky old Dubai.

I think Dunham started to gain popularity when he created that horrifically offensive terrorist puppet.

I'd never heard of this guy but, as I am typing this, one of my workmates, who is a Muslim, is watching this on YouTube - he seems to know the routine off by heart too

my little brother complained the broadcasting complaints commission when they started advertising dunham's achmed the terrorist ringtones