also- i think it's a lot funnier if you watched shows like this as a kid. each othe the math questions where you're supposed to work along with the video are great.

i'm pretty sure almost everyone had to watch an out of date british educational film at some point, whether they're british or not


hell i did in rural kentucky so i figure other people did too, a lot of them were like...taped off of pbs on vhs by the teacher

hell i did in rural kentucky so i figure other people did too, a lot of them were like...taped off of pbs on vhs by the teacher

They're pretty horrible in their native country, so I'm suprised you even have the will to live.

none o' yall got any room to bitch until you've seen, "the miracle of child-birth"

none o' yall got any room to bitch until you've seen, "the miracle of child-birth"

I'm not bitching, I always liked watching out of date British educational films, there was something strangely aesthetically pleasing about them to me.  Something about the space music and faded colors just seemed really awesome to me.

Also I have seen the miracle of child birth (is that what it was called even?  i don't remember i've just seen it) sooo 

I last watched this before someone stole my dvd when I was like 16 heh, so maybe it's less funny than I remember and no better than milwaukee but I watched one and I still dig it

haha no dude if you can't see the huge difference between british comedy and american comedy you're an idiot.

so what is british comedy and what is american comedy? is british comedy the office and american comedy friends? or is british comedy only fools and horses and american comedy arrested development? i guess british comedy stars ugly people and american comedy stars beautiful people but that doesn't really work either cos there's tim and eric a couple of fatties who puke all the time and there's plenty of love actually's and other shitty rom coms.

i take it you mean "british comedy is clever...subtle...acerbic...gallows humour..." and of course there are some british comedies which are like that, and some comedians which are like that, but there's just as much slapstick and stupid bullshit from britain, too. also, the apparently "clever" british humour is usually not that clever. like the new albumen, it's out now. that's just a pun. i didn't laugh at that it was just like "really?". monty python isn't actually CLEVER, it's usually just dumb word play or innuendo which makes me cringe sometimes with how lame it is. monty python can be really funny, but usually only when it's being absurd. like in the holy grail when they do the big dumb song which isn't funny but then at the end of it "on second thoughts let's not go to the castle, it is a silly place" and they move on. there's nothing really clever about that, and aside from a certain demeanour it's given by the english accent there's no reason that is any different from say SCRUBS when JD has a dumb fantasy and then says something when he snaps out of it. scrubs is shit though, but the idea is the same.

there's no way you can categorize british and american comedy. there's no criteria to use and making the distinction just makes you look like snobby little shithead who i'm not really interested in since the implication is always very heavily BRITISH = SMART, AMERICAN = DUMMIES!!!!

i've never seen anything as good as say tim and eric come out of britain. is tim and eric american humour? you know, satirizing a hundred different aspects of media in 10 minutes and throwing in some wacky shit for extra? or is that british. or is it just a stupid waste of time to categorize it by the country it comes from and makes you look like a bit of a dumb snob at the same time?

so "shut your gob, mate" Ya Blew It

also i'm pretty frickin british.

so what is british comedy and what is american comedy? is british comedy the office and american comedy friends? or is british comedy only fools and horses and american comedy arrested development? i guess british comedy stars ugly people and american comedy stars beautiful people but that doesn't really work either cos there's tim and eric a couple of fatties who puke all the time and there's plenty of love actually's and other shitty rom coms.

i take it you mean "british comedy is clever...subtle...acerbic...gallows humour..." and of course there are some british comedies which are like that, and some comedians which are like that, but there's just as much slapstick and stupid bullshit from britain, too. also, the apparently "clever" british humour is usually not that clever. like the new albumen, it's out now. that's just a pun. i didn't laugh at that it was just like "really?". monty python isn't actually CLEVER, it's usually just dumb word play or innuendo which makes me cringe sometimes with how lame it is. monty python can be really funny, but usually only when it's being absurd. like in the holy grail when they do the big dumb song which isn't funny but then at the end of it "on second thoughts let's not go to the castle, it is a silly place" and they move on. there's nothing really clever about that, and aside from a certain demeanour it's given by the english accent there's no reason that is any different from say SCRUBS when JD has a dumb fantasy and then says something when he snaps out of it. scrubs is shit though, but the idea is the same.

there's no way you can categorize british and american comedy. there's no criteria to use and making the distinction just makes you look like snobby little shithead who i'm not really interested in since the implication is always very heavily BRITISH = SMART, AMERICAN = DUMMIES!!!!

i've never seen anything as good as say tim and eric come out of britain. is tim and eric american humour? you know, satirizing a hundred different aspects of media in 10 minutes and throwing in some wacky shit for extra? or is that british. or is it just a stupid waste of time to categorize it by the country it comes from and makes you look like a bit of a dumb snob at the same time?

so "shut your gob, mate" Ya Blew It

also i'm pretty frickin british.

british comedy is markedly different to american comedy and the general british sense of humour is also different

i never once said it was better. i merely said it was different and its a general fact that a lot of americans dont get british humour where britons do because of this.

yeah uh jamicus dom is right. they are markedly different and he never said anything about better, just that my dislike might stem from not liking british humor in general. like I think if you didn't grow up in a culture showing the type of TV Tim and Eric almost 1 to 1 parody, you won't really like it as much. I lived in Puerto Rico and went to India constantly and both of them had 1970s TV so it is really funny to me.

of course I said I have seen British comedy I just didn't find this as funny but beside the point!

nah i just don't see it.

i didn't say dom actually said "british humour is better", it's just that this is almost always what i hear from people. i said implication - you never hear about british people not getting american humour, they just say it's dumb or shit. i don't see what the big difficulty is on either side. the only difference i really see that is common in all comedy from certain places is like the accent and certain phrases people will use, apart from that comedians are generally pretty varied.

i didn't grow up watching loads of infomercials or cheesey talk shows etc i mean i know they exist but i think it's very easy to get what tim and eric are making fun of without having loads of experience with that stuff - and there is easily as much of that kind of tripe on british tv, too.

for the sake of an example, people say there's a difference between scottish humour and english humour - there isn't. the jokes are always the same, and they are either dumb or smart, the context might be a little different but i can't see how that would ruin the joke for you unless it was something totally alien and britain and america are pretty flipping mixed in culturally and have been for a while.

also dom i got you a little mixed up with dicko in the first post cos he does say this crap a lot. maybe snobby shithead was a bit strong! but i still think making that kind of british vs american thing is stupid and useless in describing anything, unless you mean "dumb and plays into a lot of cultural cliches" in which case just say that.

edit: btw, I just noticed there's a lot of visual stuff that is hard to see in the youtube. Download the dvd rips of the episodes if you can.

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I was only listening because I wanted to do other stuff but it sounds like Boards of Canada the comedy series

ugh yeah there's a definite difference in what the majority of people find funny in the states and britain, or at least what producers think the majority of people will find funny. has anyone seen the american kath and kim?

i guess when you're talking about conversions they might be trying to make a niche series more marketable but yeah it's way different

I saw a clip from the australian kath & kim (no one here knows this exists btw) something with sex toys, it kinda reminded me of arrested development. I know every internet nerd says this about every show but I think it actually applied to that clip

*edit* different from the american kath and kim n e way

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rrrmmm...okay. i guess there is some kind of use to british and american comedy. but basically it's only useful in so far as the british variety of dumb and american variety of dumb go, and even then there are imitations, but i don't think actual good comedies can be described as american or british cos usually they have a lot of unique qualities.

i shouldn't have started this, cos i got dom mixed up with i think dicko or some guy who kept saying british comedy was special or great a little while ago and it annoys me when people do that.

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this was really dumb i'm sorry for doing this.