Live Poll: Rolling Stone's Top 35 Stand-up Comedians of All Time

My vote:

George Carlin

My Vote:

Mitch Hedberg

How does this list lead off with Tig Notaro, Patton Oswald and Janeane Garafalo? They are talented but not top 35, much less top 3.

@ethan  

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Jeff Foxworthy
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289344/

Foxworthy quit his job and started on the stand-up comedy road.
His comedy originally centered on family situations,
but he soon hit upon his successful "You might be a redneck if..." tagline,
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Jeff Dunham
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0242278/

Has been performing ventriloquism since he was eight, 
and has never held a "real" job in his life.
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no one here remembers ....

Jack Benny
(1894–1974) (age 80)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000912/

Having a successful vaudeville career, 
Benny also had a greater career on radio for "The Jack Benny Program".
The show was one of the few successful radio programs
that also became a successful television show.
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George Burns
(1896–1996) (age 100)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122675/

He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen (1895-1964),
and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. 
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Gracie Allen
(1895–1964)  (age 69)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020555/

Her scatterbrained antics to George Burns' straight man
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Henny Youngman
(1906–1998) (age 91)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950267/

A career of seven decades of snappy, irreverent one-liners 
put Henry "Henny" Youngman at the top 
of most comedians' list of favorite showmen.
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Milton Berle
(1908–2002)  (age 93)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000926/

Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years,
first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, 
then in radio, movies and television.
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Jerry Stiller
(1927–2020) (age 92)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005467/

Jerry Stiller and wife Anne Meara were on top of the comedy game in the 1960s,
a steady and hilarious presence on television variety,
notably The Ed Sullivan Show (1948), on which they appeared 36 times.
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Anne Meara 
(1929–2015) (age 85)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575198/

The incredibly gifted comedienne-actress Anne Meara 
is known for her comedic efforts alongside husband-comedian, Jerry Stiller; 
together, they were 'Stiller and Meara'; 
they were original members of the improvisational company, the Compass Players, which later evolved as the Second City Theater. 
They gained popularity with their skits on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948),
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Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/_36lUKkB_RI/?ref_=po_fp Cheers!