Best comedy character? Page 2

UK:
Basil Fawlty
Alf Garnett
Blackadder
Baldrick
Grim, Gladstone and Goody from The Thin Blue Line
Brian from Spaced
David Brent
Rick Spleen

US:
Alf
Frank Drebin
Larry David
House M.D.
Cartman and Butters from South Park
Beavis and Butthead
Dwight Schrute
Ron Swanson
Nostalgia Critic

Fred Kite, played by Peter Sellers in the 1959 film I'm all right jack.

Princes, Philip, Charles, Harry and William, they don't half come out with some belters but the costumes are priceless.

Del, Rodders, Trigger and Grandad
Richard Richard (Bottom)
Alan Partridge
Pauline (League Of Gentleman)
Fletcher

For me, Partridge is the funniest. Such a detailed character study.

Mark Corrigan - Peep Show
Super-Hans - Peep Show
Johnson - Peep Show
Eric Cartman - South Park
Mr Garrison - South Park
Butters - South Park
Jermaine Clement - FOTC
Brett McKenzie - FOTC
Gareth Keenan - The Office
David Brent - The Office
Magda - Lead Balloon
General Melchett - Blackadder Goes Forth
Queenie - Blackadder II
Homer Simpson - The Simpsons
Larry David - CYE
Father Jack - Father Ted
Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers
Sterling Malory Archer - Archer
Eddie Hitler - Bottom
Richard Richard - Bottom
Lord Edmund Blackadder - Blackadder II
Malcolm Tucker - The Thick of It
Hugh Abbot MP - The Thick of It
Jamie McDonald - The Thick of It
Peter Mannion MP - The Thick of It
Julius, Rt Hon The Lord Nicholson of Arnage - The Thick of It

Ron Swanson Parks and Recreation

Alan Partridge.

A character that is layered beyond belief and never gets old. He's also endlessly quotable.

David Brent comes second but Gervais has ruined the character a bit for me with stupid reprisals.

Quote: Dr Sanchez @ 5th February 2014, 10:27 PM GMT

Alan Partridge.

A character that is layered beyond belief and never gets old. He's also endlessly quotable.

David Brent comes second but Gervais has ruined the character a bit for me with stupid reprisals.

You been watching his Mid Morning Matters on Sky?

It's that brilliant I can ALMOST forgive him for the awful (in my opinion selling out) Papa Alpha film.

Quote: Nick81 @ 6th February 2014, 10:51 AM GMT

the awful (in my opinion selling out) Papa Alpha film.

I'm going to watch that with my anglophile friends tonight. I'm very curious.

Quote: Nick81 @ 6th February 2014, 10:51 AM GMT

(in my opinion selling out) Papa Alpha film.

Eh?

Quote: Nick81 @ 6th February 2014, 10:51 AM GMT

You been watching his Mid Morning Matters on Sky?

It's that brilliant I can ALMOST forgive him for the awful (in my opinion selling out) Papa Alpha film.

I watched Mid Morning Matters when it first aired on YouTube like a true fan ;) I thought it was very good and a lot more down to earth Partridge than we usually get to see, I suppose they could afford to do that with it being a low budget spin off.

Alpha Papa was a big screen outing and therefore Alan needed to be a bit more larger than life. Is that why you thought it was selling out? I thought it was brilliant.

Quote: Dr Sanchez @ 6th February 2014, 2:36 PM GMT

I watched Mid Morning Matters when it first aired on YouTube like a true fan ;) I thought it was very good and a lot more down to earth Partridge than we usually get to see, I suppose they could afford to do that with it being a low budget spin off.

Alpha Papa was a big screen outing and therefore Alan needed to be a bit more larger than life. Is that why you thought it was selling out? I thought it was brilliant.

For years Coogan said a Partridge film would never happen, then lo and behold he changed his mind (£££).

Don't get me wrong, I love everything Partridge but for me the film just felt like a drawn out episode of the show with the gags even more so. I'm sure plenty of people loved it, I think perhaps I was just expecting a bit too much.

Rigsby
Frank Spencer
Harold Steptoe
Richard Richard
Alan Partridge
Norman Stanley Fletcher

Surprised nobody has mentioned Moss from the IT Crowd.

Also Jeff from Coupling was wonderful.

Love this scene when he finally meets a girl on a train when he has only ever seen one of her legs, and the back of her head.

http://www.snotr.com/video/2034/Jeff_meets_a_beautiful_girl