My New Most Favorite Brit

Over the years, there have been other people who've been Eugene's Most Favorite Brit. Luminaries and visionaries, such as C.S.Lewis, Kenneth Branagh, and that blonde exchange student who dropped out of my Screenwriting 110 class in college after only one tantalizing afternoon of being the focal point for every straight male in that classroom. But big congrats to the newest Brit to receive the honor of Eugene's New Most Favorite Brit.

Actually, wait. The top position of Most Favorite Brit is still held by writer/director Richard Curtis. I worship the ground that guy walks on. The man's voice is funny but with a warm human touch - deftly celebrating life through humor. He's written many memorably funny lines in movies like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill - but my favorite line of his isn't one that people remember. In Love, Actually, the Karen character asks her daughter, "There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?" The line doesn't make me laugh, so much as it just makes me happy.

Okay, so Richard Curtis is still the most favorite Brit. And the number two spot was recently grabbed by Philip Glenister - the actor who plays D.C.I. Gene Hunt on the show Life On Mars. There can't be many actors who can sell the line, "Never doubt the Gene Genie."

Now where was I? Oh yes - my new most favorite Brit, who is in actuality, my third favorite Brit. But that's still pretty good. So move aside Ricky Gervais, you've been replaced by-

Dave Gorman. A British comedian who I've discovered from his recent appearances on the Daily Show on Comedy Central. You can view his appearances on the Comedy Central website. I dare you to watch his "poll smoking" bits and not laugh at his ability to keep a straight face.

So go click on that link and watch the videos... while I eagerly await the next British Invasion.