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7 Funniest Black Men of All Time

coedmagazine.com — With times getting tougher and tougher by the day, it ’s important to remember to laugh every once in a while. So while the first black president prepares to take office and get this show back on the road, we thought we’d take a look at the COED’s 7 Funniest Black Men of All Time for some comic inspiration.

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  • damack, on 11/18/2008, -4/+20Good list.

    It's obvious whoose on top of the list, not only the funniest black comedian but the funniest comedian period it's hard to imagine modern day comedy without him his influence is felt everywhere in comedy.
    • casenumber17421, on 11/19/2008, -4/+6It's debatable for sure. George Carlin has quite an argument for funniest comedian as well.
    • ngmcs8203, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5Good list that's missing Bernie Mac or Mooney. Mac has been dubbed a "comedian's comedian" many times. But one black comedian that I always love listening to is Patrice Oneal.
    • eSentrik, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Yeah, dugg for not being from cracked too.
    • apena89, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3lol @
      "I thought I might make the list…….except I’m not black. I’m not really all that funny either."
    • KidSupreme, on 11/19/2008, -7/+2List is crap, Chappelle should be number 1, and Bernie Mac should be on the list
      • blankb, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1 I Agree With You On The Bernie Mac Part
    • blankb, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3 Dave Chappelle , Chris Rock, & Eddie Murphy Are My Favorite Top 3
    • SifuMoKung, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1This comment is for grammar Nazi's only.

      It should be "It's obvious who's on ...", not whoose.

      It is the contraction for "who is".

      I think a whoose is a trans-gender moose. I'm pretty sure.
      • pat7089, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1It should be grammar "Nazis," not Nazi's.

        Just wanted to point that out.
      • SifuMoKung, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Thank you. You are correct.
      • rokklobster, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0Well if we're going to be Nazis, whose only has one "o."
    • djodorg, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Agreed 100 percent
  • suziejones, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6nice to see Robin Harris on the list - way underrated, funny mofo.
  • yorkhock, on 11/18/2008, -3/+13I'd switch Eddie Murphy and Chappelle, but good list
    • vaLud, on 11/19/2008, -1/+0 I would if he didn't laugh like Peewee Eddie Murphy Herman.
    • cknyan, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Chris Rock beats Chappelle. Guess the crack baby look confuses people.
  • writer0213, on 11/18/2008, -0/+6Pretty good list
  • Skuzzlbut, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8WOW - Red Fox is old school!!! Please no whining about "Chris Rock should be higher!"
  • granolajoe, on 11/18/2008, -3/+1I hate to be one of those people that brings up others that aren't mentioned, but damn, where the hell is Terry Crews?
  • LordStandley, on 11/18/2008, -1/+4Pretty good list, I might argue on the Dave Chapelle, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock line up a bit, but very good list.

    Katt Williams should be close to that list, but absolutely not above any of these guys.
    • vermax, on 11/19/2008, -3/+1actually I was relieved to see that pandering weasel didn't make the cut, racist little *****. ***** him.
  • brikj, on 11/18/2008, -0/+7I'm wondering how Flip Wilson missed the list and Redd Fox made it. Redd Fox deserves to be on the list but its probably because Flip's show isn't in syndication.

    uh oh... here come de judge!
    • rokklobster, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0THANK YOU! Flip Wilson is hilarious!
  • 0dnj0, on 11/18/2008, -28/+3so where is obama,i mean he is the biggest joke of all and its pretty hilarious how he has everyone fooled......o yea,hes not black
    • slick519, on 11/19/2008, -1/+14did you hit your head when you were younger.... or were your born that way?
      Not necessarily an Obama supporter, but seriously-- you are just straight up ignint.

