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

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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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.

xp

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.