Top 10 Funniest British and Irish Comedians

10. Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.
9. Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE, is an English actor, writer, director, musician, singer, comedian, and author.
8. Eddie Izzard

Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime.
7. David Mitchell

David James Stuart Mitchell is a British actor, comedian, writer, and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. Together the duo star in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan.
6. Stephen Merchant

Stephen James Merchant is an English writer, director, radio presenter, comedian, and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, as the co-writer and co-director of the popular British sitcom The Office; co-writer and co-star of Extras; and co-host of The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television show forms. The Ricky Gervais Show in radio form won a bronze Sony Award.
5. Billy Connolly

William "Billy" Connolly, CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname "The Big Yin".
4. Jimmy Carr

James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English stand-up comedian, television host and actor, known for his signature laugh, deadpan delivery, dark humour, and use of edgy one-liners.
3. Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.
2. John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report.
1. Ricky Gervais

Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, and musician. Gervais worked initially in the music industry, attempting a career as a pop star in the 1980s with Seona Dancing and working as the manager of a then-unknown Suede before turning to comedy.