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Kalaroga Shark Media either Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News.
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This is a sequel to yesterday's episode. It is the
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rest of the list from Billboard dot com. They have
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listed the top twenty five stand up comedians of the
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twenty first century. In yesterday's episode, I covered twenty five
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through sixteen. We were up to Ricky Gervais. As usual,
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when I do these list episodes, I don't like to
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look at them in advance because I want to just
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react and I'm really really curious and fearful what we're
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about to find out here, all right? Scrolling down number
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fifteen is Mitch Hedberg. Good, good pick. I have to
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remember to add him to my list, which I'll probably
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do as tomorrow's episode Mitch Hedburgh one of my favorites.
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I'm glad that they included him here, as Mitch passed
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away at age thirty seven and two thousand and five,
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so didn't have all that longer career in the twenty
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first century. Billboard writes, Hedberg's time among comedy's top ranksted
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less than ten years, ushered in by a breakthrough in
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nineteen ninety six on David Letterman's show Edberg left behind
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just one comedy special, two albums, plus the posthumous third album,
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and an indelible legacy. Time magazine suggested in nineteen ninety
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eight that Heedburg could become the next Seinfeld. Number fourteen
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Dave Attell great pick and if you listened to yesterday's episode,
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I explained who has put together this list for Billboard,
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and I really respect the hell out of them. Billboard writes,
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if you never experienced in New York in the nineties, check
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out a tell. The gritty, economically strapped, crack and crime
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infested city at that time runs through his DNA. The
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scruffy beard, dark worn jacket over gray hoodie eccessorized with
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a similarly colorless beanie or baseball cap, screams nineteen ninety
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two Afternoon Bar regular, But make no mistake, utel Mey
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look old scale, but he's just as hilarious in this
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century as he was the last one. A great pick.
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Number thirteen. Oh my god, I'm not even doing a
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bit here. I just scrolled down and I'm like, are
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you effing serious? Adam Sandler seriously absolutely not, no, no, no.
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They talk about his movies, but this is a stand
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up list. Billboard writes he's not to be underestimated as
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a stand up comedian. The Brooklyn born New Hampshire Race
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Sandler finished number nine among Billboard's box score Top grossing
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comics of twenty three and twenty four The Sandman as
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a master storyteller with an acrobatic voice. Sandler also does
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musical comedy. Well, I will absolutely disagree on that. Boy,
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that is just a terrible pick. If you listen to
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the show, you know my opinions on Adam Sandler comedy
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and no, absolutely one of the top twenty five. Absolutely
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not a right Number twelve Nateprighatsy. I think this is
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way overrated. I mean, he's nice, but I don't know.
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When I finish my list, I'll see if he makes it.
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But twelve is absurdly high. You're gonna tell me Nate
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is better than Hedberg. You're gonna tell me Nate is
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better than Dave Attel. You're gonna tell me Nate is
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better than Jim Gaffigan. No, No, and no, absolutely not.
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Crazy talk. Number eleven even more crazy talk? Are you
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serious with this list? Billboard? Sebastian Maniscal. My current opinion
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is Sebastian is just doing a version that I call
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old man Dice Clay. Like if Dice turned sixty and
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decided I should curse a little bit less, you'd wind
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up with whatever Sebastian's doing right now. That's a horrible pick,
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all right. Number ten Robin Williams. Interesting. I wouldn't have
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thought about Robin, but let's say what Billboard has to say.
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Robin williams last stand up tour took place in two
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thousand and eight, and the HBO special that resulted, Weapons
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of Self Destruction came in two thousand and nine. Williams
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passed away in twenty fourteen. See, I would think of
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him more as a twentieth century stand up I don't
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think this pick is ridiculous. Robin Williams was really good
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on stage. I don't think I'll include him on my list.
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Number nine Maria Bamford. Now this is really interesting. The
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people that like Maria Bamford, love Maria Bamford, and the
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rest of us are like, yeah, she's fine, not gonna
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make my list again. The people who love her right
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now are throwing their sneaker at the wall, going, Johnny Mack,
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you don't know what you're talking about. I've seen her
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live and it was fine. Okay, next up, Number eight,
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really interesting pick here. My initial reaction to it is
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negative and thinking this is kind of crazy. I know
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people love this guy, but number eight. Norm MacDonald eight
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above Jim Gaffigan. Billboard rights, the comedian, who died in
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twenty twenty one at the age of sixty one, is
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revered as a comedy warrior whose deadpan comedy style and storytelling,
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like his extended joke about a troubled moth, were as
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fearless as they were unique. See I think of him
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more as great on the desk doing appearances on Conan.
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He's got a wonderful comedy album that I love, but
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it's more sketches with There's the Gambling Sportscaster and the
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Fantastic Four sketch and a Superman sketch all on that
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one album. I'm not sure the body of work is there.
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Billboard all right. Number seven Kevin Hart hard to argue.
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We can argue a replacement, but not crazy nine specials,
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thirty movies, more TV shows than that, and multiple streaming partnerships.
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Johnny mcoay says the man likes to work. Billboard writes,
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so when heart reconnects to his power base, as he
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did in his recent Netflix special Acting My Age, which
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I had high up on my list this year. It's
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a bracing reminder of what's driving all that activity. Relentless
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jokes and stories that seem like conversational observations but are
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in fact owned by years of restless roadwork. Not crazy
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all right. Number six Jerry Seinfeld. Now in the twenty
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first century. I saw Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock on
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back to back nights at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival,
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and Chris Rock was way better than everybody else until
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the next night when Jerry Seinfeld went up and was
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way better than Chris Rock. I do associate Seinfeld with
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the nineties. But let's see what Billboard has to say.
