Humor makes us feel better and it can also make us question the world around us, make us squirm, or confuse us. However, a lot of that has to do with the man or woman who is delivering the bit. As such, we must discover who the best comedian's are world w
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By: jdmcshane 
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George Denis Patrick Carlin, May 12, 1937 to June 22, 2008, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and author who won four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Carlin was noted for his political insights, his black humor and his observations on language, psychology, religion and on many taboo subjects. Carlin and his Seven Dirty Word comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5 to 4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's stand-up routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often took on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture.
He was placed second on the Comedy Central cable television network list of the 10 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Lenny Bruce and behind Richard Pryor. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and was also the first person to host Saturday Night Live.
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By: jdmcshane
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Conan Christopher O'Brien, born April 18, 1963, is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and comedian, best known as host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He has been announced as replacing Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show beginning June 1, 2009.
O'Brien is an avid guitarist and music listener. When Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band appeared on the show as a musical guest, O'Brien joined the 17 piece band along with the Max Weinberg 7 and guests Jimmy Fallon & Thomas Haden Church and played acoustic guitar and contributed backup vocals for the song, "Pay Me My Money Down".
In 2005, O'Brien appeared in The White Stripes music video, "The Denial Twist". The band had previously been a week-long musical guest on Late Night when they were promoting their 2003 album, Elephant.
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By: Thorizan 
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Brian Regan (born 1965) is an American stand-up comedian. Regan uses observational humor, which is also occasionally self-deprecating, and his performances are relatively "clean" as he refrains from off-color humor. Regan's material typically covers everyday events, such as shipping a package with UPS and a visit to an optometrist. Regan makes frequent references to childhood, including little league baseball, grade school spelling bees, and science projects. His clean, off-center humor has been praised by critics and contemporaries alike and Regan enjoys a fanbase that crosses young tastemakers to middle-aged adults; he is respected in the comedy community for being a "universal comic," his work has been applauded by such diverse sources as Comedy Central, Slate, The Onion and The Wall Street Journal.
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By: jdmcshane
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obin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951)[2] is an American TV, stage and film actor and comedian who has won an Academy Award for his performance in Good Will Hunting, as well as six Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Grammy Awards. His film career began in 1980 following his success in the television series Mork & Mindy, and he remains active as a film actor and stand-up comedian. He was voted 13th on Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
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By: jdmcshane
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Chris Farley, February 15, 1964 to December 18, 1997 was an American comedian and actor. He was a member at Chicago's Second City Theatre[1] and later went on to the cast of the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He starred in a string of successful comedic films in the 1990s before his sudden death of a drug overdose in late 1997.
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By: jdmcshane
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Mitchell Lee Hedberg, February 24, 1968 to March 29, 2005, was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery.
Remembered for his distinctive delivery, Hedberg's comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-liners, and observational comedy, mixed with absurd and cool elements as well as non sequiturs. Hedberg's comedy and on-stage persona gained him a cult following, with audience members sometimes shouting out the punchlines to his jokes before he could finish them.
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By: jdmcshane
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Denis Colin Leary born August 18, 1957 is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, comedian, writer and director. He is known for his often angry comedic style, and his frequent chain smoking. Leary displays an overt affinity for libertarianism. Leary is currently the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me.
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Jon Stewart
By: jambredt
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A man who has redefined comedic news and has launched careers.
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Stephen Colbert
By: jambredt
7 votes
Famous for his comedic brilliance on both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Also, his performance at the Correspondent's Dinner in D.C. might be the ballsiest thing. Ever.
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By: jdmcshane
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Christopher Julius Rock III[5] (born February 7, 1965)[6][7] is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. A few years later, they relocated and settled in the working-class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.[5] His mother, Rosalie (née Tingman), was a teacher and social worker with the mentally handicapped; his father, Julius Rock, was a former truck driver and newspaper deliveryman. Both his parents are Christian.[9] Julius died in 1988 after ulcer surgery.[10] Rock has five younger siblings, Andre, Tony, Brian (a minister), Kenny, Andi, and a half-sibling, Jordan. His brothers Tony and Kenny are also in the entertainment business.[11] Rock has said that he was influenced by the performing style of his paternal grandfather, Allen Rock, a preacher.
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By: jdmcshane
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erome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born on April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. He is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running situation comedy, Seinfeld, (1989 - 1998), which he co-created, helped write and, in the show's final two seasons, executively produced. He also starred as "Barry B. Benson" in the film Bee Movie, his first major foray back into the media industry since the finale of Seinfeld.
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By: jdmcshane
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Will Ferrell (born July 16, 1967)[1] is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Old School, Elf (both 2003), Anchorman (2004), Kicking & Screaming (2005), Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction (both 2006), Blades of Glory (2007) Semi-Pro (2008) and Step Brothers (2008). He is considered a member of the frat pack, a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors of the late 1990s and 2000s including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson.
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By: jdmcshane
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Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning American stand-up comedian and television host, who succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show in 1992. Leno will continue to host The Tonight Show until May 29, 2009.[1] Late Night host Conan O'Brien is his scheduled replacement as host.[1]
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By: jdmcshane
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Gabriel Iglesias (born on July 15, 1976 in Chula Vista, California) is a Mexican-American comedian who is best known for his loud Hawaiian shirts, funny voices, lifelike sound effects and animated style of comedy and for being the oldest on the sixth season of All That.
