American Humour is Terrible

[Drenaje1]

I already consider my country to be full of morons, and the fact that TV reinforces this fact on a daily basis isn't helping my outlook.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

American humor.... sucks. I can't believe people laugh at garbage that's on TV nowadays.
Probably why I NEVER watch TV. I just go on YouTube, THAT'S where all the laughs are it seems xDD

...because there are no Americans (and therefore no American comedy) on YouTube?

 

[Kurokami]

National Generalizations Based On a Handful of Things You Don't Like are Fucking Idiotic

You are only meant to use capitals for the first word of each sentence, proper nouns and the word 'I', including of course I'm, since it is just a contracted 'I am'.

But back on topic, yes. Generalizations are bad if you present them as fact.

I was parodying the title of the thread - thus the title case. If any criticism could be leveled, it would be that the capitalization was inconsistent among the short/function words. Though on the other hand, opinions on proper title casing remain largely divided with no universal standard in virtually any major dialect of written English.

Also, you forgot adjectives derived from proper nouns, numerous brands, days, months, languages, taxa, some common species names, nouns used to denote a class of things when they more commonly refer to a single entity (the Church when refering to all churches at once for instance), acronyms, honorifics, legal terms, and likely a number of other words too.

And certainly you must have better things to do than making unthinking comments about the capitalization of forum posts.

TL;DR: Your attempts at grammar trolling are cute.

I have actually posted on this thread.

Commenting on your grammar, I assumed to be for your own benefit, obviously not if you wrote that way on purpose. I do tend to try to correct people if they have issues with spelling or grammar. Why? Because I think it's silly not to try to educate them. If I have made mistakes in my posts, which I have, I would want them corrected. I also don't particularly understand people wanting to remain ignorant or taking some sort of offence when they are corrected rather than saying "thank you" if they actually learned something.

(PS: Capitalization counts as grammar? I'm never sure of these things)

I imagine it might have something to do with the self-righteous tone and implicit assumption that the mistake was from ignorance rather than carelessness.

Moreover, there are a lot of people who would rather "remain ignorant" of the rules of grammar, which makes a lot of sense seeing as how they're mostly already fluent speakers of the language and know all of its actual grammar (in fact, know it more completely and more deeply than any expert is presently capable of understanding). And as you seem to suggest, what you purported to "educate" me on here isn't really grammar so much as it is writing etiquette. And etiquette is very much tied to social groups, so assuming that others should universally hold to the same rules of etiquette is a pretty silly notion. You're not really to blame for that though - people only really get these notions because English grammar instruction is (and popular notions of how language works in general are) so hopelessly outdated.

I'll apologize for that mistake then, though I don't really understand why people would handicap themselves by allowing themselves to get used to bad writing habits. I would prefer to make a silly mistake and be corrected rather than keep making silly mistakes until it matters, but whatever, there's no point to this discussion anyway, is there? (I mean ours of course, not the topic I've derailed us from)

 

[The Gray Train]

the only problem i have with the modern form of humor is it's all based on crudeness (bodily functions, foul language, innuendo with the subtlety of a baseball bat) or insults/meanness (racism, insult comics, etc.). don't get me wrong, i enjoy a little of these, but comedy today uses them as crutches; cleverness seems to be a memory.

 

[The Gray Train]

the only problem i have with the modern form of humor is it's all based on crudeness (bodily functions, foul language, innuendo with the subtlety of a baseball bat) or insults/meanness (racism, insult comics, etc.). don't get me wrong, i enjoy a little of these, but comedy today uses them as crutches; cleverness seems to be a memory.

 

[Laser Priest]

You lost me when you implied that South Park and Family Guy aren't awful.

And that's not "American Humour". That's just one bloody show.

 

[vovoo]

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

 

[him over there]

American humour has been pretty shitty lately, mostly for the same reason that most popular things suck, lowest common denominator appeal. Luckily you can find good stuff if you know where to look, like Home Movies:

"I went to UCLA myself...oh yeah it's a beautiful country"

 

[CityofTreez]

Go watch Arrested Development, Always Sunny in Philadephia (sp?), Louie and Community and tell me those shows aren't funny.

