The Top Ten Earning Comedians - who's the worst?

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i have never heard of jeff dunham

I only recognise 4 of those names.

xxxpnever heard of fator or peters. dunham is the dummy guy right? then it's him.

who is seinfeld?

dunham AND fator are dummy guys.

xp. The funny one.

Dane Cook is the worst thing to ever happen to comedy.

not so funny anymore if you ask me
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This really has to come down to Dunham vs. Cook

apparently terry fator signed a $100 million deal with mirage in vegas

god damn ventriloquists are terrible

in what world is this not dane cook?

in a world where a ventriloquist can make $30 million dollars

i mean, there's plenty of incredible badness to go around here, but sometimes you have to make a stand

how did chris rock make $42 million during that time period?

how did seinfeld make $85 million??

not so funny anymore if you ask me

He was quite funny in 30 Rock. I was going to do 'who is the funniest?' but watching 5 minutes of Dunham has made me curmudgeonly.

According to Forbes the bulk of it comes from syndication (Seinfeld's money that is) - so how does that work?

as much as i hate dane cook, this needs to be a landslide victory for dunham

dunham

madagascar 2 made more than $600m worldwide, that probably doesn't hurt rock's placing

Plus his successful TV show, Everybody Hates Chris. Plus his HBO concert special. Plus his No Apologies tour. Plus signing on for Madagascar 3.

42 million dollars is an amazing amount of money though. I wonder what Chris Rock's house looks like

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

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

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.

"social commentary"

larry the cable guy is the most deplorable in his own way for being such a hackish panderer but he is no ventriloquist

explain to me what dane cook's stand up is, dean of comedy

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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 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.

I reflex voted for Larry without knowing that we had that ventriloquist guy (and there's another one??) on the list. Sorry Larry.

Larry the Cable Guy means never having to say you're sorry.

(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.

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

observational comedy + yelling

alright, observations on society

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.

yeah yeah yeah. $85 mill still seems awfully steep tho but \(o_O)/

jordan is like the tuomas of cuomedy

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.

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"

i need to create myself a sitcom

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, September 27, 2009 6:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

alright yeah this makes sense

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.

^^^

xxxpost yeah the dvd I had to sit through a few years back had a bunch of weird racist shit iirc

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

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.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLj7V5sxFu4

Why is Howie Mandel on this list? He makes his money as a game-show host. He probably hasn't done comedy in 20 years.

so furious the Larry the Cable Guy didn't get every single vote in this poll

middle fingers to all of you

Howie Mandel on 10/14/2009 9:00PM at Hollywood Theater - MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV
Howie Mandel on 10/17/2009 8:00PM at St. Georges Theater in Staten Island,
Howie Mandel on 10/18/2009 4:00PM at Mystic Lake Showroom in Prior Lake, MN
on 10/18/2009 7:00PM at Mystic Lake Showroom in Prior Lake, MN
Howie Mandel on 10/20/2009 8:00PM at Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, SK
Howie Mandel on 10/22/2009 7:00PM at Desert Diamond Casino - Diamond Entertainment Center in Tucson, AZ

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Comedy Central has some truly awful programming, doesn't it?

watching ads on comedy for dunhams new show where he features his hi-larious pimp puppet make me v v happy this poll turned out the way it did

And yet, Dunham is still funnier than Larry the Cable Guy!

no but no

racism as embodied by a puppet is better than racism as embodied by Larry the Cable Guy

"If you get put in a who's-the-worst poll and come out unscathed, well, yes, you might be a redneck."

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hahaha wait a second, who are the two insane motherfuckers who voted Chris Rock???????/ o_O

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to give him proper respect his name is sweet daddy dee

xxxxpost: dan tbh choosing one flavor of racism is like picking my least favorite child screaming at the movies it is unfair to make me choose

xxpost: haaaa

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― whiney g. fieri (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:49 PM (1 minute ago)

slashfic at its all time low

Comedy Central has some truly awful programming, doesn't it?

otmfm. i only watch it at my girlfriend's house and i haven't had cable in over ten years, but was it always this bad? or was i just stupider?

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.

Sarah Silverman Show is funny in very small doses, like say stumbling across it once every 6 weeks

^that's true. I didn't even realize it was still on.

(i watch cc/ cable sporadically at best, so maybe i should stfu?)

but on the other hand, carlos mencia's show is not on anymore so GLASS HALF FULL??

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

I think the entire world finally decided to be done with Carlos Mencia all at once.

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

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

until you've seen "secret girlfriend" you have no idea just how low comedy central can go imo

oh god, this is so true

it makes "Drawn Together" look like brilliant, biting satire

yeah wtf at that show

xxxpost yeah the dvd I had to sit through a few years back had a bunch of weird racist shit iirc

― 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.

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.

This might come down to the fact that I've never been forced to sit through an entire LTCG DVD.

I've never seen a Dunham bumper sticker or tattoo! I can't tell which way that swings it for me.

How is Jeff Dunham just now getting popular? I haven't seen his act since he was on Comic Strip Live in like 1991.

Jeff Dunham builds homemade helicopters.

better keep his kids away from them

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.

http://videogum.com/archives/hate-watching/the_jeff_dunham_show_is_the_wo_097221.html#more

^^^fire post

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.

yeah how is jeff dunham getting popular is jaymc stopped following his career

if jaymc

managed to avoid this guy until right right now; sounds spectacularly shitty

kept seeing these halloween decorations everywhere that reminded me of the dunham terrorist puppet

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His Christmas special was the most watched program in Comedy Central's history.

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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.

Making a good living in Dubai last I heard. Lucky old Dubai.

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

my little brother complained the broadcasting complaints commission when they started advertising dunham's achmed the terrorist ringtones