Humour! British VS American 

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US show: oh my god I just fell over, hahaha that’s so relatable and funny, oh my god her crush just saw that and someone called her and idiot U.K. show: he’s getting a divorce, his boss is gunna fire him, he’s got massive secret debts, he’s started doing coke and just got arrested and now he wants to kill himself, omg this comedy is so fucking funny and relatable 😂

So true, and that style has a long history: Fleabag, Green Wing, Spaced, the IT Crowd, Fawlty Towers, Steptoe and Son.

@@threethymes fawlty towers is one if the best shows ever

@@lacari0805 mood

Someone else said the difference between American and British comedy is a director saying "We're going to do the pie gag!" and the American says "OK, I'm ready to throw the pie!" while the Brits says "I'm ready to be hit by the pie!". I think they had just been watching Laurel & Hardy to be honest.

John Cleese is the waiter.

@Karla Bradley love Monty Python & John Cleese 😂😂 UK 4 LIF3

i'd just eat it, and that would be Iraqis comedy

Excuse me I've got a bit of a dirty knife, could you get me another one?

Bono described it this way: When an American walks past a mansion on the hill, he looks up at it and thinks “One day, that will be me.” An Irish person walks past the mansion, looks up at it and thinks, “One day, I’m gonna get that bastard.”

What does that make me then? When I look up at a mansion, I think "I'm going to get that bastard so that that it will be me".

Eat the rich

@@nyx.8254 That takes roasting to a whole new level

I'm American and at least where I'm from we identify more with what your describing as British

Exactly!!😂😂😂😂

Pretty much sums it up 😂😂😂

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Black adder is sooooo depressing

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Omg my fave Mat baynton 😍

@@stayforthepeelpronpls4774 wtf is that channel name lol

Oh my god yes

Yaaaasss

True

Seinfeld ended with them in prison for a year lol

Judeau that series didn’t end.

So true

The office UK - reality The office us - pipe dream

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This might be related but probably not.....anyway British people love complaining about Britain but when other people *coughcoughamericanscoughcough* (no offence) complain about Britain we get all defensive. or maybe thats just me

@@yourgaycousin5728 We do have a self depricating humour in the UK, quite famous for it. Most people are fine with being made fun of. But when you really look at it, the USA doesn't really have a slef depricating humour at all. In fact quite the reverse they have a self elevating humour and then a depricating humour for other countries. You can probably see why it would get the backs up of some people. Typically Americans are not very self critical or even self aware, but are very good at picking on others. Just an observation.

@@yourgaycousin5728 In a nut shell. They will laugh at others, but not at theirselves.

Both of those mean the same thing lol

Americans like seeing what they want the world to be. Brits like seeing the world as it is.

Then you must be a Scot!

Or Irish.

Jamie Davies Or Welsh!

Duke Robert IV Northern Irish...

Same thing using "American" as a synonym for "from the US". Canadians and Brazilians and Mexicans are American, too

Not necessarily

disagree, one of my favorite all time shows is It's Always Sunny which is not optimistic at all

Yer, Always Sunny is very realistic and VERY dry humour and is hilarious. So it's wrong to say only British humour is like that lol and I'm British.

@@craigtrish2011 To be fair, nobody is saying that ALL American humour is one way, and all British humour is another way. The point is there's a general trend. You could say that some American comedy is kind of British (eg South Park, which was inspired by Monty Python to a large degree), and some British comedy is kind of American (like Gavin and Stacey, which has a level of optimism and uplift to it which you don't find much in British comedy). But as a general rule, I think its fair to say that at the heart of British comedy is an appreciation of failure, and a desire to mock hypocrisy and pretension, whereas at the heart of American comedy is an appreciation of success. Many of our most beloved characters aren't even all that likeable: Mark Corrigan, Basil Fawlty, Alan Partridge, Edmund Blackadder, Steptoe and Son, Mrs Bucket, David Brent. There are of course examples of the antihero in American comedy, but they're much rarer in my experience. A weird exception I've noticed is American cartoon sitcoms - for some reason they're often much more willing to have unlikable characters and failures at the heart of their stories. The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill... somehow, they seem to be the exact opposite of live action sitcoms being made in the same era.

In America the comedian tells the joke, in Britain the comedian IS the joke.

My favorite US later night show was when Craig Ferguson was at the helm of the Late Late show. And I think that was because he basically did whatever he wanted and broke out of the American talk show mold.

