Elephant in the room is honestly the best stand up I've ever heard. Loved it.

The bit about playing high school football and paralyzing an opposing player and then stealing his socks to tie around the helmet had me dying.

THATS RIGHT LADY!! That's what you get for lettin him out here with killers!!

OH SHIT! That's the team that be stealin' paralyzed niggas' socks and tyin them around they helmets!

Fuck that is a brilliant and underrated special.

FUCK this is true, I'm checking this out again

Me say fuck too! Hooray!!

Dave Chappelle - For what its worth Dave Attell - Skanks for the memoriesbest hour of all time fuck anyone that thinks otherwise Doug Stanhope - Before turning the gun on himself

The Stanhope album blew my mind. One of the best ever without a doubt.

I will co-sign all these, also my favorites. I've seen all three live as well, and I was squirting tears five minutes into all of them.

YES

Stanhope's Before Turning The Gun On Himself is a fucking masterpiece

Killing Them Softly by Dave Chappelle

I'll take Bill Burr's 'You People Are all the Same' over any of his contemporaries' specials. Even Louis.

Really excited for his new special. Bill hit another level.

"What are you, a faaaag" is my favorite (post 2000 stand up special) comedy bit of all time.

Let It Go is my favorite too, I've watched it a dozen times now. It always cheers me up if I had a shit day because it's caustic, razor sharp, but hysterical and has heart. Same for Elephant in the Room from Patrice. They are hitting all the marks that a lot of even big comics miss some of.

Oh they are all great, that's just my favorite. His weekly podcast is great too. Before podcasts I worked in the basement of this bank filing stuff, and used to torrent live sets from comics and just play them on repeat. I started with music but whipped through 8 albums in a day and that got old quickly. I'm glad podcasts came along as I had memorized every comics stand up specials, all of Henry Rollins spoken word, Hunter Thompson live, and all this other counterculture live stuff. Free fresh content from people is amazing.

thats the one

I should watch that again, 'Let it Go' was my favorite from Bill

Burr's material Is genius , but his voice is bit too much when he's yelling.

I'll toss in Norm MacDonald's "Me Doing Stand Up" as my favorite hour from the past five years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1isPK83SxU&feature=kp

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I don't know if it counts but Colin's Long Story Short I loved...

this post made me want to watch it again

Doug Stanhope - Deadbeat Hero

Stanhope gets so little respect as a comic.

I went on vacation to the Pacific NW and saw him in Seattle. He ripped some loud bitch apart in the audience, then seamlessly transferred back into his act. Stanhope is a fucking genius.

I wish he did more east coast gigs, Come to Jersey! I am on a DUI suspension so I can't drive.

what did he say to her? had a discussion with him in bum fuck nc about corrupt cops. been my favorite comic since

Beer Hall Putsch is great, too

His detailed bit about his gay NFL fantasy is fantastic.

Jim Jeffries is great, the hour he just filmed will be great when it comes out but I think 'I Swear to God' is my favorite by him.

Dave Chappelle's Killing Them Softly and For What its Worth

Chris Rock Bring the Pain

Carlin had a bunch of great hours

Dave Attell - Skanks for the memories ( audio only)

Also Bill Burr has consistently good specials I can't really pick a favorite maybe, "You People Are All The Same."

I liked "Shameless" by Louis CK

let it go was my personal favorite

Let It Go was way better than You People Are All The Same. Both are solid though.

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My post-2000 favourites: Doug Stanhope - No Refunds, Bill Burr - Why Do I Do This, and anything Neil Hamburger. I can't wait to see Metzger, he was so fucking good on Comedy Underground. Hope that gets another season.

Do you listen to Race Wars with Kurt? It's pretty fucking funny.

Yeah, I love that podcast. Sherrod and he have great chemistry.

I love when Neil Hamburger retweets 20 people in a row saying they got sick at taco bell.

Doug Stanhope- Beer Hall Putsch

It's on Netflix. He talks about "bar-backing" his mother's suicide while wearing a Pea-Soup colored leisure suit. I really think it's his best special since No Refunds

I loved this bit.

Greatest closing bit in the history of comedy

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It's an obvious answer but Louis C.K.'s Hilarious & Shameless specials are my favourites.

You don't realise how spoilt you are in America with good comics, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Bill Burr, Stanhope, etc.

Try watching Live at the Apollo, even the main acts like Michael McIntyre and Jack Whitehall are just awful.

That sounds brilliant, is that a quote from him on the show?

I don't know if it counts

So fucking true man.. I don't even bother arguing with other Brits any more

What was the name of chapelles first standup, with the baby drug dealer? That was one of my all time favorite.

Killen' Them Softly

yes, thank you

Patrice O'Neal... the set I got to see at Stand Up Live in Phoenix just a few months before he passed. :(

Patrice takes it for me. Elephant in the Room is the special I've watched the most times so that puts it #1 for me personally. Let It Go by Bill Burr is definitely worth a shout too.

It would be one of Carlin's but I'm not sure which.

