Including Eddie Izzard, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, and Bill Burr
Eddie Izzard
Age: 56
Country: England
Job: Politician and
stand-up
Bio: His mother
died from cancer when he was six, while she was battling cancer his older
brother (eight years old) and him built a model train to help keep their minds
off their mother. In his earlier years (20s) he was a heavy cross dresser (makeup,
high heels, dresses, the whole package), he started off with doing comedy in the
street then upgraded to stand-up on stages. He’s been in a load of movies as a
main character or just an Easter eggs. Now he is a politician in England.
Style: He is one
of those comedians that will make you laugh even if you’ve watched the skit
multiple times, he uses accents and lots of mimes to add to his sketch, he will
also point out how stupid his mimes can be. In one he puled up his elbows to
demonstrate that he was carrying luggage. He then pointed out that nobody
carries luggage like that but if he were to do it normally you would think he
was walking (that sounds not funny at all when I type it, but it’s hilarious when
he does it). He does lots of subjects and often jumps into them with very hilarious
abruptness often making a joke how one thing is totally connected with another, not. He also usually plays multiple characters in one skit which adds to the
skit greatly (his skits usually are based on history).
Subjects: history,
language, movies and anything else.
Best sketches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq03xebtbeU
Death Star canteen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O07ybDec1Gk
How Stupid is Latin
John Oliver
Age: 41
Country: England but now
American citizen
Job: Host of the Last Week Tonight show
Bio: Raised in England,
he went to university and got an English degree, but at the same time he was
the vice president of the drama club. Before becoming the host of Last Week Tonight
he was on other weekly shows and did stand up comedy. Now he’s with HBO.
Style: John Oliver
has a very sarcastic style of humor a
usually very funny, although I think HBO makes Oliver always put in one inappropriate
joke because they think its better for viewership or something. The reason I
think this is that there is always one and only one in each show which seems a
little strange to me. His humor is often added on with photos or props or doing
something ridiculous. Like buying the NRA URL or showing stupid commercials on
the channels Trump watches. He also compares the subject of the joke to
something ridiculous. His humor does verge a little to the dark side, but his
show isn’t all humor, he can become serious and the show often goes to serious
story lines that you need to know about, but because they aren’t the main story
that week most other news sites won’t tell you about them. He is also known for
the “John Oliver effect” which has got a lot of news sites in USA to do more research
about stories instead of just posting what another news paper has. Also, Oliver
and his group has set a new high for the thoroughness of their digging into a new
story or not even what seems like a story but they will dig and find out things
that are serious problems in the USA or the rest of the world.
Subjects: All
serious news problems. I haven’t seen any of his stand-up.
Sketches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPV3D7f3bHY interview with Stephen Hawking (rest in
peace) not his best but still funny.
Trevor Noah
Age: 34
Country: South Africa
Job: One of the hosts of The Daily Show, and Stand-up
Bio: Having been
born in South Africa from a black mom and a Swiss dad, he was a crime at the
time, he says that in public his mom would have to pretend that she wasn’t his
mother, but he didn’t realize that this was different from other people he just
thought it was a game. Now he does a humorous show on new stories that happen
that day or recently.
Style: Trevor has
what I would call a bass comedian style, just basic puns and jokes that you see
a little in all comedians, but he does it better than anybody I know, but he also makes his jokes very calmly and you catch them and chuckle at them as he
just mixes more into his news program. He is very good at doing accents in comedy. I'm having a hard time telling you how good he is, here’s my advice click on the link
underneath best sketches. You’ll understand.
Subjects: Politics
(he works as a comedian news show), or when doing stand-up he does a little of
everything.
Sketches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7SeBI7z9A
not his best but still very funny.
Bill Burr
Age: 49
Country: United States
Job: Stand-up
Bio: Had dreams of
becoming a lawyer but that didn’t happen so he became a construction worker
which is the only other job he’s had fun at besides being a comedian. Now he
does several hundred shows a year all around the world.
Style: Probably the
easiest to get offended at if you take everything he says seriously, one of his
skits is how he wished the best ladies (president wives) would stop talking
about how they should fix the governmental problems (at first this seems offensive),
but then goes on to compare it to if a plumber came to fix your leaky pipes and
then his wife who knows nothing about plumbing came in and started correcting him
you would tell her to stop it. He also said that when there’s going to be a female
president he expects the same of the best man.
His skits are often like this so here’s my advice, if you
get offended easily don’t watch him.
But something that makes him so special is his acting and demonstrations.
He is like Eddie Izzard except much more “angry” jokes or humor. It’s one of
his things that he makes jokes about, how angry he is.
Subjects: His
skits are based mainly on his experiences and his thoughts.