I adore Graham Norton, but no one has ever made me laugh more than David Letterman did in his heyday. Johnny Carson wasn't as funny as either of these guys, but he's my favorite because I absolutely loved him when I was a kid. There's been a lot of great talk show hosts, past and present.

So very true. Graham is now the best, even though he has been funny for years. Also are you really blonde, and do you have a Brazilian? x x x

Big thing with Graham is it's never about him. He's naturally funny and chimes in but it's never more important that he's funny over the rest of the show.

@@JeM130177 That's how it should be. Most chat show hosts think they themselves are the stars, but on Grahams show most of them say it's the best fun they've ever had. And they can talk for longer too. The King of the chat show here was Michael Parkinson, where he is interested in them, and let's them talk forever. And they never had their latest show or film to promote either. Check out his shows with all the Hollywood greats.Or the UK ones. Muhammed Ali, Peter Sellers, Peter Ustinov, David Niven.... He's interviewed everybody for over 30 years or more.

I love Blackadder!

I agree, and I would recommend Arrested Development. I don't think any other American show has made me laugh as much

Blackadder is the peak of comedy. It’ll never not make me laugh out loud.

Blackadder is the best

It makes me laugh until I cry

I can’t get over “bus turds” that’s when I needed to stop watching the American imbetweeners

But then you have a US comedy like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the show's enduring popularity is dictated by vulgarity and general immorality. While it's not a critical darling, it's definitely a pop culture hit. And I can't imagine its format working in the UK. A Russian edition was attempted but it didn't pan out.

No that completely isn't the case. The us Inbetweeners is just a bad show, by itself. You can't just say one is an 'American' interpretation of it, because you could have bad writers, bad producers, bad actors. It's just a bad show.

Djantai Otorbaev how can you say it’s a bad show when soooo many people love it? if you were to say that you personally didn’t like it then fair enough but it’s very arrogant to say it’s a ‘bad show’ as it clearly isn’t because so many people enjoy it!

@@Chloesfarmbecause the US Inbetweeners was widely considered a fail, scoring a 3.2 on IMDB, and 1/5 on the Telegraph. Not to mention it was immediately canceled after its debut season. Literally search US Inbetweeners and there will be nothing but videos destroying the show. I'm sorry, but this just makes it a bad show. Not to be confused with the UK Inbetweeners which is good and is widely praised

A character could say “fuck off you cunt” during a super emotional scene in a U.K. show and it would fit

YES, we are literally made of sarcasm and dry humour. We straight up insult each other and we find it absolutely hilarious

I totally get what you mean by this though at the same time things like Family Guy really push the boundaries of offensive..i guess they got cancelled a bunch of times hahaha...then again they never say the word "shit" 😂 it's so funny what is and isn't viewed as offensive in the different countries

@@JeM130177 Yeah - "poop" sounds like baby talk.

Brits can only be offensive to white folcc. They don’t have a loicense to be actually offensive. Vulgarity is neither the pinnacle of humour or offensiveness.

I’ve only seen a handful of episodes and yeah it’s... enjoyable! But I get what you’re saying

@Joe S tbbt is also just weird and perverse

Friends would be genuinely funny without it as well tbf

@@RK-ep8qy hey tbbt is amazing imo I really the enjoy the humour and science-ness it's one of my favourite shows

You know Friends and BBT where in front of a live audience right? Not every show is a laugh track... Plus, they're Sitcoms which literally stands for situational comedy. So it's by very definition a comedy show, just a different kind. Maybe open your mind a bit and expand your knowledge :)

That literally sums up america

kaylajohn1223 but then Americans get offended by everything

Molly Yeah. Brits do too though. When you make a joke about their accent, they go off.

Say what you like about a British accent I'm not going to "go off" I would take it in the spirit it's intended.

kaylajohn1223 oi wot u sayin m8 shut ur mouf sunshine takin the bloody piss out me accent u wouldn’t av English if it weren’t for us lot >:[

In your honest opinion then, which style of comedy do you prefer? What are your favourite shows of each time? It's really interesting seeing an outside perspective ☺️

