Ken Dodd is an icon as far as I'm concerned. He's the greatest.

I could never see anything in Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Monty Python, The Goodies .. they just didn't make me laugh out loud. Their humour didn't appeal to me at all.
I could never laugh at Max Wall - he was scary ! Mind you I was a kid when he was on telly.

I liked Spike Milligan tho' ... he was off his head ! ha!

He had a lot of serious stuff to say as well though.