Based on HaRRicH's topic on favorite comedians, it was decided it would be a good idea to try to make a bracket out of the best comedians around. We compiled the list of all the funnymen mentioned somewhere in that thread, and now we're looking at preparing a bracket. However, we still need a few things:
I need clips, first and foremost.
Give me links (preferably YouTube) of comedy routines of these guys, between 2 and 6 minutes long, that best represents them. Although we are looking for the best stand-up comics, I will accept work of their's that is not specifically stand-up as long as we can say it was that particular individual that made the scene work. (Chris Farley in the "van down by the river" sketch comes to mind.) However, unless we're going to expand the field, we are looking for comedians who are known for doing stand-up -- they just don't have to be exclusively a stand-up artist.
Here's the list of comedians that have been put forth so far, along with whatever clips I've been provided. Ideally I'd like at least three for each, but that might be asking for too much.
Since it's almost impossible to seed this, I'm going to put them in the bracket randomly unless somebody else has a better idea. From there it'll be standard voting, but I want to have representation of the folks on here who aren't as well-known so it doesn't just automatically come down to Richard Pryor vs George Carlin, or some such. Unlike a music tournament, I'm not going to force people to listen to samples since we are rating the comedian and not the routine, but I'd like to have it there for people to consider. Under the assumption that people will want to listen to the clips, we'll probably do two matches per day?
We do still have room for nominations. At present, there are 114 comedians that have been named in this thread, and some were mentioned jokingly. I'm going to assume that any comedian I receive three clips from is a serious entry. After a reasonable amount of time, I'll pick from whoever's left. I'm open to suggestions here if you've got better ideas.
I'm not setting an explicit limit, but we have most of what we need for personnel. If you know some great comedians (and comediennes) who have slipped through the cracks, put em up there. But more than anything I've got a blank slate on the clips right now.
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http://img.imgcake.com/nio/81edpngej.png edwardsdv and swordz9 are basically the comedy heel tag team of this topic, why would people be taking them seriously?
How many lurkers are there out there that plan on following this contest, anyway? It's tough to organize something like this when you aren't sure anyone's even going to participate.
Unfortunately that last one is just the audio over some Bleach s***, and there's some annoying s*** at the end, too, but it's the only way I could find it and I really wanted it. The last two clips are only a little over a minute long but I love them too much to omit.
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