6. Eddie Murphy on making love vs. having sex

Eddie Murphy is probably one of the better-looking comics on this list, so when he expounded on the difference between making love and having sex, it wasn't hard to believe he had lots of experience in both fields. The absurd series of faces he uses here to illustrate "making love" is proof that all he needed to make us laugh was that charming mug.

5. Louis CK on delaying orgasms

Louis CK is currently stand-up's biggest star, seemingly more for his refreshingly brutal honesty and self-laceration than for any snappy one-liners. His rambling, seemingly off-the-cuff style is fully on display in this clip, in which he deconstructs Woody Allen's orgasm-delaying baseball fantasies with some of the most cringe-inducingly funny imagery ever heard.

4. George Carlin: "Make fuck, not kill"

Despite being known for some of the most cynical stand-up ever, George Carlin was a romantic at heart. He was with longtime girlfriend Sally Wade until the day he died, and wrote her love letters frequently. In this bit, he talks about the national tendency to conflate sex and violence, and how we could solve some of that by simply switching the two words.

3. Woody Allen on sex and baseball

Much of Woody Allen's material about sex and dating is readily available in film form. But his work in front of an audience really showcases his comic timing and skill for one-liners. This bit about sex and baseball was the template for a whole half-century of references.

2. Richard Pryor on men's doubts about sex

Richard Pryor doesn't really need an introduction — it's better to get out of the way and let the master work. Like all of Pryor's best work, this bit is brash but vunerable: it shows that although the man had an exaggerated personality and a wicked way with a punchline, he also had a keen eye for mining universal male insecurities, like the question of whether you've adequately satisfied your woman.

1. Lenny Bruce on the main difference between men and women

Before he was convicted of obscenity, Lenny Bruce was dishing out scathing heaps of satire. In this classic bit, he narrows down the differences between women and men in the bedroom pretty damn succinctly: men can detach and women can't. "Guys can have head-on collisions with Greyhound buses in disaster areas... get him to the hospital, the guy makes a play for the nurse," Lenny quips. It hurts because it's true, and it's the best because it was one of the first.