Comedian

[di]

1) Jimmy Cricket

2) Tommy Cooper

3) Spike Milligan

And a special commendation to Gordon Brown!

hmmm...I was wondering similarly...if now that G.Bush has a bit of time on his hands he might follow his natural calling!

p.s...sorry...had to get rid of your smilies or it wouldn't let me have any!

[HeyWayne]

hmmm...I was wondering similarly...if now that G.Bush has a bit of time on his hands he might follow his natural calling!

Comedians the world over rued the day Bush left office - such a source of material.

[sallym]

Strange isn't it. I don't think swearing is particularly clever and I really don't like the F word, But Billy Connolly makes me laugh till it hurts. I don't find him at all offensive.
Watched some Laurel and Hardy over Christmas and I must say that their humour still has the power to make me chuckle.

[Snadger]

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Watched some Laurel and Hardy over Christmas and I must say that their humour still has the power to make me chuckle.

Harold Lloyd creases me up!

[kate&rob]

morecambe and wise, laurel and hardy are all time favs, like watching harry hill on tv, lee evans in short bursts as he makes me feel tired just watching him!

[Hilary B]

Strange isn't it. I don't think swearing is particularly clever and I really don't like the F word, But Billy Connolly makes me laugh till it hurts. I don't find him at all offensive.
Watched some Laurel and Hardy over Christmas and I must say that their humour still has the power to make me chuckle.

Connolly has real wit, mixed in with the swearing and rudeness. Sometimes the balance is too far into 'rude', but he can be great. Anyone remember when he and David Attenborough were guests on Parkinson? The other time I was much impressed was the program where he danced around the stone circle in Orkney (Ring of Brodgar).
Laurel and Hardy were always on my 'b list'. Quite liked them, but not favourites. Takes all sorts.
Someone famously advised a rather foul-mouthed acquaintance "one can be rude and funny, or funny without being rude, I recommend you do one or the other". Too many modern comedians seem to think that offensive IS funny, rather than being something that can be overlooked if the content is funny.

[Mikey]

Harold Lloyd creases me up!

Me too, he also used to scare the £"$! out of me with his stunts. There were a couple of double act in the talkies, the names will come to me soon..............dean martin and jerry lewis, and bing crosby and bob hope They weren't funny in their own right, but the films they made were classics.

[di]

Laurel & Hardy have to be still one of my all time faves!!....but better than them was watchibkg an old school mated dad watching them...mimicking everything a couple of mos before they did!

[happybunny]

Peter Kay

James Corden and Mathew Horne

Stephen K Amos

Quite a few more

What about Mr Bean???

[Luci]

For me, it's got to be Alan Davies, Eddie Izzard & Bill Bailey.
Could watch them all day.

[HayleyB]

Billy Connolly
Jasper Carrott - was brill
Dawn French
Lenny Henry
Jo Brand
Paul O'Grady
and of course the Legends Morecambe and Wise

[Digger-07]

Chick Murray (this shows my age)

Some of his jokes are really simple. Like me!

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I made a stupid mistake last week. Come to think of it, did you ever hear of someone making a clever mistake?

If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

My father was a simple man. My mother was a simple woman. You see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

If it weren't for marriage, husband and wives would have to fight with strangers.

After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

Kippers- fish that like a lot of sleep.

I felt as out of place as a left-handed violinist in a crowded string section.

We've got stained glass windows in our house. It's those damned pigeons.

You know what they say about stamp collecting. Philately will get you nowhere.

There's a new slimming course just out where they remove all your bones. Not only do you weigh less, but you also look so much more relaxed.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it at the time.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling. The rest I spend foolishly.

My parents were wonderful, always there with a ready compromise. My sister wanted a cat for a pet I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; it gives me the rest of the day to myself. I crossed the landing and went down stairs. Mind you, if there had been no stairs, I wouldn't even have attempted it.

She had been married so often she bought a drip-dry wedding dress.

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

This friend of mine had a terrible upbringing. When his mother lifted him up to feed him, his father rented the pram out. Then when they came into money later, his mother hired a woman to push the pram - and he's been pushed for money ever since.

I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you".

I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.

I was in London the other day and this man came up to me and asked me if I knew the Battersea dog's home. I said that I didn't know it had been away.

There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and second, never take water without whisky.

My wife went to a beauty parlour and got a mudpack. For two days she looked nice, then the mud fell off.

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea as I was a stranger there myself.

I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.

This chap said to me, "If you look over there, you'll see Dumbarton Rock". Well, I looked for 20 minutes and the thing never moved an inch.

[Hilary B]

Like I said, it takes all sorts. I reckon Jo Brand to be in the 'thinks offensive is funny in itself' category.

What made Morecambe and Wise funny was
a) they made fun of themselves
b) when they made fun of other people they did it GENTLY

Thursday night I was at an Am Dram Panto. The author (within the limits of the traditions of Cinderella) was my big sister, and one of the Ugly Sisters was played by her son, and he was BRILLIANT. The other brilliantly played part was the ancient 'chamberlain' whose job it was (among other roles) to try the shoe on the young ladies of the kingdom. The gentleman in question would seem to have been inspired by Mr Pastry (Richard Hearn). After seeing that sort of talent from amateurs......

[zazen999]

Bill Hicks and Frankie Boyle are my top 2

I can't stand Michael Mcintyre [sorry].

[squashysu]

The Two Ronnies, Morecambe & Wise, Peter Kaye, Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders! i love comedy! i should have been a comedian lol!