What made you fall in love with comedy?

petra

You don’t fall in love with comedy
You either have a SOH or you don’t. I was the class clown in junior school.

Oooh I wish you been at my school, I too was the class clown and always in “bovver”

MayBee70

Probably goes back to listening to Round the Horne on the radio…

Yes!
And The Glums, I forget what else.

BlueBelle

I ve never fell in love with comedy I either find something funny or I don’t

Exactly. As a rule, I prefer wit to humour. Stand-up comedy makes my skin crawl.

That was the week that was, The Harry Worth Show, Hancock’s half hour.
But most of all Tommy Cooper. He could just walk on stage and look gormless and I would have to laugh.
Also Ken Dodd ‘Missus have you ever felt like walking into Marks and Spencer’s and shouting Woolies!’
Meaning Woolworths of course.

I was much younger, Crackerjack, and Top Cat are my earliest funny programme memories. I always liked dry humour, and from about 12, I used to love Dave Allen, quite unsuitable for a person my age.

Kenneth Williams, i think.
I found him hilarious, and love his songs.
The chordwangler.
I think he's dressed in a smock

Brian Rix farces.
Went off TV comedy with Bottom ... my OH loved it.

I loved Bottom, too.

Gosh! Brian Rix! When DH and I were “courting”, we used to get free tickets to the Whitehall Theatre, and saw him many times. I’m not sure I’d find that sort of comedy funny now but we certainly did then!

Ken Dodd, - Have you ever tried shoving a cucumber through your neighbours door and shouted ' Missus, the aliens have landed' ?

I loved Kenneth Williams too, MissAdventure, he was so funny and talented. But sad in some ways.

henetha

Ken Dodd, - Have you ever tried shoving a cucumber through your neighbours door and shouted ' Missus, the aliens have landed' ?

I loved Kenneth Williams too, MissAdventure, he was so funny and talented. But sad in some ways.

😻 love it!

Dave Allen best comedian ever for me. My kind of humour

paddyann54

Billy Connolly ,Met him at a house party before he was famous….might have been one of the houseparties he used onstage…just say Jimmy said to come…everybody knows a Jimmy.
Saw him onstage several times and always came awaysorerom laughing
The man is a comic genius.

Totally agree, so funny. How wonderful to have met him. Very funny, clever man. Love his stand up and his documentary programmes as well as his acting.

I’ll never forget the first time I heard Billy Connolly. It was at a friends flat and he played an LP of his and I’d never heard anything like it. Having said that I prefer more of a deadpan humour; feel irritated by comedians who seem to be laughing at themselves and Billy, great as he is imo falls into that category. I do think that he was ground breaking, though.

Lots of favourites...Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges, Allan Carr, Jimmy Carr, James Acaster ( local boy) Bob Mortimer....

Out of the top of my head, Two that made me laugh out loud. Both Dawn French/Vicar Of Dibley. The puddle moment, Dawn French’s character, Geraldine Granger, playfully leaps into a muddy puddle, only to disappear completely beneath the water.
The other Geraldine Granger, finds herself in a dilemma. To avoid hurting anyone's feelings, she agrees to attend three massive Christmas dinners in one day.

Off the top of my head, I meant to say. Pity you can't edit after sending.

Had to Google his name because I haven’t seen him for a while, but I love Rich Hall and he is the only comedian ( not that I’ve seen many) whose show didn’t let me down. He’s made some great documentaries for the BBC too. Dylan Moran was a disappointment. I’d love to see Bill Bailey on stage. And what can anyone say about Bob Mortimer. Total legend and national treasure.

Talking about films, I have just been watching a production of ‘ Young Sherlock Homes’ being filmed which they said would be possible to see from the end of the year.

Michael MacIntyre and John Bishop seen live. Abs and ribs sore for hours afterwards.

Funnily enough although I loved The Hoons and Round the Horne and lots of other mentions by GNer above, the only time I have ever laughed like a drain was on a bus. I had just boutght a new tape fur my Walkman and Jake Thackeray was singing about a girl who ‘makes love upon national monuments’ utterly mesmerising seeing the pictures in my head !! His ‘Sir Robert Walpole’ about a statue that comes to life is also hilarious.

Norman Wisdom . Charlie Drake both made me laugh i miss the old style comedy nothing offensive about it abit of innuendo sometimes but that was about it

I discovered my humour with Love Thy Neighbour and On The Buses. Then a few years later The Young Ones made me laugh so much I went into labour (I was due so it could have been coincidence but it’s my story and I am sticking to it).

lizzypopbottle

Michael MacIntyre and John Bishop seen live. Abs and ribs sore for hours afterwards.

I agree with Michael McIntyre, I've seen him live too. Very very funny.

Some of my earliest memories include listening to the comedy half hour on the Home Service - my mother usually had it on in the evening. The Clitheroe Kid, the Navy Lark, the Men from the Ministry....