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The definitive list of comedians - latest issue
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For what it's worth there's a world of difference between sitcom and standup, with panel show stuff somewhere in between.
Robert Webb, for example, is awful on panel shows, but very good in Peep Show/Mitchell and Webb Look/Ambassadors etc. |
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Probably the least broadcastable I've ever seen (although it WAS on TV) was Frank Skinner.
I sort of based the list on how much humour I have personally derived from each name. Good question N-G, it didn't start off as long a list as it ended up and I got a tad carried away. btw, I've left out Micky Flanagan. 5/10 quite good, can make me laugh, it remains to be seen if he'll still be a top name in say, 5 years. |
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Good to see Emo Phillips get such a high score, 8/10 is about right. I saw him years ago and he had all the audience in fits of laughter, totally unique.
I saw Micky Flanagan recently and although slightly disappointing from what I was expecting I still enjoyed the night - 6.5/10. Dara O'Briain is a different matter though, he was embarrassingly awful when I saw him in Hammersmith 1/10 for him. |
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^^^ final bump
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Lenny Henry will be delighted with a 2/10. He was a 1.01 certainty to be 1/10.
Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld and Karl Pilkington are the current kings of comedy, and Ronnie Barker was superb as well. |
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just made the 3s
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If we must bring any of my old threads to the top, at least this one deserves it a bit.
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joan riverws by far the funniest female comedian out there ,and bernard manning love him or hate him these modern day comedians could not lace his boots imo !
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Comedy is definitely the new 'rock n roll'.
There are loads of new comics and regularly seen panel show guests who have appeared since I did my appraisal. Very few, if any, new comedy shows or comedy actors. At some point I'll do a newer more updated version. In the meantime, as there are SO many threads about comedians, here is the resurrection of some ranting ammunition. |
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Surely, Baking is the new Rock'n Roll ?
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Emo Phillips..... Hilarious
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Lots of omissions at the bottom end, which is ok, but one who should be at the topend is -
Chic Murray. Sadly very little to see on line. All I could find was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82WdMot--U4 Gives a small flavour of the man. |
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Bernard Manning was the funniest i seen live
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stewart lee 1/10?
i'd have him much higher than that |
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Jim Jefferies a good stand up I've recently discovered. his rant about guns getting lots of airing on social media atm, which put me on to some of his other stuff well good it is.
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i like him too, only discovered him in the last year or so myself
Steve Hughes also good |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmBIRsZSp3Q
Jim Jeffries – Fully Functional. Complete show. Starts off with dumb coonts and their dumb coont children and their dumb coont religions and gradually gets more offensive. Funny as, and it makes you think and sh1t. |
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Hate to say this but I saw Jimmy Cricket live some years ago and he was very very funny. Complete rubbish infantile jolks but he made everyone laugh which is what you want from a comic.
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Where's Max Wall?
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each to their own. imo peter cook is the best ever. as a child i loved tommy cooper and eric morecombe. i also really like bill hicks.
i absolutely detest jim davidson (although i pity him for what he went through). there was a time in the 80s when our family holiday was to bournemouth and we went to see davidson. he asked if there was anyone irish in the audience and i remember pleading with my dad not to put his hand up. he did anyway and jim told one of his unfunny paddy jokes. i will remember the embarassment til the day i die. went to see ben elton in 87 and found him funny, not so funny when he was doing the same stuff years later. certainly dont find him funny now. was he ever funny? i thought harry enfield really captured the time with loadsamoney. modern day macyntire (dont know how he spells it and dont care) is the least good by a mile. yet he makes a fortune. |
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Norman Vaughan?
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Billy Connolly Surely the best stand-up ever. The mould into which most other comics have poured themselves. Material hasn’t stood the test of time.
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Latest double act ...
Jezzer and Diane ... very funny. Make me laugh everytime I see them. Christ, I'm laughing now just picturing them  10/10 |
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go back and look at any bc vid,he never fckn says anything
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rommel,
he's like that Marcel Marceau guy, does funny mime. Heading for Britain's got (no) talent contest |
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meme was talking about b connolly,but just put jeezeer and diane into youtube,nothing came up
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rommel,
patience, it will after next Thursday |
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One of the greatest posts of all-time on any Betfair forum, well done OP Studyform
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Saw Lee Nelson last week and I haven't laughed as much in years.
As a proviso, I should add that I had drunk 4 pints of 5.9% Jaipur prior and had a pint of some local 5%+ ale in the interval. And drank another one from a plastic glass during the second half. |
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were the women there all beautiful as well?
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Better looking than normal.
How did you know that? |
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Better looking than normal.
How did you know that? |
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Jack, they always do when you've had 8 pints.
I say, they always do when you've had 8 pints. Does that answer both your questions? I say does that ... oh, forget it, I'll get mi coat |
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Jerry Lewis won the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. in France.
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Resurrected as it's being discussed.
It needs updating though. I'll be doing that later. Times and tastes change, as well as new people who are not already included in the list. Just to say, once again. It is entirely subjective. NO TWO PEOPLE WILL AGREE - I COMPLETELY REALISE SOME OF MYSCORES WILL BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO SOME OF YOURS. |
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Decent piece of work Study!
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Thank you, I'm going to update it soon.
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1/10
Gregor Fisher - must be the accent - genius as Rab C. otherwise agree and would add Jimmy Tarbuck "Is that the one?" - Can't remember ever laughing at him. Arthur Askey - his looks got him by. I'm a little Bee. Ashamed to say I laughed at him when young, still we all grow up. |
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Great work SF
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