Peter Kay and Ricky Gervais are good stand ups, even though I don't really watch their programming, particularly not anything Gervais is involved in; I never really got The Office, and thought Extras was terribly overrated, at best (The Les Dennis episode was funny, though)

My friends thought I wouldn't 'get' Kay's Northern humour (as I am originally from down South); it was terribly regionalist of them.

My very favourite stand-up comedian is Billy Connoly, especially when he's telling a story, then goes of onto an equally funny tangent, and then finally gets round to the original story to finish!