British vs. American Comedy: What's the Difference? 

@Rosida Andriyana I dont agree. Example, in nivrana the band the show i feel that the crazyness comes naturaly.

@@winup9417 we are talking about comedy you piece of crap.

SUPER ROOKIE toxic af. He wasn’t being disrespectful, so why are you?

Win Up that’s Canadian comedy

Rosida Andriyana Minds*, and you clearly haven’t traveled much.

that's pretty accurate. You might have hit the nail on the head.

Louis CK comedy is very unamerican by that measure. A good example is his bit where the family dog eats dark chocolate, which is poisonous to dogs. To save the dog, Louis violently forces her to ingest hydrogenperoxide to force her to puke. The dog is naturally unaware that Louis saved her life and instead hates Louis ever since. Another example is Horace and Pete in its entirety.

Well monty pyhton is the pinnacle of stupidity.

Red Dwarf and Father Ted. I would say British laugh outwitting stupidity or simple stupidity, but Americans laugh at physical stupidity, the things people do, not what they say

Americans must laugh a lot.

Lan iyi dedin onu

Turkish comedy:Amına koyim

*dub dub aCtUaLy

dub dub*

Genuis

That doesn't explain Monty Python. Brits can laugh at themselves, and are great character studies. Look at Laugh-In. What a ridiculous and unfunny show that was.

"Always look on the bright side of death"

THIS!!!!!! 👌

Perfectly explained, couldn't agree more

Hardly any of my favorite British (or UK) comedy shows are at all realistic. They're all full of cartoon characters, too.

Sums it up pretty well in Britain we just take the p*ss out of each other.

@@keithscott9219 apart from tic tac head, he's usually the butt of many jokes

@@keithscott9219 that's why we have the best banter

Not really. Self deprecating humor is big in the us

@@WILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLU ever watched fawlty towers or blackadder? You don't know catastrophy/self deprecating style humour till you've watched one of those.

Adam Maggs Great way of putting it. Works for most I can think of. I think here in the U.K. we don’t like the wise guy telling all the jokes.

Yup, that’s it.

That is such a perfect explanation....

Michael Scott is both lol

Are you 'aving a laff?

You are maturing well! ;-)

That sums up the one of the key differences - British humour is more cerebral. There's nothing wrong with taking in American humour on certain days or when you're in certain mood for it to uplift yourself.

I fully understand that development. I predict that when you are a senior citizen you're gonnalaugh most at the kind of comedy you liked when you were a child.

Goes to show how childish their comedy is

@@CalSprigley its funny watching you guys trying to convince each other that british humor is actually funny.lol

Not much point sending pics of the PM, he's getting replaced on Wednesday.

+Jackald I want to literally like your comment 1000 times.

True, my favourite comedian is Stewart Lee and that's because he's depressing as fuck and I relate.

+Gore Bag Exactly. You don't get to be the 41st best standup by having floppy hair and doing observational material.

Saxa-san Well. All comedy is subjective. That's the whole point of it

Yeah, you gotta love the lynx (axe in the US) boxes in Tesco advertised as a perfect gift!

I'm a right guard man, love stocking up at Christmas, but this year I want the Abraham and Rosita Walking Dead funko pops figures.

TheOriginaMurrinator haha bought two the other day for family

I got deo for christmas, my dreams are fulfilled.

You know what Brits also love getting for Christmas? Fucking clothing, more so for shit you aren't going to wear, ever. You pretend to be super happy about it, have a look, over extend that looking period to give the sense that you actually love the gift but at the same time you're saying in the back of your head, what is this shit, how don't they know I'm never going to wear this. Thank you, grandma. Stick it in the drawer or cupboard and never let it see daylight again.

I agree. Imo American humour is usually about the characters being so dumb or oblivious through their speech they make normal situations insane or stupid. Whilst with British humour the characters are a lot more realistic and dark, but the circumstances they end up in are awkward or absurd and it’s the circumstance itself that’s the comedy.

Yep. And Americans have too many laugh tracks. It’s vaguely patronising lol

One of the exceptions might be The (classic) Simpsons

Opposite in America 🤷‍♂️

@@fruitybaboon2526 wym

@@shadybeashooketh1911 for me I laugh at American comedy but never really at British

@@fruitybaboon2526 which american comedies do you recommend

@@fruitybaboon2526 have you got any recommendations?

brilliant.

Don’t forget about frank in Its always sunny in Philadelphia! “Suicide is badass!”

@@wolfedlemon5762 IASIP is an exception, i dont find many US Comedy shows funny but that one definitely is, it isn't afraid to go there. Just like good UK comdies aren't.

Eric Lee everyone does, hence why they are the ones that stick around the longest.

I prefer American humor lol so funny

Yeah that's kinda true actually

maybe blanket statements are idiotic?

and you are siotis my lad, slightly assholic this is an illogical rhyme but frankly my dear i don't give a dime look like i am running out of time fuck this shit i'm out

+Siotis but then claiming that British and American comedies are different is in itself a blanket statement. The argument as a whole must take into account generalizations, if you can't, you can't have the argument in the first place.

