American Humour is Terrible

[Sion_Barzahd]

Whilst i would argue a lot of american comedy is good or at least decent enough, i do believe that american stand up is on a whole pretty damn awful.

Especially given the two most "iconic" american stand up acts i can think of are Dane Cook and Chris Rock...

There is another guy, and he is very good, but i can't think of his name sadly.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Whilst i would argue a lot of american comedy is good or at least decent enough, i do believe that american stand up is on a whole pretty damn awful.

Especially given the two most "iconic" american stand up acts i can think of are Dane Cook and Chris Rock...

There is another guy, and he is very good, but i can't think of his name sadly.

Funny thing about American comics, the ones that live over here in the UK are hilarious, you know, like Rich Hall and Reginald D Hunter.

 

[Fingerprint]

Surely it doesn't matter where the show/comedian/humour comes from, it's whether or not you find the jokes (however sublte or crude) funny. Personally British humour, in general, appeals to me more but that's only because I was brought up on it. And for the record British and American humour are, for the most part, two completely different styles each with their own pros and cons.

 

[uneek]

I like South Park for it's witty commentary of current affairs. It actually takes issues of the day and makes some good jokes at them. Family Guy is just ok - I wouldn't watch it often, but it can be funny. The kind of American humour I really don't like is shows like the Big Bang Theory. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLQaTcViOA

It just isn't funny. Not because it isn't my sense of humour, but there is no intelligence to the jokes involved. America has scrounged genuinely good British TV series such as Shameless and The Office, and ruined them in an effort to bring them to the American market.

My point is American humour is unintelligent and boring to watch. It is juvenile, and I find it actually almost painful to see shows like Two and a Half Men doing well when they are so full of utter crap.

N.B: Lol. Calm down. In my experience, stating your opinion as fact results in a stronger argument. Prefixing everything you say with "I think" or "I feel" seems weak. I've not seen any posts that in any way make me even think my opinion may be incorrect. And no, I'm not trolling.

Dude, isn't this a huge generalization.

 

[370999]

I tend to think american popular humor isn't funny, but that is catering to the lowest common denominator. Americans can be very funny as they show with stand-up, they just tend to produce awful crappy sit-coms for wide appeal.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Whilst i would argue a lot of american comedy is good or at least decent enough, i do believe that american stand up is on a whole pretty damn awful.

Especially given the two most "iconic" american stand up acts i can think of are Dane Cook and Chris Rock...

There is another guy, and he is very good, but i can't think of his name sadly.

those are the two most ICONIC american comedians? LMAO

try George Carlin, Richard Prior, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Lenny Bruce, i could go on and on.

Perhaps he means the two most iconic American comedians at the moment. The ones you listed are either dead or don't really do it anymore.

 

[Lilani]

IN MY OPINION American humour is mostly bad, unsubtle. Characters are either smug or overly stupid, it's just too obvious.
Just wasted 2 hours watching 'the anchorman', it was painful...didn't laugh a single time. I gave the film a chance, but it got me pissed off half way through. It might not be the best comedy ever, people will argue, but critics rank this film among the top 100 US comedies (f##k me!)

America produces comedy series by the thousand, they last and last and last and get exported worldwide...it's a money making industry - there might be some good series out there (I'm sure) but that's probably 5% of the whole lot - SO not good enough. If American humour/comedy was funny, then it would be more like half of the stuff at least that would be funny
Americans are good at other things, not comedy...so what? It's not dramatic. As a nation, they're too confident, rich and good looking to be funny. Good humour comes from cultures that can laugh at themselves, from people who know their weaknesses and can take a joke...Americans can't take a joke

South Park is Ok, quite crude and insensitive at times....sheer bad taste

WHO DARES TO WAKE THIS OLD THREAD FROM ITS PEACEFUL REST? WHO WOULD COMMIT SUCH FOUL NECROMANCY ON THESE HALLOWED FORUMS?

 

[Da Orky Man]

As for the ritual disembowelling of various British shows... Meh. Different cultural senses of humour. What's funny in the UK market may not be in the US (Perhaps because at least 80% of British humour involves America-bashing)

Hardly, If anything, 80% of British humour involves Britain-bashing. Sure, we make fun of the Yankees, but it's nothing compared to what we subject ourselves to.

 

[CODE-D]

Americans humour is terrible, our humor on the other hand is great.
(see how funny i am)