You can’t beat British humour! One thing we are still best at in the world

Rumour has it he was quite a nice man, but the whole 'women running around with boobs jiggling' hasn't stood the test of time.

Monty Python however was quite prescient. I find Ricky Gervais quite cunning too. (you could stick a tail on him and call him Mr Weasel- as they say)

Only Fools and Horses always cheers me up. I often think of Del Boyisms when I want a little laugh to myself. One of my favourites, because it's so dry, is when he's trying to explain something to Rodney to get himself out of bother. He says, 'And I said...and I don't know why I said it...'
The context of the whole scene is brilliantly done. The facial expressions of both brothers is spot on. Reminds me of my family 🤣 👌

I’ve always loved Benny Hill

was watching it at age 7

This thread has made me smile. So much irritation at Brits daring to say they’re good at something. We are supposed to despise ourselves aren’t we? 😁.

But as my Dad always used to say “no one likes The Boss…” 😉

I never mentioned Norman (Mr Grimsdale!!) Wisdom so that question was aimed at someone else.

Frasier is brilliant, i agree with that choice 🤫

One of the things that’s so noticeable in London nowadays is the humour level. Londoners have always been great at friendly banter and ready wit. Nowadays there is so much less of it. A lot of deadpan faces nowadays.

So what is British humour? People are talking about wit, then about Mr Bean, Norman Wisdom, Love Thy Neighbour, Benny Hill and Mind your Language-all in the same breath! And then the British habit of using the word wanker as a term of affection. Hilarious!

Well I'm hilarious , and not in the DM sense.

Your OP did make me lol.

I've got a Welsh side and a Liverpool Irish side. Both funny, but in very different ways.
The Welsh side is more gentle and given to absurdist, narrative humour. They're good physical performers.
The Liverpool Irish side is sharper and faster and can be quite cutting.
We're quite a dry family, although one of the dc really doesn't get it.

The reason we are funny is because we can take the piss out of ourselves

Too many to list, but...

Recently,
Stath Lets Flats
The film, A Real Pain
Things I Should Have Done
Alistair Green

Historically,
Peep Show
Flight of the Conchords
Porridge
Dame Edna
Victoria Wood
Frasier
Stewart Lee

Now, maybe you'll answer my questions about national comedy pride.

So what tickles your funny bone MasterBeth?

It's quite an awkward humour though, it can be just embarrassing.

When I was young I remember being in hysterics from a Billy Connolly stand up routine (real crying with laughter) about religion and his family. It was hilarious to me because it could have been my own family he was talking about. Someone else who couldn't relate to it on a personal level might not have raised so much as a chuckle. I thought it was the funniest thing I ever heard (at the time).

I found Limmy’s recanting of his time at school when he couldn’t hear some song lyrics very funny.

I love Britush humour. I think it's excellent. I also think it's something of an acquired taste and many non-Britush people don't get it. My in-laws are foreign, and whenever there's a hilarious example of British humour, they kind of roll their eyes and shake their heads and say "British humour". They only like the very obvious, slap stick stuff like Mr Bean.
I also think American humour is good. I don't think it's true that they don't get irony. If you watch something like Curb Your Enthusiam, it's dripping with sarcasm and irony.

I think you enjoy the type of humour you grow up with. Things that are relatable to you will make you laugh, I find scottish comedians funny & I think as a nation we are just naturally humorous people. Always finding something to laugh about even in difficult situations.

Whether you appreciate British humour or not, it can't be denied that 'witty' defines it best.

I particularly enjoy Irish and French humour.

I wish I could find it, but a few years ago when Donald Trump posted about his golf course in Scotland, I saw hilarious shots from Twitter where Scottish people were posting insults underneath his proud post like 'Utter cockwomble'.

Used to be said that Americans didn’t understand a lot of our humour. They didn’t get the satirical exchanges.

I think some British humour is funny. Things like the way we call each other twats and wankers in an affectionate way. And when people threw stuff at David Blane when he was in that glass box thing. And Life of Brian…

But in terms of things like sitcoms, nothing has ever been funnier than American show Frasier imho.

Boaty McBoatface,

<mic drop>

Because people keep posting fatuous comments.

Norman Wisdom, a slapstick, gurning black and white film star from the 1950s was once popular in communist Albania.

How do you derive any pride from this? How does it relate to you, 70 years later? What does it mean to be proud of this?

You’re no wit yourself. Here, have a few more grinning emoji’s 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Well, to those many many nations around the world with no public health care, the UK NHS is an incredible resource. Free healthcare at the point of use, it needs to be appreciated and not abused (in some case).