Damn you and your edit.

I have no idea what yr talking about. :o

Hmmm... Humour. Crass and vulgar humour like chris farley floats my boat, as does more "sophisticated" humour like monty python. In fact the killer rabbit from the holy grail is, in my opinion, the perfect british mascot.

oh are you talking about benny hill?

ha ha ha.

i used to love that shit when i was a kid but now i watch and it's meh

There are definite differences in sense of humour between the English and the American's, although both countries obvisously have a very diverse range.
My favourite English comedian is Rik Mayall, don't suppose there is any foreign fans of his here?

Was he on The Young Ones back in the day?
I thought that show was hilarious when I was a kid, but I watched some recently and it did not age well for me at all.
Not at all.

That's shit sitcoms. It has nothing to do with nationality. British shows use canned applause too.

yeah, that's right, I've only seen a few episodes of the young ones, I really liked him in bottom. I saw him earlier this year in 'the new statesman', he was hilarious, so much better live, what without all the censorship and shit.

british and australians have a very similar sense of humour, i guess that is why shows like the mighty boosh, the it crowd, man to man, garth marenghi etc do so well here.

I've always found Dennis Miller to be extremely funny even though he turned into a supplicating neocon in his later years.

He really enjoys his similes.

hey, i'm australian and i'd like to know what the deal is with talk shows like letterman and conan o'brien and shit like that. they are the least funny and most annoying things i have ever seen and i just don't understand. now in australia we have rove which is the same sort of format and just as shit but everyone loves it. so that fucked up my theory that it was an american humour thing.
ps. best australian comedy is the chaser.

Although there are broad distinctions between US and American comedy in that - at its best, British humour tends toward a very English type of surrealism - The Goons, Python, Little Britain, etc. Great Brit sitcoms like Fawlty Towers and Rising Damp also tend to focus on v. nation-specific ideas of class mobility.

America has produced some of the greatest comics - Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, etc. - but most of what i see of it today I don't really like. There's an underlying sentimentality that runs through so much of it (especially the sitcoms) that I think a lot of British people find awkward.

yeah i don't get those lcd talk shows like letterman, conan, rove etc..... comedians on australian television generally suck. our best comic ever "steve hughes" is never ever featured on australian television as he would make people realise how shit the whole rove clan really is, although steve hughes would fit in with those funny fuck chaser boys, and chris lilley who is an absolute genius......

Jerry Lewis was a God in France, not known for standup really but extremely popular anyway. Lewis was sorta like Jim Carey...only about 50 years earlier.

i love chris lilley too, shawn micallef is also awesome. new show starting next wednesday night on SBS

Indeed, Rove and friends just try to hard to be funny. Chaser is the funniest show on TV, but I doubt many American would find it funny. And yes, Chris Liley is also hilarious. Summer Heights High is my second favourite show, it's just a shame that It's almost over.

My favorite American comedian right now is Steven Wright.