Rob Day

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I was just thinking about Stand up Comedians, and who to go and watch next, or I might go to another Comedy Club and see the "wannabes".


Who's your favourites?


This is an inexhaustive list of stand-up comedians from the United Kingdom stolen from Wiki

• Herbie Adams
• Russell Howard
• Chris Addison
• Stephen K. Amos
• Simon Amstell
• Dan Antopolski
• Arthur Askey
• David Baddiel
• Bill Bailey
• Sacha Baron Cohen
• Julian Barratt
• Mitch Benn
• Sanjeev Bhaskar
• Danny Bhoy
• Simon Bird
• John Bishop
• Richard Blackwood
• Adam Bloom
• Frankie Boyle
• Jo Brand
• Russell Brand
• Kevin Bridges
• Marcus Brigstocke
• Roy 'Chubby' Brown
• Rob Brydon
• Susan Calman
• Rhona Cameron
• James Campbell
• Alan Carr
• Jimmy Carr
• Jasper Carrott
• Jo Caulfield
• Craig Charles
• Ted Chippington
• Paul Chowdhry
• Julian Clary
• Jackie Clune
• Justin Lee Collins
• Robbie Coltrane
• Pat Condell
• Brian Conley
• Billy Connolly
• Nina Conti
• Peter Cook
• Tommy Cooper
• Chris Corcoran
• Matthew Crosby
• Hal Cruttenden
• Jim Davidson
• Alan Davies
• Greg Davies
• Les Dawson
• Jack Dee
• Hugh Dennis
• Bill Dewar
• Omid Djalili
• Ken Dodd
• Karen Dunbar
• Justin Edwards
• Ben Elton
• Jo Enright
• Lee Evans
• Simon Evans
• Graham Fellows
• Marty Feldman
• Craig Ferguson
• Noel Fielding
• Micky Flanagan
• Paul Foot
• Dawn French
• Ricky Gervais
• Kulvinder Ghir
• Rhod Gilbert
• Janey Godley
• Dave Gorman
• Boothby Graffoe
• Stephen Grant
• Jeff Green
• Colin Griffiths
• Malcolm Hardee
• Jeremy Hardy
• Natalie Haynes
• Lenny Henry
• Richard Herring
• Benny Hill
• Harry Hill
• Wil Hodgson
• Russell Howard
• Frankie Howerd
• Lee Hurst
• Eric Idle
• Robin Ince
• Eddie Izzard
• Jethro
• Rhys James
• Milton Jones
• Miles Jupp
• Russell Kane
• Peter Kay
• Phil Kay
• Shappi Khorsandi
• Patrick Kielty
• Matt Kirshen
• Daniel Kitson
• Hugh Laurie
• Jeff Leach
• Stewart Lee
• Sean Lock
• Josie Long
• Lee Mack
• Jason Manford
• Bernard Manning
• Michael McIntyre
• Donna McPhail
• Max Miller
• Sarah Millican
• Spike Milligan
• Shazia Mirza
• John Moloney
• Bob Monkhouse
• Simon Munnery
• Al Murray
• Rob Newman
• Ross Noble
• John Oliver
• Andy Parsons
• Simon Pegg
• Sue Perkins
• Lucy Porter
• Romesh Ranganathan
• Chris Ramsey
• Howard Read
• Mike Reid
• Jon Richardson
• John Robins
• George Roper
• Rob Rouse
• Jerry Sadowitz
• Jennifer Saunders
• Paul Sinha
• Frank Skinner
• Linda Smith
• Dave Spikey
• Mark Steel
• Ashley Storrie
• Steve-O
• Kev F. Sutherland
• Meera Syal
• Eric Sykes
• Jimmy Tarbuck
• Mark Thomas
• Tommy Trinder
• Royston Vasey
• Johnny Vegas
• Tim Vine
• Nina Wadia
• Mark Watson
• Reg White
• Jack Whitehall
• Victoria Wood
• Gina Yashere
• Henny Youngman
• Andy Zaltzman
• Stephen Merchant

urban

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Seen Jimmy Carr/Al Murray several times.
Thought they were very funny and very good.

Seen Alan Carr, didn't think he was very good, or funny - seemed really nervous.
Seen John Bishop, didn't think he was good either

JTaylor

Stewart Lee.

jason7579

I saw Omid Djalili in the late 90s whilst he was still fairly unknown and he was very good. Although I think part of his act was successful because he was unknown (he came on and started speaking very broken English, before going all out cockney).

dpb

Boris Johnson ?

Steve001

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Diane Abbott ?
Unfortunately she'd just forget all the jokes, then she would mention Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister and bring the house down

Jonnys3

Seen Lee Nelson, Rob Beckett, Lee Evans, Jon Richardson, Jason Manford, Jimmy Carr and Jasper Carrott to name but a few. Would recommend them all.

lozgti1

I think Kevin Bridges and Sean Lock are great.

