In my job, meet people from all over the world. A friend of mine is from Russia. His sense of humor is very close to mine (I am American). We enjoy the same jokes in movies and TV. I lived in Japan for 9 years and my 1st wife was from Japan. Despite the fact that the US imports Japan's physical comedy game shows, their humor is very dry. If my ex-wife tried to explain a joke, I was always waiting for the punch-line and never quite got it. In India, they do a lot of physical comedy mixed with music. I like watching British comedies, but don't find them as humorous (or maybe dryer, although still funny) as US humor. I watched the British version of the Office and laughed, but I like the US version better. I'm sure my British counterparts would feel the same about the US version. I enjoy the Red Green show out of Canada too, but again, this had its own flavor of comedy. I just wanted to discuss if anyone else had any experiences with other styles of humor in any other cultures.
2006-10-19 03:23:11 · 5 answers · asked by jgbarber65 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I was watching Bollywood videos from India on Youtube and the comedy ones remind me of the TV show 'The Monkees'. I wonder if they play The Monkees in India or if anyone from India has ever seen The Monkees in the US and agrees with me that the style of humor is similar?
2006-10-19 03:41:38 · update #1
I agree and so do the Monty Python people, who have to Americanize things to make them palitable.
I wouldn't tell a Polish joke in Poland!
I don't think Italians would get the Italian Snow Tire joke (DAGO through sleet, DAGO through snow and when DAGO flat DAGO WOP WOP WOP WOP)
Now, you want to learn universal Comedy watch the Silent movie
"The Gold Rush" by Charlie Chaplin.
Everyone in the WORLD finds that hillarious!
2006-10-19 03:28:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm currently living in Germany and in one of my classes, the students starting going around telling jokes and a lot of them were similar or almost exactly the same as jokes I heard in America. Germans are by far more blunt though than Americans and it comes out in the humor a bit.
2006-10-19 03:34:50 · answer #2 · answered by jennymarx8923 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've actually found that I infinitely prefer Canadian humor to American; I love Red Green and the old Kids in the Hall show, plus a few others I can't recall just now. Canadian humor is a good bit more bizarre than our relatively straightforward humor...I like that wacky aspect.
2006-10-19 03:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
certainly when you consider that some human beings imagine my sense of humor is sometimes ill or unusual.. so at the same time as i'm with some those who i comprehend might want to take it heavily i try now to not make jokes about lifeless human beings or graveyards..
2016-12-05 00:10:12 · answer #4 · answered by gerrit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with you
2006-10-19 03:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by Fantasia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