favourite words of comedians

[Twed]

I think a pre-insanity Graham Linehan points out on one of the Father Ted commentaries that they liked to describe things as big, e.g. 'I burned it all in a big fire', 'you big eejit', etc. In cases like the former it definitely adds a weird, childlike glee to a sentence, which suits the show well.

Yeah, definitely a good defining one for Father Ted (especially when it's so tempting to pick "feckin'").

Gah, what was the Frasier one...

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Chris Morris - 'special', as in 'special gun' etc.

Describing a piece of equipment as special without giving any indication as to why it exceeds the norm is just intrinsically funny.

[Jittlebags]

John Shuttleworth - Ooff

[famethrowa]

Jon Wurster: "exsanguinated"

wait whuuuuuut

[zomgmouse]

Always love hearing Bob Mortimer saying the word "shoes"

Or when he always says "tod" on Athletico Mince

[Darles Chickens]

Chris Morris - 'special', as in 'special gun' etc.

Describing a piece of equipment as special without giving any indication as to why it exceeds the norm is just intrinsically funny.

Yeah, my favourite is this one (talking about upcoming millennium celebrations):

In Rome - this should be worth seeing - a 2000-uddered wolf is gonna be driven through Rome and then beheaded by Giorgio Armani.  And out of the body will fly a special moth!

[KennyMonster]

Chris Morris - 'special', as in 'special gun' etc.

Describing a piece of equipment as special without giving any indication as to why it exceeds the norm is just intrinsically funny.

Spherical?

[magval]

Lee and Herring both said 'sort of' a lot in the 90s, both in their scripts and the improv between bits.