All Time v2 Comedians Rugby Team

The Offical v2 All Time Comedians Rugby Team:

1. Fatty Arbuckle - the ultimate, fearless, funny tight head.
2. Danny de Vito - we'll need someone to argue our case!
3. John Candy - don't let his friendly face deceive you.
4. Stephen Fry - "first rule of thumb.... it's my ball!" (ouch!)
5. Zach Galifianakis - a biggish Greek-American funny guy with a beard... say no more.
6. Victor Varnado - a legally blind stand-up comedian from Alabama.
7. Chevy Chase - cunning, deceitful, bs-artist. He gets the gig.
8. Reginald D. Hunter - don't know why... he's just got a cool name.

9. Eddie Izzard - someone from the Colony of Aden for a change...
10. Matt Leblanc - have you seen him kick a ball up into the bleachers?
11. Spike Milligan - classy playa
12. Bill Murray - fearless runna
13. Norman Pace - if only Murray would pass it to him!
14. Owen Wilson - he's kind of shy at first... but once he get's a sniff....
15. Gene Wilder - we've never felt safer with him at the back.

16. Jason Alexander - butter wouldn't melt in his mouthguard. OK, OK gumshield! wha..? pppffft!
17. Pigmeat Markham - look him up (he's kind of mean looking!)
18. Curly Howard - the Ref always lets him do whatever he pleases (until Mo finds out)
19. Eric Sykes - sorry, I thought he was a Scot. duh!
20. Nipsey Russell - what was that puff of smoke there a second ago?
21. Paul Hogan - he'll nail anything if given a go...

Coach: Dick van Dyke
Manager: Robin Williams
Physio: David Walliams
PR Team: Groucho Marx & Dudley Moore
Waterboys: Graham Norton & Rik Mayall

I challenge any bunch of comedians to beat that outfit.... go on... I dare ya to have a go!

Many notable ones have been purposely left out


Women's 7s All Time Rugby Team:

Joan Rivers
Pamela Stephenson
Nancy Cartwright
Jennifer Aniston
Shappi Khorsandi
Whoopi Goldberg
Chelsea Handler

Subs: Hattie Jacques, Ruby Wax, Roseanne Barr, Ellen deGeneres, Goldie Hawn.

Any suggestions are welcome... including stand-up comedians.

or maybe posters can put up their own contemporary

England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland teams of comedians...?

Or their own Annoying TV Personality XVs?

Breaker - cannot believe the legends missing from that line up.

My namesake (a curmudgeon, so certainly a hooker), Prior (on drugs and set himself on fire, so definitely a loose forward), Bruce (smoked constantly, so a prop), Hicks (see 'Bruce') and Connolly (the playmaker, so a 10).

You are sacrosanct, George... he was definitely one under consideration, as was Connolly. Too many Americans in there I know.

Prior is a good one.

That's almost half a Scotland team you've mentioned there already ... please feel free to complete another list.

I'd throw Hugh Laurie in as a wing/FB. The guy was meant to be an awesome rower back in his day - pretty sure I heard that in an old Blackadder interview somewhere anyway!

Sticking with Blackadder Rowan Atkinson could be in a SH, at least he'd be the first 9 who's banter didn't just p*** everyone off.

No Eddie murphy at 10? I'd stick chris rock in the wing, I hear no one in comedy can sniff out a white line quite as quickly

9. Mike Phillips
10. Cips
12. Tango Henson
15. Ian half-wit Balshaw
16. Lee Byrne

Would certainly get me sniggering.

What about the fat vicar female character in the Vicar of Dibley. She is big enough to play as a prop forward for the women's team.

Would like to see Frankie Boyle at 7, dark and willing to do the dirty work, also has training in martial arts so would be handy for balance and stuff.

Chris Morris is a natural 10. Bold, intelligent, can pick things apart and use them against people. You need a satirist in at fly half.

Jimmy Carr at 9, sharp, quick, mouthy, perfect scrumhalf material.

Johnny Vegas as tighthead.

Galted wrote:Johnny Vegas as tighthead.

Good call!

I reckon Seinfeld would struggle to make that team.

So too Peewee Herman.

gboycottnut wrote:What about the fat vicar female character in the Vicar of Dibley. She is big enough to play as a prop forward for the women's team.

It was a toss up between Dawn French and Roseanne Barr, boycsnut.

Aarghh!#%!.... Now my back's out...

Dara O'Briain in at 8. Hed be the Irish Nick Williams.

Rob Brydon in the backline to appease the Welsh.