22. DAVE CHAPPELLE
The fact that Diamond Dave is all but absent from the comedic stage these days doesn't invalidate his funny. After all, Chappelle's revered Comedy Central show — on which the wiry comic gleefully engaged in crass T&A humor, swore like a sailor, and mocked everyone in the multiculti rainbow, confronting race in a way that is positively Pryor-esque — is still the best sketch comedy this country has seen in more than a decade. For that alone, he deserves a spot on any list like this.
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