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British humour for me!

i love the office, i have the whole of series 1 + 2 and its amazingly clever, how you suddenly get the long silences when a bad joke is told, and the people there are really dumb

 

also i watched wallace and gromit the other day and it was laugh a minute

it appeals to kids and adults

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There are a couple of good US shows around at the moment like Family Guy and Simpsons. Scrubs is OK. Friends, Cheers and Fraiser were all great too. Will & Grace is complete crap though. I think UK humour is much better overall, simply because it's so much more intresting and varied. Love Potion is one of my current favourites, I always look forward to Have I Got News for You and I simply can't wait for the next series of Bremner, Bird and Fortune. I also hope they make another series of Monkey Dust or The Peep Show, one of the finest sitcoms ever made. Those great satirical skits they do on Radio 4 rock too. Did anyone hear the show about the PR gurus trying to help improve the image of a local superstore? Currently living in a small town with a frankly oversized Tesco's, I hadn't laughed so hard in ages. When was the last time an American comedy show made light of large American corperations? Show me a US satire on the Coca-Cola Company, and I'll hush up.

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I will have to go old skool - the kenny everitt show, in sickness & in health , the young ones, the two ronnies, smith & jones, hale & pace, only fools & horses and porrige. American- different strokes, fresh prince of belair, the addams family, beavis & butthead, the cosbys and i strangely remember the waltons being a bloody good laugh for some reason . The best british humour of all - billy connolly- no contest .

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erm, that doesn't really prove your point :heh:

 

Hahaha...yeah, I know, It was just an example (and I do know they're written by more than one person, he's one of the main guys though).

I can't really explain how I mean, but if you look back on older American comedy's, they're shit generally. It's only recent ones that are good AND add a more british comedy in there aswell, I don't really know how to explain it.

 

And yes, I also can't really get into Little Britain. The Fast Show repeated things, but they were repeated in a funny sort of way. :grin:

 

Is it me or has no-one mentioned the League of Gentlemen? That RULES. I didn't think I'd like it origionally, but I really got into it.

 

also i watched wallace and gromit the other day and it was laugh a minute

it appeals to kids and adults

It is. The best bit is the Arson joke, hahahaha. I still prefer The Wrong Trousers though

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