English or American comedy?

locombia · 09-10-2009 03:02PM #1

Whats funnier English or American comedy???

admiralofthefleet · 09-10-2009 03:03PM

if a fat girl falls in the woods do the trees laugh

Holsten · 09-10-2009 03:03PM

Anglo-American comedy.

09-10-2009 03:05PM

Ask former Tony Blair and GW Bush? A pair-o-ditsy?

Schism · 09-10-2009 03:14PM

There's no answer to that. There's both good and bad in the two of them.

mike65 · 09-10-2009 03:15PM

Chris Morris or Larry David?

Both great!

ejmaztec · 09-10-2009 03:28PM

If it's sit-coms, the Americans have 40 Jewish writers in a room churning out scripts, whereas English sit-coms have one or two of varying denominations.

I don't know about Irish sit-coms, because I try to avoid them.:o

Gone Drinking · 09-10-2009 03:29PM

Anything but Irish

TPD · 09-10-2009 03:45PM

British. Alan Partridge, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Big Train, Spaced, Black Books, The Fast Show, Garth Marenghi, Monty Python, Armando Iannuci...

Could probably go on for a while.

Fizman · 09-10-2009 03:48PM

locombia wrote: »

Whats funnier English or American comedy???

Neither can compete with how hilariously unfunny our comedy in general is.

chopperbyrne · 09-10-2009 03:49PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I don't know about Irish sit-coms, because I try to avoid them.:o

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Anything but Irish

Father Ted.

TPD · 09-10-2009 03:50PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Father Ted.

I see your Father Ted and I raise you a Hardy Bucks.

genericguy · 09-10-2009 03:54PM

american comedy is for the most part muck.

the american stuff that does be on now that i can think of is:
everybody loves raymond - muck
king of queens - muck
big bang theory - i pity the people who like this.
barack obama getting nobel prize - muck

British comedy -
The day today, only fools and horses, brass eye, alan partridge, big train, peep show and so on. absolute gold.

genericguy · 09-10-2009 03:56PM

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

I see your Father Ted and I raise you a Hardy Bucks.

I've seen your hardy bucks. and it was shit.

"drinkin' and shmokin' and fightin'." absolute shyte, i can't see many people other than the bumpkins who've never left their home town. two gobshytes.

Fago! · 09-10-2009 04:13PM

If it's stand up, English wins hands down.

If it's comedy radio, Americans are WELL funnier.

mike65 · 09-10-2009 04:14PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Father Ted.

and he was only any good cos he "left" the country!

ejmaztec · 09-10-2009 04:16PM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Father Ted.

I'm talking RTE output (or lack of), not "imported" home-grown stuff that was bank-rolled somewhere else.

mathie · 09-10-2009 04:16PM

The Byrne Ultimatum trumps all.

enda1 · 09-10-2009 04:17PM

genericguy wrote: »

I've seen your hardy bucks. and it was shit.

"drinkin' and shmokin' and fightin'." absolute shyte, i can't see many people other than the bumpkins who've never left their home town. two gobshytes.

Pfft

Great bit of comedy made on a shoestring budget!

Plus it captures the Ballina and Swinford mentalities scarily well.

Turd Ferguson · 09-10-2009 04:26PM

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

British. Alan Partridge, Brass Eye, The Day Today, Big Train, Spaced, Black Books, The Fast Show, Garth Marenghi, Monty Python, Armando Iannuci...

Could probably go on for a while.

All great shows, but on the flip side America has : Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiams, Trailer Park Boys (Canadian, same thing), Arrested Development, 30 Rock, the Office, Larry Sanders Show.....

Could probably go on for a while there too

chakotha · 09-10-2009 04:35PM

English probably. It can be more subtle leaving more to the imagination to see how funny a situation is. American comedy is very much in-your-face obvious gags.

The guy · 09-10-2009 04:38PM

chakotha wrote: »

English probably. It can be more subtle leaving more to the imagination to see how funny a situation is. American comedy is very much in-your-face obvious gags.

The best example is the Office.

I think British comedy is far funnier.

speedboatchase · 09-10-2009 04:40PM

The U.S has hilarious movies, tv shows, writers and stand up comedians (with standup an art they practically perfected from Pryor onwards). The UK has a few genius comedians and shows but its films are terrible. I think U.S wins but some of my loved shows looking back were probably English though (The Office, Brass Eye), maybe they just stand the test of time better

lala stone · 09-10-2009 04:41PM

Fizman wrote: »

Neither can compete with how hilariously unfunny our comedy in general is.

Father Ted?!

Elliemental · 09-10-2009 04:41PM

Fizman wrote: »

Neither can compete with how hilariously unfunny our comedy in general is.

Father Ted, anyone?

EDIT: Just noticed all the replies to the same post, saying the exact same thing! Oops!

The_Kew_Tour · 09-10-2009 04:43PM

I go English think there much the better overall.

Only Fools and Horses alone beats anything the Americans have

4zn76tysfajdxp · 09-10-2009 04:43PM

Seinfeld was crap.

ScumLord · 09-10-2009 04:44PM

The Brits have a better sense of humour and produce more hit's than misses, the Americans can make good comedy but produce so much stuff it would be amassing if they didn't produce at least one or two good shows. Most of what they make is rubbish though.

TPD · 09-10-2009 04:45PM

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

All great shows, but on the flip side America has : Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiams, Trailer Park Boys (Canadian, same thing), Arrested Development, 30 Rock, the Office, Larry Sanders Show.....

Could probably go on for a while there too

I don't like Seinfeld or Arrested Development. Theyve got that awful cheesey quality, like somebody has rubbed cheese over the camera lens before filming. Or perhaps stored the film in close vicinity to some mature aromatic cheese.

I wouldn't consider a Canadian show to be American. Thats like calling Irish things English just because theyre close together. And we know how much AH hates that.

I have heard good things about the American Office though. Having said that, the British Office was around first, so cant give too much credit to the Americans.

Ruu_Old · 09-10-2009 04:45PM

Don't like American humour, always has to be sex related or involving arses. English all the way.

Mr. Hamilton: I'm gonna bust his ass!
Basil Fawlty: Everything's bottoms with you people, isn't it?

TPD · 09-10-2009 04:49PM

genericguy wrote: »

I've seen your hardy bucks. and it was shit.

"drinkin' and shmokin' and fightin'." absolute shyte, i can't see many people other than the bumpkins who've never left their home town. two gobshytes.

I would have no hesitancy in saying it's the best Irish produced comedy avaliable. Father Ted, while pretty good, isn't all that.

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