He is the self-proclaimed "Fluffy Man" (as opposed to fat), in reference to his large frame and his own joke about the "Five Levels of Fatness" (which are Big, Healthy, Husky, Fluffy, and "DAMN!!"). He has made several guest appearances on such television shows as The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Showtime at the Apollo, Que Locos as well as three of his own specials on Comedy Central, one of which was voted the half-hour "special of the year for 2003".[1] In 2000, he was a series regular for season 6 of All That on Nickelodeon. In 2006, Iglesias was a finalist in the fourth season of "Last Comic Standing", until he was disqualified for multiple violations of the contest agreement, including using a BlackBerry. Iglesias was named Comedian of the Year by Comedy Central in 2006.
Iglesias has done a few independent films and voice-over work for Disney Emperor's New School and his most recent project was a one hour special called Hot & Fluffy which aired August 4, 2007, and was released to DVD four days later. It has sold over 200 thousand copies making him a double platinum selling artist. He also appeared in one episode of the hit TV show "My Wife and Kids".
Iglesias can be seen in comedy clubs nationally, touring with his friends and fellow comedians, Martin Moreno, and Noe Gonzalez.
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By: jdmcshane
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Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian, and actor. He has released three comedy albums, Harmful If Swallowed, Retaliation, and Rough Around the Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden. Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in twenty-eight years and went double platinum.[1] Cook performed an HBO special in the Fall of 2006, Vicious Circle, and has made numerous television appearances. As an actor, Cook has appeared in fifteen films since 1997, including Mystery Men, the 2005 film Waiting..., and starred in the 2006 comedy Employee of the Month and the 2007 comedy Good Luck Chuck. He also appeared in the 2007 thriller Mr. Brooks, which was a departure from his standard comedic roles. Cook recently had a supporting role in the 2007 film Dan in Real Life.
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By: jdmcshane
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Jeffrey M. Foxworthy, born September 6, 1958, is an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He is presently the host of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on FOX. Foxworthy was born in Hapeville, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, the first child of James Abstance, a computer executive, and Carole Linda ,Camp, Foxworthy. His grandfather James Marvin Camp was a Hapeville, Georgia, fireman for more than 30 years.[1]
Foxworthy graduated from Hapeville High School, and was a member of the class of 1979 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. He worked for five years in mainframe maintenance at IBM, where his father also worked, before, where at the urging of co-workers, entering and winning the Great Southeastern Laugh-off at Atlanta's Punch Line comedy club in 1984.
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Bill Maher
By: jambredt
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William Maher, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, actor and author. He hosted the late-night television talk show Politically Incorrect on Comedy Central and ABC, and is currently the host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. On June 1, 2006, he also began hosting an Internet-exclusive talk show on Amazon.com entitled Amazon Fishbowl.
Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary. His commentaries target a wide swath of topics, from the right-wing to the left-wing, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, Hollywood, the mass media, and persons in positions of high political and social power, among many others. He supports the legalization of cannabis and gay marriage and serves on the board of PETA. He is also an outspoken critic of organized religion and is an advisory board member of The Reason Project. Maher is number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.
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Stephen Lynch
By: beej 
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Stephen Andrew Lynch (born July 28, 1971 in Abington, Pennsylvania), is an American stand-up comedian, musician and Tony Award-nominated actor who is known for his unique and mocking lyrics. Lynch has released one studio album and two live albums along with a live DVD. He has appeared in two Comedy Central Presents specials and starred in the Broadway adaptation of The Wedding Singer. (Wikipedia)
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By: jdmcshane
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen born 13 October 1971 is an English comedian, writer and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G a hip hop gangsta wannabe from suburban Staines, Borat, a Kazakh reporter, and Bruno a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter. In his routine, Baron Cohen typically conducts interviews with respected figures while posing as one of his characters for comic effect. His interviewees believe that the ostensible interviews are sincere and legitimate. His work has been recognized with several Emmy nominations, an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, a BAFTA award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
On December 21, 2007, Baron Cohen announced that, because the public had become too familiar with the characters, he was going to retire Borat and Ali G. In 2009 he is scheduled to star in the feature film Dinner for Schmucks, based on a screenplay by comedian Andy Borowitz.
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By: jdmcshane
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Bill Engvall, Jr. born July 27, 1957 in Galveston, Texas is an American comedian best known for his work as a stand-up comic and as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy group. In 2007 TBS began airing his sitcom The Bill Engvall Show.
The Blue Collar Comedy Tour began in January 2000 when Jeff Foxworthy started touring with three of his comedian friends, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy. Foxworthy had already established himself as a well-known, Grammy-award winning stand-up comedian, best known for his jokes and stories about life as a redneck. As for the other three, Engvall's comedy mainly concerns his everyday life and observations of comments he finds to be stupid, Larry's tends to follow a stereotypical redneck style filled with one-liners, and Ron's comedy is based around personal experiences retold in his smoking/drinking Southern persona. The tour that featured these four "good ole boys" proved to be such a smash hit that they recorded a live album in November 2001 and the first DVD called Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie in the Spring of 2003.
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