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Micky is great.

His "peeping" routine is genius.

That's peeping out your window from behind your curtains.

Also his "demise of fingering" routine is superb.
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She's not funny Neem. She's just stolen Jo Brand's jokes about eating cake. And Jo Brand is not that funny. But at least more original tha Milican.



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There's nobody as unique as Lee Evans. I watch North Americans viewing him for the first time and trying to compare him with Jim Carrey.

I'm a big fan of Jim Carrey as a comedy actor. But he's not in Evans league infront of a live audience at stand-up and trust me, Evans used to pack out huge arena's. I'd guess Carrey never played to those size of crowds in his stand up days.

I'm not saying Evans was the best, but he has to be in the argument.

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Lee Evans is painful to watch, all his gurning and sweating
That's also known as putting effort into your work.

His act wouldn't work if he just stood at the microphone like Stewart Lee or hundreds of the other stand ups.

That's why Evans was packing out huge arena's and probably the most successful stand up of the 90s

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This. His sctick get old after about 5 minutes.

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Greg Davies is hilarious, I love Richard Ayoade too, I love that dead pan-ness
Mr Bean is very funny. What would be wrong with any version of him?

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Greg Davies is hilarious, I love Richard Ayoade too, I love that dead pan-ness
WHen I first saw Evans in the 90's I thought he was very original. After half an hour I was not laughing anymore.
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We saw at a local club well before he got popular.. he was doing handstands on the stage and was more slapstick. .. and never SWORE .. back then


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I could post a clip of Lee Evans doing a joke about cheese and onion crisps that would be funnier then anything Greg Davies or Richard Ayoade have ever done in their careers. And Ayeode was in the Mighty Boosh. Which I love and Davies was in the Inhetweeners.

They''d never get the laughs of Lee Evans buying a packet of cheese and onion from a petrol station.
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You've made the point I was gonna make. Back in the 90's he was quite original but it wore off quite quickly
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It really didn't. The guy is one of the greatest. If you don't count Billy Connally as nineties then he was the best UK of the nineties for the working class. If you went to University then Eddie Izzard was your man. Or woman as it's known today.

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You have to be a miserable, humourless bastard to not find Lee Evans funny.

That was his job and he was one of the best. Surely it's you who has the problem? You ever thought about that?

Why am I such a miserable bastard?

Do you ever ask yourself that?
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