I’ve always gone for the funny guy. I can’t help it. My dad was funny (still is), and I’m just one of those girls who gets suckered into anyone who can tell a decent joke.
From the outside, it looks like a married a pretty serious dude. In big crowds, Austin does little more than crack a few smiles and ask leading questions. He’s a listener, a thinker, a processor. But at home he’s full of one liners, pulling them out of his back pocket like candy, and always when I least suspect it.
In general, deadpan wit is my favorite, but it’s not everything. Have you ever met Michael Gary Scott? Because he is the funniest man I know. I will never laugh harder than listening to Michael describe prison or eat tiramisu. It’s just too much.
Inspired by last week’s Top Ten Girl Crushes, here are my Top Ten favorite men of comedy.
Thanks guys, you make my life better.
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Jon Stewart
Best Known For
The Daily Show
Quotable
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Jerry Seinfeld
Best Known For
Seinfeld
Quotable
“Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn’t your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.”
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Steve Carell
Best Known For
The Office
Quotable
[As Michael Scott] “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
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Garrison Keillor
Best Known For
Prairie Home Companion
Quotable
“God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.”
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Paul Rudd
Best Known For
I love you, Man
Quotable
[As Peter Klaven] “Totally… Totes McGotes.”
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Bill Cosby
Best Known For
The Cosby Show
Quotable
“I wasn’t always black… There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.”
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Steve Martin
Best Known For
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Quotable
“Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal’s out of town”
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Jim Gaffigan
Best Known For
Stand Up
Quotable
“There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don’t want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.”
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Will Ferrell
Best Known For
Elf, Anchorman, the cowbell
Quotable
[As Ron Burgandy] “…Milk was a bad choice.”
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Jimmy Fallon
Best Known For
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Quotable
”A man in Washington, D.C., was apprehended by Secret Service yesterday for taking off his clothes and jogging naked near the White House. In related news, I say that’s probably the last time Biden ever takes Ambien.”
lWho are your favorite funny men?
Who are YOUR favorite funny men?
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First person I thought of when I read the title: Jack Black. I would marry him. I told this to my high school students once and they could not believe it. Funny is just so much more important to me than looks, but then I think Jack’s not to bad looking either! “No a hangover means I was drunk YESTERDAY.”
Conan!
Love Jim Gaffigan. The Hot Pocket sketch is by far my favorite! “I could eat a hot pocket for breakfast, a hot pocket for lunch and be dead by dinner. Dead pocket”
i just laughed out loud at work at “dead pocket”…Jim Gaffigan gets me every time.
I totally agree with this list and would add Zach Galifinakis. He just gets me every time.
Ed Helms, Ricky Gervais, Paul Rudd
Steve and Steve are my soulmates. I just love them both so much.
GK is a classic.
I also love Paul Rudd. Jobin.
God, this is a good list. And I’m with you. Deadpan humor is second to none. Humor is like number one. Steve isn’t funny all the time, but he can be really funny. Austin sounds a lot like my brother in law. Most would call him quiet, but he pulls out these one-liners when only a few people are around that are perrrrfect.
That Jerry Seinfeld quote is one of the best. And I pretty much nodded my head through every one on the list.
That is what Garrison Keillor looks like?
Wow.
I would add Adam Sandler obviously.
Great list. My “reward” to myself for nursing (which was awful for our first few months) was watching back episodes of the office each time I nursed…Michael Scott: “If this were Russia, yeah sure, everyone would go to one Santa, and there would be a line around the block, and once you sat on her lap and she would ask you what you wanted and you would probably say freedom, at which point the KGB would arrest you and send you to Siberia. It’s a good thing Russia doesn’t exist anymore.”
Also – Mike Burbiglia. Love him.
Jim Carrey, Dave Chapelle, Mitch Hedberg
I got a business card, cause I wanna win some lunches. That’s what my business card says: “Mitch Hedberg, Potential Lunch Winner.”
Please do a “Top Ten Funniest Michael Scott Quotes” post. Please. I’ll contribute suggestions.
Steve Carell and Jim Gaffigan are amazing! Chris Farley would be at the top of my list. I love Andy Samberg, Rainn Wilson, Zach Galifanakis and John Candy too.
You forgot Dwight!
Jim Gaffigan is hilarious. Have you seen his sketch on homebirthing? It had us in tears. Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson on Parks and Recs may be my all time favorite though. Great list!
1) totally opposite of that is I didn’t want to marry a funny man because he would steal my thunder. Selfish, I know.
2) when I was little I would watch reruns of Gallagher’s stand ups and dream of the day that I too could smash giant watermelons.
3) “I’m not supersticious, just a little sticious.” ~Micheal Scott
Great list, Kate!
has everybody forgotten about Chris Farley? :/
i do like chelsea’s comment :) my kind of girl!