      i am not even really that angry at what you typed-- i just have this overwhelming feeling that you are a *****. I am incensed with this vehement anger for some reason.... just go die in a fire so i can return to my homework.
      • LucFerris, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6THANK YOU!!!
      • dmarant, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Dugg for *****
      • 0dnj0, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1dude we all know you love obama,its ok i mean everyone is so hypnotized right now they would all lick his sack...in time you will all see.............
    • roxgod666, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4You should reenact your profile pic, this time, without the TV.
  • JaggOff, on 11/19/2008, -3/+4Without Paul Mooney, there wouldn't be a list.
    • petaganayr, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Nigrodamus!
    • PlayingGangsta, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Don't know why people are digging you down... he wrote for both Pryor and Chappelle.
  • aethelberga, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2No Lenny Henry? I realise this is probably an American magazine, but I always thought it was a shame he wasn't a bigger star.
  • HookmasterCH47, on 11/19/2008, -2/+28That one actor in Tropic Thunder, what was his name....
    • scoottie, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7robert downey jr?
    • inverselogic, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Pump the breaks kid, that man is a national treasure - Kirk Lazarus
  • sillykalcifer, on 11/19/2008, -6/+11wheres Samuel L. Jackson???
  • Devine122, on 11/19/2008, -10/+5Mike Tyson anyone?
    • artfiend77, on 11/19/2008, -3/+2*cough cough Jesse Jackson cough cough*
    • JaredXM, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1The list is for people who are trying to be funny.
  • PacoLugi, on 11/19/2008, -21/+4Obama: "tax cuts to 95% of Americans", too funny.
    • trotskyist, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7Die in a fire.
    • kidathinnes, on 11/19/2008, -2/+5hahahahahahaha! (I'm pointing at you and laughing)
      • PacoLugi, on 11/19/2008, -3/+2got you mad too. ha ha.
      • kidathinnes, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1hahaha usually means laughter dumbass. I think its funny you lost and now you cry like a girly man. HAHAHA!!!!! Enjoy the next 4-8 years!
  • kingjaydub, on 11/19/2008, -4/+5My first thought before reading this was "Eddie Murphy better be on that list"

    Chris Rock though? I don't think so.
    • david4041, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6No. Chris should definitely be on the list. Probably the funniest currently working.
  • L4mb, on 11/19/2008, -6/+38This has to be one of them.
    http://www.bmwe30clan.net/kfc455.gif
  • asgardshill, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I never really got Robin Harris's humor, but yes this is a good list. Just one name too long.
  • Intention, on 11/19/2008, -2/+10Bill Cosby 7th place? Get the ***** outta here.
    • synik, on 11/19/2008, -7/+2Obviously you haven't seen his speeches where he trolls the entire black community.
    • Ferago, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Ya lower than Chris Rock...What a ***** list.
  • charlesray, on 11/19/2008, -1/+17...an entire article on one page.
  • scoottie, on 11/19/2008, -8/+6Bernie Mac is a lot funnier than chris rock
  • LomasLou, on 11/19/2008, -3/+3What, no Bob Hope?
  • Kickinuarou, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3kinda ironic after seeing nutty professor so many times and having eddie murphy make fun of chapelle in that, that now chapelle ranks higher than murphy, murphy is still a legend though
  • Ranjit13, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5I thought Bebe's Kids did become a movie.

    Here's the IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103783/
    • worseforwine, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I thought that was weird too, I'm pretty sure I saw it in the theater!
  • kendawg, on 11/19/2008, -4/+6Where is the list of the 7 Funniest White Men of All Time?
    • david468, on 11/19/2008, -4/+11Shh! That's would be racist!
      • vashth3stampede, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2no, it would not be racist. it would be racial. the two words have separate meanings and people need to learn them and use the words in the correct context.
      • david468, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Thanks for pointing out the meaning of my sarcasm.
    • NorinRadd, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7Except it would of been a list of 6 white dudes and 1 black dude called "7 Of the Funniest Men of All Time".


      We know how you guys work. :)
  • Miamisun, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6Wow no 7 funniest white men of all time.

    Now that would be a tough list to make.

    George Carlin is a lock.
    Certain people will say Lenny Bruce or Sam Kinison.
    I personally like Jerry Seinfeld.
  • jnisme, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I'd definately change up Chapelle and Cosby, but greeat list.
  • apena89, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3Chris Rock!
  • mamboboy, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3What I find odd is that there's pretty much no big black standup comedians here in the UK. There's Lenny Henry, but he's pretty much past it now...
    Yet the funniest of the 'big bunch' in the states are pretty much all black...
  • petaganayr, on 11/19/2008, -17/+1#8: Barack Obama
  • cambo125, on 11/19/2008, -3/+1A troll that comes back to taunt his "victims" must be really sad, I mean come on, how lonely are you? I wouldn't even go as far to say that they are even angry, they replied with a whole one line. Wow you must have really pissed them off there.

  • stlredbird, on 11/19/2008, -10/+1#8: Kunta Kinte
  • antzology, on 11/19/2008, -0/+21Dugg for saying black people instead of african-american.
  • billyrageguy, on 11/19/2008, -1/+13
    90% of black people can't name 3 countries in Africa, hence they are not African-Americans.

    http://digg.com/world_news/Obama_to_pick_Holder_as ...

