A more interesting discussion. Also, if anyone just uses it as an excuse to talk badly about all American humour and say “there’s no difference between good and bad American humour” or something, I will find, shoot you with my American rifle, take you to an American hospital, and you pay the bills.

by Lost-Beach3122

29 comments

  2. Well, when the peak of American humour is apparently Friends/Big Bang Theory then it isn’t really a high bar to clear for even the worst British comedies.

  3. I think that united-staters bad humor relies a lot in sexual sketches and potty humor, along a ton of stolen jokes from older movies, while bad british humor is like normal british humor except british people don’t get it as well.

  4. Adam Sandler doesn’t make bad comedies, he secretly makes comedies for stoners, there’s a difference 😂

  5. American humour relies on flogging a joke even after the punchline. The best British humour often only _implies_ the punchline.

  6. The fact that they got someone really famous a really bad role is the reason I hate jack and Jill so much

  7. They are equally bad.

    The Sex Lives of the Potato Men is just as bad, if not worse, than any US movie I have ever seen.

  8. I think it’s more that American humour is just comparably tame. Part of it seems to be reluctance to make fun of the individual, while British humour is actually quite vicious with its characters and a lot more willing to create unlikeable central characters.

  9. I have had almost as much trouble getting through certain episodes of WKRP in Cincinnati as some eps of Fawlty Towers, in terms of passing out from laughing nonstop. (Yes, I am old.)

  10. I feel like people have at least heard of the bad American comedies, I’ve never once heard of Bigtop, as a Brit, assuming that is the British one. That Adam Sandler crap is well known though

  11. Never heard of Big Top. Wouldn’t thought Mrs. Brown’s Boys would go here since they both have drag.

  12. Talk badly? Sorry matey, that’s a paddlin’ 

  13. Bad American comedies think shouting is a punch line.

  14. Budget. For example, Mrs Browns Boys vs The Big Bang Theory, BBT has a much bigger budget.

  15. I can’t believe I actually watched all of Jack and Jill, one of the worst movies I’ve had to endure, eveeeer.

  16. Aight I’ll throw you a bone. Tbh there’s not much difference between them. Take Mrs Brown’s Boys for example (sorry to the dipshits who like it), where 99% of the comedy is just ‘old person says fuck haha’. Feel like bad American comedy is somewhat similar in that it’s this vacuous crassness without any wit or self-awareness that makes it unfunny.

  17. The difference is, badly made American stuff tends to do well regardless. Over here I feel like the quality of TV/films is good enough that rubbish writing typically doesn’t do so well?

  18. Bad British humour is cheap and cringe worthy

    Bad American humour is loud and groan worthy

  19. I know bad British humour- Jack Whitehall is an example.

    I don’t know any *bad* American Humour, as I don’t find much American humour even remotely funny, but I’m not really supposed to culturally, however I should find Jack Whitehall as riotously funny as he thinks he is yet he leaves me cold, so he must be bad!

  20. If this isn’t a good enough example, how about any of the British comedies they’ve remade for an American audience only to completely bugger it. Let’s start with The Inbetweeners…

    I’m not sure how this person thinks he will get his American gun into a different country, but it would amuse me to watch him try (I assume it is a male. With a small penis. This mentality usually goes hand in hand with that type of person).

  21. Bad British comedies usually means Jimmy carr is getting a massive tax break

  23. Americans never hear about bad British comedy. We on the other hand have heard of their shite

  24. Bad British humour is cheap, poorly paced or even worse, American.

    Bad American humour is potty humour and loud=funny

  27. Bad American comedies, they try to convince you it is funny and people like it. Bad British comedies are genuinely enjoyed, but by idiots.

  28. I put some American sitcoms on par with UK ones – same with films

    A LOT of American ‘comedy’ is utter shite though (Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother ect – utter shite).

    Frasier was utterly brilliant and shows America can do amazing humour when it puts the effort it.

  29. Look – speaking as a proud Brit, and someone who will very happily condescend to our colonial cousins on a whole series of matters: the Americans may be responsible for human rights violations all over the Middle East, Central America, and South-East Asia, but at no point did they ask us to find Mrs Brown’s Boys funny.

Comments are closed.