I always mix up Mark Thomas and Mark Steel, but both have definitely grown on me.
I said earlier I don't like Chris Morris. That's not true. I've laughed uncomfortably at things he's done. He's very accurate and he doesn't go for soft targets. He's not an easy watch, but he doesn't try to be.
I also liked Nighty Night, it wasn't comfy viewing. I like a lot of Steve Coogan's stuff too. I find Rob Brydon dull. Maybe I just don't get it. They are all mates, after all.
But I find that Sacha Baron Cohen goes for easy targets, such as the naive villagers who thought he and his film crew were well-meaning and trusted them, only to be portrayed as rapists and anti-Semites for us to snigger over.
For me, that was akin to the kind of lies that have been told about Jewish people down the centuries. Just because it's been done in the past, it doesn't make it all right to do it to others.
He crudely abused women on Fifth Avenue in his Borat persona. Because that's what men who come from Boratland are like, isn't it? And they're rich bitches, so they deserved it.
And he was vile to the middle-class, middle Americans who invited him into their home and whose only sin was to be embarrassed and polite and not to sling him and his film crew out on their ear.
Maybe he redeemed himself in the final reel but I'm afraid after that I turned it off.
He can dish it out but he can't take it. That's euphemistically described as being a 'very private person' or in my language: 'a bully with a large US studio behind him.'
I still don't think any of these things should be banned.