What comedy do you enjoy beyond the Stooges?

Squirrelbait · **on:** June 01, 2013, 01:49:00 AM

Subject pretty much says it all. Who/what do you like?

My favorite comedy is definitely Dumb And Dumber.

metaldams · **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2013, 06:55:52 AM

I like a lot of early sound and silent film comedy, as people who have been posting on the boards with me for years already know. Too many names to mention, but I'll throw a special shout out to Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields. This era of film comedy, say 1915 - 1950 thereabouts, is a huge passion of mine.

I don't watch too much TV in general, but I like Married With Children, Seinfeld, South Park, and any televangelist that's on at 3 AM.

Shemp_Diesel · **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2013, 07:24:03 AM

Abbott and Costello
The Marx Brothers
Redd Foxx
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Lewis Black
Conan O' Brien
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Bernie Mac
Dave Chappelle

Plus a bunch of sitcoms, like Married With Children, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, and too many more to name.

Lefty · **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2013, 10:11:37 AM

Dumb and Dumber? Which one is Ruben Amaro Jr. and which one is Charlie Manuel?

Seriously though, my favorite comedy shows have been Hogan's Heroes, McHale's Navy, Married With Children, and Are You Being Served.

For individual comedians, Steven Wright, Dennis Wolfberg, and others from the olden days too numerous to mention.

metaldams · **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2013, 10:36:06 AM

Quote from: Lefty on June 01, 2013, 10:11:37 AM

Dumb and Dumber? Which one is Ruben Amaro Jr. and which one is Charlie Manuel?

Just curious, but was Charlie Manuel dumb in 2008 as well?

Lefty · **Reply #5 on:** June 02, 2013, 09:55:36 AM

Quote from: metaldams on June 01, 2013, 10:36:06 AM

Just curious, but was Charlie Manuel dumb in 2008 as well?

As a matter of fact, he was. Jimy Williams did most of the technical managing of that team, which of course was made up of the players that could execute Cholly's strategy -- the long ball. Of course, Rube the Boob brought in the dreck that not even Tony LaRussa could do much with.

metaldams · **Reply #6 on:** June 02, 2013, 12:59:46 PM

Quote from: Lefty on June 02, 2013, 09:55:36 AM

As a matter of fact, he was. Jimy Williams did most of the technical managing of that team, which of course was made up of the players that could execute Cholly's strategy -- the long ball. Of course, Rube the Boob brought in the dreck that not even Tony LaRussa could do much with.

Fair enough.

falsealarms · **Reply #7 on:** June 02, 2013, 04:39:53 PM

For my tastes, comedy peaked in the 30's. You had the Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, W.C Fields, Wheeler & Woolsey, and Charley Chase active at the same time. I enjoy all of those acts. Though often maligned, Keaton's sound shorts from 1934-1941 are my favorite things he ever did.

One of the only shows that's genuinely funny nowadays is Curb Your Enthusiasm. When firing on all cylinders, that show is about as funny as it gets.

WARNING: Language...

ProfessorStooge · **Reply #8 on:** June 02, 2013, 06:37:11 PM

I have always been a comedy lover. Aside from the Stooges, I also love improv comedy, especially Whose Line Is It Anyway? The performers on that show had great talent and chemistry. I am so looking forward to the revival in July.

mbruno · **Reply #9 on:** June 05, 2013, 06:15:42 PM

A couple of my favorites are Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers.

vomit · **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:40:40 PM

Quote from: Shemp_Diesel on June 01, 2013, 07:24:03 AM

Abbott and Costello
The Marx Brothers
Redd Foxx
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
Lewis Black
Conan O' Brien
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Bernie Mac
Dave Chappelle

Plus a bunch of sitcoms, like Married With Children, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, and too many more to name.

I like 'em.

But Benny Hill was comic gold. Great Britain hasn't done much for the world. But between Iron Maiden and Benny Hill I will forgive them!

JazzBill · **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2013, 05:03:17 PM

Buster Keaton
Jack Benny
Abbott & Costello
Family Guy
The Chicago Cubs

falsealarms · **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2013, 08:30:24 PM

I forgot to mention it earlier, but Seinfeld (the show, not just the person) had its share of hilarious moments.

metaldams · **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2013, 08:34:58 PM

Quote from: vomit on June 06, 2013, 03:40:40 PM

I like 'em.

But Benny Hill was comic gold. Great Britain hasn't done much for the world. But between Iron Maiden and Benny Hill I will forgive them!

You're obviously a rotten filthy sinner for only mentioning Maiden and Benny Hill. As penance, thou shall kiss the holy facial warts.

Squirrelbait · **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2013, 09:42:37 PM

Quote from: falsealarms on June 06, 2013, 08:30:24 PM

I forgot to mention it earlier, but Seinfeld (the show, not just the person) had its share of hilarious moments.

YES! - love Seinfeld! Actually, Kramer kinda reminds me of Shemp a bit.

