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Someone called Stewart lee told a fantastic joke last week. He said they smuggled a fridge into no 10 so that boris could hide in it!!
I was convulsed with laughter.
Comedy is over.
He has a guardian column and that’s all we need to know. Everyone will be cancelled apart from this ****
So now it’s finished. Who was the greatest
Tommy cooper was unique. Billy Connolly was a fantastic raconteur. Honorables for dave Allen too
But no one tops richard Pryor. No one
Those two performances on video. Nothing like them
I’ll bore with reasons why sometime
Ken Dodd
“The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost”
“The man who invented Cats’ Eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener”
“It turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn’t make the sound of a coconut”
“What a lovely day for sticking a copper rod up Andre Previn’s trouser leg and saying how’s that for a lightning conductor?”
etc etc for ever and ever amen
Agree about Ken Dodd. As a shameless name dropper, I met him a few times. Usually in the second hand book shop near Lime Street Station. He was a genuinely nice man.
His Christmas shows at the Philharmonic Hall were legendary. The taxi drivers all loved him because by the time he had finished the last buses and trains were long gone!
His only rival in the league of Liverpool comedians was Freddie Starr, owner of Minnehoma. (OK, he was actually from Huyton but it is near enough).
Not many people ever upstaged The Greatest:
I will throw Les Dawson into the mix as well:
“In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, forever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought..I must put a roof on this toilet.”
Eric Morecambe , nobodies come close to the heights him and Ernie hit , Xmas was judged on how good there Xmas show was in the 70s , the Previn sketch is perfection yet Eric was petrified as they hadn’t done a run through ( everything was ran through to perfection even the ad-libs ) , his reaction to Previn’s baton reply is genuine as he knows it,ll be good , watch the orchestra in the background , there laughing along , it’s as good as anything you,ll ever see , them in the flat or bed , never questioned , different days and if anyone thinks you can mention Ant and Dec in the same breath then there crazy …..lastly Diana Rigg said Eric was one the sexiest men she ever met ….explains the arse slaping sketch they did
I haven’t been to many stand up comedy shows but the best one I have been to is Rich Hall.I took my daughter to see Ken Dodd thinking he wouldn’t be around for much longer but he lived and performed for many more years. We escaped at the interval as we both found the humour very dated and we knew if we stayed for the second half we’d be there till the early hours. I’ve never forgotten the first time I heard Billy Connolly: it was when when a friend played an LP of his: I’d never heard anything like it.I think he changed comedy forever.
Richard88 for nominating McIntyre.
I assume it was sarcastic. Best laugh I have had all day anyway!
Never Totally got morecombe and wise although you could see they were good. If that makes sense
Unfortunately, I dislike literally all “comedians.”
A more consistent bunch of people who are collectively deluded they are:
1. Clever
And
2. Funny
it would be hard to imagine.
I will never, repeat NEVER, part company with money to watch one ever, repeat EVER.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"‘I assume it was sarcastic. Best laugh I have had all day anyway!’
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Job done if I got a laugh. He’s about as funny a rectal exam from Captain Hook. People lap it up though so good luck to him though.
I’ll find some clips of people who are actually funny and stick them up.
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