Comedians

I am not much of a fan of stand up comedians - it is very rare I laugh out loud at a joke! I tend to find more funny moments in real life situations. However if I was going to choose a favourite comedian at the moment it would be Michael McIntyre and he tend to use real life situations in his stand up routines. I didn't realise that I liked him until I saw him on the Royal Variety and he made me laugh out loud which was an achievement! As a child I always loved Benny Hill!

Who are your favourite comedians?

I  agree with you Stehanie about Stand up comedians, I did like Benny Hill and Les Dawson, but when I went to a "do" in Lowestoft there was an Irish comedian he used actual events and I just cried with laughter because he was so serious, many of them loaugh at themselves.

I have never seen Michael McIntyre

I'm not a fan of comediens, but I remember some from my childhood, like

DaveAllen, Kenny Everet, Tommy Cooper (he was one of the best)  Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Ronnie Corbet and Ronnie Barker.

Tim Conway...Red Skelton..."I love Lucy"....Bob Newman....Tim Allen...Lily Tomlin...Bob Hope...Johnny Carson...I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them... most of them were in weekly /daily shows on TV. Such as Carol Burnette's weekly show. At least those are the ones I remember right now the most. Yes, Benny Hill...who can forget him. I still reember him running down an hill in his under-shorts having lost his clothes and hiding behind statues enroute...esp when he ends up in an fountain at the bottom and is standing there like an statue with his arms out.... as the "Queen Mother" comes by in an carriage...and she looks at him weirdly,as if to say...What's that?...and he smiles and blows out an little sprig of water like he's part of this statue...and won't be detected. It was funny.

David Sedaris, Gallagher, Bill Cosby, and Sinbad are among my favorites. There is something special about a comedian who doesn't have to be vulgar or use profanity to be funny.

Shirley, am I aging myself?? I loved Tim Conway, Flip Wilson, George Burns, Jonathan Winters, Red Skelton, Dom Delouise, Johnny Carson, Carol Burnette, Harvey Korman, Hee Haw actors/actresses, Laugh-in actors/actresses, Smothers Brothers, Jerry Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy and so on. They were the good old days. I sure miss those people and their shows. 

Like Diana said, they needed no profanity or vulgarness or even sexually oriented talk to be funny! They were just natural! 

I liked Gilda Radner too.  And Jerry Seinfeld.

I don't know some of those names - I know only a few comedians make it from one side of the pond to the other!

Ron - again your favourites are Terrys - I think you two would have alot in common.

Peggy - sound like we would have alot in common too.

Terry bought me the DVD of Michael McIntyre for Christmas. I haven't had chance to watch it yet so I don't know if he uses profanities. Like some of the others I prefer comedians not to swear. I have only seen him on the Royal Variety so he didn't swear on that!

I'd forgotten about Dave Allen Sue - used to watch him when I was younger.