Simply put who are your favourites? And who have you've seen live.
Jack Dee - He is very dry, and paces his routines very well, he is able to stay in his grumpy character throughout his shows and even when he appears on other television shows, almost like he lives the character. His shows seem edgy without resorting to crude humour or racial content. He is actually a very humaine figure.
Rich Hall - That shapely delivered southen humour, he has a comic flair, is able to feed off the crowd and react to his surrounders. Hall does twisted and deadpan better than most, he is a very polictical comic, but also is able to turn the most silly or smallest of things into something really funny (surely the aim of any stand up worth his or hers name). A warm, yet unpredicable talent, a one off in many ways.
Lucy Porter - She has great energy and is able to give off a cuddly yet deadly comic outbusts. Porter uses finely judged personal embarrsements, dirty stories and surreall tales to over power the audience. A charming performer.
Reginald D Hunter - This guy has so much charasma, and is such a sharp and engaging speaker, and yet he is has composure and is able to blend smoothly into the back ground. His focus tends to be a lot on the gender divide and politics, just when you think he has settled on one side or the other Hunter will twist things around and bite you on the arse! One of the greatest comedy performances I have ever seen.
Issy Suttie - Best known as Dobby from Peep Show, but her stand up shows entail sweet, sad, but colouful and twisted tales of love, the working class and a world obsessed with cerebrity. To go along with her stand up, she plays songs in which she takes on the roles of different characters. A very warm and powerful performer. There is scope for her to improve.
Frank Skinner - This guy just gets better with age. He is now moulding himself out a very fine presenting career on television, while still being one of the most sought after comics. He has gone from being a cheeky every day lad, to a dark comic performer who has quick witted observations on the classes, politics, football, celebrity and pretty much everything in between. Skinner is just one of those guys who envolves and gets better with age.
Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey - I put these two together as I am impressed more by their sitcom work and the effect those shows have had on me. I have seen neither as stand ups, apart from the clips of Seinfeld on his show and Fey on SNL. But based on the vision of both and just how interesting their personaities are I would love to see both.
Chris Addersion - Star of the Thick of it, but an awesome stand up in his own right. The guy speaks with so much passion and bounce, he is a great physical comedian and is one of the quickest thinkers on the comedy circult. Addersion divides his time goothing around in the most eye catching way and being a total gentleman, but one you could listen to for hours on any subject. Almost like life itself.
As for shows my top five would be:
5. Lucy Porter, Lancaster the Dukes, March 2010
4. Jon Richardson, Lancaster the Dukes, October 2009
3. Mark Lamar, Peterborough the Cresant, April 2000
2. Rich Hall, Morecambe the Platform, September 2008
1. Reginald D Hunter, Lancaster Grand Theatre, April 2010.
Jack Dee - He is very dry, and paces his routines very well, he is able to stay in his grumpy character throughout his shows and even when he appears on other television shows, almost like he lives the character. His shows seem edgy without resorting to crude humour or racial content. He is actually a very humaine figure.
Rich Hall - That shapely delivered southen humour, he has a comic flair, is able to feed off the crowd and react to his surrounders. Hall does twisted and deadpan better than most, he is a very polictical comic, but also is able to turn the most silly or smallest of things into something really funny (surely the aim of any stand up worth his or hers name). A warm, yet unpredicable talent, a one off in many ways.
Lucy Porter - She has great energy and is able to give off a cuddly yet deadly comic outbusts. Porter uses finely judged personal embarrsements, dirty stories and surreall tales to over power the audience. A charming performer.
Reginald D Hunter - This guy has so much charasma, and is such a sharp and engaging speaker, and yet he is has composure and is able to blend smoothly into the back ground. His focus tends to be a lot on the gender divide and politics, just when you think he has settled on one side or the other Hunter will twist things around and bite you on the arse! One of the greatest comedy performances I have ever seen.
Issy Suttie - Best known as Dobby from Peep Show, but her stand up shows entail sweet, sad, but colouful and twisted tales of love, the working class and a world obsessed with cerebrity. To go along with her stand up, she plays songs in which she takes on the roles of different characters. A very warm and powerful performer. There is scope for her to improve.
Frank Skinner - This guy just gets better with age. He is now moulding himself out a very fine presenting career on television, while still being one of the most sought after comics. He has gone from being a cheeky every day lad, to a dark comic performer who has quick witted observations on the classes, politics, football, celebrity and pretty much everything in between. Skinner is just one of those guys who envolves and gets better with age.
Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey - I put these two together as I am impressed more by their sitcom work and the effect those shows have had on me. I have seen neither as stand ups, apart from the clips of Seinfeld on his show and Fey on SNL. But based on the vision of both and just how interesting their personaities are I would love to see both.
Chris Addersion - Star of the Thick of it, but an awesome stand up in his own right. The guy speaks with so much passion and bounce, he is a great physical comedian and is one of the quickest thinkers on the comedy circult. Addersion divides his time goothing around in the most eye catching way and being a total gentleman, but one you could listen to for hours on any subject. Almost like life itself.
As for shows my top five would be:
5. Lucy Porter, Lancaster the Dukes, March 2010
4. Jon Richardson, Lancaster the Dukes, October 2009
3. Mark Lamar, Peterborough the Cresant, April 2000
2. Rich Hall, Morecambe the Platform, September 2008
1. Reginald D Hunter, Lancaster Grand Theatre, April 2010.
