text: Stephen Lynch is absurdly funny.  I would go as far to say he is my favorite comedian period.  Some of his stuff is absolutely classic, but even the weakest can draw a smile from me.  If you are well versed in history, you pick up on a lot of allusions (Thomas Jefferson, in Vanilla Ice Cream, refers to his alleged affair with a slave).  And so on.  It is too bad he isn't more well known.