Hannah Vasby-Burnie Honestly, when it comes to sitcom, I can’t choose which one I prefer simply because I like different things depending on my own mood. I watch American sitcom to cheer me up and it’s generally easier to digest. I watch British sitcom when I’m in the mood for something more wicked, dark, or dry. On the top of my head, I can recall more American sitcoms than British, simply because I watch a lot more American sitcoms due to accessibility (for the fact that it’s readily available on my country’s Netflix and some also aired in my local TV while for British sitcoms I have to actively look for it). Brooklyn 99, Friends, and HIMYM are some American sitcoms that I quite like. For British, I love the IT Crowd, Bad Education, and The Office. (I haven’t actually watched Gavin and Stacey and I’m ashamed to admit to that haha.) But if we’re talking about standup comedy, I feel like I prefer British ones. (Don’t ask me why, because I don’t know the reason. I don’t even know the diff between the two styles of standup comedy.) I’m currently enjoying James Acaster. Though I really, really like John Mulaney. The thing is, he’s the only American standup comedian that I love. I can’t stand the others that I’ve tried to watch for unknown reasons. TL;DR I love both American and British sitcoms and I have no preference for it. I love British standup comedians more than American standup comedians for unknown reasons.

@@nakaharaindria thank you so much for taking the time to reply. This was really interesting to me, so thanks. I'm the same as you I think, I watch a lot of American shows because of accessibility and I prefer British standup.

yes exactly! i would describe it the same way

@@nakaharaindria have you watched the “inbetweeners And Friday night dinner”? Worth a watch.

Only don rickles topped funnier than british comedy

@@alexmercer866 and rodney dangerfield

yeah same! some of my fave tv shows are american sitcoms (friends, Brooklyn nine nine) but I think when it comes to stand up especially British wins by a long shot for me personally

Leah xx Brooklyn I never saw the hype with it maybe I’ve grown out if it now I’m 18

@@leahj2495 this sums me up pretty well. I like american tv comedies, but standup the british are crushing it. Also British panel shows are the best, taskmaster, 8 out of 10 cats - with ot without countdown, WILTY ect. Its just so funny, because so much of the humor is just them playing of each other.

I'd agree with the last two, but I'd go with "pessimistic" over the first. There's only a handful of offensive British comedians, and as far as I can tell most of us aren't so into that. Experiences differ though

As the guy above said, it's realistic humour too. And, I'm only half way through the video, but Americans have a lot of canned laughter which kinda kills the whole point of laughter in my opinion.

Tris Sharp Where I am from in the north, it is hard to go anywhere that isn’t full of offensive humour tbh

@Joe S Yesss! Totally forgot that as well. You can't make a joke and then say that was a joke/explain it. It just doesn't work like that lmao

not rly offensive as such

And Saturday night takeaway

Whose line originated on British radio, then TV then drew Carey moved it across the Atlantic, mostly for Ryan stiles and Colin Mochrie

And it started out on Radio 4, as did many British comedies. That's another difference - the trying a format on Radio (lower budget) and it may then move to tv. Whose Line, Goodness Gracious Me, Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh etc. I don't know whether that happens as much now as in the past though. I grew up in the UK and now live in the US so not as in the loop. I wish panel shows worked over here, there is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR. They tried to do a version of Never Mind the Buzzcocks on VH1 (or maybe MTV) in the early 2000s and it just didn't work. More recently there was The Fix on Netflix, with Jimmy Carr hosting and Katherine Ryan as a regular panelist, which I quite enjoyed partly because I'm starved of that format here, but I see no indication there'll be a second season. I can't imagine Countdown, or even Cats Does Countdown, working in the US for a few reasons.

@@rosmarinus7727 I reckon Would I Lie To You could work in the US…

I actually just said the same thing, then thought I'd better check in case anyone else has said it 😅

I was recently waiting for a TV programme to start and had to sit through the last five minutes of the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and quite frankly it got on my nerves. Friends I’ve never found funny and my daughter couldn’t understand why. Yeah.

Slated American comedy is very diverse so I think your blanket statement doesn’t hold true yes for the average stereo typical American sitcom back in the day there was a formula to them but we have hundreds of comedies even The Simpsons is a comedy and to be fair British comedy pretty much just translates to the UK yes there are some shows that people in the world like but they’re different sensibilities and it’s pretty much the same thing every time droll..I mean we have everything sunny in Philadelphia but we also have cheers which was still very funny by the way and sometimes deep I think it’s up to cultural differences

what American comedies have you watched?

Simpsons ( enjoyed it ) Big Bang Theory ( I think it's kinda sexist ) Some Movies ( not memorable enough to remember )

And because they assume you're in on it you become in on it

Counterpoint: Archer, Arrested Development

yes true

My Japanese students love him haha

In my eighth grade English class (in the us) our teacher showed us twilight zone, Simpson’s, and mr bean to 1) give us a break and 2) teach us plot structure. The class found both comedies to be quite funny. : )

That's why he was part of UKs Olympic opening ceremony.

