Comedy

Rowan Atkinson ("Black Adder", "Mr. Bean")

            

• Rowan Atkinson Information Gateway
• Black Adder Transcript
• Black Adder Photos and Sounds

Shelley Berman

Richard Belzer ("Hot Properties", "The Richard Belzer Show")

         

• Richard Belzer
• TV Tomes: Richard Belzer
• Another Lone Nut
• IMDb: Richard Belzer
  

Shelley Berman

• Shelley Berman

Michael Ian Black
          

Albert Brooks

• Another Kooky Krazy Page
• Official
  

Lenny Bruce

       

• The Complete Lenny Bruce

Burns & Allen

Louis C. K.

• Official

John Candy ("SCTV")

Drew Carey

George Carlin

Steve Carrell ("The Daily Show")

Sid Caesar

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chase

John Cleese

• John Cleese Biography
• Daily Llama
  

Stephen Colbert ("The Daily Show", "Strangers with Candy")

         

• The Colbertic Realm

Nick Di Paulo ("Tough Crowd")

       

Marshall Efron ("The Great American Dream Machine")

Firesign Theatre (1968 - )

       

• Firesign Theatre Official Suite
• Firesign Theatre Films and Movies

Joe Flaherty ("SCTV")

David Foley ("Kids in the Hall", "News Radio")

       

Franken & Davis ("Saturday Night Live")

Stan Freberg

St. George: What do you do for a living?
Nave: I'm a nave. 
St. George: Didn't they pick you up on a 903 last year for stealing tarts? 
Nave: Yeah, so what do you want make a federal case out of it?

• Stan Freberg
• CDs at The Laugh Store
  

Greg Giraldo ("Tough Crowd")

       

Eric Idle

Kids in the Hall

       

• The Complete First Season (DVD)
  
• The Best Kids in the Hall Page

Craig Kilborn

Sam Kinison

Ernie Kovacs

       

"Television is often called a medium because it'sso rarely well done."

• Kovacsland Online
• Ernie Kovacs
• The Laugh Store: The Best of Ernie Kovacs (DVD)
  

Paul Krassner

       

• Paul Krassner
• Paul Krassner - Bio
  

Laurel & Hardy

The Hollow Men

Denis Leary

Tom Lehrer

• The Laugh Store: CDs
  

Eugene Levy ("SCTV")

Harold Lloyd

Donal Logue

Mad

• Magazine
• TV
  

Bill Maher

       

• Politically Incorrect
  
• Real Time with Bill Maher
  
• Official Bill Maher

Mark Maron

Andrea Martin ("SCTV")

Steve Martin

The Marx Brothers

       

• Official site

Norm McDonald

Playing in a World Poker Tour game with five other celebrities: "I feel I'm the player to beat and that I have a one-in-six chance of winning."

Joel McHale ("The Soup")

       

Mike Meyers

Miscellaneous

• 100 Greatest Standups of All-time
• Laugh.com
  

Monty Python's Flying Circus

       

Chapman: Trouble at mill.
Cleveland: Oh no - what kind of trouble?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: Pardon?
Chapman: One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: I don't understand what you're saying.
Chapman: [slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent] One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle.
Cleveland: Well what on earth does that mean?
Chapman: *I* don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

• Pythonline 
• Completely Useless
• Life of Brian re-release
• Reptile Forums complete scripts, etc.
  

Martin Mull ("Serial", "Fernwood Tonight", "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "History of White People in America")

National Lampoon

• The Laugh Store: Audio Releases
• Magazine
• Movies
• Radio Hour
  

Mike Nichols & Elaine May

Leslie Nielson

Louis Nye


Catherine O'Hara ("SCTV")

Michael Palin ("Monty Python", "Ripping Yarns")

Dat Phan

Penn & Teller

• Penn & Teller

Richard Pryor

Colin Quinn

Mo Rocca

Jeffrey Ross

Mort Sahl (1927 - )

"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions.  Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."

           

• Mort Sahl
  

Second City Television (SCTV)

• SCTV Guide
• SCTV available on DVD

Peter Sellers

• Peter Sellers Tribute page

Gary Shandling

Brad Sherwood ("Whose Line Is It Anyway?")

       

Hal Sparks ("Queer as Folk", "Talk Soup", "VH1: I Love the x0s")

       

• Hal Sparks
  

Martin Short ("SCTV")

Jon Stewart

Stiller and Stiller

Alan Thicke ("Thicke of the Night")

Lily Tomlin

       

• Official site

Upright Citizen's Brigade

• Upright Citizen's Brigade
  

Rich Vos

Jonathan Winters

• The Laugh Store: CDs and DVDs
  

Wonder Showzen

• Wonder Showzen at TV.com
  

The Young Ones

        

Least Favorite Comedians

• John Belushi - almost as good at joke overkill as in self-overkill.
• Phyllis Diller - the Minnie Pearl of comedy. There's something sad about the fat guy, the ugly woman, and the dumb leftout & left-behind. They're the clowns that hide our tears beneath laughter.
• Red Foxx - cussing isn't funny unless it's subtle. Otherwise it's just an exhibition of low IQ and high frustration.
• Whoopi Goldberg - how to buy your way onto Star Trek and end up where you belong, on a paid-for center box of Hollywood Squares. Like Sinatra, Bishop, and Italian Mafia influences in the 1960s, the "chosen" Zion gang of Crystal, Goldberg, and Williams seemed to "show up" wherever influence checks cleared. Some act. Whoopi-do....
  
• Joan Rivers - I would never have a mother that could have a daughter like she had. 
• Ray Romano - redundant jokes deserve redundant awards.
• Adam Sandler - yelling, tantrumimg, and exhibiting abrasive, spoiled-brat behavior isn't funny when it's a cultural free pass to current times; he - like the behavior is despicably sad.
  
• SNL - proof that repeating dead jokes nourishes the possibility of living ones, maybe, hopefully. Proved that saturation bombing pays off in bad movie careers (except for Mike Meyers).
• Robin Williams - between sugar fixes he still finds time to steal material from Jonathan Winters.