Mahalo Comedy Playoff: Round 2 - Classic Comedy3
Competitors - Votes - Voting still open
Bill Cosby - 3
Woody Allen - 2
Lucille Ball - 1
Andy Kaufman -1
Charlie Chaplin
Carl Reiner
To Vote: Answer the question by posting a video and/or image of who your voting for. Your post will count as 1 vote for that person. The SNL Player with the most votes will move onto the semi final.
Best Answer: Best answer will be determined by who has the most "Helpful" votes, if there is a tie, I will determine the BA.
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http://www.mahalo.com/answers/funny-videos/mahalo-comedy-challenge-what-comedians-should-be-included
Here is the updated bracket, John Belushi moves onto the 2nd round.
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M$7 Answers
But having said that, I've got to go with Woody Allen. Even if you leave out the 500,000,000 amazing one-liners from his movies, the guy was just a genius stand-up. Honestly, we could have an entire competition just for the best line written by Woody Allen...
(My vote: "I was kicked out of college when they caught me cheating on a metaphysics final. I looked deep within the soul of the boy sitting next to me." Genius!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWPKyqvDEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwJXbfElVE
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M$
So, I think that this match has to go to the person who has been the most influential.
I believe this narrows the choice down to either Chaplin or Ball. While Cosby, Kaufman, Allen and Reiner have all been very influential (and funny), Chaplin and Ball have both influenced comedy as we know it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvoz7cpUaZ4
Lucial Ball narrows out Chaplin and the rest of the competition because to this day, she continues to define episodal comedy. Her revolutionairy style of comedy ushered in not only an era of sit-coms but also topical, relevant sidelines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q
Not only was Lucial Ball funny, but she revolutionized one the ways that we consume comedy today. Episodal sit-coms changed television, refined advertising, and continue to inspire generations of comedians.
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M$
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M$
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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M$
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMktzmxGu5Y
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M$
Bill Cosby knows people, and he knows how make them laugh; he is also one of the greatest storytellers in the world. Always family friendly and always hilarious, you need some of his best works to add smiles to your daily routine.
This Bill Cosby's Dentist sketch is easily one of the funniest things I have ever heard!
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M$
When you hear a comedy skit that was only available on a record player when it came out - and you haven't heard it since then - and you listen to it now..........and you can remember it once again when it is playing just like it was yesterday, and it is STILL hilarious now with no moving pictures, and on youtube now it gets a perfect five star rating, and when you see the old album cover now you remember.......and it gets a perfect five star rating at amazon.com ..... and you must have been a kid back then..... now THAT is CLASSIC COMEDY!!!!!!! Bill Cosby takes the cake! That is true wonderfulness!
Wonderfulness (the original album)
http://www.amazon.com/Wonderfulness-Bill-Cosby/dp/B001O54NLW/
We still love you Bill!
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But then Bill Cosby just kept right on ticking by entertaining more and more
generations, in more and more media - his family tv show, his Fat Albert cartoons, the list goes on - just take a look at his imdb listing
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001070/ with enough work completed for FIVE professionals!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxhxJK51_M
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M$
Thanks for the vote Lon, yeah it was one of the weaker divisions, I wanted Chaplin represented but there wasn't really a division tailored for his style, so I snuck him into this one.
Count me as another one for Woody Allen!
Maybe I'll get to digging up some quotes and vids later.