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Some of Lou's Favorite Creative Comedians

Im Alingon Mitra - excellent writing & good delivery; from India; here w clips-video from Conan 1/19/15
Bm Alonzo Bodden It's A Tough Time To Be A Comedian famous; race in a funny way; at Tempe Improv 2/6/21
Wm Andrew Norelli - here on Letterman w 8.1 laughs per minute, laughing 40% of the time and six applauses, all in 6:02 minutes
Wm Armando Anto -
Mm Armando Anto - creative comedy with violin and music.
Wm Bill Burr - here on Letterman for 6:17
Wm Bob Marley - Tempe Improv 2/27/15
Wm Bob Smiley - clean Christian Comedian with 1:30 video on Terrorist Toothpaste; seen in Mesa, AZ
Wf Bonnie McFarlane; low key, unexpected creativity, on Tonight with Jimmy Fallon
Wm Brad Williams - creative; rapid-fire; here on Being a midget.
Wm Brian Regan - 5 minutes on Fallon and here, doing Emergency Room
Wm Bryan Callen - Tempe Improv 11/12/15; here with Comedy Hero
Wm Carl Hurley - clean - from Kentuckey
Lm Carlos Mencia - many rapid fire accents; Proud American from Honduras (6:13) and here in Montrial, Canada
Wm Collin Moulton - Good! - House Of Comedy, Phoenix
Wm Craig Shoemaker - Lovemaster - creative; machine gun audience work
Bm Damon Wayans - grandkids; life as a roller coaster (nothing on race :) on Fallon
Om Dan Nainan (NINE-in) - Oriental, very creative, clean, young, mostly dead pan dealing with race etc.
Wm Dana Carvey with impressions
Wm Dana Gould - 50?; suit; acts slow: divorce, teeth, dying - on Conan 5:03
Bm Dave Chappelle -
Wm David Ferrell - clean; good impersonations w/o saying so; pokes fun at his comedy skills
Wm Dov Davidoff - fast paced and active; Light House w Fallon 6/1/18; Filthy Operatin & Homosexuals
Wm Dennis Miller & Bill Maher exchange on Free Speech vs Political Correctness in 2002
Wm DJ Demers - Creative, deaf, funny but definitely not dumb and mostly clean. Has been on Conan, Laugh Factory, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and has his own podcast
Bm Donald Glover - Kids (3:06) - very active w combination of styles
Wm Drew Barth - 40 minute show; excellent writing about smart clever dumb funny people
Wm Eddie Ifft - world traveler can be dirty
Wm Eddie Izzard - on Moses (15:42) and on Religion, Science, The Bible, And Dinosaur-Churches (7:42)
Bm Eddie Griffin - with active hilarious views of and street language for everything, including favorite old Bible stories (1:01:47)
Wm Eric Myers - Skinny, creative and outrageously funny, here on Andrew Dice Clay Presents The Blue Show shortly before his death.
Bm Franklyn Ajaye - Wrote Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy. Here, less on race than usual (7:54)
Mm Gabriel Iglesias - Excellent in every way; Fluffy Visits Saudi Arabia (24:06)
Wm George Carlin - Very creative, four years older than me, died at 70 in 2008. Religion and God (9:36) and God, America, Rights, War and Hats! (13:23)
Wm Greg Behrendt - rapid fire creativity; 48 yr in 2012 Getting Old's A Bitch (4:40)
Wm Greg Freiler
Wm Hasan Minhaj - articulate and creative: White People At Indian Weddings
Wm Ian Bagg - some F words
Wf Iliza Shlesinger rapid-fire creative imitations and 6:20 on Fallon; 5:05 + on James Cordon
Wm Jack Whitehall - rapid fire, clean, unexpected & creative w good act-outs on Tonight Show & Netflix (auto ducked)
Wm James Gregory - 4.5 years younger than me and a master at brief punchlines that require the audience to think and put together: Trailor Park Redneck
Wm James Johann - Wichita Loony Bin 8/4/21; very animated and creative, here with Cross Eyed Cops
Wm Jeff Altman - Scottsdale Laugh Factory feature for 25:31 minutes 10/30/15
Mm Jesus Trejo - creative family & dreprecation; on Late Late w James Corden 10/24/17
Wm Jim Gaffigan - Mr. Universe - McDonald's
Wf Joan Rivers
Om Joe Wong
Lm Joey Medina - Puerto Rican; San Diego Comedy Festival; Stereotypes
Wm John Branyan - Clean slant-wise humor about God, mariage, Three Little Pigs etc.
Wm John Heffron - Middle Class Funny here with train of thought unexpected mostly clean humor
Sm John Leguizamo - Colombian-American w creative act outs & voices , here with Broken Antenna
Wm John Novosad (Hippieman), winner of the 2015 Laughlin Laugh Fest; Late Show with Graig Ferguson
Wm Josh Blue - cerebral palsy
Bm Josh Johnson - deadpan: semi-finalist in Funniest Comic in Texas, 2011; with his Little Man routine in 2017 on The Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon; The Late Show w Stephen Colbert;
Bf Joyelle Nicole Johnson - unususl creative twists with Pandemic Boyfriende on the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon
Wf Judy Carter - performer, comic & writer of The Comedy Bible
Wm K-Von - Persian; creative & funy accents; Bart Reed's Comic Strip in El Paso 1/30/20
Wm Kevin James - clean; in Montreal, w James Corden 7/13/17, Jimmy Fallon 4/24/18
Wm Kyle Kinane - w Fallon; lots of funny unrelated references
Wm Keith Alberstadt - Seth Meyers 4:42 - good writing & act-outs
Wm Kyle Dunnigan - at Just For Laughs; (NBC Late Night 48 laughs w 4:40 set of 4 bits & 10.3 LPM)
Wm Lenny Clarke - Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon - Holiday wreck; being fat, global warming Boston & environment wackos; subways - 65?