Jimmy has often mentioned that his favorite Carlin special was 1999 You Are All Diseased, because it's "just so mean". Hard to argue with that choice. I don't like the goofy 70s Carlin that much. Not as much bitterness or cynicism. His meanness progressed from a complete goofball in the 70s, to more of a sarcastic, wordy smartass in the 80s, to a social critic in the early 90s to a misanthropist in YAAD. The 2 specials before YAAD were a mix, with a good deal of acerbic social cynicism, but still a lot of his absurd observational stuff. I might have to go with one of those two: 1992 Jammin in NY or 1996 Back in Town.

Doug Stanhope - Something To Take The Edge Off

George Carlin - You Are All Diseased

Something To Take The Edge Off is one of the most underrated comedy albums

If nobody knows, guitarist Henry Phillips plays live with Doug Stanhope's stand-up. Doug's bits have this hypnotic rhythm with the acoustic guitar, but his jokes are vile and hilarious. It's got a raw and unique feel to it because the Henry Phillips is just playing off-the-cuff...definitely worth a listen if you haven't heard it before.

Norm MacDonald: Me Doing Stand Up

Here are a few that have stood the test of time for me:

• Brian Regan - I Walked on the Moon

• Patrice O'Neal - Elephant in the Room (pretty much all his material stands up, actually)

• Andrew Dice Clay - The Day the Laughter Died

• Colin Quinn - Long Story Short

• Doug Stanhope - No Refunds

• Maria Bamford - How to Win (not on YouTube)

• Maria Bamford - Ask me About my New God ( suicide bit )

• Richard Pryor - That Nigger's Crazy

• Hannibal Buress - Animal Furnace ( bomb water bit )

• Bill Burr - Let It Go ( grocery store bit )

I've also seen most of these people live (except Pryor), and Stanhope pretty much blows everyone else away. If you get a chance to see him, don't pass it up. He gives an amazing performance. I think he did like 2 hours and 10 minutes when I saw him and he was high-energy hilarious the entire time.

Maria Bamford is so underrated, I'm so glad someone mentioned her.

Not one Attell mention?

"Captain Miserable" wasn't his best work, but it still beats the holy fuck outta 95% of any other hour of stand-up.

"Road Work" was great, as was "Your Mouth's Not Pregnant", and his early stuff is the greatest stand-up work of all-time.

Yous cunts oughta be ashamed of yourselves.

A tie between Skanks for the Memories and the first major Loius CK special. Whichever one had the "bag of dicks" line. Jesus, that whole thing floored me.

This is a tough choice... Loved Alcoholocaust by Jim Jefferies, Love Louis CK's stuff. For non-edgy comedians I'd say John Mulaney New in Town, fuck you.. he makes me laugh.

First off, Chewed Up is better than Hilarious.

Secondly, I love Eddie Murphy. He's one of my favourite comedians, and he's one of my favoruite comedic actors, but RAW doesn't stand the test of time. Almost all of the humor is about pop culture and society at the time. It's not very funny to watch now.

My favourite hour of comedy is Captain Miserable by Dave Attell.

I also highly recommend Road Work by Dave Attell which came out a few months ago. It's a fairly unique special.

He's not my favourite, but he's a comedian who is very underrated IMO.

Daniel Tosh doesn't get the credit he deserves. He's one of the best comedians alive. Happy Thoughts, and Completely Serious are amazing specials.

Doug Stanhope's "From Across The Street" and Bill Hicks' Chicago '89 bootleg.

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BTW, I checked the 39 posts for one mention of Pryor...zilch. Lots of people said Bruce's stuff aged horribly. We should probably start saying the same thing about Pryor at some point.

Older classics:

Eddie Murphy - Delirious

Eddie Murphy - Raw

Richard Pryor - Live in Concert

Richard Pryor - Live on the Sunset Strip

Andrew Dice Clay - The Diceman Cometh

Rodney Dangerfield - I Can't Take it No More

Mitch Hedberg - Comedy Central Presents

This is going to sound really, really cliched...

Dave Chappelle's "Killing Them Softly"

I've seen it a million times and it always makes me laugh.

David Cross - It's Not Funny/Shut up you fucking babies Mitch Hedberg - Do you believe in gosh?

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Burr's 'Let It Go' and Chappelle's 'Killing Them Softly'.

Dylan Moran - Monster

Moran is seriously underrated.

Patton Oswalt's 222 album is longer than an hour, however it's easily my favorite standup session of all time

listen to the Robert Evans bit or the Carvel ice cream bit if you would care to check out some of the highlights

Bill Burr - Let It Go Patton Oswalt - Werewolves & Lollipops George Carlin - It's Bad For Ya (not his best, but it's post-2000 and still brilliant) Mitch Hedberg - Mitch All Together Norm Macdonald - Me Doing Standup Doug Stanhope - Beer Hall Putsch AND No Refunds

I like absurd, meta-/anti-comedy so either one of Bo Burnham's specials. Not ashamed to say it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejc5zic4q2A

Doug Stanhope's "Burning the Bridge to Nowhere" bootleg is very good too (the one recorded in England). The professionally recorded one in Oslo fell flat. I prefer rough bootlegs of his shows, done from the audience.

BOOO