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Some of Lou's Favorite Creative Comedians

  1. Im Alingon Mitra - excellent writing & good delivery; from India; here w clips-video from Conan 1/19/15
  2. 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
  3. Wm Armando Anto -
  4. Mm Armando Anto - creative comedy with violin and music.
  5. Wm Bill Burr - here on Letterman for 6:17
  6. Wm Bob Marley - Tempe Improv 2/27/15
  7. Wm Bob Smiley, Christian Comedian with 1:30 video on Terrorist Toothpaste; seen in Mesa, AZ
  8. Wf Bonnie McFarlane; low key, unexpected creativity, on Tonight with Jimmy Fallon
  9. Wm Brad Williams - creative; rapid-fire; here on Being a midget.
  10. Wm Brian Regan - 5 minutes on Fallon and here, doing Emergency Room
  11. Wm Bryan Callen - Tempe Improv 11/12/15; here with Comedy Hero
  12. Wm Carl Hurley - clean - from Kentuckey
  13. Lm Carlos Mencia - many rapid fire accents; Proud American from Honduras (6:13)
  14. Wm Collin Moulton - Good! - House Of Comedy, Phoenix
  15. Wm Craig Shoemaker - Lovemaster - creative; machine gun audience work
  16. Bm Damon Wayans - grandkids; life as a roller coaster (nothing on race :) on Fallon
  17. Om Dan Nainan (NINE-in) - Oriental, very creative, young, mostly dead pan dealing with race etc.
  18. Wm Dana Carvey with impressions
  19. Wm Dana Gould - 50?; suit; acts slow: divorce, teeth, dying - on Conan 5:03
  20. Bm Dave Chappelle -
  21. Wm David Ferrell - clean; good impersonations w/o saying so; pokes fun at his comedy skills
  22. Wm Dov Davidoff - fast paced and active; Light House w Fallon 6/1/18; Filthy Operatin & Homosexuals
  23. Wm Dennis Miller & Bill Maher exchange on Free Speech vs Political Correctness in 2002
  24. Bm Donald Glover - Kids (3:06) - very active w combination of styles
  25. Wm Drew Barth - 40 minute show; excellent writing about smart clever dumb funny people
  26. Wm Eddie Ifft - world traveler can be dirty
  27. Wm Eddie Izzard - on Moses (15:42) and on Religion, Science, The Bible, And Dinosaur-Churches (7:42)
  28. Bm Eddie Griffin - with active hilarious views of and street language for everything, including favorite old Bible stories (1:01:47)
  29. Bm Franklyn Ajaye - Wrote Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy. Here, less on race than usual (7:54)
  30. Mm Gabriel Iglesias - Excellent in every way; Fluffy Visits Saudi Arabia (24:06)
  31. 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)
  32. Wm Greg Behrendt - rapid fire creativity; 48 yr in 2012 Getting Old's A Bitch (4:40)
  33. Wm Greg Freiler
  34. Wm Hasan Minhaj - articulate and creative: White People At Indian Weddings
  35. Wm Ian Bagg - some F words
  36. Wf Iliza Shlesinger rapid-fire creative imitations and 6:20 on Fallon; 5:05 + on James Cordon
  37. Wm Jack Whitehall - rapid fire, clean, unexpected & creative w good act-outs on Tonight Show & Netflix (auto ducked)
  38. Wm Jeff Altman - Scottsdale Laugh Factory feature for 25:31 minutes 10/30/15
  39. Mm Jesus Trejo - creative family & dreprecation; on Late Late w James Corden 10/24/17
  40. Wm Jim Gaffigan - Mr. Universe - McDonald's
  41. Wf Joan Rivers
  42. Om Joe Wong
  43. Lm Joey Medina - Puerto Rican; San Diego Comedy Festival; Stereotypes
  44. Wm John Heffron - Middle Class Funny here with train of thought unexpected mostly clean humor
  45. Sm John Leguizamo - Colombian-American w creative act outs & voices , here with Broken Antenna
  46. Wm John Novosad (Hippieman), winner of the 2015 Laughlin Laugh Fest; Late Show with Graig Ferguson
  47. Wm Josh Blue - cerebral palsy
  48. Bm Josh Johnson - deadpan: semi-finalist in Funniest Comic in Texas, 2011; with Little Man routine and, 2017, on The Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon
  49. Wf Judy Carter - performer, comic & writer of The Comedy Bible
  50. Wm K-Von - Persian; creative & funy accents; Bart Reed's Comic Strip in El Paso 1/30/20
  51. Wm Kevin James - clean; in Montreal, w James Corden 7/13/17, Jimmy Fallon 4/24/18
  52. Wm Kyle Kinane - w Fallon; lots of funny unrelated references
  53. Wm Keith Alberstadt - Seth Meyers 4:42 - good writing & act-outs
  54. Wm Kyle Dunnigan - at Just For Laughs; (NBC Late Night 48 laughs w 4:40 set of 4 bits & 10.3 LPM)
  55. Wm Lenny Clarke - Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon - Holiday wreck; being fat, global warming Boston & environment wackos; subways - 65?