Filipe Amaral No its not lol

He also wrote a droll essay about the French and their pride in patrilineage.

@Stephanie Logan laughing out loud

The fact that you added a u in British humour is so great that it earned a like.

That's almost clever enough to be Brit humor, almost

American humor: no u British humour: yes me

Hi Babish

This is probably the most true, I can sit and watch British comedy for hours and get really into it and laugh out loud at the complex nuances and jokes, some of which actually aren’t immediately obvious and you don’t notice them on your first watch. They often have a wider plot/relations between the characters which means you need to watch them from the beginning to really understand get the jokes and why they are funny, often referencing past events etc. But if I’m feeling tired or stressed etc. I’ll just chuck something Friends/Brooklyn99/The Office on to see a character doing really dumb outlandish stuff for a quick chuckle that doesn’t require me to pay much attention. I mean, most of the time in American comedies, the punchline (which is really over the top) is then followed by the character who said the joke, explaining why that was funny. You also don’t really need to know the plot or anything, the characters don’t overly have personalities in the sense that they’ll frequently do stuff widely out of character. In that sense, you can watch any episode without having seen another episode and still find it kinda funny, because it’s not the characters themselves that are funny, it’s the stupid stuff they do.. To me, British comedy is something you’d sit and watch as a family on a Sunday afternoon and really enjoy it. American comedy is something you’d stick on in the background on a Friday night when it’s just you and your friend and you can’t be arsed to do anything or you’re trying to work out what you’re gonna do. It’s made to be binge watched and get a quick laugh without having to pay attention, the canned laughter will tell you when something funny is happening..

@@user-ot4wm2fh8g British comedy is for boring people that laugh at things that they think are funny but really isn’t that funny, It’s like hearing a joke then the person has to explain to you why it’s funny but by the time they’re done explaining it it’s just sorta like hmm ok that wouldn’t have been that funny even if I had gotten it right away it’s just be more of the same as like hm funny I guess then you just move on to something that’s actually funny like watching wood rot or paint dry.

@@Macx204 weirdly that’s more how I’d describe us comedy. British comedy is full of low key shade and snarky comments with deeper meaning. Whereas Us comedy (thinking things like the Office, friends, Brooklyn 99 here) tend to make really over the top silly statements like (haha poop!) and then explain the joke. They’re just lighthearted silly shows to watched when you’re bored or feeling down. The characters are all hyper exaggerated and do/say completely unnatural actions/jokes. So it’s great if you’re feeling ill or bored because you’ll just laugh at Michael Scott saying ‘that’s what she said’ for the 1000th time or Jake Peralta explaining why what he said was funny. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a joke explained in a British comedy. What sort of comedies are you referencing here?

“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”

@@user-ot4wm2fh8g this is SPOT ON.

Sarcasm is our religion and I will not let people tell me otherwise

Sarcasm belongs to the us I’m sorry😭

@@tzizzle lmao wrong.

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@@tzizzle Just stop. Americans never catch on to sarcasm. It's a widely known fact.

Tbh I think it would be a lot weirder if a grown man was rolling around shouting wanking instead of parkour

@@nothomebutnotreally3782 no lie

alex ped In the UK there’s no such thing as everyone has a chance of running the country/becoming prime minister. Teachers in public schools never say ‘you could be prime minster’ because to even be considered to be apart of parliament you would of had to attend the best private schools, best universities in the country etc. Whereas in the US if I’m not mistaken they say anyone can be president no matter your background.

r/whoosh

@@George97841 We've had deputy prime ministers and plenty of MPs who attended comprehensive schools.

elly cotton I think he understood but he just wanted to make a point anyway

@@George97841 A public school is not a state school in Britain.

4:55

Colby Hair they're just starting. It's the staple for a lot of British comedy

I love British humor. A lot more cynical and dry haha.

Incorrect use of irony, typical yank.

@@grease6314 it is a term, not necessarily dictionary official in english but exists e.g. in finnish

Yeah i came to laugh not be sad.

*fiercely pretends its always sunny, shameless, curb your enthusiasm, and several other dark American comedies don't exist*

Marsellus Wallace lmao shameless is British in the first place. The American one is a remake.

@@AdnanKhan-lr9ei Doesn't change that the American version is still dark

Yeah. But that’s the way us Brits like it :)

nobody does

Yeah of course not because NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

You ruined it.

HAHA THIS MADE ME LOL SO MUCH

Swapnil Jain It's not as bad as forcing you to sit in the comfy chair.

Hahahaha ! So sadly true, but at least he's in the USA now so we can be thankful for that at least.

Same can be said for Piers Morgab

@@Beepboop-uw4cg Yeah, but Piers isn't funny - he's just an obnoxious git. I don't think anyone wants to lay claim to him.

Corden is the worst of both worlds.

i don’t give a fuck what he’s doing nowadays, but him on gavin and stacy was iconic and a classic

This rings true to me

I think that British humour is generally more witty and understated. American humour is always more flashy and upbeat but I find it grabbing me by the lapels and shouting "hahaha did you get it buddy?!" a lot more. Which gets tiresome.

