Top 3: comedians

My original idea was to make a top 10 list, but i couldn´t decide on the last three. So i decided to shrink it down to 5. But even then I saw that the top 3 stood out as the best. These are my personal favorites. If you don´t agree tell me your top 3. 

NR: 3. ROWAN ATKINSON

Rowan started his career back in 1979 on the TV show Canned laughter. But it wasn´t until he joined the sketch comedy show Not the nine O´Clock news later the same year, that he started to get some attention. Then in 1982 he started his role as Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh in The Black Adder. Blackadder II followed in 1986, and the last season Blackadder the Third came in 1987. In the mean time Rowan also played a role in the unofficial James Bond movie Never say never again. 

It wasn´t until he he played Mr. Bean in the Mr. Bean (1990) TV series he became a well known name. Two films have followed the series, Bean: The Ultimate Disater Movie (1997), and Mr. Bean` Holiday (2007). 

He has also played in Hot Shots part deux (1993), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Lion King (1994), Rat Race (2001), Johnny English (2003) and Love Actually (2003). 

 

Here is the opening from his show Rowan Atkinson Live (1992).

Here he welcomes people to hell:

 

Here is a clip from Rowan as Mr Bean in a christmas episode:

 

 

NR: 2.  JOHN CLEESE

John Cleese also started his career on sketch show, At Last the 1948 Show (1967). The series that helped give hive his legendary career and status is Monty Python´s Flying Circus (1969). A series that has a cult status, and is still loved and hated to this day. The series gave way for the Monty Python´s films, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983). 

When John was on a promotion trip he stayed in a terrible hotel, and it was here he got the idea for his best known role. As the hotel owner Basil Fawlty in the TV series Fawlty Towers (1975). Here he plays a incompetent hotel owner with a short fuse, and tries to keep the hotel running. 

Like Rowan John, has also played a role in the James Bond films. But unlike Rowan he has played in two official James Bond films, The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). Here he plays R, Bond´s new gadget producer. 

John has also played in these films: Clockwise (1986), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), The Jungle Book (1994), Rat Race (2001), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer´s Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Charlie´s Angles: Full Throttle (2003), Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek the Third (2007).

 

Here is a clip from the Monty Python series:

 

Here is a clip from Fawlty Towers:

This is one of the best known episodes.

 

When I found a video with both John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson,     I just had to post it:

 

NR: 1. EDDIE IZZARD

Eddie Izzard started his career on the TV show Open Fire (1994). He has played in dramas and comedies. But he is best known for his stand-up shows: Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Unrepeatable (1994), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1999), Circle (2002) and Sexie (2003). He won two Emmys for Dress to Kill.

The reason his stand-up shows are so popular is because he is very intelligent. He knows a lot about history and other subjects like religion. Eddie is able to use his knowledge to get laughs out of history, and for example religion. 

He is not just a comedian, he is an actor. Eddie plays as many serious roles, as comic roles. He is the new comer out of the top 3, but is my favorite. Because of his stand-up shows. 

Eddie has also played in: Mystery Men (1999), All the Queen´s Men (2001),   Ocean´s Twelve (2004), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Ocean´s Thirteen (2007), The Riches (2007) and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008).

 

Here is clip from his stand-up show Dress to Kill, about world war 2:

 

 

Here is a clip from his stand-up show Glorious, about computers:

 

Here is another clip i just had to post. It´s Eddie with the Python´s:

 

Here is another clip from Dress to Kill, about national anthems:

All videos are from youtube, and I don´t own them or have any copyright. I just provide a link. (I put this in incase of any lawsuits, hehe).

 

So thats my top 3 comedians. I would just like to say it is a coincidence that they all are english. There is one peace of work from them all that everyone should see. So here they are; from Rowan: Rowan Atkison Live, from John: Fawlty Towers and from Eddie: Dress to Kill. Enjoy!

Who is your top 3 comedians?