Off Topic Best comedy character ever

Ive watched both countless times with the brilliant Richard Briers, but is it me or didnt tom fancy margo & jerry fancied barbara.....(didnt we all!!)

 

Tommy Cooper . Timeless gags.

Anything to do with 'Yes Minister'.

Milton Jones / Tim Vine - both equally funny.

 

No particular order

Dads army
Frasier
Only fools and horses

 

Manuel + excellent support staff.
Not the 9 o clock news.
Mr Bean.

 

Rab C Nesbitt
Manuel
Rigsby

 

Uncle monty
Withnail
I
Presuming Ed
Danny

 

I think most are covered but would add Nigel Tufnell, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap. And Bill Murray as the deputy green keeper in Caddyshack.

Worst comedy characters would have to include Mrs Brown and all of her twattish boys, anyone played by Jim Carey, and the dreadful Andy Kaufman, though I think he was only trying to irritate people not make them laugh.

 

What about Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman? That creates some sort of parallax time vortex of comedy misery thingy for you, doesn’t it?

 

Jim Carey is Antihumour - not remotely amusing. Apparently, he’s a good painting artist though, so maybe has some talent somewhere. Andy Kaufman too, was terrible. Yet I enjoyed Man on the Moon.

I don’t have words to describe the depth of dislike I have for Mrs Brown. It often strikes me as very strange what some people, even intelligent ones, find amusing.

In a failed attempt to bring some culture to me, a friend got Mrs Iwas and I tickets to see La Boheme at the Albert Hall some years ago. It was beyond 5hit, yet every so often the audience (not including our box), for no discernible reason as far as I could make out, would burst into random laughter. At one point, one of the actors dropped a handkerchief, this was met with 2000 odd people almost suffering a group aneurysm through the apparent utter hilarity of it. Go figure.

 

Blackader - after the first series, comedy genius from the creators/writers
Dads Army - still very funny to this day
Father Ted - enjoying watching the re-runs on Saturday evenings
Goodness Gracious Me - Not everyone's cup of char but very funny in it's day
Fraiser & Cheers - Brilliantly written
Not the Nine O'Clock News - again brilliant in its day

Bound to be loads more.........

 

No love for the League of Gentlemen on here? Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are genius what with LoG, Psychoville and lately Inside No. 9.

 

Benny Hill.

 

I have to say that I quite like Jim Carrey. I thought him particularly good in Bruce Almighty, The Truman Show and Man On The Moon.

I must say there are a few Adam Sandler movies that I rather enjoy too, particularly The Wedding Singer.

 

Can’t beat a bit of Tony Hancock, though.

 

1970s Spencer and Fawlty
1980s Blackadder
1990s Alan Partridge and Pop from League of Gentlemen.
2000 onwards Peep Show