Comedy

[hXc]

Go on, what's your favourite comedy show/film and who is your favourite comedian? The comedian has to be in another program/film than the 1st stated.

My program/film would have to be Monty Python and my favourite comedian is Benny Hill. American comedy needs funny things to be said, English comedy needs nothing to be said, you know exactly what's going on and you don't need words to ruin it.

[MidnightMike]

Team America, F#ck Yeah :spudguita
Com'n again to save the M*ther F*ckn day eyah.

Err ... team america

[Beemer]

The Brits have it over the Yanks any day for straight comedy, although I do like a few of their comedy series. Hate the canned laughter though.

Loved shows like Green Wing and Coupling, very subtle humour. Never liked Benny Hill though, too silly! You're right though, hXc, the Brits can make you laugh with things like silly walks and looks rather than just words.

[ManDownUnder]

Billy Connelly always has me going.

Other than that - the Muppets?

[bugjuice]

the brits start all the humor, the world follows. Can't beat class acts like Monty Python and Black Adder.. Spike Milligan, The Two Ronnies, Ali G.. the list is almost endless

[Karma]

eddie izzard!!

[skelstar]

Woo "So I married an axe murder" was my fav until "Life Aquatic" came along.

Bill Murray/Owen Wilson (writing) then.

[edit] dead-pan humour always wins.

[kro]

Not so persuaded to country of origin as I am to certain actors/actresses.

Randy Quaid
John Cleese
Chevy Chase
Jennifer Saunders
Bill Murray

The list goes on, I like a good mixture.

[hXc]

The cast:

MAN: John Cleese
CUSTOMER: Terry Jones
FIRST VOICE OVER: Eric Idle
SECOND VOICE OVER: Terry Gillam

The sketch:

(Cut to corner of cinema. A man in an ice-cream girl's uniform is standing in a spotlight with an ice-cream tray with an albatross on it.)
Man: Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!
(A cutomer approaches him.)
Customer: Two choc-ices please.
Man: I haven't got choc-ices. I only got the albatross. Albatross!
Customer: What flavour is it?
Man: It's a bird, innit. It's a bloody sea bird . .. it's not any bloody flavour. Albatross!
Customer: Do you get wafers with it?
Man: Course you don't get bloody wafers with it. Albatross!
Customer: How much is it?
Man: Ninepence.
Customer: I'll have two please.
Man: Gannet on a stick.
(The camera zooms past back onto the screen. On screen appears another 'Intermission' sign.)
First Voice Over: There will now be a very short...
(The intermission sign explodes.)
We now see a series on animated captions:
'NOW SHOWING AT OTHER DANK CINEMAS'
'AT THE PORTNOY CINEMA PICCADILLY'
'WINNER OF THE GOLDEN PALM, TORREMOLINOS'
'RAINWEAR THROUGH THE AGES'
'COMING SOON'
'AT THE JODRELL CINEMA, COCKFOSTERS'
Second Voice Over: The management regrets that it will not be showing a feature film this evening as it eats into the profits'
(Cut to the Queen on horseback; first few bars of National Anthem. Cut to Customer sitting in cinema seat clutching albatross.)
Customer: Well that's quite enough of that. And now a policeman near Rottingdeans ... Albatross!

[MSTRS:Me]

OI - where's the 'If it's funny, who cares who did it?' option??

[hXc]

OI - where's the 'If it's funny, who cares who did it?' option??

You're the old bastard with no sense of humour. I had decided that well before I posted this thread

[Lou Girardin]

The blacker the better.

[James Deuce]

I like "Black Books".

[SPman]

The Brits have superiority in dark, anarchic comedy - Black Books, Bottom, and even quiet, gentle, incisive comedy.
Stand up - has to be George Carlin!
So - thats UK - 2, USA - 1!

[yungatart]

John Cleese, Eric Idle
I like The Young Ones-Neil, Vivian, Rick and Mike, Black Books and Fawlty Towers
Neil- "How come they can put man on the moon but haven't managed to de-fart the lentil?"
Now why can't they put that kind of stuff on TV again instead of all that reality crap?