Poll: Who's better at comedy? Brits or Americans?
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Well, I like them both, though I have to admit that I love every kind of comedy that isn't toilet humour so, uh, moot point.
However, I have to admit that I prefer British comedy, if only because I'm a great fan of panel shows- Mock the Week, Would I lie to you, Never Mind the Buzzcock, Argumental, You Have Been Watching, Fast and Loose... I just love them. Also British comedians tend to really cross the line, and I'm a fan of dark comedy.
While American comedy... well, the Daily Show, Colbert, the Soup... I love those shows, of course. But I don't really know anything else...
I guess that the problem is that the only way to get to know how's the American humour, when you don't live in a English speaking country, is by watching sitcoms, and those tend to, well... keep going and going until they're not funny anymore.
That is also why I prefer British sitcoms: because they usually have an end, and this usually comes when the show is still funny. Usually.
...God I miss Blackadder.
...still, as for the humour in itself, I think they're both funny in their completely different ways...
However, I have to admit that I prefer British comedy, if only because I'm a great fan of panel shows- Mock the Week, Would I lie to you, Never Mind the Buzzcock, Argumental, You Have Been Watching, Fast and Loose... I just love them. Also British comedians tend to really cross the line, and I'm a fan of dark comedy.
While American comedy... well, the Daily Show, Colbert, the Soup... I love those shows, of course. But I don't really know anything else...
I guess that the problem is that the only way to get to know how's the American humour, when you don't live in a English speaking country, is by watching sitcoms, and those tend to, well... keep going and going until they're not funny anymore.
That is also why I prefer British sitcoms: because they usually have an end, and this usually comes when the show is still funny. Usually.
...God I miss Blackadder.
...still, as for the humour in itself, I think they're both funny in their completely different ways...
as an american, i've seen a lot of american stand up. and only a little of it has stayed funny over the years.
i havent seen a lot of brit comedy but the bits i have seen were very good.
slight edge to the brits, i guess.
i havent seen a lot of brit comedy but the bits i have seen were very good.
slight edge to the brits, i guess.
Neither. America has some funny comedians, and so do the British. We Americans also notice that we have a whole load of lame comedy, and so do the British.
However, Monty Python has to be my favorite comedy group of all time, so I guess I have to vote British.
However, Monty Python has to be my favorite comedy group of all time, so I guess I have to vote British.
I don't believe there is such thing as the funniest country with the best sense of humor. Individual people on the other hand, that's something different.....
Plinglebob said:
Well played, sir. I think the question was more in general rather than comedians per capita. But still, well played.
It depends on what you prefer. British humor has quite a bit more wit in it whereas a lot more American humor is slapstick-oriented.
British humour would be better if they banned canned laughter (im looking at you otherwise amazing IT crowd!)
But you see the person I was responding to, did not. This is the problem with a bulletin board. A reasonable person comes along and suddenly what was a point worth making to one person is now, suddenly superfluous.weker said:
I don't really prefer one or the other more as a whole. I loved Seinfeld as much as I do The IT Crowd. As a kid I laughed at Monty Python and I love Lucy and as an adult I've laughed just as hard at Jim Gaffigan as Jamie Carr (and as an asides gotten just as sick of both, Carr is as obsessed with dick sucking as Gaffigan is with sloth. They are best both taken in small increments). So to answer your question I see comics and shows as self contained entities representing the genius of their respective creators and not their countries of origin as a whole?zehydra said:
Sorry for this this post being so late in the thread, and I do not mean to necro. I Am an American and I fit, kinda I'm more moderate (which really is liberal where I live, California isn't all that liberal) and freelance with my religion, both. The issue is much more then that though. Not everything in life revolves around scientific theories and religion. When people are so ashamed of their country that they will just trash anything pertaining to that country, just cause it is from that country? There is an issue, and that is pretty rampant on this site.weker said:
It doesn't bother me when people outside the country do it though, I usually just write off their comments. Kind of like your dig at Americans over something that, in the grand scheme of things, means very little. Except I acknowledged it... look a distraction!!!!!
"anything pertaining to that country" I didn't state they hated everything, I was just stating a reason why they might do.silent-treatment said:
"dig at Americans over something that, in the grand scheme of things, means very little." Would hardly call it little, as it halts progress, and fills fox news viewing figures.
Anything that improves fox news viewing figures, tends to be a bad thing.