What comedians have you seen live?

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Harry hill

Lenny Henry
Sarah Millican
Ed Byrne
Jeff Norcott
Ellie Taylor
Rachel Parris
Katherine Ryan
Steve Coogan
Al Murray
Michael Macintyre
Victoria Wood

I'm sure there's more, those are just off the top of my head

Eddie Izzard
Dara O’Briain
Andy Parsons
Hugh Dennis
Ed Gamble
Ed Byrne
Michael McIntyre
Rob Beckett
Nish
Romesh
Reece James
James Acaster
Hal Cruttenden
Jon Robins
Angela Barnes
Jack Whitehall
Suzi Ruffel
Seann Walsh
Chris Mcausland
Maisie Adam
Tony Hawks
Jack Dee
Rory Bremner
Marcus Brigstock
Sarah Pasco
Phil Wang
Tom Allen
Ivo Graham
Gary Delaney
Miles Jupp
Ross Noble

Have tickets for Sarah Millican and Kathryn Ryan

The late great Dave Allen
Harry Hill when the fire alarm went off at The Lowry so we all went walkabout
Peter Kay when he was just starting out
Ed Byrne when he was funny (Night at the opera)
Al Murray Pub Landlord
Dave Gorman when he was funny (Reasons to be cheerful)
Mark Thomas - amazing intimate gig in a pub
The late great Sean Hughes when he was young in a pub
The late great Ian Cognito when he was young in a pub
Rob Newman - oof - not a great gig
Johnny Vegas - oof - an I'm-not-sure-he-is-pretending-to-be-drunk gig
Reginald D Hunter - a resentful gig
Ardal O'Hanlon - a meh gig
Rob Brydon - an okay gig
John Bishop - very early on in his career
Dara O'Briain - quite early on in his career
Rich Herring - most of his solo shows
Stewart Lee - still an acquired taste for me
Ross Noble - quite funny
Adam Hills - very funny
Brendon Burns - sweary but funny
Jim Jeffries - coarse but funny
Jerry Sadowitz - good magician
Doug Stanhope - dark
Scott Capurro - provocative
Terry Alderton - should have been massive, not sure what happened there
Boothby Graffoe - liked him a lot
Russell Brand - erm, Shame has not aged well
Chris Addison - blimey, many moons ago
Marcus Brigstocke - same
Parsons and Naylor - showing my age now
Greg Proops - sardonic
Tim Vine - puntastic
Bottom - RIP Rik
Mark Watson - when he was Welsh

There'll be more
(I used to go to the Fringe a lot and comedy clubs)

Ross Noble. Really good!

None for thirty years! Before that:
Julian Clary (brilliant)
Hale and Pace (surprisingly good)
French and Saunders, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, all disappointing

Ooh, Shappi Khorsandi about ten years ago

I don't often go to comedy shows as not too many of the big names come near where I live so I usually have to travel and I don't drive so it's not always easy.

Who I have seen:

Ardal O'Hanlon twice about 15 years apart, I'm sure I heard some of the same jokes in both

Eddie Izzard (Force Majeure tour)

Micky Flanagan

I've won tickets to see Tom Davis later this month but have no idea what his show is like.

I've also stood beside Kevin Bridges in a pub but haven't seen his live show yet.

I saw one of Ian Cognito's last gigs - he was brilliant and yet there were only about 15 people there! It was more of a small gathering in a bar with him smelling strongly of marijuana and regaling us with stories. Great night 🥰

Dave gorman - I didn't know much about him but I was laughing so much I was wheezing throughout....happier than a horse in trousers!

Noel fielding and Russel brand as the goth detectives - also hilarious but this was years ago! Noel fielding still makes me laugh....brand not so much

Russell brand on his own - also hilarious at the time (early noughties) but myself and friend were slightly perturbed at the end by the being held in the entrance whilst he pointed out who was to be asked to go to his "after-party" then all being encouraged to chase him down a pier!

Kevin bridges (twice)
Russel Kane
Dave Gorman (twice)
Michael McIntyre - we actually delayed our third child's birth in order to see Michael McIntyre (elective section at 38 weeks, delayed to 38+2 so we could go to MM!)

Seeing James acaster on Wednesday

Seeing frank skinner in November

Russel Howard

Too many to mention, big and small. My absolute favourites are:

Seann Walsh
Adam Rowe
Rachel Fairburn

Rich Hall (Great)
Robin Ince (Brilliant)
Bill Bailey (Great)
Lenny Henry (OK)
Dave Gorman (Great)
Tim Minchin (Great)
Ria Lina (Meh)
Phill Jupitus (Outstanding)
Boothby Graffoe (love him)

Jack Whitehall
Josh widdecombe
Rhod Gilbert
Greg Davies
Rob Beckett
Chris Ramsey
Katherine Ryan
Nish kumar
Ed gamble
Phil wang
Jason Manford

Nick Mohammed
Frank Skinner
Victoria Wood
French and Saunders
Angela Barnes
Linda Smith
John Sessions
Alexei Sayle
Rik Mayall
Ade Edmondson
The Mighty Boosh
Jo Brand
Frankie Howard
Johnny Vegas
Mark Steel
Lenny Henry
Eddie Izzard
Sam Campbell
Iain Stirling
Richard Herring
Stewart Lee
Julian Clary
Sarah Millican
Arthur Smith
Sally Phillips
Jeremy Hardy
Reginald D Hunter
Harry Hill
Ed Byrne
Andy de la Tour
Claire Dowie
John Dowie
Robin Ince
Marcus Brigstock
Ivo Graham
Miles Jupp
Tony Hawks
Jack Whiehall
Hugh Dennis
Andy Parsons
Steve Punt

and others that will come to me in a dream later

Marcus Brigstocke.
Ardol O'Hanlon.

I don't know if these are the correct spellings can't be arsed to check.

Ben Elton in the 90s

Ricky Gervais last year

Rowan Atkinson, Lenny Henry (dire), Jason Manford, Jon Richardson, Mickey Flanagan.

I’m sure there are more…

I have tickets for Greg Davies next year.

Ed Byrne
Ben Elton
Frankie Boyle

Jason Manford, Michael McIntyre, Peter Kay, Bill Bailey, Gary Delaney, Sarah Millican, John Bishop, Paddy McGuinness

My absolute favourites were Bill Bailey, Peter Kay and Michael McIntyre.

Claim to fame: I gave Sarah Millican the idea for her 'chocolate sex noise' joke at a pre-gig she did after she told me to try two types of chocolate at the same time. Proud of that one 😂

Sean Locke. We absolutely loved him on panel shows etc and thought he was hilarious.

Unfortunately it really fell flat for him that night and he kept saying things like 'you know you can laugh if you want to...'. Was very awkward.

I'm not sure where this show fell in the timeline of when he knew he had cancer though so that could have been the issue.

Jack Dee
Frank Skinner
Steve Coogan
Greg Davies
Victoria Wood 😥
Jenny Eclair
Eddie Izzard - when he was funny
Ardal O' Hanlon
Rik Mayall 😥😥

John Bishop twice and Jason Manford

I've only seen Michael McIntyre (over 10 years ago) and James Acaster just a couple of weeks ago. Both very funny. Wish I'd seen Sean Lock and Billy Connelly. Would love to see Ricky Gervais on his next tour but I know it's hard to get tickets.

The Joan Collins Fan Club (Julian Clary)