December 7th 2:00PM by
Matt Tobey
The Hot List: The 9 Best Breakout Comedians of 2009
If you were to ask me who the biggest breakout comedian of 2009 was, without a moment of hesitation, I would say the bad guy in Lethal Weapon 2. Unfortunately, it turns out the bad guy in Lethal Weapon is fictional, dead and not a comedian, proving yet again that I'm about as good at naming breakout comedians as I am at ending sentences with the proper punctuation? Luckily, there's Comedy Central's Hot List, featuring the year's best up-and-coming comics. Here's the complete list along with some exclusive videos of the comedians.
Where You Saw Him in 2009: Parks and Recreation, Funny People, Scrubs
Where You'll See Him in 2010: Judd Apatow's Forgetting Sarah Marshall semi-sequel Get Him to the Greek
The list continues below. Meanwhile, you can see all these comics together in Comedy Central's Hot List stand-up special. If you missed it when it premiered last night, you can catch it again tonight at 1am / 12c.
Where You Saw Him in 2009: As Homer on The Colbert Report, Michael and Michael Have Issues
Where You'll See Him in 2010: The Katherine Heigl comedy Life As We Know It
Where You Saw Him in 2009: FX's The League, Sit Down Shut Up, I Love You, Man
Where You'll See Him in 2010: Date Night, Get Him to the Greek
Where You Saw Him in 2009: MADtv, on his debut album Soak Up the Night
Where You'll See Him in 2010: Touring the country
Where You Saw Him in 2009: Community, the Derrick Comedy movie Mystery Team
Where You'll See Him in 2010: Performing stand-up, continuing to appear on Community and with Derrick Comedy
Where You Saw Him in 2009: Comedy Central Presents
Where You'll See Him in 2010: Recording his upcoming CD
Where You Saw Him in 2009: FX's The League, his YouTube channel
Where You'll See Him in 2010: On his Live Nation tour
Where You Saw Her in 2009: The Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers, Chelsea Lately
Where You'll See Her in 2010: Touring the country
Where You Saw Him in 2009: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Extract
Where You'll See Him in 2010: She's Out of My League, Dinner for Schmucks, Yogi Bear
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