Who is the funniest person you have seen on TV of all time?

[DionneB]

in your opinion

i would say

David Mitchell
Jon Richardson
Frankie Boyle.

Kenny Everett
Micky Flanagan
Russ Abbot
Jim Carey
Dave Allen
Charlie Williams
Frank Carson
Chubby Brown
Frankie Boyle
Jim Davidson
Favourite - Terry Wogan’s Janet and John stories YouTube

Oh and Milton Jones for the off the cuff one liners

Ross noble
Dave gorman
Bob Mortimer
Lee and herring (adored tmwrnj)
Chris Morris (jam and brass eye)
Charlie Brooker
Johnny Vegas (his room 101 was amazing)
It crowd/father Ted/black books
Used to enjoy Jasper carrot and Dave Allen

when they are good on mock the week they are brilliant.
when the boys are in their elemant on the league of their own they are hilarious.
eamon holmes
sandy toksvig
noel fielding
graham Norton

eamon holmes????????????

David Hyde pierce/Kelsey Grammar (Frazier)
Dylan Moran

Victoria Wood

Rowan atkinson/Stephen Fry/Hugh Laurie/Emma Thompson etc

Billy Connolly.

Kathy Burke

Also like Rowan Atkinson

kateandme So Graham Norton used to be hilarious.

Rim Mayall, my always

Rik, stupid autocorrect!

lotusbell I think that Rik would have appreciated the autocorrect!

But for sheer absolute brilliant genius you cannot beat
Bob Monkhouse. Saw him live once too.

Monty Python - brilliant, and all on Netflix at the moment!

Victoria Wood
Billy Connolly

Particularly when they did 'An audience with......' that was aired in the 1980's. I would have been quite young at the time but can still remember crying laughing at Victoria Wood singing 'I can't do it'.

Lots of brilliant people mentioned here but I have to add Steve Coogan.

Mickey Flannigan
Sarah millican
Kevin bridges
Lee Evans

Victoria Wood always made me laugh so much, more as I got older can could relate better to what she was saying.

I love Romesh Ranganathan, he's so bitter and cynical.

Rachel Paris - the contrast between her media-bimbo delivery and her biting content is just perfection.

I remember in the early days of Mock the Week, perhaps two or three series in, I saw Dara O'Briain being interviewed on another programme and he mentioned something about how competitive it was when the whole panel was made up of comedians. I was genuinely shocked as I hadn't realised that Russel Howard was a comedian, I thought he was a d-list celeb from a reality show or something. I definitely hadn't laughed at anything he'd said.

Peter Kay, like the boys at School who used to make me laugh until my face ached. It’s his facial expressions as much as anything.

Graham Norton on Father Ted or on his chat show.

Paul Merton and Frankie Boyle.

God I forgot Steve Coogan. I was obsessed with I’m Alan Partridge at School we used to recite whole bits. It’s one of those shows you can watch repeatedly and constantly pick up something new each time.

There are a few I like but I think Victoria Wood. I was about 14 when her 'An Audience' was shown on itv and it was and still is really really funny, it must be 30 years old.

Billy Connolly's is almost as good but I think Victoria edged it.

missyagravation

I was only thinking of Lee and Herring in tmwrnj today!!
Moon on a stick and Kofi Anan (coffee and a naan)
Bloody loved it and no one has a clue what I'm on about

Lee Evans
Romesh Ranganathan
Russell Kane
Jack Whitehall
Jimmy fallon
Robin Williams
Ellen de generes

Rich Hall. Amazing live, as is Eddie Izzard. Rhod Gilbert. Noel Gallagher, very funny dry with.