@@dynamo1796 I feel the exacts same way about british comedy.... i think sometimes they're trying to be too witty and the joke completely falls apart and just becomes lame😂

​@@barobaro1 sometimes I think that in and of itself can be a joke in British comedies.

That's the most eloquently and precise way of differentiating the two, I've read so far. Nice.

DaBezz Britse vs Amerikaanse humor: wat is het verschil?

So I'm not the only one who gets that obviously Google translated to my mother tongue titles shit

change your settings?

"British vs Comedia Americana: ¿Cuál es la diferencia?" It doesn't even translate the whole thing.

@@self1sch click your RU-vid profile picture on the right top corner of the page. You will find "Language" in the drop-down menu ;)

True, but most of the US humor is just cheap.

just litle bit too obvious

Mada Faka so british comedy is expensive.

Mrbrain bob No, it's just not made for brain-dead people.

Gargantuan Waste Man pahsjjfjkhdhsh WHAT?Alright if you're British get out of here.

Am British. Frasier is probably the best sitcom of all time. Some of the episodes were absolute masterpieces.

pessimistic but uninhibited is actually a very good way of putting it. i've been trying to clarify that for so long...

I think that it also shows the difference can be overplayed. We English like to talk about how our comedy is superior, but we watch shitloads of American comedy. And if Americans can't "get" our humour, then why do so many of our shows do well over there?

I guess you could say "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" exemplifies this best.

Well said bud

it's interesting to look at the differences between The Thick of It (British) and Veep (American) which spawned from The Thick of It. I think this is an example where the American style has stayed fairly similar to the source. the pessimism and honest-to-god failure never stops really, while it keeps that uninhibited spirit you mentioned.

tell that to Monty Python

tifaucz "Generally tend to be". i.e. not all of them are

You're mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elder berries

*your

I fart in your general direction

Damn it. I didn't either

Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition

Nobody expects them

The same for Joe

I expected the Spanish Inquisition once, and it was the worst day ever. Completely ruined the Inquisition. Now I've gotta wait until I forget about it so I can not expect one so that they'll-.. Ah!? **one hears the sound of the Spanish Inquisition entering with a crash**

@Arthur Thesillyking Among the chief weaponry...

I know I was like "wait what did he say".

maybe he wasn't talking about the movies. But that would make even less sense, as the series was less about comedy, and more about being a regular crime/drama series.

Have you ever seen 21 Jump Street? Shit is just making fun of the genre in which they exist. If you don't find being "meta" funny, that's fine, but a lot of people like entertainment that is self aware.

Wreckless Gerald yeah but its dumb

Mark Meason It is funny but its not intelligent

Sounds debilitating.

@@Renovartio but surprisingly liberating

@@Renovartio No its called truly accepting how it is. Somehow it makes you happier

@@Humannbeing you ain't king of nothing, Thats why no one buys your movies or watches your shows.

@@Renovartio you watch anime, when you mature and grow up and don’t watch cartoons you might understand it

Damn.. just.. wow.. I agree.. WOOOOooooooww............ 😥

@@b0xE_ Hah, I'm happy to hear someone experiences things the same way. :)

Don't really agree completely, if you watch "The Inbetweeners" we can relate to them intrinsically, they make us go back to our teenage lives where we would struggle with embarrassing parents or continual disappoinments in pursuing the opposite sex, it doesn't have to be warm and optimistic for us to relate and see ourselves in them.

@@theartofthefart523 Haven't seen it but can understand what you're referring to. It's just about the different ways that people relate to the characters on screen. And mind you, in case you got the wrong impression - I'm a devout lover of British film&TV series!

So, you've never watched Seinfeld then.

I think the optimistic American, realistic British mind set can also been seen in the x factor auditions. I've seen the following so many times. The American sings and when given criticism replies; the judges know nothing, I'm amazing. The British contestant sings and thanks the judges for their criticism. I think both states of mind have their pros and cons but only one is that of a wanker.

you're british !

Goggle products You spent so much time on that, and it is so dry that few will ever understand the humor.

Hence the American Dream

that was some american exceptionalism bullshit

I don't know if that's true, I mean look at David Brent - his whole character depends on his own stupidity.

he's more ignorant than stupid

still more stupid than most

In America if you're a failure you're only allowed to blame yourself. In Britain, and possibly Europe, people seem far more cynical towards a system that has ultimately caused their failure as much as their own life choices. I think the general mentality of optimism or harsh realism affects each country's comedic styles, respectively.

+Jordan McIntosh Webb I don't know if you're American or European but I would've said the opposite!

Good lad

American comedy isn't funny

@@Liam-qn2kn us brits like pretend that but i can 100% guarantee you've laughed at a good American joke as have I

At least we've got Jim Carry!! Oh wait... *FAK!!!*

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Sorry

Weird Fact: The Spanish Inquisition was largely a British/Protestant myth. Take that home with ya.

