Best Comic/Comedy Character

Cliveyp

Ross Noble always has me in tears......I love the random-ness of his work. The fact that he can do a whole tour and only repeat one or two jokes bouncing the rest of the show off the audience.

Rigga

Just remembered another Paul Kaye AKA....

DENNIS PENNIS!!

His interviews with hollywood celebs are the stuff of legend! 8)

john_kline

These have mostly already been mentioned, but I'll mention them again:
Chris Morris
Rik Mayall
Bill Hicks
Richard Pryor
Robin Williams
Larry David
Garry Shandling
Jerry Seinfeld

DavidBelcher

Stone Glider wrote:

Bob Monkhouse such a sharp mind.

Good call. Most people only associate Bob with cheesy gameshows, but he was actually a damn good stand-up with, as you say, an incredibly sharp - and quick - mind. At one point in his career he was also a cartoonist for The Beano, of all things.

David

shouldbeinbed

DavidBelcher wrote:

LeicesterLad wrote:

Characters - Fast show IS the ONLY sketch show

Armstrong & Miller and Mitchell & Webb have also done some excellent stuff but on balance agree that The Fast Show was in a league of its own. Hmm, you know, wasn't it? Marvellous.

David

yep & the first series of Big Train was absolutely superb too.

Graham linehan has never put a foot wrong

onehipwonder

back in the day, The Big Yin was an absolutely brilliant story teller, and I loved the way he would go off on a tangent, but always return to where he left off from his story.

Also love Al Murray and Peter Kay and loads of others that I can't be arsed to type

verylonglegs

DavidBelcher wrote:

Stone Glider wrote:

Bob Monkhouse such a sharp mind.

Good call. Most people only associate Bob with cheesy gameshows, but he was actually a damn good stand-up with, as you say, an incredibly sharp - and quick - mind. At one point in his career he was also a cartoonist for The Beano, of all things.

David

Great call, I'd only seen the old half-hour of his stand-up but it was up there with the best, it really was. As you say though he's associated with gameshows, I'd tell people how great his stand-up stuff was and they'd look at me like I was an idiot, they just wouldn't believe it.

Don't know why but the mention of Monkhouse brings another name up, Dave Allen.

Cleat Eastwood

max miller.

All the great comics had a great rhythm, which is half the joke really. Ronnie Barker had it, Bernard Manning had it, Bob Monkhouse had it, Eric Morecambe had it, Tommy Cooper had it and Ken Dodd has it. I think it had to do with having to start early playing to different crowds, not like nowadays where tv/internet are easy ways intoi the public mind.

ANyway Tommy Cooper would have been 90 thi syear.

"I went to buy a hat. The shopkeeper said Fedora. I said no 'it's for me'"

'people learn something new everyday, just today my wife learned that a car wont climb a telegraph pole."

Stone Glider

Another Max... Max Wall. Near the end of his life he did a lot of straight/serious theatre stuff but I saw him at the Greenwich Theatre in the early 70's doing his act in a 'Music Hall' show. the place was half empty, no atmosphere, until he started. By the second half I was in pain with laughing so much!

shockedsoshocked

Comedy Characters:

Kenny Powers
Larry David (if you count that)
Tobias Funke
Alan Partridge

Redhog14

Mike Myers, comedy genius.
Matt stone, trey parker of South Park fame

Cleat Eastwood

Sir Henry (at rawlinsons end)

lemoncurd

Stewie Griffin

Pross

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

max miller.

All the great comics had a great rhythm, which is half the joke really. Ronnie Barker had it, Bernard Manning had it, Bob Monkhouse had it, Eric Morecambe had it, Tommy Cooper had it and Ken Dodd has it. I think it had to do with having to start early playing to different crowds, not like nowadays where tv/internet are easy ways intoi the public mind.

ANyway Tommy Cooper would have been 90 thi syear.

"I went to buy a hat. The shopkeeper said Fedora. I said no 'it's for me'"

'people learn something new everyday, just today my wife learned that a car wont climb a telegraph pole."

:?: :shock:

Redhog14

Chick Murray - a venerated Scottish Dour Faced Bastard but very funny

" I fell in the street. A woman says "did you fall?", I said "No I have a chocolate bar in my back pocket I need to break"

LeighB

Dick Emery

crumbschief

A few that always bring a laugh

Alun Cochrane
Micky Flannigan
Arthur Smith
Bill Hicks
Neil Delamere
Sean Lock
Dick Emery
Bob Todd
Chris Farley
Arabella Weir
Jenny Eclair
Jack and Victor from Still Game

cornerblock

Daniel Kitson.

Very very funny as a stand up, can also make you laugh and cry when telling one of his stories. If he was at all interested in TV he would be huge, thankfully he is not. The Comedians comedian.

Cleat Eastwood

Redhog14 wrote:

Chick Murray - a venerated Scottish Dour Faced Bastard but very funny

" I fell in the street. A woman says "did you fall?", I said "No I have a chocolate bar in my back pocket I need to break"

me dad loved chick murray, we used to get the sunday post, on a sunday bizarrely enough, and there was an interview with the great man. 'I went to an athletics event, this man asked me "are you a pole vaulter", I said "no, i'm scottish and my names not Walter"'

eskimo Joe

Dirty_Harry wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

Laurel and Hardy.

Their comedy was pure genius and it doesn't matter how many times I see their stuff I can't help but laugh. Timeless.

+1

Marx Brothers anyone ?

Groucho a genius, whos lines still stand up today!

man2wolf

Stand up:
Ken Dodd - “Percy Shaw invented cats eyes when he was driving along the road one night and his headlights reflected in the eyes of a cat. If the cat had been facing the other way he would have invented the pencil sharpener instead”.

Stewart Francis – “I don't think I got the job at Microsoft....they didn't respond to my telegram.......”

Characters:
Marion (Mongrels)
Cat (Red Dwarf)
Jack and Victor (Still Game)
Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)

thegreatdivide

I'm adding Seth MacFarlane to my list. Without him etc...

Keith1983

For me it has to be Rowan Atkinson. Almost everything he does is legendary, with my particular favourite being Blackadder.

eskimo Joe

man2wolf wrote:

Stand up:
Ken Dodd - “Percy Shaw invented cats eyes when he was driving along the road one night and his headlights reflected in the eyes of a cat. If the cat had been facing the other way he would have invented the pencil sharpener instead”.

Stewart Francis – “I don't think I got the job at Microsoft....they didn't respond to my telegram.......”

Characters:
Marion (Mongrels)
Cat (Red Dwarf)
Jack and Victor (Still Game)
Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)

Got to add Winston and Navid from still game as well, some comedy gold from both their characters

beverick

Comedian/Comedy writer - Milton Jones, Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel, Mark Thomas, Mervyn Stutter.

Comedy character - Bilko, Count Arthur Strong (aka Steve Delaney), Arkwright/Fletcher (Open all hours/Porridge aka Ronnie Barker), most characters in only fools and horses.

Bob

DavidBelcher

Cleat Eastwood wrote:

Sir Henry (at rawlinsons end)

Responsible for the excellent line "if I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink", IIRC

Mention of boozy comic creations also brings to mind Mitchell & Webb's brilliant recurring sketch, The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.

David