These people up on the box are all very well. But I think the folk world can be funnier.

The funniest person I have ever seen, the one who can quite literally make me laugh so much that it is painful, is Les Barker....And then there were the Kippers (Sid's OK, but the double act with his dad Henry was sublime)...and Cosmotheka...and Vin Garbutt (with his ability to reduce an audience to helpless hysterics with a rambling introductory spiel, and then move straight into a totally serious and challenging song that tears their hearts out). And a handful more.

And noone outside the folk scene, and very few outside these islands will have a clue what I'm talking about.

And none of those people really tell jokes either. That's not what real humour is about.