Comedians that make you laugh

Frankie Boyle all the way.

"Whats that Joker, youll be back? somehow, I dont think so..."

"Is it a bird, is it a plane? I dont know but whatever it is, its heading straight for the twin towers..."

The man knows no boundaries.
 
Frankie Boyle

"Recently Scottish Football Clubs have banned fans from taking their own food in to football matches. I can see a police officer searching someone now, "What's this sir? A knife? I do hope you weren't planning on making sandwiches in there!"
 
KennyBhoy said:
Frankie Boyle

"Recently Scottish Football Clubs have banned fans from taking their own food in to football matches. I can see a police officer searching someone now, "What's this sir? A knife? I do hope you weren't planning on making sandwiches in there!"
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Haven't really seen much of Frankie Boyle but is that as funny as he gets? (If so will avoid. :(
 
Tefal said:
Frankie is class, haven't seen him on anything other than mock the week, any links to full stand up?
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I only started watching this this month on Dave, planning to see Russell Howard's stand-up in London in November now :)
 
Jasper Carrot was very funny in his prime. No swearing or adult tones, just great comedy and fantastic story telling
 
lenny henry, paul merton, not a comedian as such, but can be very funny especally when he says the wrong thing at the wrong time Boris Johnson, but he's been quiet lately
 
Mike Wilmot - Canadian bloke that has lived over here for a while. I saw him when he supported Rich Hall a couple of years ago and thought i was going to die in my seat - I got to the point where I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard.
 
uchuff said:
Totally. One name I've not seen mentioned yet is Alun Cochrane, seen him compere at the Comedy Store a couple of times and thought he was really funny - dealt with a couple of hecklers brilliantly. Rich hall also had me in stitches.
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Alun Cochrane is great, I've seen him do his own set a few times, he tends to get distracted and go off on a bit of a tangent though

kieranv said:
my wee brothers away to see some comedian tonight in edinburgh.

...tim minchan??
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tim minchin - aussie musical comedian, lots of people liken him to bill bailey, he's very good and doing a uk tour later this year

I go to see stand up at least once a week, and have seen plenty of those mentioned above.

Tefal, I do think steve hughes is great, and i'm not a big (or even small) fan of chris rock, but you cant really compare them, they're just not targetted at the same people, like i've seen steve hughes on a bill straight after jim jeffries and they're both great at what they do, but the audience didnt really go for steve hughes as they'd got into the jim jeffries mindset, which is basically well told knob gags

A list of comedians I think people should check out, some well known, others less:

Jason Cook
Rob Deering
Jason Manford
Tom Stade
Alun Cochrane
Daniel Kitson
Richard Herring
Stewart Lee
Robin Ince
Caimh McDonnell
Dan Atkinson
Dan Nightingale
Jack Whitehall (if you can retrospectively see him before whatever big brother crap he did)
Ivan Brackenbury (Tom Binns)
Eddie Hoo
Matt Green
Rodney Marques
Jared Christmas
John Bishop
Chris Lynam
Dave Twentyman
Paul Tonkinson
Gary Delaney
Ian Cognito
Jim Jeffries
Steve Hughes
Jonathan Mayor
Justin Moorhouse
Mark Steel
Markus Birdman
Nick Doody
Parrot
Sean Moran
Seymour Mace
Silky
Sol Bernstein
Smug Roberts
Steve Shanyaski
Sully O'Sullivan
Vince Atta
Will Hodgson
and I suppose I better put him in
Toby Hadoke

Those are all currently touring on the small-medium circuit and are very much worth checking out, they'll normally only cost you a few quid.
I would also recommend seeing people from tv, like quiz show regulars, if you get the chance, granted not all of them are there because of their standup prowess but a good few are and you're likely to be in for a treat.

As far as the big names go, it's just whatever takes your fancy really, personally I dont get that much appeal from the mainstream targetted stand ups, lee evans, peter kay, but really like eddie izzard and bill bailey, I also tend to favour comedians who seem intelligent even if it's in a bit of a bumbling way, rich hall and will self
 
Off the top of my head, my favourites:

Frankie Boyle
Shaun Lock
Jimmy Carr
Lee Evans
Russell Howard
Michael Mcintyre
Pablo Fancisco
Dave Chappelle
Ricky Gevais
Karl Pilkington
Mitchell and Webb
Robin Williams
Bill Bailey
 
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