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

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?

xpost

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)

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

Results 1 - 5 of 5 for "gayne cook". (0.16 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 44 for "larry the gayble guy". (0.28 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 58 for "larry the cable fag". (0.20 seconds)

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!

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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?