{"id":8087,"date":"2015-12-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:10:00","slug":"top-50-stand-up-comedians-bill-burr-kevin-pollak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/07\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-bill-burr-kevin-pollak\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: Bill Burr, Kevin Pollak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8096\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/billburr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8096\" class=\"wp-image-8096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/billburr.jpg\" alt=\"billburr\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/billburr.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/billburr-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/12\/billburr-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of the &#8220;Bill Burr &#8211; Why Do I Do This (Audio Corrected)&#8221; Video posted on YouTube.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">38. Bill Burr<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I first put out the idea for this list on Twitter, Bill Burr was one of the most common names I was told needed to move up. Because of this I dove deeper into the material and found some hidden gems I was unaware of, but there is still too much cynicism and general \u201cangry white guy\u201d tendencies that I just can\u2019t rank him higher than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obviously, I still see him as funny or he wouldn\u2019t have made the list at all. He\u2019s a natural humorist with an immediately recognizable voice and good pacing. Much like Bill Maher, when he starts ranting and railing about something you agree on, he becomes far more entertaining. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His mantra seems to be \u201ceveryone is shitty, and anyone who claims not to be is pretending.\u201d I don\u2019t accept this claim which limits his appeal. To his credit, he is more than willing to be self-deprecating and enough people <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shitty that his material lands with heavy force at times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8h5kg5f8Im0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">37. Kevin Pollak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The king of impressions, Kevin Pollak is another comedian who is best known by wider audiences as \u201cthat guy from that thing.\u201d Often playing the side role or the bad guy in films like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Few Good Men<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Whole Nine Yards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Pollak rose to fame first on the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He became known for his stellar impressions and ability to deliver them not just as single lines of dialogue but often as entire scenes between large casts of characters &#8211; he does the original Star Trek crew as different celebrities, for example. Pollak is another stand-up who has achieved longevity through smarts. You can see it in the nuances he brings to his characters and the way he interacts with the crowd. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pollak is like the cagy veteran on every championship sports team. He may never have become a household name but Kevin Pollak has everyone\u2019s respect and we wouldn\u2019t be here without him.\u00a0He nailed down his own corner of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eExsLq8DPFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38. Bill Burr When I first put out the idea for this list on Twitter, Bill Burr was one of the most common names I was told needed to move up. Because of this I dove deeper into the material and found some hidden gems I was unaware of, but there is still too much<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/07\/top-50-stand-up-comedians-bill-burr-kevin-pollak\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":8096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2908,1446,2909,2771],"class_list":{"0":"post-8087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bill-burr","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-kevin-pollak","11":"tag-stand-up-comedy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","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=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}