Poll: Who's better at comedy? Brits or Americans?

[MotenaiRonin]

I've actually found that many of my favorite comedians are Canadian,

The LRR Crew
Mike Myers
Dan Aykroyd (woah)
Jim Carrey

 

[Goldjit]

Mock the Week
Would I Lie to You?
QI
Have I Got News For You
8 Out Of The 10 Cats

Britian Wins.

 

[Febel]

Brits, primarily because I've always loved dry wit and clever wordplay which much of their humor excels at.

 

[The Funslinger]

I say! That's a not very sporting, pitting the Americans against the delightfully droll wonders of the British comedic arts!

OT: While I love things like How I Met Your Mother, I do love British comedy over American. Plus a lot of great American comedy is British inspired.

 

[Zinkoff]

The British have the darkest sense of humor which makes my toes curl with ecstasy.

Look at the film "Death at a Funeral." The original, British version is actually funny while the Americanized version was just painful to watch.

 

[Ghengis John]

you decide.

also why you think that? and any favourites you would like to add.

The plucky little UK vs the huge america/ns. let the war over the atlantic begin!

Neither. Comedy is subjective. Generalizations are pointless.
/Thread.

 

[Thyunda]

you decide.

also why you think that? and any favourites you would like to add.

The plucky little UK vs the huge america/ns. let the war over the atlantic begin!

Neither. Comedy is subjective. Generalizations are pointless.
/Thread.

Which is why the British are winning?

 

[Fanfic_warper]

The closest I've seen to brits being good at comedy is Doctor Who and that's more incidental then intentional comedy. They're stuff like the office leaves my heart and hope for comedy shriveling away.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

I dunno know, British stuff generally a lot more clever, but I don't watch that much American television. I'm going to go with neither.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

The closest I've seen to brits being good at comedy is Doctor Who and that's more incidental then intentional comedy. They're stuff like the office leaves my heart and hope for comedy shriveling away.

Monty Python, Blackadder, Yahtzee (the one on this site), countless stand-up comedians and QI. Are you really going to tell me they're all terrible?

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

for me its not so much a nationality thing.brits and americans are both funny. but women seem to not be funny.

This is a fact. Women comedians are, overall, dreadful.

What? You mean you dont like jokes about men being crap?

Since that is their sole material. God, you better pray a comedian isn't female AND black, because that is just a whole wealth of material right there...

 

[Ghengis John]

Which is why the British are winning?

As somebody who's lived with British people I can tell you, they are stalwartly prideful and seem to posses some inherent and undefinable notion of their own superiority in all things. It probably has some thing to do with slipping in their position as a geo-political power and feeling the need to compensate for that. Plop a poll in front of them asking who's the best in the world at anything even, let's say... cooking? And they will without a moment's hesitation select "the british" before sticking their chuffed little noses in the air even though they know they are going home to curry or chicken masala tika.

I shall repeat that humor is subjective. Anyone with a brain should know that. Just as I can wager, this is worth an argument to you because you're British. I think it's perfectly alright to ask "Who's comedy do you prefer?" but fundamentally flawed to ask "Who's better". That's all. There is no scientific metric to measure hilarijoules and the amount of humor potential varies from person to person. Most importantly of all humor is a very personal thing. Some people love family guy, I can't stand it. But I wouldn't have the gall to say that they're wrong.

 

[mrc390]

America simply because of Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor, other than that American comedy is meh.

 

[Fanfic_warper]

Monty Python, Blackadder, Yahtzee (the one on this site), countless stand-up comedians and QI. Are you really going to tell me they're all terrible?

Monty Python and Blackadder yes, still terrible. Yahtzee is the ONE and I do mean ONE exception I've seen so far.

 

[ultimateownage]

American comedy is too straight forwards and, for lack of a better term, 'commercialised'. So British comedy.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Monty Python, Blackadder, Yahtzee (the one on this site), countless stand-up comedians and QI. Are you really going to tell me they're all terrible?

Monty Python and Blackadder yes, still terrible. Yahtzee is the ONE and I do mean ONE exception I've seen so far.

Wow, you have one terrible sense of humour.

Edit: Fine, how about this;

 

[sms_117b]

Brits always win on the stand up, Americans have SitComs and cartoons.

I'm a Brit and I really struggle to find a series I think is funny, IT crowd, pants, Inbetweeners, pants, Extras panst, but, 30 Rock, awesome, Big Bang Theory....has it's moments, scrubs, awesome.

But guys like Bill Bailey, Lee Evans, Jimmy Carr are all brilliant stand up artists.

 

[Rekrul]

germany lololol (I'm British, so this post is proof of our hilarity as a nation?)

 

[GarciLP]

Brits, without a doubt. They've got the very best, Monty Python, The I.T. Crowd, Ricky Gervais, Mr. Bean, Death at a Funeral (the original)... overall fantastic, the Amis have their stuff as well but you can't really compete against that.

 

[Sjakie]

Brits, best stand up, best funny gameshows and they hardly ever do that crappy sitcom stuff that Americans like so much. (i do confess to liking Big Bang Theory a lot)