British Humor
 

So....do all Brits actually think it's hillarious when a man runs around in women's underwear? A more generalized question is whether or not all Brits think that the so called "British humor" is all that funny. Here in america most of that style of stuff is :| , with the exception of stuff like Red Dwarf and Mr. Bean.

Mr Bean is hardly highbrow stuff so if you like a middle aged man obsessed with his teddy then you can't criticise men running around in womens underwear ( which I don't recall seeing very ofter ).

All american sitcoms are hilarious.

Do all Americans think it is funny to have some Jew doing stand-up cracking jokes about plane food?

I have no idea what show you'd even be talking about there.

We have our fair share of wank stuff though.

Check out brass eye and the day today.

ps. red dwarf is hardly highbrow humour either.

We should make more cartoons about yellow people, that would make us funnier.

oh yeah ricky, go for the one show that is actually funny.

I watch practically every British sitcom there is, and I am yet to see...

Except Herr Flick in Allo Allo once, which was funny due to the context.

No, but the show that follows the thirty seconds of stand up is comedy gold.

What show is he talking about?

British humour, at it's best, devours American humour. Easily.

British Humor is great. Granted, I haven't seen a lot of the t.v. shows and whatnot. But I love Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, The Office, and Shaun of the Dead was brilliant.

Pretty much the main stuff that has carried over to here, but I'd love to seek out some other stuff. I hear "Spaced" is pretty good?

Watch Spinal Tap. Watch The Holy Grail. Watch Black Adder (Atkins is better in this than Mr. Bean). Watch Brass Eye. Watch Chef!.

All of those are hilarious.

Spinal Tap is classic of course. Although they aren't actually British. Close enough.

If you liked Shaun of the Dead you'll love Spaced, same people behind it.

Do they show Only Fools And Horses in america?

Only Fools And Horses
Black Adder
Father Ted

Watch at least 2 episodes of each of them and tell me British humour is shit

Not that I know of, no.

You should try to get some DVD's of it if you can. It is THE British sitcom.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...s=dvd&n=507846

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...s=dvd&n=507846

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Monty Python is pretty funny. Especially Quest For The Holy Grail.

i am an aussie here and i think british humor is much funnier than american comedy

out of curiousity, which american humour are we compared to anyway?

I believe Rocky Horror Picture Show has the aforementioned humor.

Also, with the cultural barrier, we are to find different things humorous.

I love British Humour.

So am I and I agree.

British humour shits on American humour.

We get fed so much American bullshit here that it's just :|. We need more British stuff.

Alan Partridge :love:

Only Fools and Horses
Red Dwarf
The Royle Family
Black Adder
The Office
Little Britain
Peter Kays Pheonix Nights

There are so many fantastic British comedies, where as America have

Frasier :| - One good gag per show
Friends :| - Was funny in the first series, then got very old - very fast
Sienfeld :-\ - WTF was this shit

I think Will and Grace is the only American sitcom I actually enjoy.

It was all going so well until you said Will and Grace

Definatly. A fairly cheap (Cheap by British DVD price standards) 3 disc set of the 2 Spaced series and an extra disc full of stuff has just been released. Fantastic for me, who bought the 2 disc set 2 months ago.

Its not hilariously laugh out loud funny, but there are tons of hilarious parodies in there. Lots of making fun of the new Star Wars movies. Plus, theres a character in the series who got kicked out of the terretorial army for trying to invade Paris with a tank.

A lot of the people involved with Shaun Of The Dead were involved with Spaced, hence the reason why Simon Pegg and a few others have starred in both. Simon Pegg was on Xfm a few weeks back and said that a new series of Spaced will come out eventually, but they are planning on working on a new movie, which features a British policeman as an action hero.

British Political comedy = The Biz

:wtf: Gotta disagree with that one

Anyone remember the Stare-out contests in Big Train. They were hilarious.

Bremner, Bird & Fortune :y:

Blackadder is gold. I saw a bit of Only Fools and Horses, good times. Fawlty towers is the man.

I'm an Aussie also, and I too believe British humor is far more funny than American humor. No argument.

Seinfeld.

Also, the Brit version of Whose Line is it Anyway shits all over the American one.

even though I don't think they even still make the Brit one :-\