Who is the Greatest comedy character ever?!
Question: cartoons, stand up, sitcoms the lot!
Answers: cartoons, stand up, sitcoms the lot!
I would say Groucho Marx. Because Bugs Bunny was based on Groucho Marx (his jokes, character and mannerisms) and nearly every modern comedian will have been influenced by Bugs Bunny as a child. There are also the direct influences of Marx himself and the films he appeared in.
Because Groucho always played the same character in films and shows it meant that the character was developed over a period of decades and as such wuld have a greater influence than one who has only been around for a few years.
It is the influence of the Groucho character that can be seen in the style of so many modern stand up and sitcom characters that make him so influential.
My second choice would have to be Homer Simpson, and my third being Father Dougal.
Tony Hancock
Cpt G Mainwaring
Del Boy Trotter
DelBoy in Only Fools and Horses, still makes me laugh.
Del Boy
Homer
Well it aint that pratt from the office, ricky shitface or something, what an arrogant self centred prick he is.
I think Basil Fawlty or Edmund Blackadder.
Reverend Jim Ignatowski
I've got to go with either Peter Griffin of Family Guy, Stewie Griffin of Family Guy, or Dave Chappelle the stand-up comic.
Dave Chappelle's "Rick James" episode will probably go down in history as the funniest skit ever done.
But Peter and Stewie Griffin are constantly funny; they never reached the pure hilariousness of the Rick James skit, but they are a steady source of comedy every episode of Family Guy.
Del Boy.
I tried hard to think of someone else because whenever the do this sort of survey on TV,usually ch4 or UKGold,Only Fools and Horses always wins and it gets a bit boring but the thing is when I think about it I realise it probably was the best comedy programme ever.
Oh man it's got to be the witch skit from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. "She turned me into a newt. I got better." OR Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different with the musical mice.
Fr Ted, RIP Dermot Morgan, 10 years today
Lucille Ball
Most of them on here are not in my age group
but if you had seen Tony Hancock you would have put him 1st
Rigsby in Rising Damp is next' what a character,
Going back further' the great Ted Ray was the quickest the
slickest comedy ever.
the rest come and go.
Good question
graham norton
Difficult choice, but here are a few my favourites. Difficult to choose between them
Mad Dan Eccles (The Goon Show), Bluebottle (The Goon Show). Edmund Blackadder, Basil Fawlty, Marvin the Paranoid Android (HGttG), Zaphod Beeblebrox (HGttG), Albert Steptoe, Norman Stanley Fletcher (Porridge), Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf), Sgt Major Williams (It aint half hot Mum), Rik (The Young Ones) Vivien (The Young Ones), Neil (The Young Ones).
I have 3
Delboy, Basil Fawlty and Norman Wisdom
Basil Fawlty!
frank spencer
basil fawtly. defo not frank spencer lol