Jack Dee was really the only person who could take over from Humphrey Lyttleton

Similarly to Peter Kay and I know he doesn’t really do standup but I can’t help but laugh/smile whenever I see Bob Mortimer. He’s comedy gold in any given situation.

Romesh Ranganathan is a modern day Jack Dee but I can relate to that dead pan, dry, observational humour.

If we are now talking about comedians we like, I defy anybody not to find Peter Kay funny. He doesn't even have to say anything and I start laughing.

Stewart Lee for me - seen him more times than any other comedian. Very much marmite [YUK] but it works for me.

Most of the people who have been on Sorry I Haven't A Clue, though far too many of them are dead

Nick W - agree about the WW2 podcast. Absolutely brilliant.

Sean lock and Tommy cooper

I saw Gervais live at the Hammersmith Apollo years back and he was very disappointing. His “encore” joke was worse than most anecdotes your mates will regale in the pub. I was gutted.

Animal lover Ricky Gervais for me.

For me, Al Murray's comedy is OK but nothing special (I have never seen him live, to be fair) - on the other hand, the WW2 podcasts which he does with James Holland are absolutely excellent

A savvy team will now seek to leave something on goalkeepers at every opportunity. Bring it on.

DO - it’ll still be fudged, something like “at the referee's discretion…” etc etc… Overall I’d expect to see no change - I’d rather see them focus on stupid goal kick routines and ensuring that throw-ins are actually taken from the correct position…

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Seen Al murrey a few times ,any one with a posh name is never confused, and all women that work are either a secretary or nurse :-)

Comedians who pick on members of a paying audience to get a cheap laugh clearly lack enough material and ability to fill the time available. They have the microphone and all the power. The person in the audience has none and are expected to sit there, take it and pretend to find it funny and laugh. In any other situation that is called bullying. Comics like Kevin Bridges, Russell Howard, Lee Evans and Michael McIntyre can entertain without abusing anyone other than themselves. I agree about Al Murray. I saw him about 25 years ago doing his Pub Landlord stage show. There was nothing new that had not been on TV other than ridiculing the front rows. Asking what somebody does for a living just to take the piss isn’t very talented. Glad I was near the back. I left early.

Alan - agree mostly, but Python did occasionally resort to swearing.

Went to see Frankie Boyle live at Hammersmith a few years back. Funny first 15 minutes then died a death. Once he started picking on the front row punters you knew he had run out of ideas

Looks like our youth side have a friendly at Horley next Saturday

I went to see a couple of episodes of Father Ted live, rather good

I remember going to see Shooting Stars & The Fast Show Live - a double bill live show back at some point in the 90s. Shooting Stars was the bigger deal but the stage show was really poor - clearly scripted including scripted corpsing something I can’t stand. Loads of people left at the interval. Thankfully The Fast Show’s go on stage was brilliantly done and made up for it completely.

Mad times...

The 60's and 70's were made times really Pythons, Potty time, Goodies, along with a host of other personalities like Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke and many more added to an affectionate time for comedy that didn't rely on swearing to be funny, or that it was cleverly and sparingly applied.

It’s a sneaky and annoying new thing that shared links from social media channels now tell you the name/tag of the person who shared the link. For YT you can turn this off in Settings - Privacy - Channel Visibility For Shared Links but for most other channels you have to do it manually each time by deleting everything that comes after the ? in the url.

My favourite Goodie was Tim. [Link]