You missed Doc Brown, Eddie Izzard, Sean Hughes and Roger De Courcey. A comedian must find great release in being able to go to someone else's workplace and be assured the opportunity to shout that they are crap.
I really liked his article about German comedy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/23/germany.features11
It explains why the pull-back & reveal is not possible in their language and what comedy does instead. The comedy of context has been used to great effect in some of the best...
If you have been following him for a while I'm susprised that you haven't noticed that Russell 'XFM DJ pretending to be a comedian' Brand has been a target for some years, quite a while before Brand's witless rants at the establishment he is part of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2lZycym1ls...
I don't know where that quotation is from, but it is a glib and ill informed sound bite.
I've no problem with anyone slagging off what Stewart Lee does, he admits its not for everyone, but it bears little relation to what Bill Hicks did. Hicks was a very clever and funny stand up, but his...