Favorite Comedy Team

16 years ago

Have you heard of a Japanese Duo "Downtown"? You can watch in in youtube, they are hosting a Batsu game "Gaki No Tsukai Arahende". I'm sure you will love them.

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Lawrh 16 years ago

Loved these guys back in the day. They are still good.

YouTube - Smothers Brothers with Craig Ferguson
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KimW

16 years ago

Marx Brothers and Smother Brothers are both great.
Abbott and Costello were ok.
I never liked the Three Stooges,and for the life of me can't understand their appeal,
but I would have to say The Marx Brotehrs and Laurel and Hardy are tied for top comedians.

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CDarklock

16 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

Marx Brothers and Smother Brothers are both great.
Abbott and Costello were ok.
I never liked the Three Stooges,and for the life of me can't understand their appeal

What he said.

Chopped the last line, because I'm not so fond of Laurel and Hardy.

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin are underrated as a team. Burns and Allen are often forgotten. So are Fry and Laurie.

But top comedy team? No contest, no question:

YouTube - Argument Clinic

Best seven seconds of comedy ever at 4:17.

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KenThompson

16 years ago

Best comedy team ever? Hmmm...

George Carlin and Bill Cosby

GWB and GHWB .. lol Yup...

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lcombs

16 years ago

Too many to pick a favorite.
Marx Brothers were great.
Smothers Brothers. (How can you not like somebody who was kicked off the air for political reasons?)

Three Stooges...Great. (Frankly, this is first place I've heard a man say he didn't like or understand them.)

Love Abbott & Costello.

Burns & Allen...Great

I guess if a gun was held to my head I'd have to say Monty Python.

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Steven Wagenheim

16 years ago

Can't pick. Too hard.

But...greatest comedy bit had to be "Who's On First?"

Still laugh at it even to this day.

And A/C had many great bits. And...they could really act. At least Lou
could. Watch "The Time Of Their Lives" and you'll see. Their best film ever
and not really funny.

Monty Python also had some damn funny skits, though their humor is a
little off beat for most Americans like me. I don't get everything they do.

Stooges weren't side splitting funny, but they had something that I can't
put my finger on. They had chemistry together, mostly because Moe
Howard was one hell of a glue. People don't give him enough credit.

Marx Brothers were great. Harpo said more with his mannerisms than some
people say with all the words in the world. Groucho became a
caricature (just watch all the impersonations) but Chico was very
talented and, IMO, the underrated one of the group.

Laurel & Hardy had one great movie, "March Of The Wooden Soldiers"
but for the most part, their short films were just so-so. Yet, they had
something too, another amazing piece of chemistry that made them
greater than their actual material.

Martin & Lewis were also a good team, though I think they did their
best stuff when they weren't together. And let's face it, Dean Martin
was no actor. But he had personality and could sing pretty good.

Truth is, the best comedy "acts" throughout history have been solo
performers. Why? Because you have nobody to depend on but yourself.
That's why Robin Williams is so great. He does his thing. Put him with
any other comedian and it's just not the same.

That's why one of the funniest movies ever was "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad
World." Each person brought their own little bit of insanity to the film
(highlighted by Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett / and Arnold Stang
and Marvin Kaplan)

Show me somebody who can do great comedy and I'll show you a great
actor. Comedy may be one of the hardest things in the world to do well.

If I had to pick a favorite comedy team on merit, I'd say Monty Phython.

If I picked it on childhood memories and sentimentalism, then I'd have
to say Abbott and Costello.

FWIW - I haven't watched a movie or show by any of these people in
a very long time. For whatever reason, I've become more attracted to
serious drama as I've gotten older than comedy.

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Bill Farnham 16 years ago

Darklock/tecHead is pretty amusing at the moment. CD sure plays a great straightman...

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- Dave Patterson 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Bill Farnham
  
  Darklock/tecHead is pretty amusing at the moment. CD sure plays a great straightman...
  
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- CDarklock 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Bill Farnham
  
  Darklock/tecHead is pretty amusing at the moment. CD sure plays a great straightman...
  
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TLTheLiberator

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Can't pick. Too hard.

But...greatest comedy bit had to be "Who's On First?"

Still laugh at it even to this day.

And A/C had many great bits. And...they could really act. At least Lou
could. Watch "The Time Of Their Lives" and you'll see. Their best film ever
and not really funny.

Monty Python also had some damn funny skits, though their humor is a
little off beat for most Americans like me. I don't get everything they do.

Stooges weren't side splitting funny, but they had something that I can't
put my finger on. They had chemistry together, mostly because Moe
Howard was one hell of a glue. People don't give him enough credit.

Marx Brothers were great. Harpo said more with his mannerisms than some
people say with all the words in the world. Groucho became a
caricature (just watch all the impersonations) but Chico was very
talented and, IMO, the underrated one of the group.

Laurel & Hardy had one great movie, "March Of The Wooden Soldiers"
but for the most part, their short films were just so-so. Yet, they had
something too, another amazing piece of chemistry that made them
greater than their actual material.

Martin & Lewis were also a good team, though I think they did their
best stuff when they weren't together. And let's face it, Dean Martin
was no actor. But he had personality and could sing pretty good.

Truth is, the best comedy "acts" throughout history have been solo
performers. Why? Because you have nobody to depend on but yourself.
That's why Robin Williams is so great. He does his thing. Put him with
any other comedian and it's just not the same.

That's why one of the funniest movies ever was "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad
World." Each person brought their own little bit of insanity to the film
(highlighted by Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett / and Arnold Stang
and Marvin Kaplan)

Show me somebody who can do great comedy and I'll show you a great
actor. Comedy may be one of the hardest things in the world to do well.

If I had to pick a favorite comedy team on merit, I'd say Monty Phython.

