Best Comedian from other thread

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Chaka

No, you are not correct about my age. Happy Gilmore came out 23 years ago - it's not a recent movie anymore. I remember when Caddyshack was released. Look, I've seen Rodney, Pryor and Murphy plenty, but I'm just not a big stand up comedy fan, that's all. Most stand-ups don't make good movies. Eddie Murphy is obviously an exception to that (sort of, if you want to consider him a stand-up comedian, even though he rose to fame on SNL).

As far as Sandler is concerned, don't mistake my love for Happy Gilmore as some sort of Sandler fan worship. It's just a funny movie, and for me better than Caddyshack. I didn't say I liked any of his other movies.

Plenty of stand ups have become good actors and made good movies/tv shows. It’s as successful as any other transition career, maybe more so. It’s one of the safest bets you can make when creating a show around a successful comedian. And there are quite a few actors who are just killing it and they started as stand ups.