Norm MacDonald
Stephen Wright
Will Ferrell
Chris Rock
Larry the Cable Guy

This brings me back to being 12 and falling asleep with the radio on to the Dr. Demento Show on Sunday nights and thinking that was the funniest shit in the world.

Do Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen count?
Because that cover of "Whip My Hair" still destroys me.

Um . . .
I admire the effort, but this isn't that funny for someone as funny as he was.

My favorites . . .
. . . Wilco, the White Stripes, the Strokes, Stephen Malkmus and Ryan Adams have all been mentioned, but nobody's yet mentioned another of that year's best: the Silver Jews' Bright Flight.

I remember seeing seeing Siskel and Ebert give this a positive, intriguing review when I was too young to see the movie, and when I finally got to see it on video, I loved it.