do americans find british humour funny?

Answer 1

No, they don't. they really don't have the appreciation for dry wit

Answer 2

There is no correct answer to this question. It depends on the humor and the recipient. Old Brit shows like Are You Being Served? are still watched by many Americans on Public Broadcasting. Monty Python has been very successful here. I personally think that "Coupling" is the best show ever on the television Brit or US. Of course I like "Little Britain" so you can't go by me!

By the way the British people who keep saying American humor is obvious and American's don't get the subtle wit of British humour need to go watch Benny Hill again.

Answer 3

I'm British and i find all humour funny who cares what country there from i have a sense of humour and people i know and others find me quite amusing (i think lol)
British = funny
American= funny
other = funny
anyone can be funny its like saying blonde's are dumb
(which is not always true)
what someone looks like or where they are from does not change are souls and personality's!

Answer 4

you have have been given to bear in techniques that Britain isn't resembling united statesa., merely as a results of fact we the two talk the comparable language. (i'm a Brit BTW). it fairly is getting much less, as a results of fact British young babies now develop up on a a meals ordinary of one hundred% US television shows, yet American way of existence is drawn from the international places whose human beings went there one hundred years in the past - Italians, Polish, Irish (similar to British), yet maximum of all Germans - the White Anglo Saxon Protestant, the #a million cultural group of the U. S., and their cousins the Scandinavians (extra often than not in Minnesota), whose humour is lots extra direct and dare I say it slapstick, fairly than the wordplay humour so liked of the British. We Brits talk your language, and so we make contributions extra on the instant than something of the international on your way of existence, even with the undeniable fact that, deep down, there are Polish-human beings, Italian-human beings or maybe French-human beings and Hungarian-human beings, yet there at the instant are not any British-human beings, are there? some thing to do with a deliver packed with tea in 1774? numerous affection from the old us of a x

Answer 5

I'm not American, but I find it funny--depending on the show. The 3 favourites of mine are " 'Allo, 'Allo ", "Keeping up Appearances", and "Are you Being Served?". I'm Canadian, but my Mom, who is American-born, but came up here when she was 2 (and is now 78), does not always understand what they are saying. Her Scottish grandmother, for some strange reason, she could understand. In fact, she used to translate what her grandmother said to her friends when they came over to visit.

"On the Buses", "Benny Hill", and "Monty Python" didn't really do it for me. They were from the 1970's and I hadn't really appreciated the humour then like do now. I still wouldn't really watch them, but I know that they have a lot of fans.

Answer 6

I do!! British humour is way different from American humour though.

Answer 7

What the bloody hell IS British humour? Like, I just don't get that.

Answer 8

British humour is dry.

Answer 9

Some do, some don't. I happen to be one of those who do. I Love the British sitcoms. And yes, I DO understand the humor.

Answer 10

Actually I love Monty Python and Benny Hill- they are hilarious!

Answer 11

defline what you mean cos scottish humour is differnt then english , i dont think americans with understand english humor but they will proberly understand scottish