The problem with comedy – and this really is a problem – is that while one member of a steamy love affair is rolling on the floor, begging for the jokes to stop, yelling that it hurts. It bloody hurts. Arrrggggh! The other one is silent, arms folded, almost angry because they’re not laughing.

These jokers can actually destroy relationships. Hence, you might as well completely ignore the title of this piece, because, frankly, you might hate it. Others of you might love it. But some of you will definitely hate it. No one knows. It’s all just so deliciously subjective.

Even so, in the spirit of blowing away those January Blues using something made-up called a ‘laughter bomb’ (or ‘joke grenade’, or ‘funny gun’ – your choice), below are eight men and women who you might find funny… or not. The point about the subjectivity of this has pretty much been hammered home.Tony Law

With a big womanly thumb jammed into the ‘absurdist comedy’ pie, Tony Law splits the consensus. Some people like their jokes to reflect real life, others will enjoy this weird bit about a bear and a shark.

Tom Stade

Not a great deal is known about this Tom Stade chap, aside from that he’s Canadian - or American or something - and apparently he now lives in sunny England. Funny guy.

Zach Galifianakis

Don’t be ashamed to board big trendy bandwagons, be  comfortable declaring that you like the comedy work of the bearded man from The Hangover. He has a beard, damn it, and beards are good. They make you look a bit like a wolf.

Kristen Schaal

Fans of the deadpan New Zealand music and comedy romp, Flight of the Conchords, will recognise Schaal as the band’s one and only fan. She’s great in that, and she’s pretty nifty at stand up as well.

Joe Wilkinson

A relatively new name on the English comedy circuit, Wilkinson is another man who likes to let his facial hair run amock. One to watch.

Stewart Lee

The kind of people who willingly use words like “cerebral” in everyday chit chat are fans of Stewart Lee. That’s just a fact. He’s cerebral, you see.

Sarah Silverman

Silverman can be a little bit hard to like, especially a year or so ago when she turned up in London to put on a rather lazy performance to a very disgruntled audience. But the lady has got funny bones.

Jim Gaffigan

Jokes about food can be funny. Above is the proof of that.

Josh Burt is one of the brains behind Interestment Comedy.

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Remember that video about Sarah Silverman having sex with Matt Damon and how you thought it was funny but sort of wished that nobody would dilute it by imitating it.

Well, consider it imitated. Imitated by Sarah Silverman's boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel. You see, if Sarah Silverman is fucking Matt Damon, then in the new video Jimmy Kimmel is fucking Ben Affleck.

And the video is hilarious, really. Because, you know, Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Affleck are both men, and if they're both having sex with each other then that means they're gay. And gay is funny these days, right? It's OK to laugh at gay people, because it shows you understand them. But don't let them touch you. Never let them actually touch you. Ugh. 

There's nothing worse than answer songs. You know the sort – like when Sporty Thieves tried to cash in on No Scrubs by TLC by releasing a song called No Pigeons, or when Bobby Vee sang Take Good Care Of My Baby and some opportunistic twit came up with I'll Take Good Care Of Your Baby to try and piggyback the trend to the bank. There has never been a good answer song, and you're allowed to punch people who disagree with you.

Actually, there is one thing worse than an answer song, and that's an answer song that's got Jimmy Kimmel in it. And the one thing that's worse than that is an answer song that's got Jimmy Kimmel in it and is full of breathtakingly outdated gay jokes. And the one thing worse than that is an answer song that's got Jimmy Kimmel in it and is full of breathtakingly inane gay jokes that seems to have been dreamed up by a cigar-chomping TV executive desperate to get a hit on YouTube because that's what kids like these days, right?

Which brings us neatly to I'm Fucking Ben Affleck by Jimmy Kimmel, an answer song to the still funny I'm Fucking Matt Damon song that Kimmel's girlfriend Sarah Silverman wrote for his birthday. Take a look…

Now you might see I'm Fucking Ben Affleck and think that it's nothing more than a pale imitation of I'm Fucking Matt Damon, but you're wrong. True, I'm Fucking Ben Affleck isn't very funny, but it does have more famous people in it, so that makes it better, right? Even if one of them is Robin Williams. Plus, I'm Fucking Ben Affleck is big on YouTube, which makes it easily as good as that Korean Hey Jude kid.

Actually, watch I'm Fucking Ben Affleck again. Remind you of anything? Unfunny, unoriginal, reliant on a string of mainly fictional homosexual stereotypes and a parade of slow-witted celebrity cameos? Well done Jimmy Kimmel, you've just made the best episode of Will & Grace we've never seen.