+John NoNameGibbon people thinking this is the reason nobody ever expects them

Hugo Fontes And then you're fucked!

Catubrannos There you go. Kudos. They only killed a few thousand I think, over their what, five hundred(?) year history. Nothing compared to the Protestant Witch Hunts. We really went nuts in the US with that. As did Central Europe. Oh, and Queen Elizabeth went apeshit on her own people. She invented the myth in order to make her own actions look less bad by comparison. If you were guilty of conspiring with Catholics you'd be hung, disembowel, lit on fire and then dragged through the streets. She did this to Shakespeare's relatives. Which is why he never romanticized Protestantism in his works.

Manzanito :3 great one

Manzanito :3 in the long run we are all dead ... hahaha

American humor wants you to laugh with someone. British humor wants you to laugh at someone.

Totally agreed. American shows I watch when doing something like eating dinner because it’s easy to turn my brain off to. British humour I am there, feeling these characters emotions while sometimes cringing while uncontrollably laughing at every joke

One of the best British jokes is the "it isn't exactly rocket science" which pretty much the whole joke is that you can see the punchline coming.

@@LarryOfCamalot never heard it

@gilgabish Most english speaking countries including US say that when mocking that something isn't difficult. Or "it isn't brain surgery". I tend to enjoy mixing things up by throwing out a "it isn't rocket surgery" instead. Now there's a joke I can count on.

Well it depends on the person, I prefer American comedy and I'm british

Best categorisation I've seen. Kudos from an Englishman.

Sure realism

👍👍👍

British nhialism

I like to critique anglo centric categorization whenever I see it!

hi. just wanted to say: good point! it's rare to find good points in the comment section on youtube but you did it! (Y) "thank you!" - michael scott.

I always felt American comedy was more easy, mundanely sarcastic and prominently scripted, in order to to appeal to a very general audience looking for instant gratification, hence the unnaturally fast-paced comedy rhythm.

I agree, in the UK the office genuinely looked just like a UK office, miserable, dark, boring, hopeless, negativity everywhere, stress emerging as people doing strange things. Ricky deliberately chose crap lighting to BE real, the US stick ex miss Americas and beautiful models with extra lighting and pure white teeth in to appeal to the masses, yet that ISN'T the masses, thus how can it be real? In the UK the only time we laugh at unrealistic is when it's crazy madness, Python, Goodies, Reeves and Mortimer, Garth Marenghi's dark place, if it ain't realistic it had better be just silly! In the US a lot of the time it's neither.

+dan taylor your getting a like for mentioning Garth meranghi 😆👍

Teethgrinder 83 It was cutting edge, the reason CH4 is my go to for new comedy.They really genuinely believe in the artist and just trust them with a script and air time, they just run with it. Look at Utopia by Dennis Kelly how good was that? Not comedy but the writing was phenomenal!

Well to be fair, we spend 95% of the time taking the piss out of each other, so we're a bit too skilled at doing it.

Yeldur I get it. You're not the only people on earth who do it. Growing up in Brazil wasn't much different. It's good; keeps us spirited.

rafasounds2010 I'm glad we're not the only ones, makes me think we're weird!

Nothing is more fun than 'banter with the lads'

Yes, and fear. Fear and surprise. And ruthless efficiency. I'll stop now.

Don't be a woman!

Isn't the UK government in the middle of holding a baby hostage and forcing it to die right now?

3pimpzilla Meanwhile, we're sending a bunch of children to live in cages, have the worst history of school shootings in the world and our national budget is in the worst shape it's been on since World War II.

Lmao I knew this comment section was gonna get heated by the end. Let's be honest, not everyone can become President in the US, but *anyone* can. You don't have to have some heavenly right to rule, you just have to be motived enough to want to make a change. America was unique in its founding, and many countries have now followed suit in promoting individual liberties (despite the UK infringing upon some serious rights atm), which include the right to decide how you're government is run; including taking a part in running it. And it's true, Americans are told we can be President since we're young--at least I was. And it really makes you feel like you can be the difference you want to see. Anyway, I'm rambling. But from what I can tell, even in these divided times, I still believe that the US is a special place, and it makes me feel special to be a part of it.

Tori That shows what you know... Right now, both parties are looking for women candidates because both parties want to be first to put a woman in the white house. In that respect both parties want to be progressive. The only problem my party has is finding a woman who is actually smart and still willing to be a republican! Lol. Tricky thing that. I think in general women tend to be more liberal politically and so it leaves us at the shallow end of the pool, Palin not excluded.

The IT Crowd is GENIUS!! It's really appreciated by a relatively small amount of people but if it got more airtime, I think it could be huge. One of the reasons is that the characters are so well played and even the smaller, bit-part characters can easily steal the show, with the main 3 being consistent. It's a bit slap stick but some of the humour and acting is top notch.

Russell Speak gotta love bringing someone down

Wow so funny!

Finally some brit who have spoken truth.

exactly mate so stfu you mong.

Russell Speak I think It's your shitty weather.