Wm Lewis Black - older, political & animated
Wm Louis CK - Montreal Comedy Festival - plays in Houston; here on Aviation (sexual misconduct allegations, 2017)
Wm Mark Normand - on Connon 5/3/16 & Fallon 7/20/18, 7/20/18, 1/8/21 (mostly deadpan; no foul language; not religious)
Wm Mark Viera - Headliner at Tempe Improv in August, 2016 here with, "My Wife's Holiday Party"
Bm Marlon Waynes - great actouts; here with Jimmy Falon; saw him at Stand Up Live 12/15/19
Bm Martin Lawrence - killed, opening for Chris Rock; funny imitations & act outs of black women etc.
Wm Matteo Lane - Buff & gay, with Seth Meyers and here (3:15)
Wm Matthew Broussard - creative: on Conan 7/25/16 & Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon 2/2/19
Bm Michael Che - 4:56 with Seth Meyers: cretively skirting around race etc.
Wm Michael Kosta - with Jay Leno (6:00 video published on Oct 1, 2012): headlined at Tempe Improv 10/11/16
Om Michael Yo - headlined at Tempe Improv 8/13/21; Black/S Korean
Wf Michelle Wolf - 4:58 with Seth Meyers: former writer for Late Night w Seth
Wm Nate Bargatze - low key deadpan clean "dumb;" Fallon multiple times; Conan; entertained troops
Wm Nick DiPaolo - roasted Pamala Anderson
Wm Wm Nick Thune - low key, with guitar & unexpected quirks on Tonight Show Jan 28, 2020 and as a guest May 7, 2021
Wm Nathan Macintosh - fast, yelling, active & creative; Just for Laughs, 5/9/18 and with Fallon 2/9/19
Wm Pablo Francisco - active sound effects & voices; at CB Live Jan 2020;Aug 2021
Wm Paul Zerdin, ventriloquist - 3:38 winner of America's Got Talent and Stand Up Live in Phoenix 5/17/17
Wm Pete Lee - low key, humble, nice, unexpected creativity on Tonight w Jimmy Fallon5/5/17 & 12/14/18 and David Letterman & Gay Dudes are Tougher...
Wm Ralphie May - 7:04 rapid fire, intellectual, fat & funny
Wm Rik Roberts - 5:12 clean and funny
Wm Rob Schneider - Stand Up Live 1/9/16 - comparing 20's 30's 40's in Sweat Pants
Wm Robert Kelly - Creative & big; w Fallon 12/21/17
Wm Robert Klein - with Jimmy Fallon; old guy w old-guy jokes
Wm Ron White; good writing and delivery; drinks and smokes on stage; here with his short Near Miss Plane Crash video
Bm Roy Wood Jr - no race; on Letterman; Seth Meyers; Jimmy Fallon (light bulb,thermostat, captain) 2/14/17; Jimmy Fallonn 1/18/19 (fire fighters)
Wm Russell Howard - 8/3/15, 5:11 with Jimmy Fallon; 4/28/17, 5:05 with James Cordon; relaxed Brit, 25, w rapid fire act-outs & accents
Im Russell (Rusty) Peters, India 46 min. 8/17/22 good voices & languages (Regi from Isaac's Pub in Vienna opened for him)
Wm Sebastian Maniscalco - creative act-out exagerations 4:22 on Late Night w Seth Meyers & here, with Chipotle; 2019 tour tickets, $30-$668
Wf Shannon Bell - Low key, creative & funny sex talk
Wf Sonja White - Saw at Cozzy's in Newport News, VA: Intro Reel & Southern Fried Chicks
Wm Taylor Williamson - shy Tempe Improvv 4/9-12/15
Wf Taylor Tomlinson - from Laughs: Parents on Conan (9/15/17): excellent & improved w Twenties on The Tonight Show (6/30/18) and Engaged, not quite as good (3/4/20).
Wm Terry Fator - One of the best ventriloquists in the business. Here in America's Got Tallent competition.
Wm Tim Bateman - older; balding; Australian
Wm Tim Conway - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter; also here as an airline agent w Harvey Korman
Wm Tim Wilkins - Clean with themes like me; Phones; opened for Bob Saget on his last show
Wm Tom Cotter - Mostly clean; Tempe Improv 9/19/15
Wm Tommy Drake - Mostly clean; Excellent writing; 50 shows, 50 states, 50 days; 0:03 / 6:16 Your Kids Are Spoiled; good Heckling and cruise line insights.
Bm Trevor Noah - South African Comedian. Live at the Apollo with 8:02 of excellent languages and accents.
Wf Whitney Cummings - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter