According to Forbes the bulk of it comes from syndication (Seinfeld's money that is) - so how does that work?
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
as much as i hate dane cook, this needs to be a landslide victory for dunham
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
dunham
― CharlieS, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
madagascar 2 made more than $600m worldwide, that probably doesn't hurt rock's placing
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Plus his successful TV show, Everybody Hates Chris. Plus his HBO concert special. Plus his No Apologies tour. Plus signing on for Madagascar 3.
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
42 million dollars is an amazing amount of money though. I wonder what Chris Rock's house looks like
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I bet big
i mean, dane cook is awful, and it's hard to defend dane cook, but being a huge asshole usually allows for some humor either way. for an extended set he really grates & is pretty unbearable, but he has some hilarious bits where the social commentary is pretty spot on. my big problem with him is that he allows for his fans to be really misogynistic & horrible without understanding that dane cook is an y'know a comedian. i feel basically the same way about larry the cable guy.
the ventriloquists are just so plain & horrible & offensive to anyone that has a personality and/or might try and discern what is funny and what isn't funny
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
admittedly i have no idea if the other ventriloquist is shittier but even asking that question is kind of like which fire is hotter when you put your hand in it so im going with the one ive inadvertently been exposed to
― A DOG, A BARREL... RIDICULOUS! (jjjusten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
However much you might dislike Dane Cook, I do not understand how anyone could possibly name him the worst of a list that includes Jeff Dunham and Larry The Cable Guy.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"social commentary"
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
larry the cable guy is the most deplorable in his own way for being such a hackish panderer but he is no ventriloquist
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
explain to me what dane cook's stand up is, dean of comedy
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxpost
Or what J0rdan said. Although that might be another poll: whose fans are the worst?
I've seen some funny ventriloquist/puppeteer comedians before, BTW.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I accidentally saw 5 minutes of a Jeff Dunham 'special' on cable, it was some of most wretched comedy I've ever seen. This poll belongs to him.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I reflex voted for Larry without knowing that we had that ventriloquist guy (and there's another one??) on the list. Sorry Larry.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Larry the Cable Guy means never having to say you're sorry.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(and there's another one??)
I'm amazed people haven't heard of this guy. Does winning America's Got Talant really mean so little?Technically he seems better than Dunham, is about all I can think of to say about him.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
explain to me what dane cook's stand up is, dean of comedy― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:14 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:14 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
observational comedy + yelling
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
alright, observations on society
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
how did seinfeld make $85 million??
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:00 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you know how his show still airs twice a day on three different stations on your cable system? it does that on everyone else's local channels too, and he gets paid for every single one of those airings.
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah yeah yeah. $85 mill still seems awfully steep tho but \(o_O)/
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan is like the tuomas of cuomedy
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
syndication money's crazy. i mean if you created a show like Seinfeld, that's basically the TV equivalent of owning the Lennon/McCartney songbook.
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
voting Jeff Dunham because until a couple years ago I thought the guy's career was just this little '90s blip and had no idea he had a hugely popular character named "Achmed the Dead Terrorist"
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to create myself a sitcom
― fleetwood (max), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, September 27, 2009 6:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
alright yeah this makes sense
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxpost yeah the dvd I had to sit through a few years back had a bunch of weird racist shit iirc
― CharlieS, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember kind of enjoying Dunham and Brian Regan in like 1991, and am amazed that they are both amazingly famous and fucking terrible in 2009
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Is this top ten American comedians? I'm assuming it is - I have to admit I've only actively heard/seen 2 out of this whole list (Seinfeld and Rock). I've heard *of* about 2 others (Cook and the Cable Guy). Who the eff are the rest.
― Dearth Disco (Trayce), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a pretty weirdly skewed list, imo, because there are probably a ton of comedians who crossed over to movies/TV that make as much or more, but presumably aren't on there because unlike Rock or Seinfeld they haven't done a standup tour in years. but at the same time only a fraction of Rock or Seinfeld's totals are from ticket sales.
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
for instance Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey would all be in the top 5 of this list if they'd been counted
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn, I voted Larry the Cable Guy before I realized who Dunham was.
― denim nutsack (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I’m standing beside this guy, I don’t know this man, never met him before in my life or in a past life, I can sense this. Standing next to this man, never met him before. He turns towards me and he sneezes like this, he goes: FUUUHH!!! He actually did like the robot from 85. FUUUHH! Yea, He turns TOWARDS me and he sneezed and there was no blockage, there was no hand or the mouth. I turned to the guy, I say “God Bless you” by the way when somebody sneezes. I don’t say “bless you” I don’t say that because.. I’m not the Lord. I can’t do that. I’m just a messenger for Big Guns up stairs, you know what I’m saying. And I never go with “gezundheit” I don’t know who even says that. If I say “gezundheit” I feel like I’m honoring Hitler like I should be like “gezundheit!!” I end up on the history channel cause the guy sneezed. God Bless You. This is what guy comes back with, this is where it starts to get out of control. Guy looks at me, and very condescending, He goes “*sniff uh… yea.. I’m an atheist.” Yea, what a jerk right? I’m trying to be polite, I don’t know you’re an atheist, and even if I did, what am I supposed to say when an atheist sneezed, “Uh, when you die nothing happens.” SO now, I start getting into like a religious debate with this guy. And it is awful, he’s questioning my beliefs, “Well what about you, what did you grow up?” And I say “Well I was raised Catholic, I was raised Catholic. As I’m telling him about my religious background he is laughing at me. He is laughing at me, he is giggling. He’s like “You believe this? This is ha ha. ha aw..” Now for his own entertainment, he says to me “Let me ask you this. What do you believe happens to you after you die?” And I said, “Well, ok um. Hopefully I live a good life and my soul goes to heaven. And when I get there, all of my ancestors will be waiting for me like it’s an airport. “Hey! What’s up? Guess who’s dead sucker, Ahaha! Come here.. come here, float over here, check this out.” I’m telling him this, he’s laughing even more. He’s so condescending, he’s so snarky with his f*king attitude. Yea, snarky. So he’s laughing at my beliefs, and finally I just snap and I go “What about you? Ok, what about you? Alright. What happens to you? You’re an atheist, what does that mean? What happens to you after you die?” Now he gets very serious, like he’s going to school me. Ok. He looks and he goes “Oh I can tell you young man. I can tell you. I know what’s going to happen to me after I die. After I pass on, my body will become one with this earth. From there, I will become a fertilizer for this planet. And with that, I will return as a huge beautiful tree.” That’s what this guy believes. He’s laughing at me, he’s gunna come back as a f*king ficus, Johnny Weeping Willow over here. I wanted to slam this guy so bad for this, right. But then I stopped. I stopped, you guys please hear me out. I let it sink in and I want you to as well. I hope when he dies he does become a tree. I hope he’s in the middle of the wilderness. And he’s doin his tree thing, whatever it is trees do. I know they do alot of work with breezes. And wouldn’t it be fantastic if while he was out there just enjoying his treeness, thru the woods a huge sweaty guy with an axe comes along. Sees him. Chops him down. SMASH! Put a chain around him, drag him through the mud and the muck, throw him into a saw mill, grind him up. Then you pound him down into paper. Once he’s paper, you print the Bible on him.” ~ Dane Cook
^ copy into Word and set font to comic sans for maximum daneage
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
We should do a separate poll for British comedians. I imagine most of the top ten are individuals most right-thinking people would punch in the face without a moment's hesitation.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i know people will throw tomatoes at me for admitting this but this is more or less how i feel about Dane Cook, when he was just some slightly animated stand-up that would pop up on late night shows and Comedy Central showcases now and again i thought he was pretty funny. he's gotten overly loud and annoying over the years but i still don't really think of him as the bottom of the barrel.
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that dane cook bit is good to funny until he gets into the vindictive circle of life part
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:52 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
really wanna see catherine tate attempt an american breakthru
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Cook is like some local comedian that I wouldn't mind seeing in a showcase or something, but not someone I could ever become an actual stan of, and definitely not someone who should be as huge as he is. The thing is, he actually has the ability to be occasionally funny, which several people on this list do not.
So is Howie Mandel still doing stand-up, then?
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
God, that Dane Cook conversation, if its real
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Asshole meets asshole
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
two butts beating as one
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it's real, it's like the centerpiece of one of his standup specials
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, and everyone in the audience gets all scary "YEAH... YOU TELL THAT GODLESS FAGGOT"
― unban dance squad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I know a lot of people have problems with Cook, but Dunham and Larry make Cook look like Carlin in his glory days. I mean, this and this and, especially, this manage to sum up everything about Dunham without really accurately conveying just how godawfully BAD he is.
And for Larry the Cable Guy, David Cross's wicked takedown of him is still pretty much accurate.
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 28 September 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
No results found for "Top Ten Earning Canadians".
― Aimless, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i finally actually watched a few minutes of larry the cable guy. it was some special, and he really wasn't bad. if you ignore the schtick pretend his jokes are being delivered by some deadpan hipster comedian most of it's pretty funny. even drole at times!
i taped jeff dunham on a "just for laughs" performance maybe almost twenty years ago, and haven't really heard of him since. agog that he is making 30 million dollars now. when/how did that happen? who likes him?
