My Top Twelve Most Significant Comic Roles - In No Particular Order.

1) Hancock as ... er ... Hancock.

2) John Cleese as Basil Fawlty.

3) Tony Robinson as Baldrick.

4) Miranda Richardson as Queenie in Blackadder Two.

5) Chris Barrie as Rimmer in Red Dwarf.

6) Kelsey Grammar as Frasier.

7) Richard Coyle as Jeff in Coupling (UK version!)

8) Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew - One Foot In the Grave.

9) Ronnie Barker in - pretty much everything.

10) Alan Ada as Hawkeye - Mash.

11) Jim Parsons as Dr Sheldon Cooper. Big Bang Theory.

12) Bob Newhart for being the greatest timer of a line in the modern era.