[The Owl of Minerva]

So who is it in your opinion?

For me its definitely Eddie Izzard. What a genius!

[M1F2R3]

Tommy Cooper.

[Mr Smurf]

Al Murray.

[Guru Jason]

Jack Dee is my favourite comedian. I thinks he is the best too.

[Naminam]

Absolutely ADORE Kevin Bridges. I want him as a friend so badly it's pathetic.

I like Peter Kay when he gets it right too.

[kf289]

I love Michael McIntyre! So funny!

[Drewski]

Lenny Henry didn't come up with the most groundbreaking of acts, but was an important act to breakthrough into the mainstream.

While the contemporary comedians are very good, I don't think a huge number of them will stack up longevity-wise.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Wasn't billy connolly voted as britians greatest stand up?

Quite like eddie izzard, wouldn't say he was the best though. Bill bailey is really good as well but my favourite is Omid Djalili!

[The Owl of Minerva]

(Original post by Foghorn Leghorn)
Wasn't billy connolly voted as britians greatest stand up?

Quite like eddie izzard, wouldn't say he was the best though. Bill bailey is really good as well but my favourite is Omid Djalili!

Yeah hes pretty good. Omid Djalili is also aces. Surprised no one mentioned Dylan Moran.

[Alexx53]

Jimmy Carr. Lee Mack's stand-up is pretty good too.

[iheartdjokovic]

If anyone says Michael McIntyre I will kill them. Personally, Ross Noble or Jimmy Carr

[Big Ern McCracken]

Stewart Lee. Yeah yeah smug, pretentious, self-indulgent and all the rest... but when he strikes gold he can make me laugh like no other comedian around at the moment.

Big fan of Mark Steel too, saw him on his last tour without knowing much about him and he was fantastic. Got to meet him briefly too, top bloke.

[DexterM]

Got to be Eddie Izzard.

[writergirl]

David Mitchell

[EllHv1]

Tim Vine - very quick and holds a record for the most one liners told in one minute I believe.
Then I'd be torn between David Mitchell and Lee Mack, though I think they're perhaps best at more panel shows tbh.

[medbh4805]

Billy Connolly's old stuff was hilarious. I don't think any contemporary comedians really measure up to him tbh.

[jerseymackem]

Ross Noble's brilliant, also Dara O'Briain (if that counts as British!)


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[Picnic1]

A stand up's as good as you like their personality, the clothes that they're wearing and their last act.

So great, professional, well dressed, wordsmiths for everybody like Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson go out of fashion with people when putting on a tight T Shirt and appealing to only one type of audience becomes the vogue.

I do not trust anybody to know what is worth preserving in our culture. The idea that it is often in the hands of some 'hipster' magazine writer putting it down to being their 'guilty pleasure' rather than acknowledging that it was always timelessly good, is appalling.

[Gofre]

Not sure I'd be able to pick between:

Billy Connolly
Bill Bailey
Frankie Boyle
Ross Noble
Eddie Izard

At a push, Bailey.

[The Owl of Minerva]

(Original post by DexterM)
Got to be Eddie Izzard.

John Cleese called him "the lost python". Praise does not get higher than that.


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