Why Massachusetts produces so many comedians......

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• ime

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  4 years ago

  I think anothrr big factor is East Coast guys grow up busting balls and fucking with each other. You learn to get funny quick.
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  ^ That’s Brooklyn baby not the whole east coast
• ime

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  4 years ago

  East Coast is Philly and Up. No one can compete with Boston though.
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  ^Come on down to Bensonhurst or East New York we’ll show you how it’s done Boston beanies LOLOL
• ime

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  4 years ago

  You guys couldn't hang with the Boston suburbs.
• winex

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  4 years ago

  I've lived most of my life in the south west and west, so I don't have a dog in this fight. But if "Boston beanies" is an example of New York's finest, I have to side with the people from Boston.
• rattdog

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  4 years ago

  replace dane cook with bill burr and that list will be more on point.
  
  dane cook - 2-3 decent jokes over several years onstage does not qualify one to be considered on par a comedian as those listed.
• winex

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  4 years ago

  also, in my opinion, Steven Wright should be at the head of the list of Boston comedians.
• ime

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  4 years ago

  Patrice O'Neal was the best crowd worj guy I ever saw live. I'd put Rich Vos just behind him. These were from being there. Bill Burr and Robert Kelly are two if the best both Boston guys. I think the New Jersey guys tend to be better than NY guys. Jim Norton, Jim Florentine, Rich Vos, Artie Lange (when not coked to the gills) all kill.
• rattdog

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  4 years ago

  nyc has a decent group:
  don rickles
  dice clay
  chris rock
  martin lawrence
  dave attell
  george carlin
  gilbert gottfried
  edde murphy
  andrew schulz
  damon wayans
• winex

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  4 years ago

  Andrew “Dice” Clay was overrated. Once you get past the dirty nursery rhymes, there is not much left.
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  My list of funniest comedians would include Foxworthy, Engvall, Larry the cable guy, and Ron White not from Boston, and no politics in their humor, I’d include Louis Black from Philadelphia and the funniest man ever to take the stage George Carlin of NYC and honorable mention to Richard Pryor and Chris Rock none of your beantown guys make my list
• blahblahblah23

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  4 years ago

  Yeah Portlanders are easily offended pussies. Joking around is kinda hard
• ime

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  4 years ago

  No doubt there are lots of NY guys but I think right now the biggest names kind of shifted away.
  
  All the old O&A guys were great when they would just sit around and crack on each other. Jay Mohr, Jim Breuer, Vos, Patrice, Burr , Norton, Kelly, Otto and George, Jim Jeffries. I never listed to Stern much but O&A some of the best shows were just them all fucking with each other.
• ime

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  4 years ago

  25 your list stops in what 1987?
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  ^ Maybe according to icee I’m a member of the geriatric clique
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  I tell you whom I like lately is that ventriloquist Jeff Dunham
• winex

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  4 years ago

  Last night I met a drunken female ventriloquist. She told me that she wanted to sleep with me, but I wasn’t sure if it was her or the bottle of tequila talking.
• Icey

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  4 years ago

  Florida produces a lot of comedians judging by tuscl
• Muddy

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  4 years ago

  Joe Rogan talks about this a lot, how there were so many great comedians coming out of the Boston and NYC areas. There's probably a lot of factors going on there. I would never want to try to be comedian in today's world, FUCK THAT. The already established guys, they could be somewhat safe and get away with saying something off color but an up and comer? Forget it, in today's world they will make sure you never work again anywhere. Not worth it. I don't see another great wave of comedians for a while, it's too risky and hyper PC right now.
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  If you’re referring to me I’m a product of Brooklyn NY and a transplant to Florida not a native here
• twentyfive

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  4 years ago

  ^ that was to Lyon loco
• rattdog

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  4 years ago

  one main reason why about 85% of the comedians are funny is that they are from cities like nyc, philly, chicago, and boston. those cites are cold as fuck 5 months out of the year. you develop thick skin and a sense of humor under those conditions.
• Mate27

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  4 years ago

  ^^ you know I thought Louie Anderson has some great stand up material back in the day. He won several awards early in his career without all that shit talking, and he was from cold as fuck Duluth, MN. His dry sense played well in Half Baked with Dave Chappelle as working up to manager from being a fry guy at the burger joint. It set up for a funny ass punchline when his coworker got on the mic and told everybody to fuck off.
  
  Best comedians are Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, but Sam Kinnison was best at stand up.
• skibum609

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  4 years ago

  Penn (gillette); Steve Sweeny; Jimmy Tingle; Paula Poundstone; Dana Gould (wife's former neighbor); Boston Area College grads - Howard Stern; Rosie O'Donnell; Jason Alexander; Paul Reubens; Jane Curtin; Hank Azaria; Presidential impersonator Jim Morris (only person on either list that I went to junior high with); and on and on. Its so tough to live here our choices are laugh or kill each other; hence the comedians.
• mike710

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  4 years ago

  @winex. If you are fucking a ventriloquist, does the dummy do the moaning?
• loper

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  4 years ago

  There was a comedy club/Chinese restaurant in Boston called Ding Ho where new comedians were nurtured, maybe a little like 2nd City in Chicago. At one point the owner of Ding Ho lost the club in a poker game -- in a moment the primordial soup of comedy in Boston disappeared forever
• Icey

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  4 years ago

  Comedy is a refuge frim how depressing places like boston or philadelphia or baltimore are