Peoples Magazine names Kevin Hart #1 Comedian All-Time
 

Where do you rank him?

People Magazine got 'Penz'd?

damnit hamas this is my sunday funday.

He's not that funny

Dave Chappelle shits on him.

Eddie Murphy shits on him.

The black Dane Cook.

This. Honestly Charlie Murphy is pretty funny too!

Who???

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KEVIN HART, COMEDIAN!!

LMAO

yep. I just dont get his appeal.

I love Charlie Murphy. I wish he would do more acting, he probably writes half of Kevin Hart's shit.

All Time? Are they high?

George carlin will forever be my fav

Uh Whaaaa? All time? I wouldn't even put him in my top 10

He's a funny guy but this is just silly


people has to sell mags and online hits somehow

Same. But I admire his success. Shit's not easy.

I have him rated 111th

lol, wtf? He's ok at times, but i dont find his stuff to be all that funny.

Situational Awareness!!

this is just current day pampering, I mean better than Pryor, Carlin, Murphy, I mean Jim Gaffigan and Patton Oswalt are better than him.

Kat Williams makes me laugh more...

He's a midget Chris Tucker.

FYP.

C.K. is way funnier and he isn't even the funniest. I feel like this has to be a penz joke. Don't feel like googling.

Hes funny but he is really over saturating stuff right now.

I like Kevin Hart. I do. But best all time? I dunno. RAIN MAN POLL LETS DO THIS

Yelling is hilarious.

I actually chuckled at that, but he said "Who?" not "What?"








fail

He's on a stage, and he's saying things.

But, those things are not funny?

Louis CK is still my favorite.
Hannibal Buress is one of my favorites.

I've tried for 2-3 years to find the clip to no avail, but he does a truly hilarious "drunk uncle".

Of all time is what gets me. You could say "Of current comedians" and I'd say probably...but all time? It's ridiculous.

Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor
Eddie Murphy
George Carlin
Sam Kennison
Robin Williams

Dude could not hold these guys' jocks...

my 3 fav's are

Pryor
Griffin
Lopez (its a culture thing with him, because the shit he makes fun of in my culture is ****ing hilarious and true)

I enjoy others, but them 3 are my favorites.

Nope.

Hell, Bill Burr would ****ing bust him out...

His standup is incredibly hacky. If you take every def comedy jam cliche from 20 years ago you have Kevin Hart. But hey he gets to follow Martin Lawrence movie career of being the wacky black sidekick to the straight laced white guy.

Gross.

I've never found Kevin Hart to be that funny. IMO, he's not even the best comedian right now.

Right now he's just the flavor of the week. When a few more of his movies bomb he'll be a afterthought.

I find him as a person funny, but not his standups or his movies. In interviews, I can see why he's so well liked and why he's the hottest thing in comedy right now, but personally, I can't sit through one of his whole standups

Kevin does personality driven comedy. He doesn't need to rely on material, he puts on a show with his charm and exaggerated mannerisms. I've heard other comics say he is the new Mencia. that he has a team of writers that go to comedy clubs in his entourage to lift material and to heckle the competition.

Watching Jim Jeffries on EPIX.

Another comedian I really like.

off the top of my head, Katt Williams, Ron White, C.K, Burr, Gaffigan, Oswalt, Burress, and Burr are way ahead of him

Curious what standard people judge comedians on.

Make you laugh
Make you think
Stick with you
Repeatably funny
Shocking
Physical/Impressions
Catchphrases

Because the only bits of standup I can recall actually LAUGHING at in the past 5 or so years weren't the best bits, but just struck me funny

Kevin James miming picking out a greeting card [laughter @4:30]

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Robin Williams eating pussy

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Most standup I enjoy, but stoically. As in like an uptight German sitting stock still and whispering 'dat iss funnay' rather than actully laughing. Laughter usually comes from alt improv group stuff like CBB, Harmontown, Whose Line, and I4H or crowd work like Jimmy Pardo. I think because it surprises. Stand-up, no matter how well crafted, rarely surprises me anymore. I can appreciate the craftsmanship, but without the element of surprise I'm not spurred to gales of laughter.

