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

[Pruni]

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hate jim davidson

and isn't he the one that got in to trouble for making the wrong kind of joke at a show in southanpton or somewhere where a group atteneded in wheelchairs ( this information may be wholly inaccurate and a gross slur whoihc i now distance myself from)

i don't like blue stuff

I was a big fan of frankie howerd when little

and carry on films

st trinians and molesworth down with skool and used to talk like that

and those pony books thelman?

totally failing to address the leftie bit..isn't that behind the times, i don't like the self consciousness of it

did find what is his name quite funny at the time

george melly can be funny

zippi if I remember rightly he said that he wouldn't perform at a show when there were wheelchair users in the front row

he said that he always took the piss out of people in the front row and he wouldn't be able to do that if they were in wheelchairs

but that might be remembered wrongly

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sorry pruni meant i don't like the self consciousness of people like ben elton not you

hope you didn't think I was suggesting you were smug!

i'm not right leaning so i better stop posting

sorry Pruni was it me? I didn't mean you were smug. Am very much enjoying your thread

was mainly talking about Jeremy Hardy etc and the idea that you could have a good evening just by agreeing with someone in a smug way

I need to get over it I think

but it cost me £14

I was enjoying the thread too, but not answering it sorry i think that's why I gave up mn before Christmas because i realised i was incapable of answering threads and it made people cross

i am like this in rl too..

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Have skimmed read the thread, and whilst he was 'a-political', I can't believe that Tommy Cooper hasn't had a mention !!!!!!

pruni

I think leftie comics have to have rough edges so once they get older and successful it's bit dificult

what about stephen fry

still trying to think of the archetypal comedian contemporary leftie of ben's

have ggoled alternative comics to help my brain

alexei sayle

I never really laughed at tommy cooper i think he is a mna's comedian like tony hancock

I think i might like the mighty boosh if i saw them properly rather than talking to ross

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I didn't think you were being smug

I just wouldn't pigeon hole comedians by their political leanings. I mean, it's obvious with some of them but I don't let that stop me laughing at their (funny) jokes

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Crap: Little Britain, Catherine Tate, Billy Bragg, Ben Elton, Jack Dee

Funny: Peter Kay, Eddie Izzard (LOVE him), Bill Hicks, League of Gentlemen

Can't think of any more.

But most of the so called new comedy shows are a pile of crap.

ah well Pruni, in that case, if they were totally political I wouldn't have been interested. (I don't think ben Elton was, in fact I remember rolling on the floor at his 'fanny fart' stories )

and the ephemeral one with long dark hair is sexy too [obsessed with sexy men emoticon]

strangely the antithsesis of jack

I think actually right wing comdey is quickly stamped on
is michael barrymore right wing..is he a comic

I get it, I just don't think its funny.

Funniest thing in the world ever:
Spinal Tap

If you don't like The Office you definitely won't like that.

BBC 7 - digital radio is good for comedy shows old and new.

comedy club bbc7

go to listen again page to hear the shows - comedy club is 10pm-midnight.

There are some good comedy programmes on telly occasionally but they do tend to hide them.

zippi/pruni/cappucino - you may be my long lost twin sisters (?) - I totally agree with you. I wonder if you are the same age as me (well on the wrong side of 40) - I love the lefty stuff and listen to radio 4 comedies a lot. & funnily enough was trying to explain billy bragg to my 13 year old on monday ('the great leap forward' was on the radio) Hate the office/catherine tate/peter kay/little britain etc. just seems like crap to me. I like intelligent humour and I did love Frazier and miss it. lots of american stuff touches the spot though not all obviously (I have to sit through endless Friends reruns with the kids....)and the family always comments if I do laugh at the tv. RW comedy - my dad likes bruce forsyth and dick emery does that count?