character acting/writing vs stand up

Have realised that some of the things I was most entertained by in Edinburgh were actually character based stuff, like Al Murray or Colin Hoult and his carnival of Monsters and Seyomour Mace's Sundayland come to think of it.

Colin Hoult's Karate Guy from Derby? who'd been trained by Sensei Steve.

The martial arts guy from Seymour Mace's show, have you ever wanted to do this 'Get fucked!'. Etc.

Worth thinking about as I pursue different forms of writing, it's fun making and creating a character and giving them little turns of phrase, voices, back stories and so on and so forth.

Hmmmmmm........