The Top Ten Earning Comedians - who's the worst?

ricky gervaise and SBC would be the list

xxp saying Seinfeld is a lock for worst is only slightly less challopy

imo, imo

If I was to make a list of all the UK comedians who do arena tours I guess it would be close to a list of the biggest ones? So it'd be Brand, Gervais, Michael Mcintyre, Eddie Izzard, Harry Hill, Al Murray, Little Britain ppl, Mighty Boosh ppl and apparently Russell Howard (! - or is it?)

Coogan at one time probably made a large chunk of his income from large-theatre tours but now he can probably make 10x that from a cameo in a Hollywood movie (hence interrupting rehearsals for last autumn's "AP and Other Less Successful Chars" for a stint in NATM2...lousy early reviews for the former followed).

Oh and Steve Coogan for a round 10 xp

jimmy carr?

Other big Brit stand-up earners - Lee Evans, surely? Both Carrs. And yr old guard like Roy Chubby Brown? These figures at the top of the thread put British comedy into perspective though. I mean, yr Mock The Week/HIGNFY/8 of 10 Cats staples have probably paid off a chunk of their mortgage on a semi in the suburbs and that's it.

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that fat guy? that dude with all the tics? jack dee?

why can't i remember the name of that fat guy? peter kaye!

I seem to see Bill Bailey on the back of a lot of newspapers

mock the week. we have a thread on this show, right?

Yeah I assume that the ones from the UK list who have got their foot in the Hollywood door will be the biggest earners by quite a distance

fwiw my list was less the product of deep consideration and more the first ten that popped up when I googled the listings for my local arena venue and saw what comedians were listed there

If we had a British list based purely on stand-up earnings (and video sales of same), you might end up with the likes of JETHRO in there somewhere.

jethro?

a quick GIS intrigues me. who is this jethro chracter and what is his angle? flat caps seem to be a part of it.

Comedy based on badger-gassing, scrumpy and shooting townies.

he works blue.

He is Cornwall's funniest man.

wkiw Jethro tbh

I've seen Jethro, he's weird. Sort of chuckles to himself while saying "cock" a lot.

there's an app market for that

xp wkiw?

Where does Ted Chippington fit into this?

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would kick it with

glad i only know the top two

i voted for dane cook. i'd probably pick dunham if i were more familiar with his repertoire.

This is a pretty accurate video of the experience of watching Jethro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arlI7iJyEM4
I suppose he's only pretending to be pissed?

Hugh Laurie would be the top earning Brit perhaps?

Stretching the definition of comedian there a bit. John Cleese? Though he's always crying poverty due to various divorce settlements.

he still had the income at some stage, we're not allowing those complaints to stand.

thread title makes me want to start Top Ten Ealing Comedies

Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Jimmy Mulville and Jasper Carrott have all made a fortune from their production companies

and rory mcgrath can be added to that, right?

ha, no.

the reason he's in the state he's in is that he cashed out early and his buddies didn't.

iirc anyway.

Good call on Prod Comp comics. Mulville probably the 4th wealthiest Everton fan after Sir Paul Mc, Bill Kenwright and, er, Sly Stallone.

Rowan Atkinson is HUGELY rich I think.

didn't know that about mcgrath. just assumed he was on that bandwagon with the rest of them.

it's local folklore at any rate that mcgrath was on board hat trick but got out too soon. wiki suggests he was involved for longer than i'd thought, but i guess the founders flipped it after he left or something. talkback was sold off for millions some time in the 90s or 00s iirc.

what about billy connolly? he must have some money. and he does sell-out shows, right? or do scottish people not count?

Yeah I meant to mention him, he very much counts... he's about to do a shit ton of consecutive nights in the SECC in Glasgow, if you added them all up it would be like a stadium show

xposts, dont know when this was published, but

Rowan Atkinson is revealed today as Britain's richest TV star, thanks largely to his nerdy misfit creation, Mr Bean.

The 48-year- old comedian has impressive homes in Chelsea and Oxford, drives a collection of luxurious fast cars . . . and is worth around £60million.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-172901/60m-Mr-Bean-tops-TV-rich-list.html

i think larry the cable guy is a fucking GENIUS. cuz this is what he was like before he came up with his million dollar character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWO5LgUZ28

i mean, to go from 4th-rate hack comic playing crap dives for years to second-rate hee haw rip-off multi-million dollar industry is pretty inspired and inspiring.

i agree he's shrewd etc, but i don't hold it against him, since he's a performer...what comedian doesn't cop an alternative personality on stage

carrot top?

i think maybe his stage persona ate his normal self and now he is twice as big