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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. Bm Alonzo Bodden It's A Tough Time To Be A Comedian famous; race in a funny way; at Tempe Improv 2/6/21
  3. 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
  4. Wm Armando Anto -
  5. Mm Armando Anto - creative comedy with violin and music.
  6. Wm Bill Burr - here on Letterman for 6:17
  7. Wm Bob Marley - Tempe Improv 2/27/15
  8. Wm Bob Smiley - clean Christian Comedian with 1:30 video on Terrorist Toothpaste; seen in Mesa, AZ
  9. Wf Bonnie McFarlane; low key, unexpected creativity, on Tonight with Jimmy Fallon
  10. Wm Brad Williams - creative; rapid-fire; here on Being a midget.
  11. Wm Brian Regan - 5 minutes on Fallon and here, doing Emergency Room
  12. Wm Bryan Callen - Tempe Improv 11/12/15; here with Comedy Hero
  13. Wm Carl Hurley - clean - from Kentuckey
  14. Lm Carlos Mencia - many rapid fire accents; Proud American from Honduras (6:13)
  15. Wm Collin Moulton - Good! - House Of Comedy, Phoenix
  16. Wm Craig Shoemaker - Lovemaster - creative; machine gun audience work
  17. Bm Damon Wayans - grandkids; life as a roller coaster (nothing on race :) on Fallon
  18. Om Dan Nainan (NINE-in) - Oriental, very creative, young, mostly dead pan dealing with race etc.
  19. Wm Dana Carvey with impressions
  20. Wm Dana Gould - 50?; suit; acts slow: divorce, teeth, dying - on Conan 5:03
  21. Bm Dave Chappelle -
  22. Wm David Ferrell - clean; good impersonations w/o saying so; pokes fun at his comedy skills
  23. Wm Dov Davidoff - fast paced and active; Light House w Fallon 6/1/18; Filthy Operatin & Homosexuals
  24. Wm Dennis Miller & Bill Maher exchange on Free Speech vs Political Correctness in 2002
  25. Bm Donald Glover - Kids (3:06) - very active w combination of styles
  26. Wm Drew Barth - 40 minute show; excellent writing about smart clever dumb funny people
  27. Wm Eddie Ifft - world traveler can be dirty
  28. Wm Eddie Izzard - on Moses (15:42) and on Religion, Science, The Bible, And Dinosaur-Churches (7:42)
  29. Bm Eddie Griffin - with active hilarious views of and street language for everything, including favorite old Bible stories (1:01:47)
  30. Wm Eric Myers - Skinny, creative and outrageously funny, here on Andrew Dice Clay Presents The Blue Show shortly before his death.
  31. Bm Franklyn Ajaye - Wrote Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy. Here, less on race than usual (7:54)
  32. Mm Gabriel Iglesias - Excellent in every way; Fluffy Visits Saudi Arabia (24:06)
  33. 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)
