My friend Dre and I have been friends for 25 years and over the course of that friendship we have agreed to disagree on many subjects. We may often agree that someone is the greatest in their field but the point of contention is usually who is number 2. For example we both agree that Richard Pryor is the greatest comedian ever but we split on who is a greater contender Eddie or Martin. My stance is that Eddie has it in all three categories, stand up, tv, and film. My brother Dre feels Martin is the greater stand up, Eddie the greater film star and I'm unsure of his opinion of tv Eddie. Here is a series of clips. I could not find video of Martin's HBO video which is finest stand up. But what I have is pretty good. I havd the same issue with Eddie's SNL footage . So I excluded the TV portion. Also when you see the clips, I feel those who know us will see the influence and reflection of each of them in us. You get a glimpse of why I gravitated to Eddie and he Martin.
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To be clear...Eddie is ranked higher than Martin in Comedy Central's list of 100 Greatest (Stand-Up). Eddie #10 and Martin #37. Since the days when we debated this I had the chance to study the greats past and present, white and black, old and new and my out look has changed a bit. I find Eddie more enjoyable than Martin now and days but more for his movies like I've said in the past. Martin got stale over the years and Eddie all but abandoned stand-up. The flip side is we both know Chris Rock is better than both of 'em.
And so is Chappelle these cats burned hot early and cooled off. Stand up wise. The point of these posts is not necessarily where we are but the nature of our past debates. So be on the look out for that Blaze v West.
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