 

[Jeremy Meadows]

I'd glady watch big bang theory over crap like "regular show", Cleavland show, Adventure time, etc, etc, Anyday. The list goes on and on. Dispite what most people on here say (oddly enough) At least it makes me laugh, which is more then I can say for most "comedy shows" these days.

 

[pilouuuu]

Mmm I think it has good and boring humour as all countries. Humour is subjective anyways. For example, I fail to see how SNL is funny, even if I try hard, but I liked Mad TV a lot. I think that really boring american humour is the one they cry to include in Oscar Awards presentations.

I think some things like Cleveland Show are simply soporific, but I simply love Adventure Time humour, but I can understand why it's not everyone's cup of tea.

By the way, sometimes I fail to find the fun in british humour. I simply disliked The Office UK. I must admit I never gave it a chance, really. Well, I found The Office US boring at first too, but after watching a few episodes it became a favourite. I love The I.T. Crowd too and I used to enjoy Mr. Bean many years ago. But british humour is strange! Not that I don't enjoy it sometimes.

Well, but that's it, humour is subjective and sometimes you need to live in the country where it's produced to fully appreciate it.

 

[Wushu Panda]

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.

Ive seen your Office. The humor is dry, nothing ever happens and it hasn't made me laugh once. Our Office has better jokes, crazy shit happening and lets not forget casting.

So you find our television unintelligent and juvenile? Exactly what would be an intelligent comedy show? A few Brits sitting around sipping tea making "quips" about other people being inferior because they say so? You don't strike me as a genius who can critically analyze a subject. Rather a typical internet troll with an inflated ego and thinks just because they claim something is beneath them it becomes truth.

Juvenile is funny. You think America was the first ones to do this? Or are you completely ignorant to Monty Python, Coupling, and Red Dwarf? All those shows ever did was act juvenile. People found them funny...and they were British Television. Not all of your television was made for a genius IQ...far from it in fact.

You cant just say ALL of American television sucks and then use Two and a Half Men for an example. Not everyone here thinks that's a good show.

 

[Wushu Panda]

Daniel Tosh is German, the Concords are from New Zealand, Russell Peters is Canadian, both Matt Groening and Stephen Colbert have Canadian roots (Matts Dad and Stephen's Grandma!)

Exactly how does any of that matter? "American" isn't a real ethnicity. Everyone in America is some combination of other races.

Those peoples' shows are produced and created in America. That makes them American television. With the exception of Concords, they're more international.

Tosh, Colbert Report, even South Park. They're made in America, largely base their jokes around American politics/pop culture/etc.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Not all American humour is bad, and personally, I don?t tend to care or acknowledge what country a sitcom is from, as long as it?s good. I don?t watch The Big Bang Theory and think, ?This isn?t funny because it?s American?. I think, ?This isn?t funny because of the overused laugh track and piss-poor gags.?

Britain and American do appear to have different cultural senses of humour, which is understandable. Of course, that doesn?t mean that Brits can?t enjoy American sitcoms and Americans can?t enjoy British sitcoms.

Wait a second?humour in general is subjective. Why can?t people get this?

I defy anyone to watch the episode where Sheldon is in the ball pool and not at least smile.

Watched it ages ago. Sorry, bro; didn't laugh. "Bazinga" is just annoying rather than funny as well.

Oh yeah, and if someone feels like watching an alternative to Family Guy because they don?t like the constant cutaway guys, just try watching American Dad. Surprisingly, I don?t find it as funny as Family Guy. I?m pretty apathetic towards it.

Don?t bother with The Cleveland Show, though. It?s actually one of the dullest sitcoms I?ve ever watched.

 

[CityofTreez]

Go watch Arrested Development, Always Sunny in Philadephia (sp?), Louie and Community and tell me those shows aren't funny.

I have seen all of those, boring and bland. I don't understand why they are still on tv

You find those bland and boring yet watch BBT and Kings?

That's odd.

 

[3quency]

There are a very many funny American shows. Curb Your Enthusiasm for instance. However, it is a big place over there and I respect you only have time to find the awful shows.

But the good ones are there.

Good day sir.