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Your favorite Comedic performers?


Leslie Nielsen...he spent half of his career playing it straight in scores of decent movies but he shined as a bumbling dope in The Naked Gun and Airplane movies...God do i miss this legend!

Madeline Khan...she was wonderful and hilarious in The Mel Brooks films and Clue, among others...
She left us too young but she always made me snort with laughter!

Do you have a favorite funny movie man or goofy gal?

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+1 for Leslie Nielsen who could read the Gettysburg Address and make me die laughing.

+1 also for Jerry Lewis in his "straight roles" (Buddy Love, Uncle Leo in Arizona Dream)

+1 for the entire Mel Brooks crew (Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Corman, etc)

Melissa McCarthy cracks me right up (Lulu Diamonds on SNL omg lmao)

But I gotta say my all time faves are the Christopher Guest gang (Spinal Tap) pure comedy gold

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Agreed on the whole Guest gang!
A Mighty Wind, Best in Show...
Great comic stuff

Spinal Tap STILL slays me every time

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been watching some female stand up on youtube, there's more to female comedians than the biggies

this was pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk0Adc0PQXA

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Never heard of her
Pretty funny stuff...and pretty true too!
Thx beavis

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Oh yes!
John Candy
He was a special one

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I watched Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson perform live as Bottom on youtube the other day. Comic gold!

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Gracie Allen, who was about twice as funny as her husband, George Burns, but he gets a mention, too.

Mae West, who wrote her own stuff and was ‘way ahead of her time, and didn’t give a damn that she was.

W. C. Fields, who wrote his own stuff and developed The Drinking Man’s Diet.

Harpo Marx, who was brilliant without saying a word.

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and so many others

Jack Lemmon, a truly gifted comic and dramatic actor

June Foray, the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel and so many others

Ed O’Neill, the long-suffering Al Bundy

Steve Martin, who wrote his own stuff AND is a gifted comic and dramatic actor

Alfred Hitchcock as the host of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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[W. C. Fields, who wrote his own stuff and developed The Drinking Man’s Diet.]

R_K, this jostled my memory to Foster Brooks & his drunk man routine. Never grew old.

Carson's "Carnac the Magnificent." Just the way Ed McMahon would repeat the question was pure hilarity in & of itself!

Don Rickles on the dais of the Dean Martin roasts.

Ricikles here on the Tonight Show with Sinatra:::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_V9RT8aR8

Carson just leaves them alone, lets Rickles work and then Sinatra tells the story.

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Great list
I need to catch up on Fields
Ive only seen a couple of his movies
Thanks R_Kane

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So many great ones, R_Kane!
I was also going to list Gracie Allen, but I see you have her covered. I watch her and George each morning on Antenna TV. You might say that she starts my days with a laugh or two or....

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Gracie played dumb, but, unlike Lucy, she never played spoiled and immature. She was damned smart, and classy. George definitely got the better deal in that bargain.

EDIT I was just thinking: imagine what would happen if Jackie “The Great One” Gleason were alive and doing his Honeymooners sketches. The instant he bellowed, his face distorted in rage, “One of these days, Alice, one of these days—POW!! Right in the kisser!!” My guess is that a pistol shout would ring out from
the studio audience, and he’d become The Dead One.

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George said something in his book about her shtick. It really wasn't a dumb act. Gracie was simply illogically logical.He also basically said that he knew that Gracie was the best thing that ever happened to him. He was the one who loved show business, but without her, I really don't think he would have gotten very far.

As for Gleason and his famous line in The Honeymooners,I have no doubt that you are right. Times have definitely changed.

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“Illogically logical!” That is a PERFECT description, Margo. Thank you for that. At the age of 5, and working with a memory filtered through more than half a century, I’d not have grasped that on my own. Gracie had genius, didn’t she? But at least, even at 5, I knew that she was the better half!

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You really ought to check out the book, Gracie, A Love Story.... by George Burns.
It's funny and full of interesting tidbits. Granted, it is through the eyes of George, but who is better than the one who loved her? He told one fine story! He told it in a very special way.
It has things about Jack Benny and Mary Wilson. Mary was obviously not a friend. Jack and George were the best of buddys!

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Peter Sellers
Bill Murray
Jason Alexander
Shaun Micallef

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Sellers was AMAZING in the Pink Panther films
Good call 🌞!

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Some Like It Hot is my favorite comedy movie. I can't tell you how many times I've seen it.

Jerry Seinfeld's TV show was great!

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I must admit im ignorant of many pre-70's films and never saw Some Like it Hot...my mom loves it though so its probably great

Seinfeld is one of my favorite TV comedies ever...along with All in the Family
Great work by all involved
Thanks slimone!

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I see so many performers and actors and actresses that I have loved watching over the years. Let me just add John Belushi. In fact, let me just add the entire first group of Not Ready For Prime Time Players from the early days of Saturday Night Live. I'll even add Mr. Bill! "Oh Noooo!"

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Belushi is a legend!
Terrible shame really...once again, drugs are simply awful

I thought Chris Farley was approaching the physical comedy and silly zaniness levels of Belushi during his career but the damned dope killed HIM too!

Funny thing...if you look at a lot of the great comedians many of them were haunted by personal issues...addicted, divorced, orphaned, depressed, alcoholic, tough to live with, manic, lacking in self-worth etc...
'Comedy' is a tough game!

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Farly was so funny! He and David Spade were great together too. So many great ones who are no longer with us. We are just lucky they live on in film.

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True
I miss that big lug...his 'motivational speaker' who 'lived in a van down by the river' on Saturday Night Live still comes up in my conversations lol😂
I have always wanted to destroy a coffee table by flopping onto it because of Chris Farley!

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Loved Beluchi on SNL, especially the skit where he imitated Joe Cocker singing With a Little Help from My Friends! Hilarious!!!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSk6o5x5HlM

Yup! First time I ever saw him! Whoops! First SNL!!!

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Abbot and Costello. Who's on first?
The Three Stooges.

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Both great acts
Classics right there😉

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The Marx Brothers
W.C. Fields
Laurel and Hardy
Cary Grant
John Belushi
Bill Murray
Abbot and Costello
Carol Burnett



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Lots of classics
Good stuff MMC2

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Thanks, Shogie.



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