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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:30 PM
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Poll question: What British comedian are you?
And why?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:31 PM
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1. I am Dawn Frenchish in that I am a small round brunette :)
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:32 PM
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2. Cleggy here.
Edited on Sun Mar-20-05 10:35 PM by CBHagman
Oh, I think I'm a Norman Clegg. Relentlessly cautious, even a bit fearful, and always commenting on the action. In college I even went around with two friends, though none of us wore wellies or that ratty attire Compo favors (or has left, depending on your point of view).

On edit: It's funny you should bring up this topic, because today I just realized that a former client of mine was a good deal like Hyacinth Bucket -- the kind of person who obsesses over doilies and the like.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:34 PM
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3. "Norman Clegg, there is..."
Remember how he used to get scared whenever Marina said that to him?
How do feel about Marina?
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:36 PM
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4. She's predatory!
See? I'm Clegg!
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crimson333 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:37 PM
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5. Adrian Edmondson
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:40 PM
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7. Who is he?
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crimson333 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:34 AM
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14. vivian
on the young ones, bottom ect, married to Jennifer Saunders of french and saunders and absolutely fabulous
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:39 PM
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6. "Motormouth"
Ben Elton.... :P
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:52 PM
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8. I used to joke I was going to turn in to Hyacinth Bucket
when I reached a respectable age, but my friends have pointed out to me that I'm too Diana Trent for that. I'm terribly blunt and very reality-based.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:54 PM
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9. Damn I love Diana Trent and Tom Ballard!
Actually I AM Arnold Judas Rimmer, a total smegging idiot I am...
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:33 AM
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10. I would like to think I could be as cute and funny as Zoe in
"May to December"

but I am also a short round brunette but I am not as funny as Dawn French.

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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:44 PM
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15. May to December is wonderful too. I couldn't fit it all.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:50 AM
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11. Cake or death?
You left out Eddie Izzard.

(Because he's bloody insane. And a smart dresser.)
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:25 PM
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36. Me, too
Izzard is so insane he makes sanity look stupid.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:03 AM
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12. My God, where's Dave Allen???
He da man:
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:44 PM
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16. He looks funny, but who is he?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:50 PM
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18. Didn't he just snuff it?
Or am I confusing him with someone else?
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:35 PM
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27. You're right
It was within the past week or so.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:18 PM
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34. Technically, he was Irish, not British (n/t)
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:24 AM
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13. Good ones
But I love Eric Idle. He's more like me...
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:48 PM
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17. Michael Palin
I think he is awesome
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:01 PM
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20. Michael Palin is wonderful.
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:57 PM
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19. Benny Hill comes to mind
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 02:58 PM by Mr. McD


Gone but not forgotten.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:06 PM
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21. Why Peter Sellers, of course!
Suave and clueless; debonair and deranged; insightful and wildly wrong; handsome and haggard; of rapier wit and shaky hands; a stunningly graceful klutz; and a lover of beautiful women and sheep.

How could you think otherwise?
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:10 PM
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22. Though I'd love to flatter myself with this,
honesty dictates that I go with Terry Jones. I love the surreal and absurd, I have a mile-wide bookish streak and I look a bit like a potato.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:14 PM
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23. Terry Jones from Monty Python
I am very much attached to Python humour, but I'm also a historian as is Terry Jones.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:28 PM
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26. Terry Jones is a wonderful Welsh man!
I love his children's books, too. He wrote a sci-fi book too. I didn't read it, but the back cover said he wrote it while naked.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:16 PM
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24. I'm more or less Harry Enfield ("Bob & Margaret", etc)
...with a touch of Steve Coogan ("24-Hour Party People", "Alan Partridge" etc). There may be a dollop of Leonard Rossiter as well.
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:21 PM
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25. Joanna Lumley as Patsy Stone
Only w/out the beehive hairdo. But with the alcohol tolerance and generally slutty behavior.
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:36 PM
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28. Patricia Routledge
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:38 PM
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29. Benny Hill
I'm dead now, actually.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:39 PM
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30. A little of Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, and Eric Idle
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:41 PM
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31. Eddie Izzard
Without the frock
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:47 PM
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32. I'm Eddie *with* the frock
I think. Probably. He was my first thought, anyway.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:04 PM
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33. Eric Idle
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:22 PM
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35. Jennifer Saunders
A tad chunky, and sarcastic as hell.

:)
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:07 PM
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39. Sweetie-dahling, where IS the champagne?!
:toast:
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nytemare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:13 PM
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40. I need to get that on DVD
That was a good show. That and "French and Saunders"
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:27 PM
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37. Chris Barrie
of Red Dwarf.

:7
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:46 PM
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38. John Cleese, definitely.
I've got the height (6' 5"), and I'm usually outraged over a bit of business perpetrated by some twit. :)
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:34 PM
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41. Wish I could say John Cleese, but...
...quite honestly, Lenny Henry is much more fitting. I'm an arrogant, tactless, talented boor with an inherent inability to suffer fools gladly, other than myself of course.
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