I've always appreciated a good comedy actor or stand-up act. I'm a big lover of sketch shows.
Who are your favourites in the comedy world and what performances/roles of theirs do you especially love?
Victoria Wood is one of my all-time favourites. If you ever get a chance, watch An Audience With Victoria Wood. The series dinnerladies was also brilliant, with a lot of wordplay humour and some sheer ridiculosity.
I rather enjoy Jimmy Carr, too, although he is not to everyone's taste. There's something about his crude humour that I just love.
Brian "Limmy" Limond is one of the big players in the Scottish sketch comedy scene. He really just gets the Scottish sense of humour, in my opinion, but probably wouldn't make much sense to a lot of English people or Yanks.