Suggestions:

Actors:
Ricky Gervais
Steve Coogan
Peter Kay
John Cleese
Ronnie Barker
Eric Morecambe
Paul Whitehouse
Rowan Atkinson
Michael Palin
Spike Milligan
Max Miller
Peter Sellers

Characters:
David Brent
Basil Fawlty
Blackadder
Alan Partridge
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Frank Spencer
Mr. Bean
Brian Potter
Inspector Clouseau

Let's also celebrate the unsung comic writer's that get less recognition then they perhaps deserve. eg. Armando Ianucci

P.s.
David Walliams and Matt Lucas are banned from this poste.