....and I have heard this en masse from the likes of you and others of European persuasion that just because some British comedy fails miserably over here that "we just don't get it."
Sure if it's involving some mundane or obscure (to us) saying that we haven't been exposed to...of course. That goes without saying.
Maybe saying that we don't get it correlates to "it's not fucking funny." The only thing I remember not getting was fizzy lemonade. Other than that I haven't made remarks to that effect.
If an American comedian gets up on stage and the audience doesn't get his jokes....then he's not funny. Dennis Miller sometimes springs to mind. He might reference some actor or something I personally haven't heard of and then there's only
from me.
Btw you made up the "there must be something wrong with it part" so if you knew I'd say that then look again because it wasn't said (not by me). I like some British comedy and some I find fucking stupid just like some American ones. Sometimes I simply can't get past the accent and sometimes the accent helps the comedy.
I doubt the movie Snatch would have worked "Americanized". That movie was funny
because it was British and to me was a classic.
Subtlety? I like Steven Wright and you can't get much more subtle than that.
So meh, feck, w00t, and all that.
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