Comedy Central's 100 greatest comedians of all time Comedy Centrals list: 1. Richard Pryor 2. George Carlin 3. Lenny Bruce 4. Woody Allen 5. Chris Rock 6. Steve Martin 7. Rodney Dangerfield 8. Bill Cosby 9. Roseanne Barr 10. Eddie Murphy 11. Johnny Carson 12. Jerry Seinfeld 13. Robin Williams 14. Bob Newhart 15. David Letterman 16. Ellen DeGeneres 17. Don Rickles 18. Jonathan Winters 19. Bill Hicks 20. Sam Kinison 21. Dennis Miller 22. Robert Klein 23. Steven Wright 24. Redd Foxx 25. Bob Hope 26. Ray Romano 27. Jay Leno 28. Jack Benny 29. Milton Berle 30. Garry Shandling 31. George Burns 32. Albert Brooks 33. Andy Kaufman 34. Buddy Hackett 35. Phyllis Diller 36. Jim Carrey 37. Martin Lawrence 38. Bill Maher 39. Billy Crystal 40. Mort Sahl 41. Jon Stewart 42. Flip Wilson 43. Dave Chappelle 44. Joan Rivers 45. Richard Lewis 46. Adam Sandler 47. Henny Youngman 48. Tim Allen 49. Freddie Prinze 50. Denis Leary 51. Lewis Black 52. Damon Wayans 53. David Brenner 54. DL Hughley 55. Alan King 56. Colin Quinn 57. Richard Jeni 58. Larry Miller 59. Gilbert Gottfried 60. Jeff Foxworthy 61. Bobcat Goldthwait 62. Eddie Griffin 63. Jackie Mason 64. Richard Belzer 65. Cedrick the Enter. 66. Shelley Berman 67. Kevin Pollak 68. Dave Attell 69. Pat Cooper 70. Wanda Sykes 71. Red Buttons 72. Bernie Mac 73. Billy Connolly 74. Paul Rodriguez 75. Eddie Izzard 76. Robert Schimmel 77. Paul Reiser 78. Sinbad 79. Dom Irrera 80. Bobby Slayton 81. Dick Gregory 82. Howie Mandel 83. Norm MacDonald 84. Drew Carey 85. David Cross 86. Jay Mohr 87. Brett Butler 88. Paula Poundstone 89. Kevin James 90. Dana Carvey 91. Jim Breuer 92. Louie Anderson 93. George Wallace 94. David Alan Grier 95. Andrew 'Dice' Clay 96. Joey Bishop 97. Sandra Bernhard 98. Louis CK 99. Janeane Garofalo 100. Gallagher Bill Hicks is my favorite. And i cant argue at all with Richard Pryor being on top.
Exactly, I was waiting for this list to get completed and Richard Pryor is a well-deserved recipient of the top spot. In fact, if Pryor wasn't in the top three this list would've been considered bogus by my standards. He changed the face of comedy.
It's all taste. I like pretty much the entire top 10 except Lenny Bruce who I just didn't care for and I never liked Bill Hicks. Just not my style of humor.
if eddie griffin didn't quit being a comedian for basketball, he would have ranked much higher. and rosanne bar at #9? if i was anyone lower on the list than her i would kill myself right now. obviously the list was made up by the six people that actually work for comedy central.
I love it how they threw Rossanne and Ellen in there so high. Wait, no, I hate that. I'm all for PC but that's horrible.
Hey Jeff, I remember posting a thread a year or two ago about the top comedians and you said you were a big fan of Pryor. Which of his routines did you like the best. My favorite was Richard Pryor: Live.
I've never understood the appeal of Woody Allen. Bill Cosby should be top 3 probably. Anybody that can make people laugh for this long without cursing is genius. Also, I don't know of any comedians less funny than #97 and #99. How those 2 made it and no mention of Steve Harvey in the list is a travesty! And since when is Letterman a funny comedian? Good grief.
The 100 greatest... I think that list is slightly watered down - maybe the 20 or 25 greatest, but a 100 I don't think so.
Live on the Sunset Strip My favorite stand-up guy on that list is probably Carlin, but there are a lot of guys and gals on there I like. I definitely think Ellen deserved her ranking. She's hilarious. My latest favorite is Brian Regan. He is so funny, I can barely listen to a whole routine I laugh so hard.
I've heard quite a bit of Hicks' stuff. I know some people who knew him too since he was from Houston. I'm just not a big fan of the loud, obnoxious, piss people off humor.
Man, what a burn on a great comic like Seinfeld to rank behind freakin' Rosanne. When was she ever funny?
Albert Brooks, Andrew Dice Clay, Joey Bishop and Sandra Bernhard make the list, but Jim Belushi, Lucille Ball and Red Skelton don't? Does Kovacs belong in this category? Overall, this list doesn't seem right to me.
