I think if people don't 'get' it then it's often a cultural thing. Comedies are largely written for the home audience to their tastes and based upon those cultures. I'm not really a big fan of American comedies and the likes of Friends that people always raved about I always thought was terribly overrated and unfunny. I would say I think British comedies are better though that's probably coloured largely by my preference for them, but there are a lot of non-British comedies I like such as South Park, Futurama, Police Squad!, Frasier and even Flight of the Concords in an odd way. After all, there are a lot of terrible British sitcoms out there. For every The Thick of It there's a My Family, for every Fawlty Towers there's a Horne & Corden and so on.