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Bill Hicks - Still my absolute favourite I spent about four years of my live talking solely in Hicks lines, it was probably really annoying - start with Dangerous or Rants in E minor, but pretty much anywhere is good.
Johnny Vegas is a close second
Chris Morris might be the funniest person alive but he's not stand up (Brass Eye is the greatest thing ever made though if only for the line 'I'm talking Nonce Sense').
Others I like:
Mighty Boosh
Dylan Moran
Peter Kay
Bill Bailey
Chris rock
Dave Chappelle
Rich Hall
Stewart Lee
Richard Herring
Alexie Sayle
Alternative Comedy refers to a specific comedy scene in the early eighties (Ben Elton, Alexie Sayle, Ade Edmondon and basically every one associated with the Young Ones and Not the Nine O Clock News) it was more 'anarchic' surreal, confrontational, and stupid than what went before with lots of jokes about Margaret Thatcher, or so I've read. It ended a long time ago. The last major thing as far as I can tell in Comedy was either the Simpsons, or The Day Today.
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