4:46pm Thursday 11th February 2010
By Claire Maxwell
Comedians are great. They are funny, they are rude, and they say what everyone else is thinking. And only occasionally have to take the wrap for it e.g. Sachsgate.
Being a comedian it is in their nature to make people laugh, and so, you would think, their lives would be full of humour, embarrassing incidents and laughing fits with the wife. It is probably not the case, but I live in hope, (I plan to one day marry one of them) (literally any one of them).
I fancy a great array of comedians. There is nothing more sexy than a man who can have you laughing so hard your neck goes into spasm. For me, anything less than facial cramps and I am out the door.
Comedians are often 'misfits'- you don't get many funny 'hotties' (conventional hotties anyway). Except Russell Howard. But even he's got a lazy eye and a twitch. HIS WORDS NOT MINE.
Often, humour comes from a place of misery. You get bullied at school? Make a joke. You're fat? JUST LOOK AT JAMES FLIPPIN' CORDEN. You're, lets-fact-it, pretty darn odd looking. Become cool and kooky like Noel Fielding.
And, Noel Fielding… I would.
The topics used in comedy are often far from jolly. Terrorists, deaths of public figures, the general down turn of the economic and natural climate (all hilarious on the outset, I'm sure you will agree). I admit, my personal sense of humour is disturbed enough to rival that of Frankie Boyle, but I do believe that the majority of people would find a group of comedians taking-the-michael out of another’s misfortune amusing, to say the least.
And you'd be right. It's a release from the every day terrors plastered all over the rest of the channels and programmes.
You are subjected to infidelity with your best friends elderly relative on the soap operas, you've got concerned expressions, deep, important voices and Gordon Brown on the news, and even the ads are turning dismal- 'I work till I can't work anymore, so hot, so tired...' (And I'm almost definite it's an old man doing the voice-over, not a donkey).
For me, comedy programmes are what television was made for, escapism, light relief, and the chance to fancy someone who, in real life, you would DEFFO have a chance with.
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