Dane Cook is a funny guy who needs more funny material, but i kind of like him.
Howie Mandel?
― rent, Monday, 28 September 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
how can you ignore the schtick when he's 99.9999% schtick?
― iatee, Monday, 28 September 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― Aimless, Monday, 28 September 2009 00:31 (6 hours ago) Bookmark
Russell Peters is a Canadian.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 28 September 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
but on the other hand, carlos mencia's show is not on anymore so GLASS HALF FULL??
― whiney g. fieri (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda surprised he's not on this list come to think of it
Strangers with Candy is the best thing CC ever did. they've never topped it, altho Colbert Report's come close
― Remove This Vile Tweet (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I think the entire world finally decided to be done with Carlos Mencia all at once.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Sarah Silverman Show is funny in very small doses, like say stumbling across it once every 6 weeks
i caught the abortion episode at my brother's house by accident last night, and it was brilliant
― no bubo, no credibility (stevie), Thursday, 15 October 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly CC, keep TDS & Colbert, South Park, and i'll let you skate on the old Landis and Ramis flicks playing at odd times. but for the love of fuck get rid of the rest. replace it all with reruns of Kids in the Hall or something.
this is basically what com central was about 10 years ago iirc
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
until you've seen "secret girlfriend" you have no idea just how low comedy central can go imo
― some will win, some will lose, some were born to zing the HOOS (some dude), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god, this is so true
it makes "Drawn Together" look like brilliant, biting satire
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah wtf at that show
― i am a true waht? i am a true stfu-schnick (jjjusten), Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― CharlieS, Monday, September 28, 2009 12:42 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
Hahaha I recall this. Yes it did.
Would have voted Dunham had I seen this thread in time.
― a╓by's (╓abies), Friday, 16 October 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Dunham is pretty sketchy but I admit to guiltily snickering at "you got five different kinds of animal on!" in his commercial, which is more amusement than I've ever gotten from Larry The Cable Guy.
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This might come down to the fact that I've never been forced to sit through an entire LTCG DVD.
― a╓by's (╓abies), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never seen a Dunham bumper sticker or tattoo! I can't tell which way that swings it for me.
― a╓by's (╓abies), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
How is Jeff Dunham just now getting popular? I haven't seen his act since he was on Comic Strip Live in like 1991.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeff Dunham builds homemade helicopters.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
better keep his kids away from them
― RETARTED (HI DERE), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Dunham started to gain popularity when he created that horrifically offensive terrorist puppet. At least that's when certain relatives of mine started fwding his shit to me all the time.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://videogum.com/archives/hate-watching/the_jeff_dunham_show_is_the_wo_097221.html#more
― k3vin k., Friday, 23 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^fire post
― everybody loves am0n (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 October 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
also
http://videogum.com/archives/backlashes/you_continue_to_only_hurt_your_053971.html
every single time i see this thread i see it as *The Top Ten Ealing Comedians* and i think what a good idea for a thread but then it isn't that at all it is this.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 October 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah how is jeff dunham getting popular is jaymc stopped following his career
― richard belzer (jeff), Friday, 23 October 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
if jaymc
managed to avoid this guy until right right now; sounds spectacularly shitty
― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
kept seeing these halloween decorations everywhere that reminded me of the dunham terrorist puppet
http://i37.tinypic.com/2iuthew.jpg
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 2 November 2009 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
His Christmas special was the most watched program in Comedy Central's history.
...
― hated on mordy (tremendoid), Monday, 2 November 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/01/magazine/01ventriloquist-span/articleLarge.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/01ventriloquist-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 2 November 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd wager Lee Evans (did the largest sell out comedy gig in brit history) and Lucas/ Walliams (Little Britain guys) would be in the UK list? Maybe Izzard? Also i'd have guessed maybe the likes of the old-skool mob like Jim Davidson but then i recall only recently that he was in the news for being potless.
― piscesx, Monday, 2 November 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Making a good living in Dubai last I heard. Lucky old Dubai.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 2 November 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Dunham started to gain popularity when he created that horrifically offensive terrorist puppet.
I'd never heard of this guy but, as I am typing this, one of my workmates, who is a Muslim, is watching this on YouTube - he seems to know the routine off by heart too
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Friday, 22 November 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
my little brother complained the broadcasting complaints commission when they started advertising dunham's achmed the terrorist ringtones
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Friday, 22 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link