{"id":7860,"date":"2015-11-30T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:59:53","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-jay-mohr-gabriel-iglesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/11\/30\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-jay-mohr-gabriel-iglesias\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Jay Mohr, Gabriel Iglesias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/11\/ccsu_iglesias_america.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/11\/ccsu_iglesias_america.jpg\" alt=\"ccsu_iglesias_america\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/11\/ccsu_iglesias_america.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/11\/ccsu_iglesias_america-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n44: Jay Mohr<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jay Mohr is a too often forgotten name in the history of stand-up comedy. Better remembered by some audiences as the original host of <em>Last Comic Standing<\/em> and the bad-guy agent in <em>Jerry Maguire<\/em>, Mohr has been a staple of the comedy scene since the 90s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t also mention his short but hilarious stints on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The West Wing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. My personal favorite movie role for him though comes as the partner of another comedian who will appear on this list in the still awesome <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Small Soldiers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mohr\u2019s stand-up style isn&#8217;t particularly unusual, but he is an excellent story teller and a naturally funny person. Those who know his work are familiar with his dead-on impressions celebrities like Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, and Tracy Morgan. Again my personal favorite involves another comedian on this list &#8211; Norm McDonald:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5vA8Qdt1-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>45: Gabriel Iglesias<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I suspect Gabriel Iglesias may be the first \u201ccontroversial\u201d name on this list. Some might not have him on it while others would have him much higher. I mentioned with Pablo Francisco that I am a sucker for voices and sound effects and so I am on team Fluffy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The silly accents are still nothing if you can\u2019t tell a good story (or jokes) and Iglesias has weaved some classic yarns &#8211; probably most famous (and hard not to argue the best) being \u201cya, but it was funny, huh?\u201d He imitates characters from his life in addition to his own friends and family, as opposed to celebrity personalities, which gives his stand-up a personal and charming touch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It would be a stretch to say he is family friendly, but Iglesias keeps it about PG-13,\u00a0meaning most people can listen to him with their mom which is always bonus points, especially when you can get everyone of all ages laughing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mtk5Ej-xLsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44: Jay Mohr Jay Mohr is a too often forgotten name in the history of stand-up comedy. Better remembered by some audiences as the original host of Last Comic Standing and the bad-guy agent in Jerry Maguire, Mohr has been a staple of the comedy scene since the 90s. I\u2019d be remiss if I didn\u2019t<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/11\/30\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-jay-mohr-gabriel-iglesias\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":7861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[1446,2845,2844,2771],"class_list":{"0":"post-7860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-gabriel-iglesias","10":"tag-jay-mohr","11":"tag-stand-up-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}