this is regardless of colour. i am black and i was born in the uk, i have noticed that when my family visits from other countries they do not laugh or sometimes get the things that we find funny and sometimes have to end up explaining the joke which takes the fun out of it
has anyone else noticed that the sense of humour is one of the things the british people have in common,regardless of colour etc
whether i like it or not i seem to have a british sense of humour?
2006-12-30 08:30:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yeah agreed mate. I think our sense of humour is brilliant.
Agreed with the above as well. The Dutch are a very humerous people and can laugh at almost anything. We share a lot in common with them.
2006-12-30 08:34:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, you could say there is a British sense of humour. But it seems to me a pretty broad church. I mean, at the same time that Faulty Towers and Monty Python was playing the BBC, Benny Hill and Dick Emery were also at the peak of popularity. Nowadays it has evolved into embarrassment-fests like The Office or comedy soaps like Two Pints of Lager.
On Radio Four old warhorses like The News Quiz, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just A Minute haven't changed format in twenty or thirty years. At the same time the channel can give rise to television shows like Little Britain, Dead Ringers and Have I Got News for You.
Like the class system upon which is still is often based, British comedy a combination or different threads like word-play, political satire (for example Yes Minister) and the comedy of social embarrassment (like Borat / Ali-G). There is overlap, many elements are universal but it is that particular combination that makes the comedy what it is: British.
Its a culture thing.
2006-12-30 08:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course there is a British sense of humour. Love it especially when sarcasm is used to be funny. Not a lot of people get that !!!
2006-12-30 08:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
expensive Jellz, i'm an Aussie too and am extremely joyful to attempt to offer you a sturdy answer. the final difficulty you strike on your quest for worldwide humour (sure, I spell it that way, too) is that we don't have a worldwide language. you're able to do wonders without utilising spoken language and sticking to physique language and strikes it somewhat is why human beings probably "get" you. I even have attractive 20-minute "chats" in this form with human beings distant places eventhough i don't comprehend any of their language. If Miming is a sort - then there is one answer for you. basically watch Marcel Marceau at artwork. it is not wordplay yet there are impressive photos of George Dubya Bush going around the place he's examining a toddler's e book the different way up and yet another the place he's utilising binococulars with the lens caps on - no language needed !!! even though it is not worldwide yet basically bypass-cultural - yet another threat is to construct a sort around circumstances the place a similar words in different languages mean different issues. (for occasion, in Hong Kong recently it tickled my humorous-bone while i offered some footwear from a shop mentioned as Fook Hing in Hong Kong footwear, in case you get my drift)!!
2016-10-19 05:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by benner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are correct there is a British sence of humour that is somewhat unique. People in many other countries have a totally different take on things
2006-12-30 08:33:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Having a British sense of humour is simply this: Having the ability to laugh at oneself.
2006-12-30 08:32:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
John Cleese and Michael Palin also have a very British sense of humour. It hasn't done either of them any harm.
2006-12-30 08:35:26 · answer #7 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I love to watch British comedies but when I have people over they usually don't get the funny parts. I'm not British but I know most of the lingo so I guess that's part of it.
2006-12-30 08:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by Kameo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think there is...british humor tends to b a little...um..."dry"...it's can be hard to figure out exactly wat the punchline of the joke is so often time the joke is not laughed at.
p.s. i'm black also and was born in the uk...i live in the states now, but it is something i had to get used to...so in a way yeah there is such a thing as a "british sense of humor".
2006-12-30 08:35:48 · answer #9 · answered by Retarded Genius 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so if I said you enjoy the black gallows humour, you'd know what i mean and LOL with the rest of us idiots. My brother has lived in America for too long and he has lost his "British" humour. i think the shared experience of our small island brings out the sillyness.
Good Q !
2006-12-30 08:46:45 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