"These Pretzels are making me THIRSTY!"

metaldams · **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2013, 10:04:27 PM

Quote from: Squirrelbait on June 06, 2013, 09:42:37 PM

YES! - love Seinfeld! Actually, Kramer kinda reminds me of Shemp a bit.

"These Pretzels are making me THIRSTY!"

Kramer - Shemp, let's just say you're not the only one who thinks that on this board. They both have a nervous, herky-jerky disposition at times.

pipboytaylor · **Reply #16 on:** June 07, 2013, 11:19:00 AM

Comedy I like...

The Little Rascals
The Bowery Boys
Don Knotts films
The Andy Griffith Show
Ma & Pa Kettle
The Honeymooners

Modern comedy is terrible to me.

Shemp_Diesel · **Reply #17 on:** June 07, 2013, 03:40:44 PM

I forgot to add "Beavis and Butthead" to my list of favorites...

metaldams · **Reply #18 on:** June 07, 2013, 07:45:33 PM

Quote from: Shemp_Diesel on June 07, 2013, 03:40:44 PM

I forgot to add "Beavis and Butthead" to my list of favorites...

When I was in high school I used to have Beavis's Metallica t-shirt. Actually, when I was in high school I had every Metallica t shirt.

vomit · **Reply #19 on:** June 08, 2013, 02:33:50 PM

Quote from: Shemp_Diesel on June 07, 2013, 03:40:44 PM

I forgot to add "Beavis and Butthead" to my list of favorites...

That particular B&B episode is my favorite. Especially when they are screaming along to the Mighty Maiden's "Prisoner" with the convicts. Great stuff.

And Seinfeld....what can I say? Best comedy ever? Close. That was the last time I actually watched a TV show with any regularity.

vomit · **Reply #20 on:** June 08, 2013, 02:35:45 PM

Quote from: metaldams on June 06, 2013, 08:34:58 PM

You're obviously a rotten filthy sinner for only mentioning Maiden and Benny Hill. As penance, thou shall kiss the holy facial warts.

OMG! How could I forget? LOVE MOTORHEAD! Viva la Lemmy!

Seamus · **Reply #21 on:** June 09, 2013, 09:07:56 AM

Falsealarms is right on about Curb Your Enthusiasm. Easily the best comedy on TV right now. If Fawlty Towers and a Christopher Guest movie had a hilarious love child, it would be CYE. I just started Season 5 last night, so still have a lot of catching up to do.

Just about the only other current comedy show I catch and enjoy is the Daily Show.

In addition to the usual vintage stuff that most of us around here enjoy (Marx Brothers, Fields, Keaton, et al.), I've got a lot of love for Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I feel like there's an Abbot-and-Costello-shaped gap in my comedy knowledge. I should do something about that this summer.

Allen Champion · **Reply #22 on:** March 01, 2014, 05:13:19 AM

I love the great silent comedians: Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Langdon, and Arbuckle. I love Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, the Dead End East Side Bowery Boys, WC Fields, Jackie Gleason and Benny Hill.

metaldams · **Reply #23 on:** March 01, 2014, 05:37:56 AM

Quote from: Allen Champion on March 01, 2014, 05:13:19 AM

I love the great silent comedians: Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Langdon, and Arbuckle. I love Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, the Dead End East Side Bowery Boys, WC Fields, Jackie Gleason and Benny Hill.

You have good taste. Even Harry Langdon, who I love.

Liz · **Reply #24 on:** March 01, 2014, 05:44:44 AM

Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, pretty much all of the great comedians of Hollywood's golden age.

stoogerascalfan62 · **Reply #25 on:** March 03, 2014, 01:53:35 PM

Hal Roach talkie-era Our Gang-Little Rascals, Laurel and Hardy. South Park-in small doses, Family Guy-small doses too.

Paul Allen · **Reply #26 on:** March 03, 2014, 10:36:07 PM

Two of my favorite comedians from the past that no one else has mentioned . . .
Jerry Lewis - (especially his solo films without Dean Martin)
Joe E. Brown

middlenamewayne · **Reply #27 on:** March 06, 2014, 02:49:21 AM

Quote from: vomit on June 06, 2013, 03:40:40 PM

Great Britain hasn't done much for the world. But between Iron Maiden and Benny Hill I will forgive them!

As far as Maiden goes, "Black Bart Blues" and Bruce's intro to "Dive, Dive, Dive" (promo for his 1st solo album) are pretty damn funny. But "Mission From 'Arry" is most definitely their "Who's On First?" You can hear it on Youtube, but I've transcripted the funniest parts below.

- mnw

Steve: He did not deserve to get a bollocking at the time. All he's trying to do is relay a message from me toyou, right? And he went the wrong way about it, okay?
Nicko: Yeh, he *did* go the wrong way about it!
Steve: Well then!
Nicko: Well I'm, I, I, I, I tell you what...!
Bruce: I don't see where you get steamed, I mean...
Nicko: Why I got steamed up, Bruce, is because he fucked me right up! And I *knew* therewas a problem! I still didn't know what it was even after he... I, I fucked! I fucking fucked up!

