Where the jiggery is Hugh Dennis?

[policywonk]

He doesn't seem to be on the Now Show any more. I miss him.

Oh dear at the thought of attending a comedy gig (or any sort of gig) with hyperemesis. Bleurgh.

I love Marcus B, he has the same politics as I do and gets similarly wound up so I feel great esprit de corps when he starts yelling.

Marcus Brigstocke - loved him ever since the Savages. Saw him a couple of weeks ago in Totally Looped - not a very funny show; he was the best thing in it imho.

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I'm most like Jo Brand but would like to be like Lee Evans - he makes me cry laughing, love the physical humour and ever the overdone pathos sometimes. Tim Minchin's pretty cool, too.

even.

I really like Dylan Moran - I thought "Black Books" was superb and the DVDs I've seen of his live shows have had me in physical pain from laughing so much.

I'd like to think I'm like Bill Hicks - seeing the humour in the dark side of life, philosophical and complex... In reality, I fear I'm more like Phil Jupitus - overweight and a lot less funny than he thinks he is.

(P.S. Lee Evans? Crikey, now there's someone I have never seen the funny side of)

Can't think of any comedians I'm like but my favourites ocmedians I've seen live are Milton Jones, Graham Norton - saw him in a very small venue in 1997 and had a chat with him at the interval - he was lovely, Simon Munnery as the Urban Warrior at Edinburgh years ago - think I saw him in Stewart Lee's tv programme recently. Jeremy Hardy was also fantastic. I do like Stewart Lee but find his tendency to repeat things slowly quite irritating. Now I like Dara O'Briain, David Mitchell and Michael McIntyre but I think McIntyre's sense himself that he is wonderful will start to pall at some point. Tim Vine always cracks me and seems like a really decent guy.

I quite like Jimmy Carr. When I first saw him I hated him, because I was completely fooled by his comedy persona -- misogynistic, racist, homophobic, laddish. It only gradually dawned on me that he didn't mean it. I heard him interviewed on an R4 prog and he is very thoughtful indeed about what he does.

He used to be a v committed Christian.

(Policywonk, you would be Jeremy Hardy I think?)

Hugh Dennis was only missing last week, wasn't he? Maybe he's off filming another series of "Outnumbered"? [hopeful emoticon]

Apparently he once said to his father "It's very hard being a stand-up comedian when your father's a bishop" and his father said "well, it's not very easy being a bishop when your son's a stand up comedian"!

Actually, I might be more of a Mark Steele...

And yes, pw v. jeremy hardy!

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OOh yes please to being Jeremy Hardy. I wuv him.

I also find it hard to believe that Jimmy C is as awful as he pretends to be, having read interviews with him. He just pushes the boundaries too far for my taste. (Mind you, I also feel indulgent towards Jeremy Clarkson.)

Graham Norton comes over as being fantastically pleasant and self-aware from what I've read too.

WTF? SGB getting married/scared of mice/using the word "minny" and now PW feeling indulgent towards Jeremy Clarkson.

Hugh Dennis fan here as well (though missed Now Show so hadn't realised he wasn't there).

Also quite like Marcus Brigstocke - Giles Wemmbbley Hogg was excruciatingly funny (once saw someone as bad as that in Guatemala...could not stop cringing)

No takers for Bill Bailey?

Clever and funny and an accomplished musician to boot

is hugh dennis filming more of that TV one with the children (can't remember the name) I wonder?

Habbibu, that was a v. funny post.

(So clearly you aren't Mark Steele. Surely he's just a drearing 1st-year Marxist in the student bar?)

Oh, no, I like him - like the lectures and stuff - though he said some daft stuff about history books in most recent series.

Bill Bailey I like too. And once heard a v. funny Swedish comic.

No women, eh? Victoria Wood still the best there, I reckon.

And if anyone so much as mutters Jo-I'm-Really-NOT-Funny-Caulfield I shall spit.

Jo Caulfield.

No, there aren't (m)any very good women stand-ups, even though there are brilliantly funny women elsewhere.

Perhaps the form is a bit masculine? Standing there, look at me, clutching a big microphone.

Shappi Khorshandi? (I think I've spelled that wrong). She is very funny.

She's ok - I find her a bit hit and miss. Problem is that there are so few women, they have to compete with men who've outdone all their male opposition, iyswim, so it's so difficult.

She's MUCH better than Jo Flamin Caulfield

I miss Linda Smith - now she was very very very funny.

I thought Bill Bailey's "Part Troll" was excellent, but was very disappointed by "Tinselworm".

As for female stand-ups, the late, lamented Linda Smith was brilliant and is sorely missed in this house. Plus I've always had a stiffie soft spot for Lucy Porter.