The top 100 stand up comedians...

this list is according to Comedy Central
1. Richard Pryor
2. George Carlin
3. Lenny Bruce
4. Woody Allen
5. Chris Rock
6. Steve Martin
7. Rodney Dangerfield
8. Bill Cosby
9. Roseanne Barr
10. Eddie Murphy
11. Johnny Carson
12. Jerry Seinfeld
13. Robin Williams
14. Bob Newhart
15. David Letterman
16. Ellen DeGeneres
17. Don Rickles
18. Jonathan Winters
19. Bill Hicks
20. Sam Kinison
21. Dennis Miller
22. Robert Klein
23. Steven Wright
24. Redd Foxx
25. Bob Hope
26. Ray Romano
27. Jay Leno
28. Jack Benny
29. Milton Berle
30. Garry Shandling
31. George Burns
32. Albert Brooks
33. Andy Kaufman
34. Buddy Hackett
35. Phyllis Diller
36. Jim Carrey
37. Martin Lawrence
38. Bill Maher
39. Billy Crystal
40. Mort Sahl
41. Jon Stewart
42. Flip Wilson
43. Dave Chappelle
44. Joan Rivers
45. Richard Lewis
46. Adam Sandler
47. Henny Youngman
48. Tim Allen
49. Freddie Prinze
50. Denis Leary
51. Lewis Black
52. Damon Wayans
53. David Brenner
54. DL Hughley
55. Alan King
56. Colin Quinn
57. Richard Jeni
58. Larry Miller
59. Gilbert Gottfried
60. Jeff Foxworthy
61. Bobcat Goldthwait
62. Eddie Griffin
63. Jackie Mason
64. Richard Belzer
65. Cedrick the Enter.
66. Shelley Berman
67. Kevin Pollak
68. Dave Attell
69. Pat Cooper
70. Wanda Sykes
71. Red Buttons
72. Bernie Mac
73. Billy Connolly
74. Paul Rodriguez
75. Eddie Izzard
76. Robert Schimmel
77. Paul Reiser
78. Sinbad
79. Dom Irrera
80. Bobby Slayton
81. Dick Gregory
82. Howie Mandel
83. Norm MacDonald
84. Drew Carey
85. David Cross
86. Jay Mohr
87. Brett Butler
88. Paula Poundstone
89. Kevin James
90. Dana Carvey
91. Jim Breuer
92. Louie Anderson -
93. George Wallace
94. David Alan Grier
95. Andrew 'Dice' Clay
96. Joey Bishop
97. Sandra Bernhard
98. Louis CK
99. Janeane Garofalo
100. Gallagher

what do you think about this list?

this is another list as they were voted on channel4.com
(this is mostly british oriented)
1 - Billy Connolly
2 - Peter Kay
3 - Eddie Izzard
4 - Richard Pryor
5 - Harry Hill
6 - Bill Hicks
7 - Bill Bailey
8 - Victoria Wood
9 - Chris Rock
10 - Ross Noble
11 - Ricky Gervais
12 - Jimmy Carr
13 - Jack Dee
14 - Woody Allen
15 - Jerry Sadowitz
16 - Al Murray
17 - Dylan Moran
18 - Alexei Sayle
19 - Les Dawson
20 - Jasper Carrott
21 - Ben Elton
22 - Jo Brand
23 - Lee Evans
24 - Eddie Murphy
25 - Steve Coogan
26 - Frank Skinner
27 - Daniel Kitson
28 - Joan Rivers
29 - Bernard Manning
30 - Lenny Bruce
31 - Bob Monkhouse
32 - Steven Wright
33 - Chubby Brown
34 - David Baddiel
35 - Denis Leary
36 - Mark Thomas
37 - Jim Davidson
38 - Andrew Dice Clay
39 - Jenny Eclair
40 - Sean Hughes
41 - Stewart Lee
42 - Dara O'Briain
43 - Johnny Vegas
44 - Robin Williams
45 - Paul O'Grady
46 - Rob Newman
47 - Jackie Mason
48 - Ken Dodd
49 - Graham Norton
50 - Bob Hope
51 - Lenny Henry
52 - Jerry Seinfeld
53 - Tommy Cooper
54 - Emo Phillips
55 - Sean Lock
56 - Roseanne
57 - Julian Clary
58 - Dave Spikey
59 - Steve Martin
60 - Omid Dajilil
61 - Phil Jupitus
62 - George Carlin
63 - Alan Davies
64 - Tommy Tiernan
65 - Rhona Cameron
66 - Chris Addison
67 - Mike Reid
68 - Lee Hurst
69 - Russell Brand
70 - Jethro
71 - John Thompson
72 - Frankie Howerd
73 - Ed Byrne
74 - Dave Allen
75 - Dave Gorman
76 - Arthur Smith
77 - Chic Murray
78 - Mitch Hedburg
79 - Frank Carson
80 - Andy Kaufman
81 - Freddie Starr
82 - Barry Humphries
83 - Tommy Trinder
84 - Demetri Martin
85 - Harry Enfield
86 - Bob Newhart
87 - Reg D Hunter
88 - Ronnie Corbett
89 - George Burns
90 - Joe Pasquale
91 - Dick Gregory
92 - Paul Merton
93 - Rik Mayall
94 - Ardal O'hanlon
95 - Lee Mack
96 - Bill Cosby
97 - Jim Bowen
98 - Alan Carr
99 - Patrick Kielty
100 - Tim Vine