― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― donna (donna), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)
But Space Ghost is the only one of those mentioned that really gets me. The Onion's one-note condescending ironic tone grew stale a long time ago for me. Especially in the wake of the events of... nevermind.
― Aaron A., Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)
http://home.graffiti.net/buglebear/krankies.gif
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.reeldeals.com/pictures/strngcom.jpg
― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)
But sitcoms may be different. Again, I bet we've seen more of your best than you have of ours, but I might just give the edge to America there, with The Simpsons and Bilko tipping the scales.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lek Dukagjin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― the actual mr. jones (actual), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)
"People from the Republic of Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand most enjoyed jokes involving word plays.
One example was as follows. Patient: "Doctor, I've got a strawberry stuck up my bum." Doctor: "I've got some cream for that!"
Americans and Canadians, on the other hand, preferred jokes where there was a strong sense of superiority - either because a character looks stupid or is made to look stupid by someone else.
This was an example of American humour.
Texan: "Where are you from?"
Harvard graduate: "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions."
Texan: "OK, where are you from, Jackass?""
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)
So the British are fond of sodomy and Americans hate intelectuals, then...nice to know that The Stereotypes Still Apply.
Btw, Sri Lankan humor is widely supeior to American humor.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)
Canada had You Can't Do That On TV therefore Canadians have the best sense of humour. The Brits were close runners up with the Benny Hill Show.
― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)
I'm also wondering what the deal is with "The Family Guy" getting a UK DVD release, whereas here it couldn't even get renewed? That is my favorite sit-com.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 4 October 2002 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-three years ago)
brrr! is it cold in here?
Canada had You Can't Do That On TV therefore Canadians have the best sense of humour
what do you think is IN THE BURGERS?!?!?? ― chaki (chaki), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 4 October 2002 07:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)
these are questions that we can agree have been answered
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)
UK is disqualified, for entering it at all
US wins, denis leary notwithstanding
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)
huh? you mean unplaced?
― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)
1)Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy2)Harold Lloyd3)Oscar Wilde4)Chris Langham 5)Stephen Fry6)Richard Pryor7)Tony Slattery8)Spike Milligan9)Steve Martin10)Lily Tomlin11)Lance Percival12)Phil Silvers13)Chris Morris14)Graham Chapman15)Rowland Rivron(Especially in his criminally overlooked 'Set of Six'16)Frankie Howerd17)Kenneth Williams18)Bill Hicks19)Julian Clary20)Peter Cook21)Ken Dodd ... Hugh Laurie, Charles Hawtrey, Tom Hanks (early), Dudley Moore, Lee Evans, John Cleese, Roy Kinnear, Leonard Rossiter, Kathy Burke, Vic Reeves, Kevin Eldon, Ivor Cutler, Dave Gorman, Pete McCarthy, Charlie Chuck, Frank Sidebottom, Rik Mayall (All of The Young Ones), Richard Curtis, Willie Rushton, Charlie Chaplin, Norman Lovett, Freddie Starr, Norman Wisdom, Half Man Half Biscuit, Jimmy Mulville, Edwyn Collins, Neil Mullarkey, Henry Normal, Ryan Styles, Colin Mockery, Jeremy Dyson, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Davis (snooker player and wit), Mark Thomas, Eric Morecambe, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Andrew Davies (writer of 'A Very Peculiar Practice' and 'Game On'), Bill Murray, Ricky Gervais, Matthew Broderick, Matthew Perry, Windsor Davies, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley, Michael Crawford (Some Mother's do ave 'em), Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graham Garden, Armando Ianucci, Harry Enfield, Simon Day, Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Johnny Vaughan, Conan O'Brien, Jonathan Ross, Russ Abbott, Barry Cryer, Lemn Sissay (poet, but so funny as well), Michael Bentine, Morwenna Banks, John Sparkes, Kelly Monteith, Patrick Marber, Clive Anderson, Eddie Izzard, Mark Steel, Nick 'Training Day' Revell, Andy ' Rraining Day' Hamilton, Basil Brush, East Anglia's B.C (Birthday Club puppet tiger from the early eighties), Muppets, Andy De La Tour, The Persihers, Rhubard and Custard, Terry Thomas, Woman who played 'Grace Under Fire', Rory Motion, Jeff Green, Craig Ferguson, Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Ringo Starr, Mark Lamarr, Arthur Smith, Paula Yates, Marilyn Monroe, Mel Brooks, Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Alan Cummings, Robin Williams, David Schneider, Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan, Chris Tarrant, Dawn French, Griff Rhys-Jones, Kids in the Hall, Les Dawson, Lynda Smith, Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Johnny Vegas, John Inman, Ben Stiller, John Candy, Henry Winkler, Michael Barrymore, Steven Wright, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews ... I mean, I could go on ...
