Funniest nation?
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Montreal is the worlds comedy capital. New York is nothing compared to it. The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, come on.Souplex said:
Canada is totally the funniest nation. Hands down.
England, 7th funniest, 4th unfunniest! i find that hard to believe, who descided this? was it america? or did we have some really unfunny person like david cameron (what a knob) standing for us.
come on, england is full of stand up comedy, and every single british film has comedy in it. and britain has create some of the funniest sit-com's and televission programs. 7th is not right.
come on, england is full of stand up comedy, and every single british film has comedy in it. and britain has create some of the funniest sit-com's and televission programs. 7th is not right.
I really can't see America as particularly funny. Humour doesn't translate well across cultures, so it's not surprising a US publication would find American humour funniest. Germans are renowned for not having a sense of humour, but I bet if you grew up in Germany you'd find German humour hilarious, and that of other countries not so much. It's heavily rooted in culture.
BTW, how many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? Just one - they're efficient and not very funny.
EDIT: It's odd, really. I don't find most American humour at all funny, a lot of it is just plain painful to watch, and yet two of my all-time favourite comedians were American - George Carlin and Bill Hicks.
BTW, how many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? Just one - they're efficient and not very funny.
EDIT: It's odd, really. I don't find most American humour at all funny, a lot of it is just plain painful to watch, and yet two of my all-time favourite comedians were American - George Carlin and Bill Hicks.
Actually it was a British publication, they polled people from around the globe.lithium.jelly said:
See above post, humor was decided by people from multiple cultures and backgrounds, not just Americans. I suppose there is nothing wrong with plugging your own nation, but please don't say it's just "Americans voting American."Selvec said:
Unless they polled an equal number of people from each country, they still would have had a massive sampling bias just due to the different online populations of each country. American results would dominate, since they're by far the largest group online.boringanarchy said:
Actually, I would expect predominantly British site to have a British bias, rather than an American.lithium.jelly said:
Anything on the internet I would expect to have an American bias, since they're by far the largest group represented online.boringanarchy said:
whats all this aboot? maybe next time we wont give u toques or poutine. if you dont know about poutine your missin out.Utrechet said:
The American Office is leaps and bounds better. It combines wit, awkward realism, and belly laughs (which the British office lacked). People argue they made the American version more low brow but honestly just because the humor was dryer on the British office does not make it better. I mean it was good but sorry America beat England with the office. It is really easy to claim the original I better than the adaptation but if you actually watch both it is easy to tell the American version has a stronger cast and a around staff that is deeply connected to their target audience.JacobShaftoe said:
Sorry not a Bill Hicks fan.
Lol either you've never watched it and are forming and uneducated opinion based on pure bias or you just have very strong opinions about a televisionUmJammerSully said:
program.
Also didn't the british office last two seasons and friends last nine? I mean the brtish office is good and friends sucks but I dont think the British office was a landmark of tv in England like the American office and friends were in American. So Id probably compare the British office to arrested development. So td be more like England making a version of arrested development...which idk if that would work or not.
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I say it's because we can pull something like this:
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...and not get shot.
That plus the fact that our own leaders love getting in on the act as well:
And of course from earlier this year:
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...and not get shot.
That plus the fact that our own leaders love getting in on the act as well:
And of course from earlier this year: