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Comedian?

Following on from the manning thread who is your favourite comedian, past or present?

I'm never more amused than when watching tikay try to play poker, it's like watching Audley Harrison trying to box ;D

That good?

see he is funny lol!

sigh!!

he'll be rambling about nuts bolts and threads in a minute, someone link a picture of a train pls, keep him busy for five mins ::)

Billy Connelly has to be the funniest man ever.

I used to find Dave Allen funny when i was younger and I love the wit of Victoria Wood.

Listen.

I'm playing the £200 in Newcastle on Sunday, 2 tables left, I'm "fishing" with  some rubbish, just me & the two Blinds.

Board comes.....

 Ks Kh Kc Jh Jd

Checked all tne way till the River, they check check, I bet the Pot. First guy dwells for an age, then Calls, second guy Passes!

I ask the caller why he dwelt for so long, it's a no-brainer, surely? He says "I was thinking of re-popping it"! Dunno what I'd done if he had......Sheesh.

Is the the right Thread, bolt?

best ever in one word
,.,.,TOMMY COOPER.,.,.,

Bill Hicks

TOMMY COOPER is two words.

Tommy Cooper is the funniest man who ever lived.  He was not crude, he didn't swear , he didn't pick on the audience, yet he was always funny.  I have a Cooper box set even though I normally hate stand ups.  I wish I had been around to see one of his shows live. 

richard pryor

But it's one word if you say TOMMYCOOPER, just like that.

 rotflmfao

Peter Kay

Find it hard to pick one stand up, there are so many.

IMO the funniest man ever for the writing and performing of comedy was Ronnie Barker, but again Britain has produced so many it is so hard to choose.

If there's one thing us Brits do better than anyone, it's comedy.

Geo

;tightend;

Sofa-king, you are the funniest comedian I know.

rotflmfao

For me its Billy Connelly. He's so funny:)  I also like jack dee, julian clary, eddie izzard and eddie murphy. Ive not seen any of them for ages though.

My favourite kind of comedy has to be slapstick. I find things like people tripping, falling, banging their heads etc, very funny . Unless they end up with a serious injury. Thats hilarious.......Joke:) 

Billy Connelly is very funny as he is so natural and just like a bloke telling stories on stage.

Physical comedy wise it has to be Lee Evans, he is a genius and the amount of energy he puts into each show is rarely seen by any other comedians.

I personally hate any comedian who literally is a "stand up" comedian as in the fact they just hide behind the mike and drone on.

Phil jupitus' quadrophobia is one of the funniest dvds i have seen but best one is the Lee Evans XL tour one, must be about 2 hours long, i hate a routine that only lasts for around 45 minutes!!!

I think it has to be Tommy Cooper... I'm laughing before he even opens his mouth.

And, I'm afraid, another who has had me crying with laughter is Roy 'Chubby' Brown.

It's starnge because often I find a lot of swearing from a comic totally unecessary and unfunny... but for me, somehow, when Roy Brown does it it just seems right.

 :dontask:

spike milligan

In the written word, yes, the business. His series of WW2 books are superb, especially "Adolf Hitler, my part in his downfall".

It's probably 30 years since I read those, but I still recall the opener in one of them. He'd been conscripted, but missed his train, & arrived a day late. So they charged him for being late, & he repilied "but I'll fight nights".

I guess comedy is whatever turns you on, but those 4 words are revealing & funny on so many levels.To me, anyway.

He also did some pencil-drawings which were achingly funny.

But there was sadness & pain in the books too, the futility of war & all that, & I often think his books were the inspiraton for Elton's Blackadder scripts.

"See, I told you I was ill".........

Past Eric Morecambe
Present (not in the same league, but I find him funny) Harry Hill.

Which just shows how these things are personal. For me, Harry Hill is a one-trick pony, & once you've seen his get up (white, large-coillared shirt, ill-fitting jacket, pens a-plenty in breast pocket) a few dozen times, the novelty kinda wears off. I'm pleased he's made a nice career out of TV & stuff, good luck to him, but he'd about as funny as a mouthful of gumboils. In my opinion.

present gota be peter kay and ricky gervais

past gotta be eric morecambe and the legend that is norman wisdom

Which just shows how these things are personal. For me, Harry Hill is a one-trick pony, & once you've seen his get up (white, large-coillared shirt, ill-fitting jacket, pens a-plenty in breast pocket) a few dozen times, the novelty kinda wears off. I'm pleased he's made a nice career out of TV & stuff, good luck to him, but he'd about as funny as a mouthful of gumboils. In my opinion.
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I can reel off loads of old/dead comedians that I found to be funny, but recent comedians are thin on the ground. I saw Mitchell & Webb and walked out at half time, now they were rubbish.
Actually one comedienne that i saw recently was funny and that was Lucy Porter but she does'nt get on the TV that much, had only heard of her through a celebrity Poker show but she was good fun.

Eddie murphy RAW is the funniest stand up DVD i own and i watch it atleast once per week (usually 2am on a saturday with a flat full of mates, Brilliant)


Current modern favourite is Lee Evans.

Eric Morecombe for me but it seems sad to pick a singular from a comedy double as without Ernie Wise a lot of their stuff may not have worked, i still cry with laughter at the breakfast dance routine.

I didn't think Norman Wisdom was dead?

Aliove & well as far as I know Tracey, 92 years old & still going strong!

Got to agree that Tommy Cooper was a great comediam and worked so hard at his art, another who works to perfect his act is Ken Dodd, and he loves his trade. Dodd's ability to work an audience is second to none.

Another who took comedy to a new level, but I didnt like the guy that much, was Bob Monkhouse.

Spike Milligan was a man apart, his comedy took on surreal proportions, Puckoon and the WW2 books were as hilarious as they were sad. I only wanted to meet two people in my life, who I respected above many others, Milligan was one of them and the world is a lesser place for his passing.

The biggest weapon in a comedian's armoury is timing, for that the prize goes to Eric Morecombe, he had that in spades.

Of the modern day comedians, Lee Evans and Peter Kay have already been mentioned and they deserve it.

PS anyone heard of Bob Newhart?

Bob Newhart - "The Driving Instructor". His stuff remains as funny today as 50 years ago.

The script of the sketch. For those new to Newhart, he had a dead pan voice and most of his sketches were a "one man" effort. Enjoy

http://www.wepsite.de/driving_instructor.htm

Lee Evans is great to see live as is Chubby Brown, Billy Connelly has to be the worst ever (for me), i'd put him alongside Lenny Henry in the comedy arena.
Good actor though!!