Going to an awards dinner at the end of the month with Lenny Henry,Sean Collins and Felicity Ward on the bill.

Never heard of the last two. Checked Youtube of them. I didn't crack a smile.lol

lozgti1

He is funny

StrangelyBrown

Went to see Russel Howard at the Albert Hall earlier this year. Managed to see Frankie Boyle last year, very funny yet dark.

lozgti1

Just don't like Russell Howard

funkyrimpler

99% of all of those mainstream comedians are absolute ****...

I would recommend Bill Burr, Liza Lampanelli, Bill Hicks (a true legend), Lenny Bruce (the godfather of standup comedy) and Woody Allen back in the day...His monologues are hysterical...

Larry David??

The Americans are the masters of stand up..We've only produced a handful of genuinely intelligent, provocative and hysterically funny comedians and comedy actors..The rest are either just silly/infantile (morecambe and wise etc), or self indulgent (stewart lee)...The ones that we have produced are all unique and in a class of their own..Kenneth Williams, Billy Connolly etc

These TV friendly so called comedians like Howard, Mcintyre, or even worse..John Bishop.. et al are absolute populist dross..Give me someone thought provoking like Jerry Sadowitz..

gazney101

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American comedians are as funny as ebola.

All of them.

dpb

We have no intelligent comics , seriously , that's quite funny


yanks , and almost every nation on earth untouched by the british empire have a Differnent type of humor

The Trooper 1815

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You will struggle with Bob Monkhouse and his dead pan humour..

lozgti1

"When I was growing up I said I wanted to be a comedian ,everyone laughed at me.

Well, they're not laughing now....."

Good old Mr Monkhouse RIP

I think Kenn Dodd is actually very funny !

dpb

Didn't really appreciate Bob as comic, because of course he'd always be fronting some or other incredibly cheesy show , but he was def good

gazzawrx

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Ive seen jimmy carr, ricky gervais and michael macintyre and they were all brilliant but for me michael macintyre was the funniest, i literally left the show with sore ribs and at times had tears running down my face from laughing so much.

Stewart francis was on before ricky gervais, hes one of my favourite comedians, constant 1 liners, theres another guy called rich hall, both of these are absolutely ace.

I also really like catherine ryan and am possibly in love with her a little bit, i like how filthy she is and reckon shed **** just as filthy too.

An0n0m0us

I think Sean Lock is hilarious as his sarcasm about every day observations is spot on.

dpb

I'm pretty sure there isn't really a Royston Vasey walking around ??!

Rusti

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Jack Dee is still very good and Kathryn Ryan is one of the only funny female comedians

lozgti1

He's great

legb4rsk

Oh no there isn't! Oh yes there is!!

Roy "Chubby" Brown (born Royston Vasey;[1] 3 February 1945) is an English stand-up comedian, famous for his sarcastic blue humour. The controversial free speaking nature of his act and lack of concern for political correctness have led Brown to face accusations that his comedy style is "outdated"

alcazar

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Jo Brand? fat chunt.

Her idea of comedy used to be to mention tampons or periods, then smirk.

Moley

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Have seen Jimmy Carr (a few times), Lee Evans, Bill Bailey, and Alan Carr - who were all good (even Alan Carr was decent)

Also aw a 15 minute Mo Gilligan stand up last year and found him very funny, so am seeing him next year

Rob Day

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Booked: Manchester 24th November (Fri), 2017, 8:00 pm Manchester Arena
https://meeku.com/john-bishop-winging-it


£15 per - Opportunity not to be missed, plus I'll stop over and do some Christmas shopping and taste the Christmas markets!!!

legb4rsk

I like my comedy a bit more hard edged & challenging.I do laugh at the more main stream comedians & appreciate their talent but it ultimately leaves me unsatisfied.They base there humour around middle/working class family values & you always have a voice in the back of your head nagging on that this person is a multi-millionaire.

I like Stewart Lee & for raw political humour Jonathan Pie.

Clip of Jonathan Pie:

WARNING! Very strong language.

Jay kay

That Jonathan Pie thing really did nothing for me, just sounded like a dull anti-tory rant. I had no idea it was supposed to be comedy.

legb4rsk

You have to watch a few more.He is anti all political nonsense from any source.
He plays a spoof political reporter & shows what he really thinks during the breaks in reporting when talking off air to his producer who is back in the studio.

Anti labour :


I also like Charlie Brooker.

hux309

Would love to see jimmy carr, just missed out on his tour as well.

Seen kevin wilson, brilliant guy had me in stitches, didn't go much on his daughter jenny talia mind.