re: Rank your Top 10 Stand-Up Comics and their albums.

Not a top ten, but 1 of my old school favorites always been George Carlin's class clown.

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Brian Regan

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This guy used to make me just so much when he first got started. He is way funny!

Here's my Top 5 and some of their albums.

1. Mike Birbiglia "Sleepwalk With Me", "Two Drink Mike" and "My Secret Public Journal Live"

2. Dan Cummins "Revenge is Near", "Crazy With a Capital F" and "Hear This!"

3. Demetri Martin "Standup Comedian" and "These Are Jokes"

4. John Mulaney "New In Town" and "The Top Part"

5. Jim Gaffigan "Beyond The Pale" and "Mr. Universe"

Bumping to stump for Eddie Izzard. Not many people have seen his stuff, which to me is just sad. He's an all time great IMO.

From his album Circle, Jesus and God talk about the last supper:

Jesus: "And then I did the last supper, and I gave them some wine and I said, drink this wine -it is my blood."

God: "You said what?"

Jesus: "I said, drink this wine it is my blood. I was trying to make it a ceremony."

God: "But that's vampirism! Vampiric thing, drink my blood. You've got Pagan things right there on day one of the new religion!"

Jesus: "Oh, sorry."

God: "Why didn't you say, drink this wine it's a Merlot?"

Jesus: "Oh, yeah."

God: "Did you say anything else?"

Jesus: "What do you mean?"

God: "Well, after the wine thing did you say anything else that might have screwed things up… for ever and ever?"

Jesus: "No."

God: "Nothing at all?"

Jesus: "No."

God: "Nothing about bread?"

Jesus: "Yes."

God: "What did you say?"

Jesus: "Well, I said, 'eat this bread, it is my… favourite!' because it was hot so they had all those crinkly bits in it, and I loved it and… All right, I said it was my body, OK?"

God: "That's....that's cannibalism! You have got vampirism and cannibalism right at the beginning!! Oh, Gee! And you died on Easter, the biggest pagan ceremony in the history of ever! (losing it a bit) You're going to celebrate the day of your death on a different day, each year! Depending on where the moon is, for God's sake! If they don't work out that's pagan I'll just eat my hat."

Jesus: "Dad, don't worry. No one's going to work it out for 2000 years - until a transvestite points it out in New York!!!"

God: "Oh, all right!!"





Love his style. He would write a sketch, then do all the parts by himself.