The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …
Neil Hamburger has this bit about Steven Tyler in a dunce’s cap that kills me even when I think about it.
The funniest book I’ve ever read …
The Old Testament. The chapter on Sodom and Gomorrah is really something else. Filthy, too. FILTHY. Those Bible writers really worked blue.
The funniest TV show I’ve ever seen …
The Young Ones and The Comeback are perfection.
The funniest film I’ve ever seen …
Terrible Tom the Wild Turkey Causes Reporter to Lose Her Head, a YouTube video of a local reporter being chased by a turkey. OK, technically not a film, but it’s comic genius. It should be prescribed for depression.
The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …
“What is happening?!? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!” over and over again by a drunk woman at [Edinburgh comedy show] Late’n’Live as I was helped off stage by security, who thought a pratfall was real and that my performance was actual concussion.
The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …
It’s a toss-up between the afternoon when I went from waist-length hair to a mohawk and a waist-length rat’s tail for my year 10 school awards assembly, making Mr Ross my year advisor swear into a microphone, or the time I randomly cut chunks out of my hair in my 20s. I looked like a Barbie that belonged to a disturbed five-year-old and I lost a lot of friends.
Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom, Soho Theatre, W1, Monday 16 to 21 September