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Where this list compiled at the end of the twentieth century,
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Seinfeld would almost certainly have topped it. Because it's twenty
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five years into the twenty first century, Seinfeld will have
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to settle for being the wealthiest comedian. And make no mistake,
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Seinfeld is still Hella funny and his comedy has grown.
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No Moss has been on AI, which includes a refund
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why Frankenstein wore a sport coat in the original Universal
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Monster Movies is a beautiful thing. So we're up to
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the top five, which seems like a good time to
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take a break, and boy, I'm scared continuing bill Board's
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Best Comedians of the twenty first century. Number five Bill
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Burr not absurd, although I think his last special is
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a bit of a fall off. Hey, that happens to everyone,
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including all the great home run hitters. And I guess
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Bill Burr is doing just fine. After playing the Reod
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Comedy Festival earlier this year, he apparently is the fifth
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best stand up of the twenty first century. Really solid.
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Who doesn't like Bill Burr's comedy? Can't nitpick that one?
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You know, with all of these we can pick placement,
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but not absurd. Also not absurd at all, And a
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really strong pick is John Mullenie at number four. All right,
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So if mullanie is at four, I'm just thinking off
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the top of my head. So c K's left, Chappelle
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is left? Who else is left that I'm not thinking about?
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This is going to be interesting, Okay? They right? Malani
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has made the combination of the extraordinary, unusual and extraordinarily
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funny sort of his thing, whether he's wrestling with a
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bunch of fourteen year old boys on the Netflix show
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or plotting the death of a non essential grandparent to
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get the attention to Craves in elementary school in Baby
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j Perhaps most fascinating is the four plus minute been
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on Donald Trump's first administration from the twenty eighteen special
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Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, which never once mentions Trump's name.
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All right, number three, Louis c K. All right, so
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Chappelle's gonna be up there? Who's the other one that
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I'm forgetting? I know you're screaming at your phone right now, going,
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how are you forgetting so and so? But all right,
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Louis Ck, just back from Riodd Millboard writes, you may
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have arguments about CK's behavior and its consequences, but no
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one ever accused him of not being funny. His behavior
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derailed a career of women comics, and eventually his own
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career was derailed in turn canceled. Not so much. Do
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you learn anything from it all? Insert shrug emoji here,
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very very fair, All right, I'm just curious here because
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Chapelle's gonna be one of the last two. Who am
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I forgetting here? Let me scroll down two. Chris Rock. Oh,
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of course, I'm so stupid. Have you been screaming at
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the wall for the last ten minutes? I was afraid
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they were gonna like throw out like Amy Schumer or
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something like incredibly absurd? Of course, Chris Rock. I even
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name checked Chris Rock five minutes ago as the second
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best side felt Okay, yeah, of course Chris Rock. Yeah, duh,
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I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. If you've been throwing things
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for the last five minutes, I'm stupid. Sometimes. In two
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thousand and four, Chris Rock titled his fourth special Never Scared.
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In his most recent special, twenty twenty three, Selective Outrage,
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he looks around and finds he's the only unafraid person
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left standing. Rock and lay claimed in the mantles of
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both Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. His work is personally
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and politically charged the way priors was. But he's also
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a mainstream star on screens both big and small. Most
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of all, he's a no hold barred stand up in comedy.
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No one and nothing is safe. All right, great, pick
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I feel so stupid or I'm gonna scroll down here.
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It has to be Chappelle, right, I'm not gonna scroll
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down or they're gonna be like Tony Hitchcliff is the
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best comedian and I'm gonna like lose my mind. Right,
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this has to be Dave Chappelle. I'm scared. Number one
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is Dave Chappelle, who I was scary there for a second.
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Billboard writes, like the Marvel superhero Daredevil, Chappelle is the
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man with no fear. His critics might say that also,
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like the Marvel superhero, he's blind, so that her anger
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he to the trans community. Looking strictly through the lens
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of comedy, however, Chappelle is the greatest comic of the
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century so far. Some say he's the goat, and that
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may prove true, but that's for another list. Good pick
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let me fly through the whole list for you again
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twenty five, John Stewart No. Twenty four, Billy Connolly No.
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Twenty three, Trevor Noah twenty two, Jim gaffikin Way Too
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Low twenty one, and Gabe Iglesias twenty, Sarah Silverman nineteen,
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Ali Wong No. Eighteen. Patrese O'Neal didn't like him, but
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he was good seventeen. Wanda Sykes No. Sixteen, Ricky Gervais fifteen,
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Hebberg fourteen to Tel thirteen, Sailor is insanity, twelve Naite
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Berghatzy is kind of crazy. Eleven Sebastian is even more crazy.
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Ten Robin Williams nine, Bamford eight, Norm seven, Kevin Hart
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six Seinfeld and then Burr Mulaney, c K, Rock, Chappelle.
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That top five is super solid. I've been scrolling down
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some names here. I haven't ranked this at all, just
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names that I've thrown in my word document. I've written
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the words Chappelle, Burmulaney, c K, Trevor Gaffigan, Sarah Goleman,
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Gary Goldman, Hello, Kyle Kanaan, Jimmy Carr, Matt Rife with
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a question mark. Think about it. He's the body works
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better than you think. Dane Cook, Hello everybody, twenty first century,
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Dane Cook. I kind of want to acknowledge the blue
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collar guys and maybe Foxworthy, because that tour was huge
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and started a whole thing from which Nate Brighetsi's even
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benefiting these days. How about George Lopez, We forgot about him, Hebburg, Hotel,
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Kevin and Rock. But I'll see what I wound up
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putting together, and you know, I still need to think
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about this a little bit more. All Right, nice job, Billboard.
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That could have been a lot more screen Ricky. And
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that is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.