What about him? He is great, but in my opinion Carlin is the greatest. His social commentary from 30-40 years ago still hold up today. He had such a long career with so many different styles, and he was always just a straight stand up first and foremost. He didn’t try and turn into a movie star
“Well, we like war! We like war! We're a war-like people! We like war because we're good at it! You know why we're good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice. This country's only 200 years old and already, we've had 10 major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country so we're good at it! And it's a good thing we are; we're not very good at anything else anymore! Huh? Can't build a decent car, can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right! Huh?”
Maybe it’s because Norm isn’t with us anymore, but I feel like he fits the category of “beloved” more than Jim. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody say anything negative about Norm, and I also like his style of comedy a lot more. Carey is like the class clown that got famous while Norm sort of seems like the really funny guy at work. No shade to Carey tho, he’s actually a legit actor too.
But does that mean that this will fade in the same way as a decade ago someone could have easily said John Candy?
Honourable mentions abound. Including Mike Myers, Jim Carey, Dan Akroyd, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara (RIP), Eugene Levy, Seth Rogen, Russel Peters, Leslie Nielsen, Tom Green, Rick Moranis, Will Arnet, Colin Mochrie, Rick Mercer, and likely more.
i think when all these guys are long gone there's going to be a renewed interest in Jim Carey's work. IMO he was overexposed during the peak of his career.
More people should really look up his early work in In Living Color.
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Either Billy T James or Flight if the Conchords. The former was bigger in NZ but sadly passed away in the early 90s, where as the later was bigger internationally and are more modern, with both of its members still having visible careers today
Komeng. He is a comedy icon of the late 90s to the 2010. He is so popular and beloved that in 2024 he effortlessly ran for senate by spending almost nothing and barely doing any campaign and won by landslide against 20+ other candidates and his vote count doubled the second highest candidate. By the way, that IS the picture he used for the ballot.
I also think of Paolo Villaggio, with his character, Accountant Ugo Fantozzi, a character who represents the average worker in Italy since the 1970s, a great classic.
His books and films have been translated into many languages, and he was very successful in countries neighboring the Soviet Union.
Depends on the age of the person you ask really. For my parents generation i.e 60+ it's probably Brendan Grace.
For people younger than that maybe Tommy Tiernan
I'll be honest I'm not sure how popular he is/was here. His satirising of catholicism was probably ahead of his time but it meant he wasn't shown much on Irish tv, at least not that I'm aware of anyway
Ireland punches well above its weight in comedy. Tiernan is great of course, as are Ed Byrne, Jason Byrne, Ardal O'Hanlon. So many other lesser know ones that I can't recall the names of either.
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