#6: "British Humo(u)r"

Okay okay shut up a second. Yes, the Brits have brought us lots of successful comedies, from about a third of the Monty Python sketches to The Office to Peep Show. Like the Jews, the Brits seem fully able to turn their mostly-depressing lives on that rock in the North Atlantic into humor. What I'm talking about here is that damnable superiority they have about their comedy. A couple years ago, this used to come up in debates about the virtues of the British and US versions of The Office. I worked with this British girl who insisted over and over again, oblivious to my growing rage and desire to start a blog nobody would read, that the US version is "dumbed down" for Amurrican audiences who apparently can't handle the elegant, sophisticated wit of the substantially darker (and uglier) British version. So here I present the "most famous scene from The Office, so you can see how fucking wrong she was.



What exactly about a silly dance is too difficult for Americans to understand? Don't get me wrong, I loved that show, but about half of the humor came from the bizarrely crude sexual and slapstick humor that the English love so much. Dildo jokes? Giant, inflatable penises? Silly costumes? And let us not forget, this is a country that STILL believes a man in women's clothing is the pinnacle of comedy. English humor has barely evolved past the Three Stooges.

Oh, and it's not our fault that even our comedians are attractive. That's a good thing, England.