Though it is really made worse by the laugh track

The British Ghost yonderland was such a great show

And benidorm

Inbetweeners? 😂

Only fools and horses? Dads army?

Spaced, Father Ted, Green Wing, Peep Show, Friday Night Dinner, IT Crowd and for sketches.. Big Train, Mitchell & Webb and Armstrong & Miller

Cap

Damn you beat me to it :D

I was really worried that I'd have to comment that myself

It's not even an American version. We just straight stole it.

Came here to say just that!

sanityisrelative You mean 🇬🇧 sold it to you. Same thing, though. It looks British because it is British.

Fair play

FairPlay

Fair Play

Fair play

Fair play

Yes we do but it's rare

@Emma Taylor Ngl, your comment was a little... defensive. And I say this as someone who went through the pain of GCSEs & A Levels. It's cool man. Everybody's humour is a lil' different.

@Emma Taylor No need to apologise! 😊 I didn't want to go in on you, I just wanted to point out how it may have come across. Everyone's a little patriotic to some extent so believe me, I know what it's like to want to instantly defend your country in little or big ways; no matter the bullshit they put you or anyone else through 😂

Akinyi Omer don’t mean to butt in on ur convo but I just wanted to say that it’s so heartwarming to see people being nice when looking through RU-vid comments. I wanted to look at the replies on this post ‘cause I myself was gettin a bit defensive over my AmErICAN-ness so seeing this kinda helped me view things a bit lighter. Thanks

@@oldlantern4754 Awww thank you so much, I really appreciate it. Yeah honestly sometimes I think the reason we feel so threatened and defensive over anything UK vs USA is cause there's a begrudging respect there on both sides; like we're both proud of our countries yet at the same time badly want the other side to recognise and respect the special things about us? 😂 Its kinda hilarious when I think about it sometimes. And just - the last few years of national & international politics have been really depressing for me ... a lot of our world leaders could do with calming the fuck down and realising that hyper-nationalism is not the highest form of patriotism, it's just blind love without critical or conscious thinking; without maturity. People start thinking there's nothing to improve or fight for, that other nations and the Earth aren't worth fighting for, because we believe we're already perfect. And that ends my depressing essay! Lmao

"Things suck so I'll have a pint" moreso for britain

Rosie I love outnumbered 💖💖💖

Outnumbered is absolutely brilliant. It’s such a lifelike show and the fact that a lot of it was improvised by the kids makes it even better.

Me and my friends used to inhale helium and act out scenes from outnumbered

Loved this as a kid

Outnumbered is fantastic.

They would have re-runs of Ab Fab on TV back in the day, but I could never understand what that were saying. I was assured that they were in fact speaking English.

Or ARE YOU BEING SERVED? 😂😂

Gabrielle Haskell dad army was the shit

Steptoe and son! That will confuse them.

Blackadder.

Escaping is a problem of escapism.

British is also an escapism but in a different way. We just like seeing people with a worse life than us

Ross Stephen I disagree. British humour sees the world as it is, American as they think it should be.

@@rossstephen2568 Sounds like you need therapy.

can you speak proper english please

Same! As an European in the USA for a few decades I continue to prefer European humor. British humor is the best known but Europeans in general prefer that kind of humor. The more time I spend in the US the more I notice I am European to the core!

It's humour

@Molly Nelson what?

@Molly Nelson Great minds think alike.

I love that Doctor Who achieves that by doing the exact opposite thing! People nowadays may whine that things keep changing, but the show's only *lasted* because it has *no* real status quo. No one thing about the show is always constant, except inconstancy. Not the sonic, not the themes, not the cosmology, not even the time travel! It constantly changes and always has done. Which is why, to me, it is ageless.

HOW did I not bring up always sunny!! Yeah I can see that

Completely agree I was just thinking whilst watching this that always sunny is the only American comedy i really really enjoy

Tbf you've also got Ab Fab, Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools, dinnerladies and even Yes Minister all with laugh tracks - I think a lot of British sitcoms have them but perhaps the emphasis on them is slightly different?

The Inbetweeners: they're all equally terrible, but in different ways. It works.

AbFab... Blackadder... Bottom... Fawlty Towers... Keeping Up Appearances... Steptoe and Son... Till Death do us Part... Etc... Etc...

