Favourite....

[Geo the Sarge]

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

[kinboshi]

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

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

[madasahatstand]

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:) 

[KingPoker]

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!!!

[RioRodent]

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.

 

[fergus8]

spike milligan

[tikay]

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".........

[Indestructable]

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

[tikay]

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.

[turny]

present gota be peter kay and ricky gervais

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

[Indestructable]

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.

[Jim-D]

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.

[bobby1]

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.

[Dingdell]

present gota be peter kay and ricky gervais

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

I didn't think Norman Wisdom was dead?

[tikay]

present gota be peter kay and ricky gervais

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

I didn't think Norman Wisdom was dead?

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