Britain’s Best Comic Genius

The ‘Increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy” ran to five volumes by Douglas Adams, with a sixth ghost written by Eoin Colfer.

 

@Jonnybiscuit et al got close imo, but there is only one genius Peter Sellers

 

I once went to see Ken Dodd it was getting light when we got out He was hilarious.

 

My late wife grudgingly was dragged to see him, by the eventual end of the night she thought he was brilliant.

 

Marvin’s my hero.

 

I was going to say Tommy, but you beat me to it.

Apparently it used to really annoy him that he would walk into a restaurant and people would just start to laugh at him, but he was so nice he just went along. A brilliantly funny man.

"Spoon, Jar.......Jar, Spoon"

 

"Doctor, every time I lift my arm up it hurts"
"Don't do it then"
It wasn't always the content of the jokes, but the way he delivered them and the timing.

 

I’ve seen Billy a few times over the years and I’ve laughed so much I thought I’d be sick.
Right at the top with Ronnie Barker in my opinion.

 

As a kid, I remember my dad crying with laughter watching him, and I didn't get it as I thought he was just a really bad magician.

Then when you get older and saw him for what he was, nobody was funnier.

 

I'm really surprised Frankie Boyle hasn't had a mention, razor sharp wit, cutting away at the establishment and conformity.
They're all of their time though, a few have stood the test of time, these are the true comics, their humour lasts generations.

 

One trick pony, like Dave Allen and many other great comics.

 

And here's the news for the deaf......

HELLO.....

 

The Big Yin, by a fair margin. Then Cooper, then Cleese.

Can't believe Jack Dee hasn't made the list, or Stewart Lee. Very glad to see Monkhouse, Carrot, Enfield and Whitehouse are here. Sir Lenny needs an honourable mention somewhere, along with Bhaskar et al.

But in terms of actual genius it's got to be Laurel & Hardy.

 

Not many wimmin..

 

There's only one. Victoria Wood.

 

Because all they go on about is men and their (own) fannies. Gets boring after a bit....

 

And Freddy Star was funny. For a bit anyway....

 

As do many black comics about being black.

 

Father Crilly



Or was it "Curley" ......