I like Mr Bean and George Carlin also. I couldn’t get over George playing Mr Conductor on Thomas the Tank Engine
Gotta be the great Billy Connolly! His new book of stories from his stage shows reminds me of just how good he was!
Red Skeleton, Don Rickles, Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Jackie Gleason, Flip Wilson, The Smother Brothers, Bill Cosby, Red Foxx, Benny Hill. Old school I watched most of these growing up. But my favorite has to be Robin Williams. There are lots of good and great comedians out there past and present. And I'll end on this. I didn't see any ladies listed. So I'll leave just one Phyllis Diller. If you've never seen or heard of her look her up.
Won't mean much to those outside of NZ, but "Billy T James" but also +1 to Jim Jeffries mentioned above
Eddie Izzard, Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, Tom Segura when he can keep his dumb ego in check, Daniel Tosh for those sublime moments that only he does where a joke goes so far beyond too far that the entire audience is dead silent, Daniel Kitson (UK based, only available on audio afaik), Maria Bamford, Bea Aisling... That sort of thing