I frequently hear this term used. I love the British humor of this show or he/she has very British humor. This seems to be a broad and vague term. How would you define British humor?
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I am in the middle of a British sitcom marathon these past few weeks and yet I don't really have an answer to this question.
Curios to know what others have to say.
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uh, what do I know ?!?
Mainly I suppose down to irony and finding humour in misfortune, which Americans generally don't like.
My belief is that American social culture is centred around positivity, winning and politeness to others.
Us Brits are distrustful of positivity and politeness, and hate winning as we can't moan about it.
I find it strange that Americans generally don't "get" irony (although Fraser is an exception), but like the fact that their mindset seems to be based more towards positivity.
It's normally very dry and witty, like previous poster said looking at the crap side of life and making fun of it. Or satirical sometimes, look at AbFab if course people aren't really like that but we poke fun at them and say they might as well be like that
shareYeah I agree with this, people in British comedies are always a little bit rubbish, but it all turns out ok in the end! American comedies seem to be much more upbeat, which gets annoying after a while in my opinion.
"How about 'puerile'?"
How about you dunk your head in a bucket of water?
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We are incredibly self-deprecating, sarcastic and alternative* too.
I dont think *The Mighty Boosh would ever had been made were the stars not British.
Also, were just a little bit silly.
im a very proud Brit:)
Do the *beep* snow angel, dude. Do the *beep* snow angel!!