[AlexG]

How could I have forgotten the great Irish raconteur himself, Dave Allen?  Genius storyteller.

All too true, though I think his style of visual skits owed a great deal to the Mad Hungarian of America, Ernie Kovacs.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Ritz]

Heeey, I like Hollyoaks :3

… o_o

*Runs away from a torch and pitchfork bearing angry mob*

[cpbell0033944]

Heeey, I like Hollyoaks :3

… o_o

*Runs away from a torch and pitchfork bearing angry mob*

It's alright Ritz – you can't help it, I'm sure.  ;D  (Only kidding).

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

Not sure that I'd agree with you there, Delmo – what about Eric Morecambe, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan (although he was Irish), Ronnie Barker as a comic actor, Blly Connolly, or a few others?

I guess I should've written "He's probably the funniest comedian the UK will ever produce, in my opinion". The others listed in this thread don't do a thing for me.

[Ritz]

I thought his comedy was a bit bland myself, and i think the only reason he gets a mention is of course of hulk bit. But eh, that's only my opinian, so don't take offence.

And eh, Spike Milligan poons all 😛

[cpbell0033944]

I thought his comedy was a bit bland myself, and i think the only reason he gets a mention is of course of hulk bit. But eh, that's only my opinian, so don't take offence.

And eh, Spike Milligan poons all 😛

<<Raises ear trumpet to ear, adjusts tartan rug.>>
Sorry Ritz – can this old man have a translation of "poons all" into modern youth-speak, please? 

[Ritz]

Oh dear.. I better go hide from that comment after all.

*Runs for the hills… to the appropriate Benny Hill Yakaty Saxs Chasing Music*

[cpbell0033944]

Whoops, sorry Ritz – it would seem that we're actually quite close in age after all.  Perhaps "poons" is a Bristolian expression that, as a Norfolkman, I wouldn't understand.

[Lingster]

Don't Bristol and Norfolk have better self-descriptive terms than "Bristolian" and "Norfolkman"?  I know that Manchester natives are "Mancunian" and Liverpool's are "Liverpudlian", so I suppose I just assumed there was a relict Anglo-Saxon name, or witty compound name, for most of the significant towns and cities.

[cpbell0033944]

Don't Bristol and Norfolk have better self-descriptive terms than "Bristolian" and "Norfolkman"?  I know that Manchester natives are "Mancunian" and Liverpool's are "Liverpudlian", so I suppose I just assumed there was a relict Anglo-Saxon name, or witty compound name, for most of the significant towns and cities.

Well, for one  thing, Norfolk is a county – the county town (or in this case city) is Norwich.  In answer to your question – most people say "I'm from Bristol" or "I'm from Norfolk".  The terms Bristolian and Norfolkian (or Norfolkman/woman) are gramatically and etymologically (sp?) correct, but rarely used.

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