Smartassery

I’ve always sustained that a person who can make me laugh, is worth his/her weight in gold. Here’s my list of favorite comedians in order of preference, as of late. This order obviously changes with my mercurial mood swings and life happenstances:

1. Eddie Izzard – Fabulous British Executive Transvestite. His comedy is for intelligent people only. Don’t rent it if you are an idiot. Also, if you’ve been schooled in America and have never picked up a book (fine, certain magazines could count too), your eyes will glaze when he goes over the history and geography jokes. For the rest of us (I realize we are the minority), you’ll laugh so hard, your jaw and spleen will still be hurting the next day. His stuff about Darth Vader trying to order food at the The Death Star’s cafeteria will have you in stitches.

2. Lewis Black – Last year, among grapevines, a shooting breeze, and tall weeping trees, I had the pleasure of watching Black do his thing. He’s the best at what he does which is incissive and smart commentary on everyday things and the rotten state of the nation. What makes him hilarious is his delivery complete with finger pointing and angry rants.

3. Jeremy Hotz – A Canadian comedian. Nuff said. A miserable act, in his own words, that will leave you gasping for air. His gloomy take on life and its daily irritants is what makes it awesome. Hotz doesn’t come to San Francisco, maybe he’s afraid of bathhouses, so I’ll sulk.

4. Stephen Lynch – If you’ve heard Stephen do his sexy belting out of roll-on-the-floor songs, you’re a lucky one. His CD’s are in Itunes and Amazon so you have no excuse not to indulge.

5. Dane Cook – He’s raw, blunt, uncompromising, hot, and he’s hilarious! What else can a girl ask for? I saw him once when he opened for Dave Atell. This is what I do at work. I go to Dane’s website and listen to the audio snipets he has there. All day long. Nesquick, ordering food at the drive-thru*, Monopoly? Classics.

6. Margaret Cho – She grew up in San Francisco so that automatically makes her fabulous in my book. On top of that, she’s smart, sexy, makes fun of her Korean mom, and talks about eating pussy. Oh, she’s also NOT a Republican (or a Democrat for that matter, they both suck balls) and that makes for v. funny talk. Like the time some Republican convention invited her to speak. Disorganized crime invites one of its biggest detractors to pound their skulls in. Unleash your imagination.

7. Jon Stewart – He doesn’t do standup but he has the most informative news show on Earth. Seriously, don’t bother with Fox, CNN, NBC. They don’t know shit. Or rather, they do know, they just don’t tell you. Jon elevates sarcasm and smartassery to an art and can giddily put all the dignataries that visit him, in their place.

8. Stephen Colbert – The dude of the year. See my previous post on him.

9. Dave Attell – True. He’s raunch personified. Then again, he’s just like the rest of us. He just has the balls to voice our supressed fantasies of encounters with midgets, waking up to blowjobs, and having greasy merry orgies. He smokes and drinks Jack Daniels during his live show and that makes him so endearing to me. 

 

*When I was learning English, my teacher once dictated sentences for us to write down and marvel at our appalling spelling. So, I spelled it as “drive-through”, and I actually got ridiculed. Good thing she caught that one! The good teacher.

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