Funniest Canadian Of All Time?

[Sirwastealot]

It's Norm, i think he might be the funniest guy of all time.

But leslie neilsen is top 3 funniest actors of all time too. It's both of them by a landslide.

 

[rearnakedchoke]

Jeez. What a list. For me
Candy on sctv is gold
Carey on in living Color
Myers is great. Plays funny characters.
I’ve watched some norm and he is good, but not tops for me.
Shit, and I still quote dumb Leslie Nelson lines.

 

[mb23100]

Stellar list. I picked Leslie just to give him some props

 

[Sweater of AV]

The incompleteness of that list is like feeling the whispering winds of shit in a shit blizzard.



For me, it's either Leslie Nielsen or Martin Short. Might have to give the nod to Marty based on the fact that he can do pretty much everything.

 

[tobiaswins]

What, no love for Rick Moranis??

 

[Shaun K]

I like norm but in no universe is he funnier than jim carrey or mike myers. Ya’ll trippin

 

[ookii]

Its Norm followed by Phil

 

[Streeter]

John Candy by far my favorite. Carrey likely the funniest tho.

 

[therealdope]

Dave Thomas is underrated.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Dave Thomas is underrated.

Yeah there are a lot of people that probably deserve a mention here. Dave Foley, Rick Mercer, Colin Mochrie, Eugene Levy etc. Russell Peters was probably the most successful comedian from Canada at one point.

 

[baba2008]

This here is some of John and Martin’s best work. Has me in stitches more than 30 years after the first time I saw it:

 

[koquerelle]

Any member of the Kids in the Hall.

 

[tomjones]

Jim Carrey and John Candy get my vote.

 

[TheNinja]

Norm

 

[snowbro]

Disagree, fellow canuck. Myers made a bunch of low-brow silly slapstick movies that werent anything particularly special. Jim Carey did that WAY better, plus he had a better standup career and also had serious movie acting depth as well. John Candy did a similar thing, but his movies were funnier, more wholesome, less juvenille and silly.

Myers made quite a few silly pop culture movies, and they were great for what they were, but to me he's not in the same league as the rest.

It's about funniest, not best career. Shrek is special. Although I will have to say Mike Myers latest stuff is kinda missing the mark.

Disagree, fellow canuck. Myers made a bunch of low-brow silly slapstick movies that werent anything particularly special. Jim Carey did that WAY better, plus he had a better standup career and also had serious movie acting depth as well. John Candy did a similar thing, but his movies were funnier, more wholesome, less juvenille and silly.

Myers made quite a few silly pop culture movies, and they were great for what they were, but to me he's not in the same league as the rest.

Seth Rogen should be added to the list for all his amazing stoner comedies and Tom Green gets a nod as well.

 

[gatchaman]

Here's an SCTV sketch with some of the names that didn't make the list.

Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd
Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara as the sisters
Eugene Levy as the desk clerk

 

[The Hash Slinging Slasher]

Disappointed not to see
Steve Smith, AKA “Red Green” on this list.

 

[Slobodan]

@Clippy

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Norm. Leslie Nielsen wasn’t really a comedian. He was actually an actor in soap operas I think. But they talked him for Police Squad, and Naked Gun, because they wanted someone who would play the role straight. It was genius.

 

[jeff7b9]

Norm. Leslie Nielsen wasn’t really a comedian. He was actually an actor in soap operas I think. But they talked him for Police Squad, and Naked Gun, because they wanted someone who would play the role straight. It was genius.

True, but at a certain point he became a comedy icon.

Naked Gun and Airplane are really elite level comedies and Leslie delivers many of the biggest laughs in those films.

He did it with a deadpan delivery, but hey, it worked.


Comedy is subjective.
No wrong answers imo.

I tend to gravitate towards the stand up comedians because i think that is the purest form of comedy, but clearly lots of folks are picking the actors.