Which comedy legend are you?

You are a jive-talking, sharp-witted, taboo-busting force of nature, making your own rules and walking a tightrope between comedy and tragedy. All aspects of your life, no matter how grisly and uncomfortable, are fair game in everything you talk about and make unflinching jokes about. Despite the X-rated nature of whole chunks of your material, you have the common touch and can easily flip between the harrowingly political/the ruthlessly scatological and klutzy prat-falling.

You’re bigger than Hitler and you’re better than Christ. ‘Being-Rik-Mayall’ is your middle name and when you are not listening to the youthful rebellion so apparent in the back catalogue of Cliff Richard, you are bringing down the government using just your words in the form of poetry that goes off like a dirty bomb. And then you’re probably doing it all night with a lady (as you have definitely done it with a lady – no matter what your ‘friends’ say).

You scoop up pop culture references and spit out a million precision-tooled jokes about the brilliant monotony of a TV-saturated existence. You can stand in front of the most famous people in the world, stare them down and make excruciating jokes about their public lives, their careers and their towering sense of self-importance and still manage to come out the other side with them worshipping the very ground you walk on. It’s a rare gift. Treasure it.

You are the bard of the working classes with a streak of misanthropy running through you that’s thicker than your mother-in-law’s gravy. Life has worn you down, the exasperation of existence etched into every rubber fold of your gurning face. But at least you can take comfort in your incredible ear for music as you charge through a version of Feelings that brings everyone around you to tears. If in trouble, your best friend Ada Shufflebotham is always on hand to help with your hysterical rectum.