British Humor.....

[ACPlayer]

Dry, tongue in cheek, modestly self deprecating, exploiting the english language -- British humor is priceless.

My complete set of Wodehouse attests to my admiration for that style of writing.

Note also that many successful American humorous TV shows are knockoffs of TV shows that originated on BBC.

An example of the difference between American and British look at the hosts of Who's line is it Anyway. On the American side is Drew Carey -- loud, boisterous, bit slapsticky; on the British <if forget the name>-- dry, quiet though quite funny. As they say here in Vietnam-- Same, Same but different.

[andyfox]

The restaurant scene from History of the World(?) where the guy explodes is as funny as anything I've ever seen.

"I'm f*cking full."

"A bucket for Monseiur. And a cleaning woman."
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[HDPM]

Meaning of Life. And remember what the cleaning woman said about your kind. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Zeno]

Every Sperm is Scared
Every Sperm is Great
If one of them is Wasted
God gets quite Irate.

-Monty Python

[CCass]

'ow 'bout a nice wafer thin mint?

[MMMMMM]

Sundevil, if you just saw the movies you did not see much of Monty Python. The show itself was often quite good.

[Zeno]

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My complete set of Wodehouse attests to my admiration for that style of writing.


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Another Wodehouse fan! I have a whole set of his novels also. He was one of the best comic/humor writers of the 20th centaury. It is interesting that he spent most of his formative years in American. He also wrote plays, songs, and movie scripts in addition to his output of humorous novels.

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'Do you know what you are my lad? You're an obstinate relic of an exploded feudal system'

'Very good sir.'


'The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down to the mezzanine floor.'


'She uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest.'


Just a few gems from 'In His Own Words' a biography of his life through his works. This book is by Barry Day and Tony Ring and is well worth getting.

The only American that can compare to Wodehouse, in my opinion, is Jamas Thurber (make sure to run if the dam breaks).

-Zeno

[stripsqueez]

i've liked nearly all the americans i've met - the ones i didnt like made me laugh a bit - much like the knights from monty pythons holy grail - absolutely no sense of thier own crappiness

i like chinese food
the waiters never are rude
a fourteen
a seven
a nine and lychees

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[phishfan]

Try Red Dwarf. The first time I saw Rimmer hitting himself in the crotch with a hammer again and again and again I almost passed out.

[superleeds]

Excellent show, my favorite when they are squirted by the giant squid and start hallucinating - thinking thay are just in a Virtual Reality game.

Other greats are
The Likely Lads, Steptoe and Son, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Til Death do us Part and Only Fools and Horses.