2006-09-05 09:35:38 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
we have good humor but there are many different types of humor and don't take this offensively but some british can be very brutual in there humor lol...so maybe thats why...but SOME people don't understand humor...screw them if they don't like a good laugh.
2006-09-05 09:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by Lauren_Ann20 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am glad you are British too. For whatever THAT is worth. At least you are not French, then you really would be up a creek without a paddle.
I am an American. I am not miserable and am happy with a good sense of humor. I do enjoy British humor aka: Monty Python, The Goodies, Benny Hill. But, what have you done for me lately?
2006-09-05 09:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by submariner662 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a caught-in-the-middle Canadian. We were raised on British and American humour and that is why our comedians have achieved quite a lot of success all around the world. (Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, etc.) It is a different sensibility.
I no longer find the British sitcoms funny at all and don't really know why. Perhaps it is because they seem to have taken the worst elements of U.S. t.v. and applied them especially heavy-handed laugh tracks. No longer the glory years of "Carry On or Monty Python". I am still fond of Dame Edna.
However, serious and nasty Brits are abundant on American TV (Nigel, Simon Cowell, for example) Maybe they are making the American viewers surly....
2006-09-05 09:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by grapeshenry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how miserable people are is a matter of opinion. American's aren't all bad and frankly I'm glad I'm not british because If I had to go around sayin' things were rubbish I'd never get my point across. We do understand humor, furthermore, and just happen to have a different style than you.
2006-09-05 09:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by res_evil4rox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't take all the responses that you get on this site seriously. Not everyone responds with an actual answer - they're just fooling around. There are many that are children (young and old!) and really answer childlike. Just pass'em by and know that humor prevails!! (That is providing the humor your providing is truly "humorous"!)
I am happy that you are British also. I haven't met a Brit yet that hasn't been a really awesome person.
2006-09-05 09:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by Paige2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that the americans have no sense of humour it's just that it's different to ours (i'm british also) they don't get us all the time and vice versa. But we have been raised on the same tv shows/films and that kind of thing so were not all that different. We laugh more at ourselves, the americans laugh more at other ppl.
2006-09-05 10:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by missy minx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. I think you are generalizing here. There are people in every country that don't understand humor--not just Americans. and by the way we are the country that produced comedians such as
Chris Rock
Dave Chappelle
David Letterman
Jay Leno (although he is not funny)
Conan OBrien
etc...
And by the way--all of my ancestors are from Great Britain (so technically doesnt that make me British, only living in America?)
And I loved Shaun of the Dead...great flick.
2006-09-05 09:45:06 · answer #7 · answered by vdubbchick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like you say us 'Americans' are so miserable and don not understand humor, that is like us saying all Britians have bad teeth!! It's wrong to make that assumption about all of us. I find alot of things funny & i love alot of the british comedy that iahve seen here in the us! To be honest, I think your accent is hilarious!!! I can't talk since I am from Massachchetss and my accent is down right ghoulish!!! LOL
2006-09-05 09:43:38 · answer #8 · answered by Optimus P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow...thank god, I found this question.
First off, British humor is in no way clever...lets just put that out there right now.
Silly perhaps yes. Over done, certainly. But clever is not even a word that needs to be put in the same sentence...I dont even think Im answering the original question...Im just looking at some of these responses...
2006-09-05 09:47:02 · answer #9 · answered by Aan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Americans are not miserable and have a great sense of humor. I would say that you are getting bad responses from us because you are asking cracked out questions or talk to people like an A**hole.
2006-09-05 09:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our humor is different from yours. British humor tends to contain a lot of understatement while American humor tends toward exaggeration.
We don't tell American style jokes to English people after Wednesday evening because we don't want them to laugh in church on Sunday. See? Typical American exaggeration!
2006-09-05 09:42:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