Tommy Cooper

[desmartinson]

I think the best two comedians around at the moment are Cameron and Clegg.      

[scorcher]

Must be too young Des - have a shufti on Google.

[mercury]

Dave Allen. Brilliant in his day.. Billy Conellyalso. I never got the goons, spike Milligan and crew never appealed to me.. Hancock got funnier as I got old enough to appreciate him... I loved to listen to The grumbleweeds, Jimmy Clitheroe and Al read on radio.. Comedians were as innocent as us in those days... Fools and horses still funny no matter how many times you watch and Steptoe and son...
We used to get free tickets for the shows when we had a business in Blackpool.. Frank Carson live was great, Ken Dodd mildly funny. Barrymore dreadful.. Norman collier very funny but the best live comedians Peter Kaye and Rowan Atkinson. 
We got free tickets to see chubby Brown every year... Not a hope!!!!

[mary62]

Nowt funny about Chubby Brown....Just a foul mouthed yob.

[mercury]

There was a look alike in Benidorm.. There was a documentary about him on TV about how he struggled to bring his daughter up on his own.. During the day he was a lovely bloke but his act was even more vile than the real one... The best comedians for me are the ones who don't have to eff and blind to get a laugh.. And no I am not a prude. 

[Rimms]

Miranda Hart for me. Comedy Genius

[Colwyn]

And they say WFLDs don't do irony!

[Jacqui Harvey]

Chic Murray was a famous very droll  Scottish comedian who appeared on British T.V. very regularly.  He had a double act with his wife Maidie.    My Mother loved Chic Murray who was a big inspiration and friend to Billy Connolly.  Billy often tells some of Chic's jokes.  Including the one were a Chic fell over and a guy comes along and looks at him lying there on his back and says "Did you fall over"  "No"  Chic said "I am just trying to break this bar of chocolate in my back pocket"

[mercury]

Another great Scottish comedian was Stanley Baxter.. Superb.

[Shamless2]

Humour is like music - very subjective.

I loved Tommy Cooper.

I never 'got' Benny Hill.

I love Peter Kaye and Michael Macintyre.

I loathe and detest Miranda to the point of punching the TV.

Love Jo Brand cant stand Katy Brand.

Adore Alan Partridge, abhor Lee Evans.

Never really saw the appeal of Dave Allen - other half still loves him.

Billy Connolly was magnificent in his heyday - I do actually remember weeing my pants one Saturday night in the living room at home watching him.

Spike Milligan also made me actually vomit with laughter (I was a tad ill at the time) on the Michael Parkinson show telling a story about a business man with diarrhoea on a train.

Morecambe and Wise and Two Ronnies had their moments but some of it was frankly boring.

Sean Lock is a genius, Sarah Millican needs locking up.

All very personal and subjective.

Menthol we seem to have the same taste in Comedy, (we could take turns in punching the tele with Miranda).