America's had LENNY BRUCE, RICHARD PRYOR and BILL HICKS..when is the uk goin

Question:...is there anyone on the radar, that can land his blows, without having to bow down and suck the kokk of the demon BBC?
i say he, but to confound my expectations..i suppose it Could also be some morrisonésque dark-poet-comedian, with velvet words and stiletto wit...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ...is there anyone on the radar, that can land his blows, without having to bow down and suck the kokk of the demon BBC?
i say he, but to confound my expectations..i suppose it Could also be some morrisonésque dark-poet-comedian, with velvet words and stiletto wit...

Snodders is spot on.
For decent British comedy you have to listen to old episodes of the Goons and Round the Horne. Then, they had wit, subtlety and invention. Risque occasionally, but without the need to use obscene language.

Lenny Hentry, Dawn French, Victoria Wood, Jennifer Saunders, Billy Connelly....

I agree with sunflora...

There are plenty with no heart...New Labour, anyone?
Lenny Henry? Now I'm laughing...but for different reasons altogether.

Ireland had Brendan Grace .Wales had Max Boyce dont think Scotlands got 1

We did, however they have all died being products of the 50's and 60's. Since then the majority of, so called, comedians just use four letter words and have no idea of comedy.

Rory Bremner and Marcus Brigstocke both do good highly intelligent political satire. Was a big fan of Bill Hicks but he didn't last long enough to really hit his stride, although he was sorely missed when the 2nd Iraq War rolled around having done a good job on the first one.

LEE EVANS

There was that Iranian guy, sorry can't attempt to spell his name, or do you count him as BBC 'poodle'? Jo Brand has her moments. Did someone mention Rory Bremmer? Or there's those guys who do The Now Show on Radio 4.
Do you think it is to do with the way things are set up over here? They just can't make money from big tours so have to do TV.
Who's the Channel 4 guy with the big shirt and crazy hair? Big Brother's Big Mouth? Although I suppose he sold out to do Radio 1. A lot of folks are very different live, Bob Monkhouse was really cracking apparently, yet all we saw of him on TV was lame quiz shows, must be easy money, why write a new act and spend months on the road when you can film a quiz series back to back and be done in a week.