  34. Wm Greg Behrendt - rapid fire creativity; 48 yr in 2012 Getting Old's A Bitch (4:40)
  35. Wm Greg Freiler
  36. Wm Hasan Minhaj - articulate and creative: White People At Indian Weddings
  37. Wm Ian Bagg - some F words
  38. Wf Iliza Shlesinger rapid-fire creative imitations and 6:20 on Fallon; 5:05 + on James Cordon
  39. Wm Jack Whitehall - rapid fire, clean, unexpected & creative w good act-outs on Tonight Show & Netflix (auto ducked)
  40. Wm James Johann - Wichita Loony Bin 8/4/21; very animated and creative, here with Cross Eyed Cops
  41. Wm Jeff Altman - Scottsdale Laugh Factory feature for 25:31 minutes 10/30/15
  42. Mm Jesus Trejo - creative family & dreprecation; on Late Late w James Corden 10/24/17
  43. Wm Jim Gaffigan - Mr. Universe - McDonald's
  44. Wf Joan Rivers
  45. Om Joe Wong
  46. Lm Joey Medina - Puerto Rican; San Diego Comedy Festival; Stereotypes
  47. Wm John Branyan - Clean slant-wise humor about God, mariage, Three Little Pigs etc.
  48. Wm John Heffron - Middle Class Funny here with train of thought unexpected mostly clean humor
  49. Sm John Leguizamo - Colombian-American w creative act outs & voices , here with Broken Antenna
  50. Wm John Novosad (Hippieman), winner of the 2015 Laughlin Laugh Fest; Late Show with Graig Ferguson
  51. Wm Josh Blue - cerebral palsy
  52. 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
  53. Wf Judy Carter - performer, comic & writer of The Comedy Bible
  54. Wm K-Von - Persian; creative & funy accents; Bart Reed's Comic Strip in El Paso 1/30/20
  55. Wm Kevin James - clean; in Montreal, w James Corden 7/13/17, Jimmy Fallon 4/24/18
  56. Wm Kyle Kinane - w Fallon; lots of funny unrelated references
  57. Wm Keith Alberstadt - Seth Meyers 4:42 - good writing & act-outs
  58. Wm Kyle Dunnigan - at Just For Laughs; (NBC Late Night 48 laughs w 4:40 set of 4 bits & 10.3 LPM)
  59. Wm Lenny Clarke - Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon - Holiday wreck; being fat, global warming Boston & environment wackos; subways - 65?
  60. Wm Lewis Black - older, political & animated
  61. Wm Louis CK - Montreal Comedy Festival - plays in Houston; here on Aviation (sexual misconduct allegations, 2017)
  62. 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)
  63. Wm Mark Viera - Headliner at Tempe Improv in August, 2016 here with, "My Wife's Holiday Party"
  64. Bm Marlon Waynes - great actouts; here with Jimmy Falon; saw him at Stand Up Live 12/15/19
  65. Bm Martin Lawrence - killed, opening for Chris Rock; funny imitations & act outs of black women etc.
  66. Wm Matteo Lane - Buff & gay, with Seth Meyers and here (3:15)
  67. Wm Matthew Broussard - creative: on Conan 7/25/16 & Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon 2/2/19
  68. Bm Michael Che - 4:56 with Seth Meyers: cretively skirting around race etc.
  69. Wm Michael Kosta - with Jay Leno (6:00 video published on Oct 1, 2012): headlined at Tempe Improv 10/11/16
  70. Wf Michelle Wolf - 4:58 with Seth Meyers: former writer for Late Night w Seth
  71. Wm Nick DiPaolo - roasted Pamala Anderson
  72. Wm Nathan Macintosh - fast, yelling, active & creative; Just for Laughs, 5/9/18 and with Fallon, 2/9/19
  73. Wm Pablo Francisco - active sound effects & voices; at CB Live Jan 2020
  74. Wm Paul Zerdin, ventriloquist - 3:38 winner of America's Got Talent and Stand Up Live in Phoenix 5/17/17
  75. 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...
  76. Wm Ralphie May - 7:04 rapid fire, intellectual, fat & funny
  77. Wm Rik Roberts - 5:12 clean and funny
  78. Wm Rob Schneider - Stand Up Live 1/9/16 - comparing 20's 30's 40's in Sweat Pants
  79. Wm Robert Kelly - Creative & big; w Fallon 12/21/17
  80. Wm Robert Klein - with Jimmy Fallon; old guy w old-guy jokes
  81. 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)
  82. 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
  83. Wm Sebastian Maniscalco - creative act-out exagerations 4:22 on Late Night w Seth Meyers & here, with Chipotle; 2019 tour tickets, $30-$668
  84. Wf Shannon Bell - Low key, creative & funny sex talk
  85. Wf Sonja White - Saw at Cozzy's in Newport News, VA: Intro Reel & Southern Fried Chicks
  86. Wm Taylor Williamson - shy Tempe Improvv 4/9-12/15
  87. 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).
  88. Wm Terry Fator - One of the best ventriloquists in the business. Here in America's Got Tallent competition.
  89. Wm Tim Bateman - older; balding; Australian
  90. Wm Tim Conway - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter; also here as an airline agent w Harvey Korman
  91. Wm Tom Cotter - Mostly clean; Tempe Improv 9/19/15
  92. Bm Trevor Noah - South African Comedian. Live at the Apollo with 8:02 of excellent languages and accents.
  93. Wf Whitney Cummings - OLD @ 80 with Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter