100 Greatest Stand-Ups 2010 (Next Friday)

George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Chris Rock and Bill Bailey stood out as magnificent to me.

But for making me laugh more than almost anyone else ever, The Big Yin deserved the big one. (Thinking of the 'big slipper' routine alone makes me helpless with laughter - and I'm sitting here alone!)
 
But last time I looked it said it wasn't just a public vote. It was the public opinion, plus comedian's opinion and then a panel of judges also.
 
The list should be about the greatest stand-ups..ever.
Therefore, in my opinion, you shouldn't see much change in the top of the list, year on year. Newer comics breaking into the lower half of the list, established comics moving nearer the top as their popularity grows..that's how it should look.
Too many people vote for the comic who made them laugh recently, it should be about their career and how important they were to the comedy genre in their prime.
Billy Connolly certainly deserves his place at, or near, the top. He managed to take his act successfully around most of the English speaking world, not many other British comics have managed that. Of course, there is now Eddie Izzard, who has gone even further and done his act in French and German !
 
Fair enough, that's my only experience of him, of the more controversial comedians he seemed to have the least wit, beside anything else, but that's just my opinion.

Yay he's dropped. ;)
 
Oh right, so the general public who pay to watch comedians, watch them on tv and buy their dvd's should have no say whatsoever in who should be ranked where in a poll that is shown on tv?
 
I will probably get shot down for this, but I'm delighted to see Ken Dodd drop so low, one of his shows was on one Christmas and it was painful to watch.
 
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