Your Favourite Comedy Characters

[Betfair Bozo]

Clark W Griswold
Lloyd Christmas

 

[Basil Fawlty]

1. Derek Trotter
2. Trigger
3. Boycie
4. Grandad
5. Uncle Albert
6. Rodney
7. Harold Steptoe
8. Edmund Blackadder
9. Victor Meldrew
10. Stewie Griffin

Not sure why nobody put, Derek Trotter. Everybody knows Only Fools and Horses is far the best British TV Sitcom ever!

 

[jakarta]

A vote for the whole cast of the criminally underated Brass (brilliant 1980's ITV spoof of gritty working class potboilers like When the Boats Come In etc.) but especially Timothy West as Bradley Hardacre......

 

[JOLovegrove]

1. Derek Trotter
2. Trigger
3. Boycie
4. Grandad
5. Uncle Albert
6. Rodney
7. Harold Steptoe
8. Edmund Blackadder
9. Victor Meldrew
10. Stewie Griffin

Not sure why nobody put, Derek Trotter. Everybody knows Only Fools and Horses is far the best British TV Sitcom ever!

You sure are modest!

 

[honey boy zimba]

Rigsby ,Sgt Bilko,Blakey ,Fletcher,Harold Steptoe JR,Bob Fleming,ralf and Ted

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Obvious ones: Delboy,

Del Boy - Only Fools & Horses

Del Trotter - OFAH

1. Derek Trotter

Not sure why nobody put, Derek Trotter.

Nor me.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Spud, Trainspotting. He has to go down as a comedy character

 

[Badger]

Brian Potter, Clinton Baptiste and Keith Lard - Pheonix Nights

 

[beakyburn]

A simple enough question really, who are your favourite comedy characters, either from sitcom or any other comedic medium? It should be interesting to see the range of comedic preferences among NSCers, I think. My list is as follows:

- Edmund Blackadder
- Niles Crane
- Sheldon Cooper
- Sir Humphrey Appleby

My humour to but would have to add Tommy Cooper to the list. Saw him live many moons ago and the first 40 minutes of the show was him on microphone pretending he was locked in his dressing room. Everybody falling about and he wasn,t even on stage. Also great memories of Terence<Spike>Milligan.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

A pleasure is the lad himself on the iPlayer. These are from 1956/7 and are still laugh out loud funny.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

And another vote for Father Ted.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Arthur Atkinson
Tommy Cockles

 

[Durlston]

Brian Potter, Clinton Baptiste and Keith Lard - Pheonix Nights

Same here as shown by my avatar. Everything seemed to go wrong for Brian with his club being burnt down and his inept staff winding him up but he'd always do his best to bounce back. 'Crimetime' was superb ("Don't treat me like one of the bloody Bee Gees!"). The final episode was the best though. "Talk about a kick in the balls!" to the brewery and the 'Stars in your Eyes' night. Comedy gold.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Leslie Nielson----All of the Naked Gun Films & Police Squad------well written comedy-----but he made it LOL!!

 

[JOLovegrove]

David Brent, Basil Fawlty and Uncle Bryn are the 3 that jump to mind!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Partridge
David Brent
(obviously)


But surely there is a place in this thread for General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett? Mehhhhhhh!

 

[super-seagulls]

 

[PC-Gull]

Stewie Griffin - Family Guy
Perry Cox - Scrubs
Niles Crane - Fraser
Sheldon Cooper - The Big Bang Theory

I am sure there are others, but these are the top 4.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

UK - Reggie Perrin, Steptoe, Hancock
US - Larry David, Fraser, Ted Danson (Cheers; Bored to death)

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Dr Frasier Crane
David Gonzalez
Rodney Trotter
Jeremy (Sports Night)
Colin Hawkins