Stuart Lee

[Bagpuss]

Yep, see Lee Mack, a very good stand up but rubbish in Not Going Out.
IMHO, Boothby Graffoe is one of the best stand ups never to make it big

[Ruprect]

It did go on a bit...I turned over after he'd been lying on the floor for 10 minutes.

The "rap stars" bit last week was the same for me - "you know them, they hang out .... etc "

[Ruprect]

I quite like Marcus Brigstock too. Can be very funny when he's on The Now Show on Radio 4. My only gripe is when he turns up on crap shows like Hole in the Wall seeking publicity. He may not have a massive profile, but he's much too talented to be on that pile of tulip!

Yep definately stuff on radio is better. There is a fine line between "raising profile" and selling out....he has to be careful not to step over it! I suppose that's why Lee has never been "mainstream" - he, like Hicks, refuses to sell out at all.

[BrianSnail]

His Delboy sketch yesterday wasn't very funny in the end - he laboured it a bit too much.

It did go on a bit...I turned over after he'd been lying on the floor for 10 minutes.

[TheBigD]

I quite like Marcus Brigstock too. Can be very funny when he's on The Now Show on Radio 4. My only gripe is when he turns up on crap shows like Hole in the Wall seeking publicity. He may not have a massive profile, but he's much too talented to be on that pile of tulip!

[Ruprect]

He'll never be mainstream because he's too cutting and high brow, the closest thing the UK has ever got to Bill Hicks. His desconstruction of celeb (toilet) books (especially Chris Moyles') was very very funny.

True. Him and Marcus Brigstocke for me are the 2 best about at the moment. Lee is more maudlin and angry hence less mainstream, Brigstocke is insightful and hilariously cutting with it.

[Bagpuss]

Yeah that's the tour I went to, half the theatre was empty, the rest was 30 and 40 somethings and a few old people who looked liked they'd come in for a warm (Maybe they were expecting Jethro too). On a similar note when he took "This Morning with Richard not Judy" on tour in the 90s, a few oldies turned up expecting to see Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan and left disgusted .

As his mum says..."You're not as Funny as Tom O'Connor, Stu"

[gingerjedi]

I went to see him on his '41st best stand up ever' tour, a few older members of the audience walked out when they realised he wasn't Jethro.

He was supported by Henning Wehn the 'German comedy ambassador'.

[Bagpuss]

He'll never be mainstream because he's too cutting and high brow, the closest thing the UK has ever got to Bill Hicks. His desconstruction of celeb (toilet) books (especially Chris Moyles') was very very funny.

I spoke to him after a live show last year, he was telling me the BBC had promised him a show, but they had done so several times in the last few years, but pulled them, as "stand up comedy wouldn't work on the TV anymore". Said he just wanted to do a Dave Allen type format. Very humble bloke.

[sasguru]

He can be very funny at his best, but also a bit hit and miss. His Delboy sketch yesterday wasn't very funny in the end - he laboured it a bit too much.
I really enjoyed his book-themed sketch last week.

[bellymonster]

The funniest comedian in the UK.

"The one show is like being stuck in a British Rail Buffet car with a talking Toby jug for company, a talking Toby Jug full of piss, makes you nostalgic for the days when regional accents were unacceptable on the BBC"

Really laughed at that one, but fell asleep for the rest of the show (not because it was boring just 'cos I was tired). Second week running I've done that.

[Bagpuss]

He's certainly not mainstream, as he pointed out the funniest thing ever on TV, as voted for by the British Public is

"Dell boy falling through the bar, and Trigger pulling a funny face"

[TheBigD]

He is good, although not too everyone's taste. I still remember him with Richard Herring on Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ. Brilliant shows but for some reason, never ever repeated by the BBC.

[Bagpuss]

The funniest comedian in the UK.

"The one show is like being stuck in a British Rail Buffet car with a talking Toby jug for company, a talking Toby Jug full of piss, makes you nostalgic for the days when regional accents were unacceptable on the BBC"