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

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JennyTals · 22/02/2025 01:44

I know it a time of terrible doom and gloom
trump, putin, shit weather, people struggling

but thank FUCK
for our good old sense of humor that keeps us strong !

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knitnerd90 · 22/02/2025 07:46

I do think people sometimes talk the British sense of humour up a bit too much (like claiming North Americans aren't funny) and that it's culturally relative, but also that the British prize a specific type of humour and are very good at it. And the fact that Britain successfully exports a lot of its comedy is proof.

FreddoSwaggins · 22/02/2025 07:45

vivainsomnia · 22/02/2025 07:01

I think all nationalities think the humour they grew up with is the best. I fing some British humour very good and some...well...really not funny.

Old sitcoms....Only fools and horses....if you are not British and grew up in this era, it's really not funny. I won't even mention Benny Hill 😂

Agree with this. There's some British comedians and media that I find hilarious - but there's some that I find so unfunny I have no idea why they have any success.

Plenty of Irish output i think is hilarious. But you could show me Mrs Brown's Boys and it world raise a smile from me. Some with comedy from the USA, Australia, Canada and so on. (Listing English speaking countries there as comedy, in my opinion, tends to get lost in translation )

Have to say the thread linked above, I've read through it and have now idea why it's been linked as an example of humour.

LaurieFairyCake · 22/02/2025 07:43

We also have cakes. Our cakes are the best.

And pasties.

BlueSilverCats · 22/02/2025 07:31
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BallerinaRadio · 22/02/2025 07:18

The same 'hilarious' replies repeated daily in local Facebook groups would suggest otherwise

vivainsomnia · 22/02/2025 07:01

I think all nationalities think the humour they grew up with is the best. I fing some British humour very good and some...well...really not funny.

Old sitcoms....Only fools and horses....if you are not British and grew up in this era, it's really not funny. I won't even mention Benny Hill 😂

CurlewKate · 22/02/2025 06:51

@JennyTals How about some examples?

CaptainFuture · 22/02/2025 06:41

NattyTurtle59 · 22/02/2025 06:32

Really, I've never heard anyone here say that British humour is elite. I think some of you delude yourselves - it's a bit like 'the NHS in the envy of the world' which is oft quoted on here.

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Who has the best then @NattyTurtle59 ?

HelpMeGetThrough · 22/02/2025 06:37

Reading that thread just makes me think that Brits are decidedly odd!

I'm British and just read that thread. You're not wrong.

NattyTurtle59 · 22/02/2025 06:32

bert3400 · 22/02/2025 06:24

@NattyTurtle59 it's well known throughout the world the British sense of humor is elite, tbh it's really the only thing we have left and Yorkshire puddings 😁

Really, I've never heard anyone here say that British humour is elite. I think some of you delude yourselves - it's a bit like 'the NHS in the envy of the world' which is oft quoted on here.

bert3400 · 22/02/2025 06:24

@NattyTurtle59 it's well known throughout the world the British sense of humor is elite, tbh it's really the only thing we have left and Yorkshire puddings 😁

NattyTurtle59 · 22/02/2025 06:12

Reading that thread just makes me think that Brits are decidedly odd!

As for British humour being the best in the world, you think that because it is what you grew up with and what you know. Isn't it just possible that people from other countries think the same about their own type of humour?

coxesorangepippin · 22/02/2025 01:58

Yup

Just read that awkward thread in Chat

Hilarious

Maddy70 · 22/02/2025 01:57

I haven't lived in the UK for years but you're right. British humour is unique I miss it