Lol superbly put, Molly

laugh at others so you feel better about yourself thats the way it works other here

take a look at this, I've edited and intertwined the same sketch of the office UK and US: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bb-nwOs83DU.html quite impressive!

Same (in a way lol)

I relate a lot as I am British too. Taking the piss out of people around us to make them feel miserable but not too miserable is really funny

US: Micky Mouse and Donald Duck UK: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

...So having a bunch of Cardinals burst in to tell you all about the Spanish Inquisition and how no one expects them, destroying the earth to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, fighting off an alien invasion while completely hammered, inventing lying, and going full Rambo in idyllic British village against a bunch of old people is believable and not over the top? I think both countries do absurdism and satire. The difference is the British tend to play their absurdity 100% seriously whereas Americans tend to look at you with a wink and a nod about the absurdity of the situation.

Oh yes, because Monty Python’s Flying Circus is not random at all, right...

I think the best way to describe it is that American comedy takes something and makes it over the top in order to get laughs, whereas the british will take something entirely abnormal and make it seem like a common occurrence. This is why american comedies seem more over the top when British comedies have more over the top concepts

@@checkm8964 Exactly. There is a distinction. Absurdity and randomness is the whole point in Monty Python. In American comedy, absurdity is generally less intentional. It's more of a side effect of raising the stakes of the comedic situation. I'm not saying that it's worse, just that there's a difference. And there are of course exceptions to this rule on both sides.

bruh i just watched a short about a crack fox, and then some old Greg dude, then an obese guy explode after consuming a "wafer thin" wafer. Neither are believable

TheSirAshton90 inbetweeners US was so bad because they completely copied the Uk version which doesn’t work because Americans don’t find English comedy funny.

And they removed most of the language which added to the British version

Let's not even mention the IT Crowd remake...

The Office US vs Uk nothing more to say.

@@shineinouzen7412 evidence up and down this comment thread suggests there's a lot more to say regarding that debate.

barryschwarz That’s not the difference

@@BijinMCMXC Do tell?

barryschwarz Stephen Fry said it best

I would say that Brits can be just as obvious as the Americans are, take an episode of Top Gear, where they’re blowing up a house and making a car into a boat. Vice versa, for example there’s a ton of subtle Kubrick cinematography jokes in Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety

@@BijinMCMXC Do tell.

You're telling me

Now You See It cant you appeal it or are you just waiting for them to respond

I feel like RU-vid copyright infringement is talked about a ton but many don't know the intricacies of it. Let me give you a brief rundown of how the copyright system and appealing works. Let's say you post a video. A program scans your video and catches you have copyright visuals or audio and gives the video a flag. A flag can mean your video is either: A) take down OR B) not taken down, but a company gets to show ads instead of you and collect all the profits Of my 24 videos, I would say maybe 20-21 were initially flagged as containing copyrighted content. For all but 1, the company decided to simply show their own ads and collect the profit. 1 video was taken down completely (my Simpsons video essay, which I felt was a somewhat warranted decision to flag. That has a lot of Simpsons clips). A flag means the video gets marked for copyright in your video manager and it tells you which portion of the video warrants the flag (for example, my video on opening shots was flagged for the introduction, the approximately 30 seconds or so was taken straight from 2001: A Space Odyssey). Whether the video was taken down completely, or the company decides to run their own ads, there is an ability to submit an appeal. A request for appeal involves selecting why you think your video should not be flagged (options include "This is my own content," "this content is not actually copyrighted in the first place," etc. Video essayers always choose the "this is fair use under copyright law" option). Then, we have to describe why we think the flagged clip falls under fair use. Here is my explanation for this very video: "The short clip I use of The Office is fair use under copyright law. The purpose of using the clip is to educate the viewer on key differences between American and British comedy. Previously in the video, I show a clip of Stephen Fry stating that British comedians want to play the failure. To expand on this idea, I show a short clip of David Brent playing the guitar. The clip is 21 seconds long, and I talk over 10 seconds of the clip. Due to its educational purpose and its extremely short length, the use of this clip does not replace the complete viewing of the original scene and the use of the clip in this video is fair use." This is where I think people don't understand fair use. There are many video essays I watch on RU-vid that I feel could, in a court of law, not qualify as fair use. Two examples: A) A video contains copyrighted background music. If you don't make any educational commentary about the music in the background, that music is copyrighted, and you're using it for longer than a "sample" of the song, it may or may not be fair use. Many video essays, including mine, have songs in background. I put in a couple minutes of the song under my narration as I talk. If I don't own the music, and I don't make an educational commentary on the music, it's not obviously fair use anymore. B) You use a lot of a movie. If you talk about one movie, and you use 10 minutes of clips of that movie, it becomes necessary to appeal. 10 minutes is a long time. I'm not saying you're completely guilty if you do either of these things, but what I am saying is that fair use does not become obvious anymore. That's why you need to submit appeals, and I think appeals are a necessary evil to stop people from posting movie clips willy nilly. This first round of appealing weeds out the scammers and leaves the people willing to request an appeal and defend their work. The problem is that this slows down the artist, and it really is a shame. I have had to submit appeals for 17 videos. For 4 of my videos, I did not try to appeal because I felt like I truly did use too much of a certain clip (my opening shots video, again, has a very long and "non-fair use" clip). So for 4 videos, they show whatever they want, and I get to keep the video up. After submitting your request, you wait. They have 30 days to get back to you or else, by default, you win the appeal and get to show your own ads. That's a long time to wait, but I understand. They have to make a human read your appeal instead of robots scanning for content, so it takes time and resources. Every company I've petitioned got back to me within a week. So let's say they reject your appeal. Now what? Well, if it was an appeal to get your own ads, you can do another appeal. But now, if they reject you again, your video goes down and you get a copyright strike. To me, that is not worth the risk. So for this video on British vs. American Comedy, I decided to not appeal again. I don't try for the double appeal because I'd rather have no ads than lose my video. So what if they took your video down and then reject your first appeal? Then that's bad luck for you. Personally, I have had little problem with copyright infringement. I use my best judgment before appealing, I state my case, and so far, I've never had a problem. I am one of the lucky ones, though. Hope this was at least a little bit helpful. I think most people only hear from the RU-vidrs who are getting screwed by copyright laws, so maybe another perspective is worth your time. But it really isn't fair when a RU-vidr gets sued for thousands of dollars and has to appear in court. We have no money, and do movie companies really believe we are causing thousands of dollars worth of damage? If anything, our video essays make people want to go out and see these movies! We're advertising how great these movies are! Sheesh.