― Owen, Friday, 4 October 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)
WELL YOU WOULD KNOW
― Superior British Sense Of Humour (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)
"Surely Gunther was an American citizen born in the States." Why the incessant German references, and why is he not called Brad?
― Alice Crow, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Staff Member, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)
I'm sure the idea was he had German parentage or great-grandparentage but was born in NY or nearby - his accent seems to suggest he had been there long enough. You are reading far too much into this and it's just not there.
As for your reading of Friends portrayal of the two Jewish characters, it's baffling! Monica and Ross were always regarded higher than any of the other characters, their parents were still together and happy (unlike the other characters) and featured more often than the others. And Elliott Gould rocks. The negative traits of Ross and Monica's characters (nerdiness and obsessive competetiveness respectfully) were highlighted no more than the negative quirks of the other characters (the others being equally 'inept' in holding down a relationship).
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Alice Crow, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)
― ++++, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)
― ++++, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Alice Crow, Friday, 31 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)
She might be but Phoebe wasn't. Courtney Cox isn't Jewish anyway, is she?
― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal 'borderline offensive' Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)
(Er, Rachel is jewish too? Clue's in the question, like. Oh never mind, xpost)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus Is A Very Magic Fellow (Dada), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)
― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)
― ++++, Friday, 31 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)
― Lock Thread, Friday, 31 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Snappy Dresser, Monday, 17 April 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)
-- Snappy Dresser (ks;...), April 17th, 2006. (later)
qft
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 April 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)
― TQM, Friday, 21 April 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)
― TQM, Friday, 21 April 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)
― everything, Friday, 21 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.ontheairmagazine.com/Keeping-up-Appearances-(72d.jpg
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)
anyway, the obv answer is America has the best sense of humor for (most) Americans, Britan for (most) Britishes, etc etc etc
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)
well it was written by Comden and Green
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)
― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Eat, the indie band of the early 190's, Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)
America's comedians had the excellent sense to quit while they were ahead.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:24 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-political-sitcoms-20160706-snap-story.html
“American TV comedy nowadays tends not to be ironic or satirical,” he related. “There is a wish to make it homey and cozy. When I was talking to a network about turning [“Yes, Minister”] into an American series, I was asked if I could put a kid into it — or failing that, a dog. I decided that life is too short.” (For Lynn’s personal view on Brexit, see his Facebook page.)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:35 (nine years ago)
He's generalizing about comedy on American TV based on his experiences with American network TV, which is a pretty big mistake.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:38 (nine years ago)
shouldve gone undercover to the underground clandestine american comedy scene
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:45 (nine years ago)
I have like 100 gigglebytes of sweet American comedy on my HDD
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:11 (nine years ago)
how many dogs would you say star in them
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:15 (nine years ago)
British sitcoms have cats in them
― O, Barack: flaws (wins), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:16 (nine years ago)
We are cat people
mysterious
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:18 (nine years ago)
Mind you, 95% of comedy is atrocious regardless of its source or country of origin. And I say that as a lover of comedy.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 July 2016 17:22 (nine years ago)
this list is appallingly Americentric and doesn't even include Vienna from Rising Damp, the quintessential British sitcom cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_cats_in_television
― soref, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:06 (nine years ago)
No room for Mrs Slocombe's pussy?
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)
incidentally, the wikipedia page for Rising Damp has a section titled "Emphasis on personal failure" = this possibly says something about the British sense of humuor, even if it doesn't settle the question of which country's sense of humour is "best"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Damp#Emphasis_on_personal_failure
― soref, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:11 (nine years ago)
― O, Barack: flaws (wins)
danny john-jules isn't a real cat, he's a human being pretending to be a cat
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:26 (nine years ago)
DJP is American and he's been on fucking fire today
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 July 2016 20:36 (nine years ago)