Peter Kay voted funniest person alive

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 23rd, 2006

Peter who? Fear not, American readers, you’ve not fallen asleep for 20 years and awakened to a new world in which comedians unfamiliar to us have become the “funniest people alive.” The results are from a poll of the readers of Zoo, an Australian “lad mag.;quot; (Don’t you love that term?) And, though Mr. Kay might have a following down under and in England, via his British television work, he is a virtual stranger to the vast majority of us North Americans.

Northern funnyman Peter Kay has come top of a list of the funniest people alive.

The Phoenix Nights star came first in a poll of 17,000 comedy fans.

In second place was Bafta winning Office and Extras star Ricky Gervais.

In third place came wacky standup comic Lee Evans and in fourth place was cross-dressing star Eddie Izzard.

There seems to be a fame and fortune worm hole which allows Aussies to gain fame in the U.K. and vice versa, though the countries are half a world apart.

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