1. Peter Kay (in the old days!)
2. Sean Lock (just too funny!)
3. Michael McIntyre

Used to love Frankie Boyle till i saw him on tour and it was all lines from Mock the Week :bawling:

1. Paul Whitehouse or anybody else from The Fast Show Series 1

2. Anubody from Chewin the Fat - "Get intae it = savour the flavour of the full Fat"

3. Vic Reeves

Jim Jeffries is hilarious! Really really crude, rude, sexist, vulgar however he is hilarious!

Fast Show for sure! Also, Absolutely was fantastic! Naked Video! Limmy!!!

He stole Hick's material. Leary is rubbish.

Theres no way he stole hicks material, he would have been blacklisted for that, that just doesn't happen. He is also a completely different comedian to hicks, o leary was angry. You should, if you han't already, read hicks biography, his remarks about o leary are very enlightening.

Maybe Josie Long.

I guess I'll have to agree to disagree with Stu over Stewart Lee. There's something really effortless about his shows I really love. He is probably my favourite comedian next to Paul Merton.

I'll be honest though and say I'm generally not crazy about stand-up comedians. The genuinely good ones are few and far between. Some of my most hated are Jimmy Carr, Bernard Manning, Roy Walker, Jim Davidson, Al Murray and Eddie Izzard.

As for Hicks, well I admire him. Like him? I'm not so sure.

And Hicks wasn't?

He clearly stole his material in my opinion. He was definately heavily influenced by it, and added very little of his own nuances to it. Hicks was far better at it.