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Is David Brenner on the list? There for a while, he was THE king of standups.

Scoey Mitchell. (what, you think I'm a KID? )

Godfrey Cambridge.

12 minutes to right-click? WOW!

Professor Irwin Corey. DEFINITELY should have made the list.

I want somebody to see if Columbia taped the entire concert that gave us those two cuts from AUTUMN.

Carlin gets credit for being the first "counterculture" comedian, but he was a "crossover" from an earlier generation. The first cat that I saw doing counterculture humor that was actually OF the generation was Gary Muledeer, and I believe he was doing it before Carlin. The guy petered out, but when he first started getting some play, he was noticably different.

I'm taking this too seriously, but hey...

Emo Phillips or Eddy Izzard -YOU be the judge.

Ok, then I'm cool w/him being on there, I guess, although I think it's sort of stretching the definition of "greatest standups of all time" to include a truly manic comic genius for whom standup was nevertheless not his true career. But I quibble. no doubt.

This one have samples too!

Colin Quinn can't suck the sweat out of Norm Crosby's hearing aids.

And George, but no Gracie? Gracie was no slouch as a standup her ownself.

AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! OUR CULTURE IS BEING DEFINED ON TV BY IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO TUNE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, Rudy Ray Moore would NEVER make this kind of list.

Pete Barbuti!!!!!!

And no Pigmeat Markham, Moms Mabley, Phil Foster, or Myron Cohen? What bunch of ignunt-ass, TV-headed, no-history knowing, self-congratulatory (JIM BREUER????? IN THE TOP 100 OF ALL TIME??????) jarheads made THIS list? (probably the same ones that make ALL these f-ed up lists! ) Jesus Christ, as much as it pains me to admit this, Rip Taylor belongs on there ahead of some of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th tier talents that did make it. And if you talk Letterman w/o mentioning George Miller, well... Besides, was Jim Carrey ever a stand-up?

Did I scan too fast or did Jake Johansen not make the list? If not, that's just wrong...

Either way, you get no arguement from me!

Yeah, but you don't like shopping and you love SportsCenter, so what does *that* prove?

It was a 2Lp set from Max's private tapes that was released on Columbia back in the 70s, when Max had a leasing/distribution deal w/them (similar to the ones that he's had at Elektra/Musician & Blue Note, Bruce Lundvall being the common denominator there). Since the ownership of the tapes remained in Max's hands, when the deal ended, the full rights reverted back to him, and this set has not made it to CD. Look for it - the sound is "rough" but in no way unlistenable. The music is...incredible.

Looks more than a little intriguing.

Mike, have you heard the Fuel Newport set? Is it any (or even slightly) better than those Arista albums?

The overdubs are not bad, they're just not what was originally played. And they're overdubs of the "obvious" type, which irks me just a little. I mean, I dig Alice, but... I think I've heard that the tracks w/overdubs have actually had the orignal playing erased, but I can't say that with any reliability. If that's really true, then .