Clean comedians

Nathan

Nathan

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For decades it seems there were so many comedians that were funny, but for reasons beyond my understanding felt the need to pepper their monologue with a lot of potty mouth, and sexual references. I'm no prude, but all that $h!t :p gets tiresome. On Netflix I discovered a bunch of comedians that are super funny without big potty mouths.
They are:
Nate Bargatze
Sebastian Maniscalco
Mike Birbiglia
Jim Gaffigan
Tom Papa
Jerry Seinfeld
Brian Regan
Kevin James
I'm sure there are others.
Edit- some more good comedians:
Bill Burr
Jeff Dunham
Jay Leno
Ricky Gervais
Jeff Foxworthy
Bill Engvall
Sinbad
Foster Brooks
Josh Blue- not familiar with him,will look for his material.

I'm always on the search for more comedy- please add to the list if you come across other clean comedians.
 

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JimBob1952 said:
When she was a standup comic, Ellen DeGeneres "worked clean" and was very funny.

I do agree with you but I make an exception for Bill Burr, my nominee for the funniest man on the planet.
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Yea, I like Ellen a lot.

Bill Burr! (y) I've seen him around on various shows, but never saw his stand-ups.
 

Jules said:
As I recall, the last standup we watched with him wasn’t ‘clean’. Maybe it was just that DH & I didn’t care for the show. We’d liked his earlier one.

Jeff Dunham was clean.

It’s really hard to find a clean show. It doesn’t need to be immaculate for me, just reasonable.
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I guess I missed that one.
 
It does seem 'potty' phrases are mandatory for standup comedians.
Not sure why that is-what?
Why do they feel sleaze is necessary:

I have slipped societal values, so feel free to enjoy.
I will appeal to that part of you that is rebellious.

No, that does not explain the massive appeal of John Cleese or Rowan Atkinson-no potty mouth can match these two.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I agree but for some reason I can tolerate Chris Rock. Sinbad has always been clean.
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I do like Chris Rock, but yea, he does toss a few expletives for emphasis.

Sinbad is great, I always remember his anti-smoking TV advertisement back in the '90s,he says:
"Before I quit smoking I was busy smoking. Now that I quit, I'm busy...NOT smoking." Simple, but profound.
 
Nathan said:
For decades it seems there were so many comedians that were funny, but for reasons beyond my understanding felt the need to pepper their monologue with a lot of potty mouth, and sexual references. I'm no prude, but all that $h!t :p gets tiresome. On Netflix I discovered a bunch of comedians that are super funny without big potty mouths.
They are:
Nate Bargatze
Sebastian Maniscalco
Mike Birbiglia
Jim Gaffigan
Tom Papa
Jerry Seinfeld
Brian Regan
Kevin James
I'm sure there are others.
Edit- some more good comedians:
Bill Burr
Jeff Dunham
Jay Leno
Ricky Gervais
Jeff Foxworthy
Bill Engvall
Sinbad
Foster Brooks
Josh Blue- not familiar with him,will look for his material.

I'm always on the search for more comedy- please add to the list if you come across other clean comedians.
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some of those guys are not clean. jeff dunham has gone over to the swearing. i love comedians but i get sick of all that cussing. i love sebastian!!!!!!!!!
 


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