I saw a repeat of Kevin Hart on SNL this weekend. Laughed a whole hell of a lot more than i expected.

Laughing doesn't come so much as being funny, but like the unexpected. I laughed my ass off at the end of the seattle game.

Maybe I'm alone on this, but I find talk shows to be a good watermark. An aziz interview seems scripted. Norm... The guy is completely anti script and his funniest moments have come when he rebels against a set script. I can't take a comedian as seriously if they aren't naturally funny. Then they're just joke makers.

It starts with Richard Pryor. He is the king of comedy. His stand ups are beyond legend.

Going back to the element of surprise. I would probably place Carlin as the best comedian of all time. But really, he's a monologist. I don't think I've ever laughed aloud to one of his bits. But they are so tightly constructed and commonsensical that they 'stick to your ribs.' I can, and do, quote verbatim things I heard him say 20 years ago, because their applicability and aptness arises time and time again.

But his humor arose from the logical progression of his train of thought. You knew approximately what he was going to say, just not how wittily or succinctly he would sum it up. He was YOUR brain doing a better job of processing the world around you.

He is the epitome of someone you can greatly respect for their craft* and really TRULY find funny without laughing at their set. Just a pleasant, satisfied smile borne of sitting in the presence of genius.



* - though he did get crotchety and bitter, and not in a good way, in his waning years.

Carlin picked all the jokes apart better than anyone can.

He's annoying. His first special in Cleveland was good but then his work was like reheated soup. I think these guys are top 5 modern day comedians.

Louis CK
Jim Gaffigan
Dave Chappelle
Hannibal Burress
Ron White

He's definitely top 5-6. In no particular order IMHO mother ****ers:

Dave Chappelle
Louis CK
George Carlin
Kevin Hart
Richard Pryor
Bill Hicks

buuuuuutt...... I might be high.

with a special mention to:

Aziz Ansari
Hannibal Burress
Sarah Silverman
Chris Hardwick
Joey Diaz

of course:

Seinfeld
Martin Lawrence
Chris Rock
Dave Attell
Dom Irrera

Don't get the Hannibal Burress love. Here in 2015, I'd probably replace him with Brian Regan or Kyle Kinane. Close call if I'd put both in and pull Ron White as well. Nothing against him, but I haven't heard anything since Blue Collar from him.

Most of his movies he's not funny imo. But his stand up is pretty good.

Jonathan Winters.

You want brilliant? There you go.

:thumb:
Early Sam Kinison was one who busted me up. His later stuff wasn't nearly as funny.

It actually starts with Paul Mooney :)

I met him. Nice as the day is long.

sidenote...you know who has outsold Cosby, Murphy and Pryor combined?

Jeff Foxworthy

Different eras.

Russell Peters and Jerry Seinfeld at the two big dogs nowadays.

Russell from selling out stadiums around the world, Jerry from commanding the big dollar venues.

Won't deign to mention the two ventriloquists that make bank as comedians, but they technically exist.

Jeff Dunham and who else?

Some dude named Terry Fator. :shrug:

Rodney Dangerfield gets no respect I tell ya no respect

A little known fact, but this Andy Griffith Show actor and George Carlin started out as a comedy duo.

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Happened across this. I usually don't put PFT on a great stand-up because he's not nearly as funny alone on stage as he is improv-ing with a group. But this makes me laugh every time

Deconstruction of a lame joke/prank, makes for great humor. Nary a punchline, but dripping with forthright sarcasm throughout without once nodding to the ridiculousness.

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neither Dunham nor Fator could even come close to Otto Peterson. (Otto and George)

Otto was so nasty that Andrew Dice Clay stole Otto's nursery rhyme bits.

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