British comedy vs American comedy

How do you think differ from each other? I tend to find British comedy alot funnier than American.....I thinks it's more subtle.

 

I like British comedy. The Americans tend to over do things so it ends up stupid instead of funny.

 

I'm american but I prefer British...Jimmy Carr is the best but I need to hear some more

 

I'll vote for British comedy too not because I'm British
but because it' so.

 

i reckon British, its kinda more dry which i like. I really like Peter Kay stand up, anyone else?? Really loved Blackadder when it was on aswell, was so funny!
Also in Uk a show called Little Britain is really big now, so if anyone can they should check it out because its huge over here. x

 

I love blackadder.. and fawlty towers..

 

British is better. The punchlines aren't always so in your face. A lot of times, the humour is subtle coming. I appreciate that more than American comedy, where you can see the jokes coming from miles away. It's almost as if American comedians feel we are too stupid to think while listening to comedy.

So yes, British is definitely better.

 

Right then, that is too silly! Someone had bloody well better side with the Yanks, or those Brits are going to get swollen noggins. Sure Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Dave Allen at Large, Man about the House (the original 3's company), On the Buses, The Two Ronnies, and even Benny Hill, are funny, but cor blimey, what about the old classic SNL with Akroyd, Belushi, Radner, et al? What about the Simpsons, South Park, and Married with Children?

The only way to solve this is to compromise.
Canadian humour rules. Trailer Park Boys. Nothing can touch it right now.
Cheers!

 

Okay, you've got me there...I will admit that the first two seasons of SNL were gold and can hardly be topped. South Park is intelligent humour. But Married with Children??? I never got into that show.

 

I admit I was grasping with Married with Children, but there are other funny American shows, like old sitcoms, Sanford and Son, etc.

 

I'm a BIT of an Anglophile anyway. (One who likes the Anglo-Saxon people.)
I prefer British Comedy to American.
Judy Dench is one of my favorite actresses, as well as the LADY from "Waiting For God". That saucy ol'e gal reminds me of me Gram!

 

Apart from Dick Emery,Morecambe & Wise & Monty Python's Flying Circus; - my favourite t.v. comedies are all American not British.


'The Munsters' is currently being re-run in Britain on terrestrial t.v.,albeit in the mornings.

A comedy I used to like watching was 'The Rowan & Martin Laugh -In ' .

Also I like this one:







- 'THE BANANA SPLITS' .

 

Maybe you can help me out, I used to love watching the banana splits, and danger island too.

Do you know the three 'splits' names? I can't remember even one of them.

 

Sure! - Drooper...........Bingo............Fleagle.......&........Snorky.

 

Uh oh Chongo!

Thankyouverymuch!

Wasn't Johnny Quest part of that show too?

 

No,not 'Johnny Quest'.


It was 'The Arabian Knights' , 'The Three Musketeers' & ' Danger Island'.


I liked 'Danger Island' it was very Disney but stylish & fast-moving.

 

All those 'Banana Splits' memories keep comin' back!:

 

wow.... So much I don't know about american shows...hmm....I'm an anglophile though...so I'm allowed to blindly like British better

 

I'm British but I grew up with both American & British T.V. Shows .I am very up on most British Television but it has only been in the last 10 years that I have discovered so many fantastic American T.V. shows that never saw the light of day ; here in Britain.

E.g: 'The Honeymooners','Gilligan's Island' : - Totally unheard of in Britain.

We first got 'Star Trek' in June 1969 - on BBC1 on a Saturday afternoon.
The Show had actually been cancelled in America-the year before.
It first premiered in the U.S. in September 1966!.



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i might be biased, but british comedy def. I prefer the sarcasm and dry humour of british comedies. Don't get me wrong, I do watch some american comedies, but i just prefer british