    White people can't either, but I'm just saying.
    • Syphon8, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2100% of runners can.
    • okcomputer1982, on 11/19/2008, -3/+1TROLL!!!!

      anyways, most black are decentents of slaves. Slave were kidnapped from africa. Connect the dots as you will. WE can't name that ***** because it isn't taught. You can't take a persons history away, just do everything you can to hide it.
    • LiLBiGD1Ck, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I know alot of people don't consider Barack Obama to be fully African-American, but he is actually one of the few actual African-Americans if you base it on his parents...
    • facetowncollege, on 11/19/2008, -0/+0the fact of the matter is, all afro-carribean blacsk originate from africa, and thats why theyre called african americans. i dont regard myself as english, even though I live in england. one side of my family originate from belgium and the other side originate from SCOTEland. so in my opinion, im not english at all, even though i may seem it. stop acting like africa is such an offence of a place to originate from...
    • rokklobster, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0...because you've asked 90% of black people.
  • Slackdragon, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11All these men are definitely funny guys. However, and maybe it's just me, but dividing comedians by race is sad and I view it as racism.

    I would hope, if not today, in the very near future we can stop this kind of divisive approach to things. Seriously, does it matter that these talented and hilarious individuals are black? One day it may be just as arbitrary to make a list of "7 Funniest Comedians with Brown Eyes" or "7 Funniest Left-handed Guys with Shaved Heads."

    We rant and rave that racial profiling is wrong in an airport queue. Just seems kind of silly and hypocritical to me to apply that same kind of separatism to comedians and say it's alright.

    • okcomputer1982, on 11/19/2008, -3/+1Black is cultural experense. It's like taking about the history of irish american music or latin american lititure. BLACK IS A CULTURE NOT A SKIN TONE. (or more pointedly black people are not black, they are african american...the decedences of african slaves and member of a distinct american cultural group.) It is also called a diaspora.
    • Lumbage, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Thank you. I'm glad somebody pointed this out, although I am disappointed that it took so long.
    • esteskid, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I would maybe feel that way if so much of the material wasn't race based jokes.
      • Slackdragon, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1A lot of their material is race based. And you can't blame them for making light of things during that time. But I sense a shift in peoples perceptions of race and racism. And when comedians continue to base their whole routine on the differences between whites and blacks it feels stale, tired and more and more out of place.
      • SifuMoKung, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Which of these comedians, all men (These lists almost never include women.), would be on a top ten funniest of all time?
        I, personally, would include Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, the others would possibly get bumped for other comics, maybe not.
  • AManWithNoName, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6"I'm Rick James, Bitch!"

    Because someone had to say it.
  • TimeIsTissue, on 11/19/2008, -6/+4BERNIE MAC?!?!?!?!?
    • RobotKeaton, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6Bernie Mac's not funny. Although if they were making a list of '7 most famous people with bug eyes that yell a lot,' he'd probably get all 7 to himself.
    • andrewlotta, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2If he wasn't dead you wouldn't have said that.
    • TimeIsTissue, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1not true at all. have any of you seen bad santa?
  • mysn239, on 11/19/2008, -2/+10Funniest white men of all time?

    that sounds racist
  • LucFerris, on 11/19/2008, -3/+4If there were a list of 7 funniest white guys, then W. would have to be at the top ...now that is one funny dude.
  • boomshanka, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I had a childhood full of Cosby and then found out about Richard Pryor and at that moment my childhood ended. Bill was politely funny but Richard was so ***** funny it was unbelievable. As a white aussie I thought I liked dark humour but I realised what I really liked black comedy. Keep up the good work I hope there are many more like them to follow.
  • BigDigg55, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2Dugg for COED in general
  • thscientist1, on 11/19/2008, -2/+2I felt dirty clicking this.
  • aserer511, on 11/19/2008, -2/+2race conscious article. that's not awkward at all
  • GastonFTW, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3What a pointless distinction in this day and age.
  • mfdoomm, on 11/19/2008, -8/+1BIll Cosby is NOT funny
    • RobotKeaton, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I wish I could digg you down more.
  • FFXIfrohike, on 11/19/2008, -0/+3At 2:36 in the Richard Prior video... Jesse Jackson in the audience. I ***** you not.
    • SifuMoKung, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1A Prior oversees a religious brotherhood. A Pryor lights his hair on fire, while cracked out of his gourd - and makes millions laugh exposing his pain in joke form. Please spell his name correctly if for no other reason than respect for his work.
  • LuckyShamus, on 11/19/2008, -6/+1Will Smith?
  • Aurabolt, on 11/19/2008, -2/+5From the article... I'm posting the list only because I was looking for it and the link took forever.

    7. Bill Cosby
    6. Robin Harris
    5. Chris Rock
    4. Eddie Murphy
    3. Dave Chappelle
    2. Redd Fox
    1. Richard Pryor
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