Nah, Connolly's too genial. You'd want a vein-popping Cleesian, only Scottish. Someone who can shout and stomp around convincingly, and injure himself slamming his hand into the wall.

Not that there's anything wrong with Billy Connolly. I still love his "as long as they're s----ing in our shoes and we're pissing in their Bovril".

Connolly has been more of an angry Los Angeles comedian for some years.

I'd nominate Jerry Sadowitz, although I've never dared go to see him live.

If only Stanley Baxter was still with us.