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    I have to say, I will take Seinfeld humour over most British humour.
    Ahh, but you're not being fair, comparing Jewish humour with British humour.

    Besides, British humour is mostly self-insultive. True humour is like that - laugh at yourself, and the world will think you're pathetic. Or something like that.

    British humour is about the use of understatements, word games, none-sense and stuff like that. It can be either very stupid and simple, or very sophisticated, yet the origins remain the same.
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    "If you cant laugh at yourself, you are on the road to hades"
    Just came to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by War Angel
    Ahh, but you're not being fair, comparing Jewish humour with British humour.

    Besides, British humour is mostly self-insultive. True humour is like that - laugh at yourself, and the world will think you're pathetic. Or something like that.

    British humour is about the use of understatements, word games, none-sense and stuff like that. It can be either very stupid and simple, or very sophisticated, yet the origins remain the same.
    Alright. Not all British Comedy is insulting you know?
    Phoenix nights, Peter Kay, Road To Nowhere, Catherine Tate.. None of them are insulting. Peter Kay is definatly British. How is "Clicking her fingers and shuffling her feet singing [Ooh ma dee dee diddi dum diddee doo] She looked good [She looked good] 'ow?" insulting ;P

    Little Britain, however much I love it, Is ever so rude sometimes. They are racist in some bits

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    Cahterine Tate is the least funny person in the country. She's even less funny than Ricky Gervais, and he's a total twat.

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    British humor is good sometimes i.e Monty Python. I remember one time I was watching some British comedy and they were insinuating how Catholics like to abstain from sex but still breed like rabbits, I found it quite funny even though I was catholic at the time, but Seinfeld humor is still the best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyono
    Cahterine Tate is the least funny person in the country. She's even less funny than Ricky Gervais, and he's a total twat.
    I only find one of her acts funny. Its the bald guy who says "How.. Very.. Dare you!" B)

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    We invented humour, then introduced it to the rest of the world when we were done conquering them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rye
    I do like British Humour, because I find insultive humour really amusing, if it's with friends and such. Maybe I'm crazy, but if I think you're truly friends with someone when you can joke mock with them. Like me and Shauna, Paul, Dan, Kiir, etc.
    I like the fact that I be first on your list. YOU ARE DIRTY!!!!! DIRTY JESSUS!

    And, I'd never say that British Humour was just purely insults. Yeah, we do insult each other, but I don't think that that is just purely British humour. I wouldn't agree with Little Britain being the best of British Humour. Sketch shows aren't good for showing British humour. You should watch shows that aren't sketch shows, you'd probably see a better example of what it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shauna
    I like the fact that I be first on your list. YOU ARE DIRTY!!!!! DIRTY JESSUS!

    And, I'd never say that British Humour was just purely insults. Yeah, we do insult each other, but I don't think that that is just purely British humour. I wouldn't agree with Little Britain being the best of British Humour. Sketch shows aren't good for showing British humour. You should watch shows that aren't sketch shows, you'd probably see a better example of what it is.
    Yeah, you can say that, but then there's Monty Python, and The Two Ronnies, Harry Enfield, and so many others. Little Britain is a piss poor attempt at a good British comedic sketch show, if you ask me, but that doesn't mean that sketch shows aren't good for British humour. Anyway, Fawlty Towers is British, and therefore Britain wins.

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    Two ronnies! Pity to hear bout Ronnie Barker.
    But I think Father Ted was the best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lost Number
    Two ronnies! Pity to hear bout Ronnie Barker.
    But I think Father Ted was the best.
    Yeah, Ronnie Barker was a true legend.

    Father Ted is hilarious at times and boring at others.

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    Im so, so, sorry. Classic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese
    Yeah, you can say that, but then there's Monty Python, and The Two Ronnies, Harry Enfield, and so many others. Little Britain is a piss poor attempt at a good British comedic sketch show, if you ask me, but that doesn't mean that sketch shows aren't good for British humour. Anyway, Fawlty Towers is British, and therefore Britain wins.
    Yeah, I guess. I was just meaning that British shows that aren't sketch shows are probably a better example of British humour?

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    You have no clue how retarded that sounds. How do you take a piss out of someone. Do you rip out their blatter and scream out fatality?!?!

    Having said that England is stupid. This is a proven fact.
    I think it's retarded that you'd take a slang term so literally.
    Ahh, sorry, you don't recognise the term...
    Taking the piss = taking the mickey = having a laugh = mucking around = talking rubbish = talking out of your ass = telling jokes...

    And if you want another example of british humour just look to Hitch Hikers Guide to the galaxy, nothing like Little Britain but they started from the same place.

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    HHGTTG. Best thing to come out of England since...well, The 2 ronnies.
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