Glad to see that Stan Freberg has not been completely forgotten. My dad used to play his albums fairly often, but he seemed to be completely unknown among my friends. “How can you never have heard The Old Payola Roll Blues?”, 8 year old me wondered.
Glad to see that Stan Freberg has not been completely forgotten. My dad used to play his albums fairly often, but he seemed to be completely unknown among my friends. “How can you never have heard The Old Payola Roll Blues?”, 8 year old me wondered.
It introduced me to a life long love of Johnny Carpenter, so it will always hold a soft spot in my heart.
The movie is redeemed by how they kill Dracula, though (............spoilers here, obvs........................). Billy faces off against him in a cave and starts blasting away at him with his gun. The bullets just go right through without hurting Drac, so Billy just takes the gun and chucks it right at Vlad’s head.…
Daniel, the 4th ranked Baldwin brother! Who kinda looks like a caricature of Alec.
I’m a fan too. It’s a film that knows it’s trash and just about every actor besides Daniel Baldwin is having a great time with it. Maybe he was too, but his Baldwin-ness was overtly distracting.
The Queen of the Damned movie hurts my heart! I love the book so much. That movie was a very poor adaptation of The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. I still love the music though!
Yeah, Vampires should definitely not be on this list. Obviously a lot of people on this site hate James Woods for his politics, but Vampires still had the old John Carpenter treatment working.
I fully expect someone to give me a third (a fourth, a fifth, a sixth...) possible scenario for this, but right now it looks to me like what happened falls into one of two categories:
Chappelle hasn’t been funny since George W Bush was president.
And Redd had an HBO special too, it was so early that they weren’t really giving them names yet, so it’s just called Redd Foxx On Location, great stuff, it’s on youtube.
I was wondering why both aren’t on here as well. Looks like they’re picking the best from each comedian. But Raw and Delirious are both top-10 all-time.
Raw’s the pinnacle in terms of material but the article is right that Delirious was such an unexpectedly perfect debut special that it probably had more impact. He was 22 when it was released. Insane.
Norm’s a tough one because he is far more interested in entertaining himself than worrying about audience reaction (Weekend Update the prime example of this).
Brian Regan is so incredibly underrated. He’s one of those “comedian’s comedian” type guys who is extremely well-respected and venerated in the industry despite not necessarily being a household name. I still think his Comedy Central Presents set is his best work (the same can be said for like half the comedians on…
Yeah, I knew it wouldn’t make the list. Turned out he was a monstrous pig and it also spawned the Cosby Show, which a lot of the youngins around her probably think is lame as Hell.
I’m sure the Bill Hicks defenders will take affront to my saying so, but Dennis Leary’s No Cure for Cancer carried me through the mid-90s.
Yeah, this isn’t so much as “greatest comedy specials” as it is “greatest comedy specials by people we haven’t retroactively decided who are bad.” See also: Louis CK. Yes, he’s an awful guy, but there’s no denying that “Hilarious” is, well, hilarious.