Quote: Marc P @ October 18 2012, 10:08 PM BSTSoup is the poor man's version dear boy. Slow braised in red wine onion and garlic etc, served up with a lovely mash!
They never served it like that at my school, and if they had Mrs Fisher would have tipped cigarette ash in it from the fag that always hung out of the corner of her mouth. Grey mash yum yum
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 2 2012, 12:23 PM BSTIt is shocking. Here's a list of some. There are many more - and many more behind the camera and pushing pens.
Jimmy Carr
Mark watson
Andy parsons
Al murray
josie long
john cleese
armando iannucci
david schneider
sacha baron cohen
david mitchell
john bird
laura solon
john fortune
katy brand
robert webb
lucy montgomery
Richard Ayoade
David Baddiel
Alexander Armstrong
Clive Anderson
Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Hugh Dennis
Stephen Fry
Matthew Holness
Tim Key
Ben Miller
Steve Punt
Griff Rhys Jones
Katherine Parkinson
Sue Perkins
Sandi ToksvigI include Robert Webb who isn't really a comedian, just to make that joke.
You find that those comedians who didn't go to Oxbridge went to equally prestigious universities like Bristol or UEA rather than polys or second tier places. And most went to public schools.
There are established 'working class' performers - though fewer than you would imagine. For example Paul Whitehouse - who you might expect to have had no higher education went to the University of East Anglia and his mum was an opera singer.
WOW Katy Brand went to Oxford and is still the most unfunniest woman EVER!! This proves the point, if you go to Oxford you get a show, no matter how shit you are!! 