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I rank Bill Burr as a top comic right now - his off the cuff wit is just fantastic. He did election coverage with a bunch of other seasoned comics and had them

by Fezzik 8y ago

I rank Bill Burr as a top comic right now - his off the cuff wit is just fantastic. He did election coverage with a bunch of other seasoned comics and had them all in fits for the entire ordeal. His podcast is the same: him just being hilarious about everything. And his interviews are awkward and brilliant at the same time. The one classic comedic tool I think he lacks is jokes that reference themselves within bits (Eddie Murphy was great at this).

DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
> "The one classic comedic tool I think he lacks is jokes that reference themselves within bits (Eddie Murphy was great at this)." I miss that too. Guess not every comedian uses all tools from the box consistently. If you don't mind artists with "funny accents" :) then Ross Noble (guy from Manchester living in Australia) and Billy Connolly are brilliant in this. Ross Noble is a genius in the way he spins elaborate stories and plots inside the mind of his audiences. His flavor is also often surreal (e.g. never put a blanket over an owl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFA7_Q-tpHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFA7_Q-tpHg ... <-- needs to be watched as a whole to see his back-referencing and layering ... but just to give a taste) ...