Top Comedians In The Stand-Up Scene

Men love laughs, women too, but men most especially. Their hobbies usually include cracking-up at office parties and family gatherings, watching out for the newest comic geniuses, recognizing the best ones and comparing the amateurs to their top comedians. So who are their top comedians? AskMen lists their top10.

Top Comedians

No.10: Jeff Foxworthy, once an IBM employee until he was dared by friends to get
up on stage at a comedy club. That’s when he got it rolling. Trademark: redneck jokes. Famous line: You got to be a redneck if you go to a family reunion to meet women.

No.9: Robert Schimmel, a stereo equipment salesman. His sister signed him up for an amateur night
comedy club. His craft: taboo jokes from cancer (a cancer survivor himself) to sex. Famous line: Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids, asteroids? Wouldn’t it make more sense if it was the other way around?.. Then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

No.8: Chris Rock grew up in a poor racist neighborhood, got discovered by Eddie Murphy. Comic-
Line: Political incorrectness and loud accurate life observations. Best Line: Yeah you could do it without a man [on raising kids], but that don’t mean it’s to be done. Sh*t, you could drive a car with your feet if ya want to, that don’t make it a good f*ckin’ idea!

No.7: Andrew Dice Clay, a guy women love to hate. Has a blue-collar Brooklyn roots. Punch-line:
Women. Other expertise: Dirty nursery rhymes. Once shot in the 80’s, sold-out Madison Square Garden 2-nights, and banned from MTV. Line: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor old dog a bone, when she got there she bent over, rover took over, and the old lady got a bone of her own.

No.6: Eddie Murphy, inspired by Richard Pryor, worked at a comedy club at 15. Quirks:
Impersonations, his childhood, relationships jokes. Still makes movies. Famous Line: I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in their drawers, never having no bulge in their drawers, smiling at you. If I ain’t have no bulge, I wouldn’t be smiling!

No.5: Jerry Seinfeld, started at local comedy clubs, HBO-appearance, the Tonight Show, and
adoption of his routine into NBC’s Seinfeld. Expertise: ever-noticed-absurdities of daily life. Lines: “Yada-yada-yada,” “master of your domain,” “The Swiss have an interesting army. Five-hundred-years without war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with?

No.4: George Carlin started on the 50’s radio and helped by Lenny Bruce with gigs on The Tonight
Show. A comic with social substance. Famous for: 7-dirty words you can’t say on TV; “Honesty may be the best policy, but… apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.”

No.3: Richard Pryor, from US army to Vegas to Ed Sullivan Show, raised in a whorehouse, every
comedian’s best among top comedians. Best Line: When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get any attitude.

No.2: Bill Cosby worked as a bartender then got discovered by Carl Reiner for his story-telling style
and clean jokes. Best Line: A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advise.
And, Top Comedians

No.1: Lenny Bruce. The nightclub impressionist and one-liner. Obscene
during the repressed 50’s and 60’s leading to his arrest. Gags: dark subjects like racism and religion. “My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home and found us in bed together.” He died from a drug-overdose.

These are the top comedians in the stand-up scene who literally make guys laugh out loud, also all worthy to be on the list for sharing comic characteristics that sets them apart from the newbies in the industry. The top comedians’ criteria for judging – Political incorrectness, vulgarity, timelessness, and their creative style gags that men can’t help but retell to their friends over and over and over – The funniest men alive, according to men.