Now You See It that makes sense. appreciate you took the time to fully reply

So how does a channel like Cinema Sins use so much of one particular movie?

Perfect

Zulamun perfect

Much agreed. English humor tends to be a lot more arid, and the wit, as far as I can tell, tends to come from both cutting sarcasm and self-deprecating self-awareness. American comedy, in a lot of cases but not all (we have some incredible standup comedians, for instance), just kind of makes me uncomfortable, while the discomfort and disquiet trademark to English humor are something I can identify with.

Zulamun well we’re all in term English, I would prefer you say British.

P Mason, well technically we all speak English. The Amish call everyone Englishmen no matter if your American, British, Irish, Scottish, or Australian. I am a fan of old regular English not this drag made by the blacks to sound cool.

*humour

Harvey Mccartney humor is correct

humour is correct in the UK, I believe while humor is American.

I think we need to take your point about British humour being realistic and expand upon it. I feel like it often takes realistic situations and makes them absurd. Monty Python was often silly and over the top but it was usually following a very normal situation and one you wouldn't expect (such as the Spanish Inquisition). One of my peeves with the argument is that one is necessarily funnier than the other. I love the I.T crowd for example but taking it to America and simply putting in an American cast didn't work, that's why the U.S version of The Office became much more successful as the series went on was because they made it its own thing. Heck, I am British and my favourite show of all time is The Simpsons. During its peak years, nothing came close to how funny, smart, witty or just down right emotional it could be.

Idk, how you described American Humor is exactly how I would describe The inbetweeners (UK version of course)

I’mSuperSpicy and not the people who take steroids all the time

You would if you had any

@@johnc4571 You don't even know how big the sex doll scene is in UK. Their weather is fucked up so they are always stressed.

@@johnc4571 oooooof

Oh. That makes me feel different about the time I was compared to Dwight Schrute.

How dare you? I take offense to- actually no. I have seen English tourists, and I am for that reason, not patriotic. :p

***** My mum used to work in the main shop on the island we live on, and at one point there was an English woman getting angry that the island didn't have the LOCAL newspaper of the county she came from, even she was from England, and were were in Scotland, and it would have been at least 600 miles appart.

***** I hate change, I will admit to that, but I still love the separation between cultures, and wouldn't want them all to be same everywhere in the world!

More positive, open about them, and realistic, in a successful attempt at dealing with the subject. Spot on mate.

I always thought, the sandals an socks thing was a typical German trademark, and from what I gather, many Germans expect, that people speak German, too, which is even more ridiculous, regarding the relevance of the language and its role in the past in quite a lot of European countries.

And they yell too much in the United States. Even more disgusting.

When somebody spills their beer in Australia, we like to yell "TAXI!!!!!"

xx ARMY OF ME x one Honestly, America has a very offensive sense of humor.

+Chikin Chikin, also childish and extremely loud.

Damn. All aboard the hate-on America for being hateful train.

canturgan not true

Beamer Believer That's my view, you're welcome to have your own.

canturgan the opposite of what you said.

I worked in an American office and there is a lot of brighter colors and such. Part of making workers work harder and feel more energized or some such by surrounding them with certain colors.

