61% similar. There are plenty of other comedians who aren't mentioned. My favorite comedy is, 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'. It was the last movie in which a lot of comedians from the 20s through the 40s appeared. And then there was the comedy team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy from the 40s-50s. But what about Vincent Price? A lot of his movies would be classified as 'Black Comedy' for combining horror and comedy. There are many more I'm forgetting.

carol burnett wasnt on in 1960 , & rowan & martins laugh in was not on in the 1980s

59% similar

Tbh I’m disappointed that Burns & Allen weren’t a choice for at least one of these questions. As a GenXer I obviously didn’t see them in first run but I greatly enjoyed the show when I saw them late-night years ago on some channel. Was it MeTV? It was the 1st B&A show (1951-1957) when they were in their house, not 2nd one when they moved downtown. I don’t think I’ve seen that one. I think it was in a lineup with The Jack Benny show also. For those who know, was it my imagination that the Jack Benny show sometimes was a sitcom with crazy adventures with his friends like the Dick Van Dyke show and sometimes it was a variety show like the Carol Burnett show? Did they revamp the show halfway through it or am I mixing it up with some thing else? In my defense whatever channel played those shows were playing them at like 3 & 4 am.

* 1960's or 1970's without option of Don Rickles?!?!? tsk tsk tsk, you hockey pucks! ...

I only got 44% similar 😄! Some of the stuff on this poll is mind boggling! For one, Laugh-In was on in the '60s, not the '80s. The Smothers Brothers was on in the '80s and they served as the variety show for that era I do believe.

I was only a kid back then but I remember seeing them on TV on the weekends in the late-'80s. Two, Andrew Dice Clay only getting 2% of the vote for best comic of the '80s is a little ridiculous 😄! He was selling out stadiums all over the world! He was a comic megastar back then!

Doesn't matter if people think he's trashy now, he was what was popular back in the '80s. And,in the '90s, how is Jeff Foxworthy the most popular comedian? More popular than Adam Sandler and Chris Farley both and they had #1 movies at the box office back then. Also, where is Tim Allen and Drew Carey at in your '90s section of this poll?

They were both waaaayyyy more popular than Jeff Foxworthy back in the '90s. They had books out back in the '90s that were popular, just like Jeff Foxworthy did. But they surpass Jeff Foxworthy in one regard - they both had super popular sitcoms at that time. Home Improvement ran for 8 years and The Drew Carey Show ran for 9.

Drew Carey also hosted an improv comedy show that was super popular back in the '90s too - Whose Line Is It Anyways. So both of them should've been considered for your '90s section as well. And how about Roseanne? She was one of the most popular female comics of the '80s and '90s back then.

She had the number one comedy sitcom on TV back in the late-'80s to mid-'90s in Roseanne. Irregardless of how controversial she is today, that same controversy garnered her fame back in the day, just like it did Andrew Dice Clay. But they should still be recognized for their contributions to comedy and yet Roseanne's not in your poll. And how is that the '80s isn't the best decade for comedy as well?

Comedians were selling out stadiums back in the '80s. That was never done before then. You had more comedy clubs galore back then (Second City in Chicago, The Laff Factory in Los Angeles, etc etc.) than in any other decade. I grew up in a very small suburban town in Connecticut back in the '80s and even they had a comedy club.

It was small 😄 but they had one. Comedy was all the rage in the '80s. Also, you said Abbott and Costello are more popular than Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. How is that possible?

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor had, like, 3 number one movies back in the late-'70s to early-'90s together. They did Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, and See No Evil, Hear No Evil. They did do one more movie together but that was in the early-'90s (Another You) and it didn't do too good at the box office. Or how about not including Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner in your poll together?

They're there separately but they should be included together because they made three popular movies together back then as well - Hanky Panky, The Woman In Red, and Haunted Honeymoon (Which is a classic 🙂! My Mom and I used to watch that movie together whenever it came on.). The next time you guys put together a poll, MeTV, you should make sure to research it thoroughly first 🙂.

59 percent

Wow not a very well researched quiz ... Laugh In was never on in the 1980s.

57% bunch of old fAr--

54%
Tough choices through the 70's - not much to choose from after that.
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the 1980's? Only off by two decades!

Major error in this quiz. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was long gone by the 1980's.

what? No sam kinison?

Question #9 has an incorrect possible answer; Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in was on from 1967 to 1973. It was not on in the 1980's. Remedial homework time for someone.

67%

I can't get a final tally because I can't answer #6 -- never heard of any of these "comedians."

74%

This poll really stunk.

Howard Morris (Ernest T Bass on
The Andy Griffith Show and
Jim VARNEY Ernest P Worrell
Were both excellent comedy actors.
Ernest Goes To Camp and Ernest
Scared Stupid are wonderful
Comedy Movies.
Ernest T Bass and
Ernest P Worrell
Forever

Rowan and Martin was on in the 60's not 80's. Forgot Flip Wilson.

If actors Skip Young and Neil J Schwartz had been nightclub comedians instead of actors I
Believe that they would have been
Excellent Comedians.
Neil J Schwartz was BAG on
Happy Days and Skip Young played
Wally Plumstead on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Donny Most (Ralph Malph) would
Have been a great comedian also.

Roy Stuart Cpl Boyle on GOMER Pyle USMC started out at a nightclub
Called The Horn.