If I picked it on childhood memories and sentimentalism, then I'd have
to say Abbott and Costello.

FWIW - I haven't watched a movie or show by any of these people in
a very long time. For whatever reason, I've become more attracted to
serious drama as I've gotten older than comedy.

The Bowery Boys/Dead End Kids are back on TV.

They remind of the times I would watch them with my Uncle who's 8 years older than me and I would watch them with him.

Slip, Satch, Whitey, Danny the old gang.

They come on Turner Classic Movies some Saturdays.

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KimW 16 years ago

Originally Posted by lcombs

Three Stooges...Great. (Frankly, this is first place I've heard a man say he didn't like or understand them.)

Sorry, but I don't.
Don't like them.
Don't get them.
Don't find them funny.

And it's not because I don't like slapstick, which is what they basically perform. But to each their own.
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KenThompson

16 years ago

Steven mentioned comedy from his youth, and it made me think of
waaay back when I watched The Little Rascal's. Alfalfa, Buckwheat,
Darla (?). They made me laugh.

I remember buying Bill Cosby's albums; Why Is There Air, and there
was another one that I can't remember. I can see the album cover,
though. I think it had a pic of him on a go-cart, and he did a routine
about go-cart racing. lol. I played the hell out of those albums and
always laughed.

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Lawrh

16 years ago

Originally Posted by KenThompson

I remember buying Bill Cosby's albums; Why Is There Air, and there
was another one that I can't remember. I can see the album cover,
though. I think it had a pic of him on a go-cart, and he did a routine
about go-cart racing. lol. I played the hell out of those albums and
always laughed.

Wow, nostalgia moment. I used to listen to Cosby's album "200 Miles Per Hour" all the time. I read your post and the windshield wipers saying "Dumb Guy, Dumb Guy" popped in my head. LOL!

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KenThompson

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

Wow, nostalgia moment. I used to listen to Cosby's album "200 Miles Per Hour" all the time. I read your post and the windshield wipers saying "Dumb Guy, Dumb Guy" popped in my head. LOL!

lol... He was a riot. I saw him on TV years ago. I don't know, maybe
8 yrs ago. It was recorded in Canada. He did this thing...lol... talking
about growing up. And he said for the longest time he thought his
name was jesus christ, and his brother's name was dammit. LOL

He said one day his brother was outside and it was raining. And his
father opened the door and said, "Jesus christ, get in here it's raining."

And his brother said, "I'm not jesus christ, I'm dammit." LOLLLL

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ThomM

16 years ago

Originally Posted by KenThompson

lol... He was a riot. I saw him on TV years ago. I don't know, maybe
8 yrs ago. It was recorded in Canada. He did this thing...lol... talking
about growing up. And he said for the longest time he thought his
name was jesus christ, and his brother's name was dammit. LOL

He said one day his brother was outside and it was raining. And his
father opened the door and said, "Jesus christ, get in here it's raining."

And his brother said, "I'm not jesus christ, I'm dammit." LOLLLL

The story I'll always remember from Cosby was his one about cocaine.
He said he was at a party one time and someone offered him some coke.
What does it do, he asked.
It intensifies your personality, the guy replied.
What if you're an asshole? Bill asked.

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CDarklock 16 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

What if you're an asshole? Bill asked.

This stuck in my mind, too, because it's the only time I've ever heard profanity come out of Bill's mouth on stage.

Someone once said "Cocaine makes you into a new man, and the first thing the new man wants is more cocaine." Looking it up... Robin Williams. Huh. For some reason, I thought it was Denis Leary.

I felt so bad for Robin when he was trying to get off cocaine. I saw him perform so many times, and when he tried to go clean, there were a number of occasions he'd come out and just be stinking up the joint for the first ten minutes. Then he'd go backstage for a minute or two, come back out, and be hysterical.

And I'm sitting there laughing my arse off because he's so damn funny... but at the same time, my heart is breaking because I know what he did in that minute or two backstage. And he's beet-red and sweating up there, and it's like a train wreck, where you're taking pleasure in his continued failure - and you know you shouldn't, and you know it's bad for him, but there's that deep-seated fear that if he gets clean the world will lose this forever.

There's something so poignant and horrific about the whole thing, the sort of willful schadenfreude where everyone says out loud that they hope he gets clean, but their actions just keep right on saying "do more coke."

I think watching Robin try to get clean was the only reason I never touched cocaine.
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- Kay King 16 years ago
  
  As a team - Smuthers Brothers for me - they used to crack me up.
  
  For singles - Robin Williams in the Mork years and Gallagher
  
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  For me, it's the Python team all the way - no one else comes close.
  
  But honorable mentions go to The Goons, especially Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, and the Not The Nine O'Clock News team from the 1980s which gave Rowan Atkinson his break:
  
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Don Brigante

16 years ago

I like Marx Brothers and their "Duck Soup". It's one of my favourite comedies. The plot is weak but the flick has its charm. Hollywood does not make such crazy comedies anymore.

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Jagged

16 years ago

For me......Monty Python
Three Stooges
Marx Brothers

Anything Mel Brooks did...

The Benny Hill Show cracked me up too....

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garyv

16 years ago

I've always liked Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor...

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gregsie74

16 years ago

chris tucker and jackie chan

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Memberhere23094

16 years ago

I wouldn't say "team", but for one celebrity prank phone calls are pretty damn funny.

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peter_act 16 years ago

For English comedy, which could be new to some U.S. Warriors, certainly "The Two Ronnies" and "Morecambe and Wise" will always be most fondly remembered.

I recommend looking up the "Four Candles" sketch on Youtube.

If you liked the possibilities of miscommunication used on "Who's on first?" you should appreciate it.

Also an honourable mention must go to Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
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