The British Office is more original and for the first season is a straight-up better show. The US Office diverges (and to me becomes the superior beast after a few seasons). Neither show is particularly realistic, but the characters in the US Office are about as close as I've seen in a TV comedy. The British Office features realistic templates and makes them as cringe-worthy as possible for the sake of the humour, but the basis of the characters is very realistic. However the US office takes those character templates and slowly rounds them out to be more like real humans. It also makes everybody out to be more likeable...but this is part of the brilliance of the US Office. It's portraying unlikeable people as loveable is part of it's message of the unknown brilliance of everybody's everyday lives. Overall I prefer the US Office, but love both shows. The British Office is probably funnier, but the US Office is a better drama and to me is much more rewatchable.

Thats why the british one is so much better, it's believable.

Mr Bojangles Believable doesn’t make it better. If you’re looking for a more subtle type of humour, then watch the UK Office. If you’re looking for over-the-top humour, watch the US Office. These two shows were trying to accomplish different things. Personally, I don’t find anything funny in the mundane reality of the real world, so I enjoy something that’s so absurd it’s going to make me laugh more. But I’m not going to say because I find the US Office more funny that it’s better, it was INTENDED to be more comedic and lighthearted, as was the UK Office was intended to be more hopeless and pitiful.

American comedy has its gems just as Brits do.. the only thing that irks me is that they have to milk something until it's dead. Whereas Brits can leave something as a classic and not kill it off with 20 unnecessary seasons. How many US office seasons were there compared with the Brit version. They were both good.. not really comparable though, they're unique in their own ways. Holly wood does the same thing. The Hangover was a great film.. did we need 2 more sequels. Or American Pie movie was a surprise hit.. therefore 4 more needed to be made apparently.

Reggie Cornwalls yes it is considering the uk one is the original

James Todd tbh the US version Is barely unrealistic. It’s and exaggeration to be sure. But in most cases with film a slight exaggeration is always better than the boring Truth.

"It's German humor, mate. It's no laughing matter..."

Don't be so hard on yourself. You guys have some decent comedians: Michael Mittermeier, Helge Schneider, Otto Waalkes, Eckart von Hirschhausen... Chaostheater Oropax are hilarious (if somewhat crude). There are some funny German comedies of the "silly" type out there. If you compare films like "Der Schuh des Manitu" and "(T)Raumschiff Surprise" to international parody films, they hold up pretty well. I was positively surprised by how much "Fack ju Göhte" made me laugh. And there have also been a couple of really great dark comedies/tragicomedies over the years. "Knocking on Heaven's Door" is absolutely hilarious while not at all playing down the more serious themes. (It's also pretty much the only Til Schweiger flick I can be bothered to rewatch.) And "Zwei Weihnachtsmänner" is just delightfully mean! What I would say is that German humour doesn't really have a "trademark." As in, German humour is not recognisably German the way English humour is recognisably English.

Germans usually laugh when they see a Fiat 500

I've heard that Germans like a laugh just like anyone. The difference is that Germans laugh ONCE THE WORK IS DONE. (I borrowed that from Henning Wehn.)

ShadeScarecrow "its german humour mate, its no laughing matter" Sovietwomble, csgo bullshittery.

Aye I know what you mean mate. In Scotland, everyone can agree that Still Game or Chewing the Fat are some of the most funny comedies out there. Whilst I'm sure Americans wouldn't understand many jokes in it since its Scottish humour. The English may not even understand some of the humour.

As if we don’t have the underground?

@@Oswadomob london underground and NY subway are culturally different. yes they're both literally underground railways but the humour surrounding them doesn't translate

@@Oswadomob Not the same at all

@Nabium: Good -- thanks. It would be interesting to then reframe this as a question about whether the humor is in the material . . . or in the capacity of the person experiencing it. What additional insights might that provide (?)

@@QED_ I donno, but I'd say both. What do you think?

@Nabium: It gets complicated. For example, it's probably demonstrable that the ability to experience high-context humor impedes one's ability to experience low-context humor. But the reverse is not quite true . . .

​@@QED_ Isn't it the other way around? If the jokes are dependent on context, then you have to have some understanding of the context in order to get the joke. So therefore the reverse is true: the ability to experience low-context humour impedes one's ability to experience high-context humour. That's why they say that humour is the last thing you learn, when you learn a new language. To understand puns, idioms, humour based on dialects, humour based on cultural references - you need more than just a basic knowledge of a language. I agree with what you said in one way though, people who prefer deeper and less superficial jokes, won't get much out of Big Bang or American Pie. Sure. But, they will still understand the jokes. But people of low context cultures will by default have issues understanding humour from more complicated cultures, unless they have higher than average abilities. And not just logical intelligence, also the ability to understand other people, and willingness understanding of other cultures. Usually people need to be a bit more liberal minded. Not saying they need to be libs or lefties, just liberal minded. Americans who are fans of the Peep Show, Stephen Fry, Monty Python, - and they exist in great heaps now thanks to the internet - have to be open minded and intelligent. While "deeper-than-average" American humour like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sarah Silverman or Rick and Morty is just as accessible for the average Englishman as it is for the average American. Doesn't mean the Englishman is more intelligent than the American, no, it's just about exposure to irony and not being literal minded - which is often the premise of context British humour works out from. The ability of experiencing high-context humour is completely relevant to the context. You might have a very well developed sense of humour and get all the jokes of British humour, but then when switching to Hong Kong movies, it doesn't automatically translate that you would understand that humour. Because the context is a different context. Hong Kong humour is high-context, but not in an ironic way like British and Jewish-American. Hong Kong humour might be very visual, and good Hong Kong comedy are works of art comparable to Charlie Chaplin, which is easily translatable, but even more it's based on social constructs. Similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm. And those social constructs are far different, far more complicated and implied than any European and American culture, and the jokes will be lost for even the most intelligent Englishman. So therefore there are no ability to understand high-context humour. There's an ability to understand British humour, an ability to understand Cantonese humour, an ability to understand French humour, an ability to understand Iranian humour. But those do not translate to each other. So therefore there's no ability to understand high-context culture, that is completely dependent on the culture in question. The only humour we all can gather around, is the American one.

