Tag: stand up comedy
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 7 - Robin Williams
It is still hard to write this, and thus I’m going to make it short. For people of my age, Robin Williams will never be just a comedian. He felt like a member of our...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 8 - Chris Rock
A long, long time ago, in a place called the 90s, Chris Rock ruled the world. Meteoric rises are often accompanied by spectacular falls, but Rock shot to the top of the comedy world and...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 9 - Steve Martin
Steve Martin is the Elvis Presley of comedy. There is a great deal of legacy to consider and yet it can be difficult because both men at times became caricatures of themselves. So much has...
Steve Byrne Talks Comedy, Life on the Road, and More in PCS Interview
Image courtesy of the "GPS - Steve Byrne - The Byrne Identity" video posted on YouTube. Pop Culture Spin chased down the hustling comedian Steve Byrne, who has logged more than 2 million miles on...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 10 - Ellen DeGeneres
Image courtesy of the "Ellen DeGeneres - Here and Now" video posted on YouTube. Ellen DeGeneres has been making people laugh and offending no one (except I suppose homophobes) for a long, long , time....
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 11 - Katt Williams
Image courtesy of the "Katt Williams on Evolution and Atheists" video posted on YouTube. 11. Katt Williams If you ask any stand-up comedian from the most well known to those just getting their starts at...
PCS Exclusive: Larry The Cable Guy Talks Charity Golf, Stand-Up, His Favorite Comedians, & More
Image courtesy of Katrina J Houdek/Flickr. ORLANDO, Fla. – Larry the Cable Guy doesn’t care that he stinks at golf. “I can hit the ball great on the driving range,” the 52-year-old comedian said, “but...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 12 - Bo Burnham
Image courtesy of the "Bo Burnham's Sad from what" video posted on YouTube. 12. Bo Burnham He will offend relativists because he has a strong point of view and he will offend those who prefer...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Lewis Black, Ricky Gervais
Image courtesy of the "Lewis Black insists The Rant is Due" video posted on YouTube. 14. Lewis Black Not since Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark has there been a more perfect casting than Lewis...
Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Maria Bamford, Mitch Hedberg
Image courtesy of the "Maria Bamford - Opening a Pot Clinic" video posted on YouTube. 16. Maria Bamford Maria Bamford is … weird. She is so strange, in fact, that one of the voices she...