Steve: I was shouting at ya, "look, my gear's gone down!"
Nicko: It's me that fucked-up.
Steve: Listen...
Nicko: I'm the one out there all on me own.
Steve: I know...
Nicko: I'm doing a drum solo And I've got a fuckin' talkin' to!

Steve: I'm the one, I'm 'a thinking, I've got fucking like a minute to go to get this fucking gear right.
Nicko: You're not standing there all on your fucking own having somebody try to get your attention and talk to you... I'm playin' a drum solo, and the guy's standing a yard, or two yards behind my drum riser goin' fucking "anga-yangna-baba" "wha?"! "BABA-BABA-BABA!" "WHAAAA???" Uhhhhh! By the time I've got that far, I'm fuckin totally fucked because I'm not paying attention to my gig!I'm paying attention to what he's trying to tell me!
Bruce: Yeah, but nobody woulda noticed.
Nicko: (stunned) *I* noticed!!!

Steve: He's not like he's, fuckin', an asshole or an idiot, or anything like that.
Nicko: Oh no, but he was out of order, because he didn't...
Bruce: He wasn't out of order.
Nicko: He was!
Steve: He wasn't out of order: he was *wrong*!
Nicko: He was, 'cause if he'd come up to the fucking riser...
Steve: Nicko...
Nicko: Look...
Steve: Nicko...
Nicko: I COULDA FUCKIN HEARD HIM!!!

Steve: He was wrong. He made a mistake, but he wasn't out of order!
Bruce: It wasn't deliberate.
Nicko: Now, I know it ain't deliberate. I bollocked him 'cause he fucked me up! He was *wrong*.
Bruce: No, he *wasn't* wrong.
Nicko: He *was*!
Steve: He wasn't wrong!
Steve: I don't wanna fuckin argue about this, it's fucking stupid... I think *you're* out of order, honestly!
Nicko: Bollocks! Oh!!! I am *not* out of order!!!!!
Steve: You are! Your *attitude* is out of order!
Nicko: No it ain't!
Steve: It is.
Nicko: No it ain't! The guy fucked me up!
Steve: I know he did.
Nicko: Well then *that's* out of order!!!

Nicko: What do you mean "He made a mistake"?
Steve: Because I...
Nicko: How did he make a mistake?
Steve: Well, he made the mistake by not sending Bill first, right?
Nicko: Well, why...
Bruce: There's a difference between making a mistake and making a human error.
Nicko: Right, so he made a mistake, right?
Steve: Yeah.
Nicko: And I'm griefed up cause he fuckin' made *me* make a mistake.
Steve: Aw, I'm not gonna argue about it.
Nicko: Right? Fuck my old boots!

Bruce: What happens if the lighting truss is gonna fall down on your head?
Nicko: Well then somebody drags me out of the fuckin' way, or else I'm dead, right?
Bruce: Yeah, but don't, I mean, you know...
Steve: I think your attitude is *totally* fucking out of order.
Nicko: No it ain't! No it ain't!
Steve: Yes it is...
Nicko: No it ain't! If I'd have known... now I'm the fuckin' cunt all of a sudden!

Nicko: The guy was wrong to have fuckin' done what he done. He was outta fuckin' order!
Bruce: He's *not*! if I fucking go and tell somebody to do something, he goes "No, fuck off! I'm
not gonna do that", *then* he's out of order!
Nicko: I'm not concerned with, with, with, with, with other people that can't fucking talk to me on stage, who don't know how to fucking communicate with me.
Bruce: But he's *not* out of order trying to *do* it!
Nicko: He did not know how to communicate with me...
Steve: (shocked) Some cunt's recording thi... (click!)

metaldams · **Reply #28 on:** March 06, 2014, 11:13:00 AM

Quote from: middlenamewayne on March 06, 2014, 02:49:21 AM

Steve: I'm the one, I'm 'a thinking, I've got fucking like a minute to go to get this fucking gear right.
Nicko: You're not standing there all on your fucking own having somebody try to get your attention and talk to you... I'm playin' a drum solo, and the guy's standing a yard, or two yards behind my drum riser goin' fucking "anga-yangna-baba" "wha?"! "BABA-BABA-BABA!" "WHAAAA???" Uhhhhh! By the time I've got that far, I'm fuckin totally fucked because I'm not paying attention to my gig!I'm paying attention to what he's trying to tell me!
Bruce: Yeah, but nobody woulda noticed.
Nicko: (stunned) *I* noticed!!!

That whole thing's classic, but the above bit is my favorite part, especially the end. The two funniest things about this are only Iron Maiden would release a backstage argument as a b-side, and secondly, thirty years after the argument, these guys are still playing together!