Comedians you’d like to see take the broadway stage?

With Oh, Hello last year and Meteor Shower this year, I was wondering what other comedians you think would do well on broadway? In either an already written musical/play or their own stand up routine as a one man show?

I’d love to see Mike Birbiglia or Bo Burnham make it to broadway.

Updated On: 1/16/18 at 08:44 PM

Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler.

I would love for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to appear sometime in the upcoming Mean Girls.

Alex Kulak2 said: "Before I found out he was a pervert, I thought Louis C.K. would make a hilarious Vice Principal Panch inSpelling Bee."

I had always thought this...oh well. Bo Burnham doing a one man show would be fantastic.

BroadwayConcierge said: "I would like Kroll and Mulaney tocome back."

This ^^^

I don't know if he can sing, but I'd love to see Mulaney take on J Pierpont Finch! Others I'd like to see on Broadway are Patton Oswalt (he'd be a good Pseudolus too!), Trevor Noah, Demitri Martin, Ali Wong, Ellen Degeneres, and I agree about Mike Birbiglia!

I think there was a similar thread on this topic a few years ago, and I recall someone came up with the idea to have a revival of Spelling Bee where every few months, a new famous comedian comes in to play Panch. I genuinely 100% think this is a brilliant, and even commercially viable idea, and I would absolutely love to see it. (Again - I didn't come up with this idea. I can't seem to find the thread to see who it was, but if the idea was yours, feel free to take credit!)

I'd love to see Brian Regan take a routine to Broadway. He's flipping hilarious!

NOWaWarning said: "I'd love for Sarah Silverman to do a play or a musical with limited singing. She's a very good actress."

Silverman is currently adapting her book The Bedwetter into a stage musical for the Atlantic Theater Company http://popculturebrain.com/post/166647768184/sarah-silverman-says-the-bedwetter-stage-musical

Updated On: 2/6/18 at 02:28 PM

brendasugarbaker said: "No specific comic in mind but I wish the right people would fix and revive Joan Rivers' "Sally Marr...and Her Escorts" and bring in a 40+ year-old female comic for a short run, even if off-Broadway or just a reading"

I would LOVE to see a revival of this with Alex Bornstein. I also think Julia Louis Dreyfuss could be an interesting choice! I have been trying to find the script for "Sally Marr..." for years, in dying to read it!

darquegk said: "I'd love to see Stephen Lynch do another musical- his turn as Robbie Hart in "The Wedding Singer" looked like the start of a second career as a Broadway lead, but he never came back."

I think I remember reading at the time that Lynch wasn't a fan of the rigidity of a Broadway show, preferring to be able to improvise and switch up material as he would during one of his comedy shows.

A few years ago someone suggested Jack Black as Harold Hill and I haven't been able to get the idea out of my head since.

Updated On: 2/7/18 at 06:56 AM

Sinbad is not only a great standup comedian, but also a good actor. My choice