@Nabium: As I said, it's tricky. The ability to experience high-context humor seems to DISABLE the experience of low-context humor. I think we can more-or-less agree on that. But it doesn't seem quite right to say that the ability to experience low-context humor "disables" the experience of high-context humor. Yes, in BOTH cases . . . there's only an ability to experience one kind of humor. But in only ONE case is one disabling the other . . . because we probably don't want to say that a capacity (high context humor) is dis-abled if it's never been en-abled in the first place. So that is a difference. There's probably a developmental dimension here that has to be introduced to properly frame this . . .

I'm Aussie. We have also worked in England & the USA. Our take is that the Brits' invent comedic irony out of bad situations' whereas Americans shows are largely seen through a small prism of 'over the top gags' that only relate to reality on a puerile level & via Hollywood & NYC where certain ethnicity arrived from E Europe & depicted the USA through their newly arrived prism which only bore a passing resemblance to historical realities.

I think the younger American geenrations are starting to drift towards that. Look at certain elements of cynism in meme culture as an example.

American "comedy" seems to constantly revolve around laughing at other people and countries but get super offended when its thrown back at them

@@GenericUsername-qp1ww exactly! :-) Melbourne Aussie

@@letsseeif the only American comedy I find funny tbh is South Park and American Dad. I'd say that I'm surprised that American Dad still hasn't suffered from Family Guy Syndrome yet but then again, AD doesnt constantly have "hey, remember that time when....." overused garbage thrown in a bajillion times in every episode so I guess its not a surprise really

Yeah I can only watch so many weird Japanese commercials before I want to hack my leg off with a meat cleaver

Japan is like the Saudi Arabia of crazy. What would we ever do without them.

ITS THE BEST

nice avatar

Japanese humor is very punny

***** Collectively, you mean? Hmmm, that's actually a great answer.

+Zach Higgins ")mindblown("

***** I wholeheartedly agree.

That's why you gotta make America great again!

Kathlyn P. Agreed

Meh, I see what you're on about but in my opinion, us Brits just have a more functional brains

But a brilliant kind of goofy: Simpsons (seasons 1 - 8), Curb Your Enthusiasm, South Park. Some very very good stuff. Plus Monty Python was downright absurd and goofy. Not a clear-cut debate.

@@bigman25plus25 mmmm the simpsons season 4-8 yes. Then turns ridiculously American goofy. South Park is the only US show I like as a Englishman, mainly because its extremely clever. The rest are so hard to watch for me though

Marius VanDamme exactly

...Huh!, spot on.

Well put

Yep, you just proved zeekos point entirely.

@Marius VanDamme Tell that to germans, christians (catholics), jews, hungarians etc. Just watch Monty Python.

Good point

I agree but both of them work very very well. Comedy is all about making you laugh. Lewis is great at being zany and out there while Bean is great at being quiet

The "absurd, but quiet," vs. "loud & obnoxious" is true and hit home when I thought of John Cleese doing his Minister of Silly Walks bit in Monty Python. His body goes wild, but he's quiet and his face is always perfectly deadpan!

There is also a very specific odd couple formula perfected in a lot of british comedy based on the dynamic of where the one character is light hearted and attempts to be funny the whole time, but comes across as silly but loveable, and the other one trying to be dead serious and then inadvertently ending up being hilarious. An infinite source of self-deprecating humor. I'm thinking of Basil and Manuel, Howard Moon and Vince Noir, Black Adder and Lieutenant George, Mark Corrigan & Jeremy etc. Also, just for interest sake the character of Mr Bean was based largely on the character of Mr Hulot created by french comedian Jacques Tati. Mr Hulot's Holiday is an absolute classic of comedy and well worth checking out for those who haven't seen it. :)

Brittish humor often leves the "point" of the gag for the viewer to find out. US comedy mostly delivers it full on.

furripupau then explain Wiley coyote

Gavin Longbottom ok nevile

I’m British and think she’s hilarious. First completely unfiltered comedienne to break through.

Nick Mcmahon unfiltered ?

As in, she’s got no filters on what she says - nothing seems out of bounds. In a reasonably funny film with goldie hawn as well.

Nick Mcmahon most comedians dont have filters she just talks about being a dlag