Where would we be without humour?

Father Ted never fails to make me laugh out loud no matter how many times I watch the same episodes on repeat.

Les Dawson.

Victoria Wood, of course!

Golden girls, Billy Connolly, Harry Enfield, Still Game, Carry On Films (and Kenneth Williams)
Bottom, Life Of Brian, The two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Alas Smith and Jones.
Sean Locke, Who's Line is it Anyway....
So many!'

Round the Horne. How they got away with it, I’ve no idea.

I generally prefer British humour to American humour but the film "The Odd Couple" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau is a masterclass in comedy acting.

I find quite a few of the recent stand ups funny but there seem to be so many of them. Some of them only seem to appear on celebrity quiz and game shows.

I miss the old sketch shows like "Not the Nine O'Clock News" and "Little Britain." I never "got" Morecambe and Wise, Jim Davidson or Miranda Hart.

Still love Frasier and Cheers. Cracking american humour.
Loved Ab Fab at the time and laughed along with DD1 and DD2 which made it even more fun.
Laughed with DH at the Two Ronnies and with DM and DF at Morecombe and Wise.
Its good to share the laughter.

Victoria Wood and Bill Bailey - both very clever as well as being funny. Have seen them both live and come away with my face aching.
And going back a long time Joyce Grenfell ("George, don't do that")

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All of those, Cossy.

I would add ISIHAC, Sarah Millican’s observational comedy, Joe Lycett (his letters of complaint crack me up), Miles Jupp, Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing (and Bob on WILTY), Richard Ayoade, Henning Wehn. I miss Sean Lock.

Someone I find very funny, although not a dedicated comedian, is Hugh Grant especially on Graham Norton’s show. Some great clips on YT with Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson.

I loved Sean Lock, d you recall his version of “The Tiger who came to tea”
(The Tiger who had a pint”)

DH and I re-watched it on u-tube and laughed and laughed!!!

How could I forget Bob Mortimer on WILTY! I took his novel, The Satsuma Complex, on holiday last year and it was very funny, I could hear his voice in every line.

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Humour died in the last century. None of the modern comedies amuse me one little bit.

Humour is so personal, it may be that “modern” comedy doesn’t meet your criteria of what’s funny?

All of those, Cossy.

I would add ISIHAC, Sarah Millican’s observational comedy, Joe Lycett (his letters of complaint crack me up), Miles Jupp, Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing (and Bob on WILTY), Richard Ayoade, Henning Wehn. I miss Sean Lock.

Someone I find very funny, although not a dedicated comedian, is Hugh Grant especially on Graham Norton’s show. Some great clips on YT with Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson.

Humour died in the last century. None of the modern comedies amuse me one little bit.

I love to watch the re-runs. I could happily watch an entire series again and then again.

Thank you (all) for reminding me of Monty Python, how could I possibly have forgotten this is beyond me!

Life of Brian (he’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!)

The ministry of silly walks, the dead parrot sketch, the Spanish Inquisition, I’m a Lumberjack.

Thank you

Dave Allen, Peter Kay, Sarah Millican, sometimes.

We seem to have a similar sense of humour Cossy.

I also like Monty Python - Life of Brian is one of my favourite films, so many hilarious sketches.

The news has been so depressing recently, I've started watching Frasier again, I know most of the episodes inside out but sometimes that's why I watch.

I have also been to see Stewart Lee a couple of times. Very political and sweary sometimes but he knows how to hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

As a teenager loved the Goons, and would listen to the repeats , as I would have been laughing so much , that I would miss some bits. Life moved on and loved Monty Python stuff and of course the great Ronnie Barker , from hearing him on the radio in the Navy Lark , onto the frost report with the three " I am upper class , middle class etc with John Cleese and Ronnie Corbet. Then on to all the other lovely sit coms Open All Hours, Porridge etc etc. His witty writing of wonderful silly songs and the great "four candles" sketch - which joins with "two soups" of course.

Then as I wrote about somewhere else, the wonderful "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" which I think are as funny today and as accurate as they were with the great cast, with Paul Eddington as the PM, Nigel Hawthorne as the crafty civil service and a very innocent Bernard played by Derek Foulds. Of course with the death of Penelope Keith we are reminded of the Good Life and her wonderfully terrible Margo. I think I go back to many of these old ones as they are funny without necessarily swearing or particularly picking on a specific person, but are often witty and if they bring a smile to a miserable day great. On a frustrating day, they are great to cheer one up.

Ken Dodd - I only have to see him and I laugh.
The Two Ronnies (never found Morecambe and Wise very funny)
Victoria Wood

Ken Dodd made my jaw ache I was laughing so much and we were there till 12.30am!
It's the daft and absurd that makes me laugh.
Julie Walters doing the 'Two Soups' sketch and the 'Acorn Antiques' show were hilarious too