If you are not a 'leftie', who are your comedy/entertainment heroes?

[Pruni]

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Mike Harding - has always made me laugh.

And a lot of the radio 4 lot - eg Marcus Brigstock, Jeremy Hardy etc.

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To 'get' The Royale Family and Peter Kay I think you really need to have had that typical northern upbringing where you were at your Nan's house every Saturday.

It has to ring true for it to be funny. My London ILs don't get them either.

To 'get' The Royale Family and Peter Kay I think you really need to have had that typical northern upbringing where you were at your Nan's house every Saturday.

It has to ring true for it to be funny. My London ILs don't get them either.

I don't see what politics has to do with anything. Either someone's funny or they're not. It doesn't matter to me who or what they take the p*ss out as long as it's funny.

I love Ben Elton's stand up but then his act is not totally about politics. I'm not really a fan of toilet humour or sick jokes although you may get an occasional funny one. I do like observational humour so that means Peter Kay but I think he's losing that edge at the mo, appearing in anything and everything.

I'm with Pablo re Billy Bragg - ugh!
Lenny Henry is spectactularly unfunny!

I quite like jenny eclair

and jack dee

but to be honest I'm less into comedy than humour

hate the office and little britain and catherine tate

don't really pick comedy to watch

loved the radio show I'm sorry I'll read that again was cutting edge at the time

so quirky disconnected lateral thinking gets my vote..struggles to think of an example to illustrate this idea but a few mns are good at it

I think paul Merton on form is excellent in this area..

I went to see Jeremy Hardy the other week and was so

there were some funny bits but mainly it was him telling us not to be judgemental and to be this and to be that which I didn't pay to go see

I went to go and laugh

He had already made jokes about all his audience being over 35, so it was incredibly offensive to be made to feel that at this advanced age we still needed some short git on a stage to tell us not to be prejudiced against people of different faiths ffs

ooh thanks Jeremy, I couldn't have come to that conclusion on my own. It's a good job I happened upon your show, which has changed my life for the better

Bill Hicks was the man.

I like Eddie Izzard though he has lost it a bit of late

and I like Peter Kay

and I got some Chris Rock DVDs for Christmas which made me weep

Harry Hill I never got for ages, he puzzled me totally; then suddenly I got it and now he makes me cry laughing

The Office was painful; Little Britain is overrated comedy for 20-year-old men

in my opinion, obviously

Off-topic, but I once had to endure a six-hour coach journey of non-stop Roy Chubby Brown videos. They should use that stuff in Guantanamo Bay.

I love eddie izzard (but am a leftie). That joke about the cat drilling for oil behind the sofa... gasp, wipes eye. Spike Milligan was hysterical too, I like surreal humour.

I didn't know Bernard Manning was dead. And I am in absolute that anyone finds Jenny Eclair amusing (did you hear her play/serie On Baby Street? GAG)

As a paid up leftie I know I should like Seinfield (which is on constant repeat on local TV) but I just find it dull. Is that sacrilege?

perhaps i haven't seen much of jenny poor thing

she has a lovely house, maybe she is better when she writes?

her appearance always impresses me

family wise and extended family wise we are divided between those who raise a wry smile and those who seem to fall about at the least thing..the former is called by the latter folk "not having a sense of humour"

former folk call the response of the latter folk "totally lacking in taste"

Zippi - it was this radio 4 late night 'comedy' thing she did... honestly, you just couldn't raise more than a whimper at it. Maybe her writing is much improved.

Jack Dee is someone else I don't get but that may be because I've only ever seen him as the MC at boozy industry awards things.

i find the miserable Jack very sexy

Oh yes things like The Office and Extras makes me cringe - I hate 'stupid humour' years ago (you lot won't remember) Harry Worth, he was stupid. Fawlty Towers was the same, it just make me go 'oh for God's sake!'

I know people revere these shows but they don't do it for me.

Little Britain was funny the first time around now it's the same joke week after week - poor.

I prefer stuff like Have I Got News For You and QI and the Grumpy series (especially Arthur Smith )

ROFL Zippi - we two will never watch comedy together thats for sure!!

arthur smith yes (not sexy) but sort of person you would like a random evening with

jools did you like it's a square world when you were a baby?

there were some comedy specials that Jack Dee hosted a while ago; wish they'd do it again

they had Marcus Brigstock and Dara O'Briain and a few others

I do like Dara too

but returning to the OP about the political angle; I don't like the idea that you have to completely agree with someone's politic to find them funny; it's all a bit smug to me

if they're funny and I don't agree with them then that's odd, but it's still funny. Chris Rock says some shocking stuff but he still makes you laugh (while you're staring at him in horror). And he doesn't give a bollocks

far better than Jeremy 'oh I'm so sanctimonious I'm sure you'll all agree with me' Hardy

dh loves The League of Gentlemen
also Alan Partridge, we both love Early Doors.

was that Michael Bentine?
I remember it being on but don't remember the content much. I must be much younger than I thought

JoolsToo absolutely about The Extras and The Office - Ricky Gervais is such a one-trick pony. The Extras was supposed to be so good and so new and it was just him doing the same cringeworthy stuff all over again

I've seen him doing some quite dodgy disability stuff in his stand-up that's eerily close to David Brent. If it's a character, it's a character. If it's your only stuff, shuffle off

Emperor's New Clothes imo

when dd2 was about 4 she used to howl with laughter at little and large she is of the deep cackling guffaw and dirty humour brigade now..me and dd1 are the internal snigger and subtle hunour people

i had a birthday party when i was 6 or 7 and the big treat was a showing of vintage laurel and hardy borrowed from the bbc by my dad..it was a fantastic surprise treat (not)

he couldn't understand why i had a massive paddy as my friends fell about laughing

hate little britian, with a real passion.

love

billy connelly (absolute fave thou!)
jim davidson
chris rock
jack dee.

not sure which camp that puts me in thou - I like who I like! lol.

Laurel and Hardy - now you're talking

ds1 is a huge fan too.