I'm used to family dying around me. All the bloody time! There aren't many left. Maybe 5 or 6. But it affects me more for some bizarre reason that total strangers on tv who die suddenly knock me sideways.
Couldn't argue against anyone mentioned so far, and I could add a few like , Arthur Haynes and from America, Mort Sahl but there are as many different types of Comedian as there are types of Music, and it's impossible to compare them. For instance take the one liner approach of, say, Bob Hope, Ken Dodd, Bob Monkhouse or localy, Bobby Thompson. Is any of their work better than the wonderful ramblings of Les Dawson? Butter, no, but certainly different. Then there are the visual comedians who followed in footsteps of Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy like Dave Allen and The Pythons, The Goodies or Rowan Atkinson, (his gorilla sketch heads my list of TV Favourites). Occasionally there are one-offs like Victoria Wood. So how to come up with a BEST out of all the names mentioned. Couldn't argue against anyone mentioned so far, and I could add a few like , Arthur Haynes and from America, Mort Sahl but there are as many different types of Comedian as there are types of Music, and it's impossible to compare them. For instance take the one liner approach of, say, Bob Hope, Ken Dodd, Bob Monkhouse or localy, Bobby Thompson. Is any of their work better than the wonderful ramblings of Les Dawson? Better, no, but certainly different. Then there are the visual comedians who followed in footsteps of Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy like Dave Allen and The Pythons, The Goodies or Rowan Atkinson, (his gorilla sketch heads my list of TV Favourites). Occasionally there are one-offs like Victoria Wood. So how to come up with a BEST out of all the names mentioned. I couldn't, but that OK because almost all of those mentioned have made me laugh at one time or another.
Woody Allen's early stand-up routines were fantastic. Billy Connolly for me though, anarl. His diced-carrot pervert routine made me wet meself...
