My Favorite Comedians

I really love to laugh. I love humor in it's varied forms: slapstick or physical comedy, political, and character driven. There are several comedians that make me laugh, but the ones I listed seem the most consistent to me. I have to put a disclaimer on the fact that for some of the comedians that are known to use off color language, the language is often filtered out on the programs I have available to view them. I think they are all intelligent enough to get the message across without having to swear.

The person that gives the best dry delivery that makes my sides ache is Bob Newhart. The best family stories are from Bill Cosby. For a mixture of character driven and physical comedy I really love Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. Two of my favorite characters that they used to perform were Mrs. Sue Wiggins and Rosanna Rosanna Danna. Dennis Miller is all over the place with his humor because he seems to know something about everything. My husband and I watched his nightly show when he first started doing it after SNL. The audience seem to rarely get his jokes, while we kept looking at each other and laughing. I love his Star Trek references mingled in his jokes. George Carlin has amazing insight into politics. He is definitely a thinking man's comedian. For a combination of all of the comedic styles there is Monty Python. They mingle politics, slapstick, character driven, an phenominal understanding of the English language and the field of psychology to make an body of work that is completely pleasingly bizarre!