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

[Call_me_jorge]

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.

[Alex Kulak2]

Before I found out he was a pervert, I thought Louis C.K. would make a hilarious Vice Principal Panch in Spelling Bee.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

I’d also love to see Bo Burnham do an original show on Broadway.

[darquegk]

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.

[ethan231h]

Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Handler. 

[GeorgeandDot]

I'd kill for Melissa McCarthy to lead A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.

[poisonivy2]

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

[RippedMan]

I think McCarthy is def. in need of a Broadway gig. And what happened to Lynch? 

[Alex M]

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]

I would like Kroll and Mulaney to come back.

[Alex M]

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

This ^^^

[Danielle49]

I also think Kroll and Mulaney should come back. I've loved both of their work for years and sometimes feel like I dreamt that show made it to Broadway - it's such an accomplishment, and it makes me so happy that people embraced it.

Oddly one that comes to mind for me is Moshe Kasher in some comedic play. That choice would hardly be appealing to investors or broad audiences, but having seen him perform a couple of times - once in a reading - I always felt he could act if he took the time with it.

Also: someone needs to get Rachel Bloom involved in a musical - writing, performing, anything.

[JBroadway]

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!) 

[brendasugarbaker]

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 

[BroadwayRox3588]

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

[NOWaWarning]

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

[Call_me_jorge]

An idea I thought of last night.... John Mulaney and Nick Kroll as Price and Cunningham in Book of Mormon. I think they would both nail it!

[LizzieCurry]

Beck Bennett as Vice Principal Panch. He might be a little too good-looking, but I have no doubt I'd cry laughing at whatever he ended up doing.

I'd love to see Sasheer Zamata in something, but I don't know what.

[thirtythirtyninety]

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

[msmp]

John Mulaney would probably be my top choice, with Ellen Degeneres close behind; I don't know if she can sing well so I can't say how she'd be in a musical, but she definitely could do any comedic non-musical role going.

[bwayboy22]

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!

[brendasugarbaker]

bwayboy22 said: "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!"

Alex Bornstein would be such a wonderful choice! I'd love to see Judy Gold or Carol Kane as well. 

 

[TheQuibbler]

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. 

[MadonnaMusical]

Margaret Cho
George Lopez

[chewbaca]

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