  56. Wm Lewis Black - older, political & animated
  57. Wm Louis CK - Montreal Comedy Festival - plays in Houston; here on Aviation (sexual misconduct allegations, 2017)
  58. Wm Mark Normand - on Connon 5/3/16 & Fallon 7/20/18, 7/20/18 (mostly deadpan; no foul language; not religious)
  59. Wm Mark Viera - Headliner at Tempe Improv in August, 2016 here with, "My Wife's Holiday Party"
  60. Bm Marlon Waynes - great actouts; here with Jimmy Falon; saw him at Stand Up Live 12/15/19
  61. Bm Martin Lawrence - killed, opening for Chris Rock; funny imitations & act outs of black women etc.
  62. Wm Matteo Lane - Buff & gay, with Seth Meyers and here (3:15)
  63. Wm Matthew Broussard - creative: on Conan 7/25/16 & Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon 2/2/19
  64. Bm Michael Che - 4:56 with Seth Meyers: cretively skirting around race etc.
  65. Wm Michael Kosta - with Jay Leno (6:00 video published on Oct 1, 2012): headlined at Tempe Improv 10/11/16
  66. Wf Michelle Wolf - 4:58 with Seth Meyers: former writer for Late Night w Seth
  67. Wm Nick DiPaolo - roasted Pamala Anderson
  68. Wm Nathan Macintosh - fast, yelling, active & creative; Just for Laughs, 5/9/18 and with Fallon, 2/9/19
  69. Wm Pablo Francisco - active sound effects & voices; at CB Live Jan 2020
  70. Wm Paul Zerdin, ventriloquist - 3:38 winner of America's Got Talent and Stand Up Live in Phoenix 5/17/17
  71. 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...
  72. Wm Ralphie May - 7:04 rapid fire, intellectual, fat & funny
  73. Wm Rik Roberts - 5:12 clean and funny
  74. Wm Rob Schneider - Stand Up Live 1/9/16 - comparing 20's 30's 40's in Sweat Pants
  75. Wm Robert Kelly - Creative & big; w Fallon 12/21/17
  76. Wm Robert Klein - with Jimmy Fallon; old guy w old-guy jokes
  77. 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)
  78. 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
  79. Wm Sebastian Maniscalco - creative act-out exagerations 4:22 on Late Night w Seth Meyers & here, with Chipotle; 2019 tour tickets, $30-$668
  80. Wf Shannon Bell - Low key, creative & funny sex talk
  81. Wf Sonja White - Saw at Cozzy's in Newport News, VA: Intro Reel & Southern Fried Chicks
  82. Wm Taylor Williamson - shy Tempe Improvv 4/9-12/15
  83. 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).
  84. Wm Terry Fator - One of the best ventriloquists in the business. Here in America's Got Tallent competition.
  85. Wm Tim Bateman - older; balding; Australian
  86. Wm Tim Conway - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter; also here as an airline agent w Harvey Korman
  87. Wm Tom Cotter - Mostly clean; Tempe Improv 9/19/15
  88. Bm Trevor Noah - South African Comedian. Live at the Apollo with 8:02 of excellent languages and accents.
  89. Wf Whitney Cummings - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter