Audience Quote by Bob Hope

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery,…

— Miriam Toews

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how…

— Kate Bush

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to…

— Brendan Coyle

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We…

— Ciaran Hinds

There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are…

— Johnny Vegas

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups…

— John Oliver

I try and avoid the big comics in Edinburgh. You can see them on tour. Edinburgh is all about seeing the smaller comedians.

— Joe Lycett

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose…

— Arvind Ethan David

I find it a lot with Australian and New Zealand comics, and people from that part of the world, we share quite a similar…

— Natasia Demetriou

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

— Alice Lowe

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia,…

— Dave Gibbons