What made you fall in love with comedy?

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.

Who says we did fall in love with comedy?

Fawlty Towers

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.

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

Right back to Take It From Here and The Goon Show.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

I think humour is innate.

Look at how babies laugh.

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

I fell out of love with it around the year 2007 after Little Britain . I thought some of that was very funny but nothing since.

I think maybe appreciation of comedy is the better question?
It’s a long time ago but may have been Morecambe and Wise.

Or my Uncle Ben 😂who was a riot.

I think I never have .

Tony Hancock

I think Tony Hancock was for me too, the first person that I can remember laughing at, on the radio.
Perhaps 'falling in love ' with comedy is not quite how I would phrase it, but I have certainly loved comedy as far back as I can remember. And still do.

I think humour is innate. My niece when she was 6 or 7 years old one day when her mother was talking on the landline was jumping on and off the line that trailed across the floor and when I smiled at her said "not naughty ; funny" which indeed it was.
My friends and I at about 14/& 15 years of age at school literally kept a joke-book where we recorded the corniest jokes we discovered/could think of.
Comedians that have brightened up my life are almost too numerous to mention but definitely include many of those mentioned by GsNetters like the Father Ted gang , Hancock ( I still find "Hancock's HalfHour " hilarious) ; the Monty Python gang ; Mayall and Edmondson; Greg Davies ......We could all do with a few more laughs.

I didn’t fall in love with comedy; I fell in love with a character named Nigel Molesworth when I was at school and found the books hilarious. I still use the phrase “as eny fule kno” and still love his description of ‘skool dinners’ as “the piece of cod that passeth all understanding”. No hope for me then, or now! I’m still a huge fan of Round the Horne and so is my son. Father Ted, especially the one where the fathers gets lost in the lingerie section of a department store, still has me in tucks! I think the ability to laugh and enjoy comedy, be it zany or sophisticated, is what keeps us sane in this increasingly troubled world.

There was a comedian many years ago called Mike ? It was about the same time as Billy Connolly, he was from Yorkshire if I am not mistaken he told a joke about a budgie, I remember I laughed so much I nearly fell off the chair, that is possibly the first and last one I have ever laughed so much at.
My DH always tells me I laugh at my own jokes more than others. 🙄

Greyduster

I didn’t fall in love with comedy; I fell in love with a character named Nigel Molesworth when I was at school and found the books hilarious. I still use the phrase “as eny fule kno” and still love his description of ‘skool dinners’ as “the piece of cod that passeth all understanding”. No hope for me then, or now! I’m still a huge fan of Round the Horne and so is my son. Father Ted, especially the one where the fathers gets lost in the lingerie section of a department store, still has me in tucks! I think the ability to laugh and enjoy comedy, be it zany or sophisticated, is what keeps us sane in this increasingly troubled world.

One of my favourite Father Ted episodes is Speed 3 which parodies the film Speed . It is some sort of a blackmail heist in which a New York Bus (I think) is destined to blow up if it drops below a certain speed.
Father Dougal is driving the booby-trapped milk float (!) then Ted drives alongside to tell Dougal that there's a bomb on board. Dougal's timeless reply is " Who's it fer, Ted ?"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Would that be Mike Harding, 62Granny?

62Granny

There was a comedian many years ago called Mike ? It was about the same time as Billy Connolly, he was from Yorkshire if I am not mistaken he told a joke about a budgie, I remember I laughed so much I nearly fell off the chair, that is possibly the first and last one I have ever laughed so much at.
My DH always tells me I laugh at my own jokes more than others. 🙄

He’s still around. He wrote a really funny book which I’d like to read again; I must have got it from the library. More of a musician and political activist these days. The thing I remember about from the book was about Moses having the worst case of constipation in history as he took several tablets and disappeared into the wilderness for forty days and forty night. So I guess his humour is in the mould of Billy Connolly. I also loved Spike Milligan and must reread his books sometime.And how can I not mention The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy…and Monty Pythons and the Holy Grail, surely the funniest film ever.

youtu.be/WNIrVvyNeEs
Not sure if this will work…it’s about budgies…

It’s a bit of it’s time and not the gentle humour I remember of Mike Harding!

Oh, Greyduster we all say As eny fule kno in my family as well.

I’d say Hancock’s Halfhour for myself.