@@q.e.d.9112 May I add One foot in the Grave, Open all hours and last of the Summer wine to that list.

I thought this too! David Brent is a twat and a half...the only thing he had going for him is that he was never malicious...nothing seemed intentionally offensive or mean and he wanted nice things for people in his own way...he was just extremely annoying. I don't think we have to feel like we want to be friends with every character. We're like "some people are twats we all know them". Ricky Gervais is generally pretty good at staying juuuuuust on the boundary of being able to get away with something. It's either skill or luck I'm not sure yet hahahah

Also Michael is not like-able in any season. As soon as you start to root for him he says something racist or nasty or someone offends him and he gets The Look of just pure stubbornness where you know he’s going to spend the rest of the episode overreacting like s.t.o.p. But most of the other characters are so like-able or good cringe it makes up for him.

Nah our country was failing long before I was born.

This definitely got to be a joke ( a good joke ) because your country is one of the richest countries in the world bro.

We will never say If this is a joke all i can tell you is some British people think that pearl harbour was bombed by America....

@@merlin5407 everyone knows it was bomed by canadians

​@@romanbatista3286ok but loads of people living in dire conditions and divisive politics

Me too

And it's a million times better too haha!

I loved watching it in the 80s, I was so disappointed when it finished. I have watched the American one, but it's not a patch on our version.

@ryn mcray for sure, sorry

That's one particular type of comedian, they don't work the Northern clubs they go from footlights to the fringe to tv and they're generally only good for tv quiz show hosting , they all think that they're John Cleese in Monty Python but they're more like John Cleese in reality.

Quite a few come from Oxford which has the Oxford Revue too

Tbf Richard Curtis has done a lot of movies

I raise you spaced

Utterly random and ridiculousBill Bailey’s downtrodden lackey and Dylan Moran’s incorrigible incompetence. It’s very Black humour.

Tbf Joan Rivers really pushed the boundaries! Ahh she was a comedy genius 🤣

PERIODTT

I mean, look at skins, every single character has something that would be deplorable in real life, but that all have their own fanbases

Something like that kind of happened when they tried to bring Red Dwarf across the pond (twice).

Most successful started off on radio where they have to rely on genuinely funny scripts to work. Others come through the Fringe Festival and the theatre circuit with low budget props etc. Before they pitch to tv so they know what will and wont work.

Sir David just has the voice for it.

So proud *wipes tear dramatically *

I've always been a big u fan

whatevs *the correct spelling of the word... 😂

@@evan "I've always been a big fan of U" There I've fixed that for you....errr U.

@@evan I aggressively spell theatre the non-american way because I just like it so much better that way.

The IT crowd.

When I think of British comedy, I tend to think of things pre-naughties. I'd love Evan to see things such as Are You Being Served?, The Good Life, Dad's Army, One Foot in the Grave, and The Vicar of Dibly. I wonder what he'd make of them.

Only fools and horses too. I always watch that at Christmas with my mum and grandad and it is soo funny

I'm American and I grew up on Are You Being Served and Keeping Up Appearances (thank you PBS).

I grew up watching Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served, and Monty Pythons. I'm American, and I loved them. :)

it was talked about very briefly at 15:15

MY FAVE SHOW AHAHAHAH

Oh my god yes

it's the best!!

That's a perfect example of one that had terrible US remake, because our humour is so different.

Don't forget Black Books

British stand up is definitely better than american i think

Miranda, Fawlty Towers, Bicker of Dibley and Mr Bean.

Russell Howard??

@@ginbradbury3278 he falls into the mighty boosh category haha

That makes so much sense

@@evan Colin and Ryan (and a few others I think, Greg Proops maybe?) we're actually on the UK version of the show and stayed with it after it migrated to the States and we kept it.

True. I loved Clive Anderson as host, and then one day Drew Carey was host (who I already loved from his own show), so I've enjoyed both versions over the years. :)

They hand out fake points, it had to be British.

@@evan You can still go and see the original members of the UK show perform it at the comedy store in london every single sunday and wednesday. I'm someone who is a huge fan of the UK format, and really don't get on with the Americanised version of it just because it's very over the top in your face (to me at least). Would highly recommend going to the comedy store to see it done properly

SynthesteticFlame what is that😂 and yes I’m British

Cookie Monster google it and binge watch it ☺️

@@CookieMonster-qh4pq have you actually lived under a rock your entire life???

or the Inbetweeners

Nothing will ever be better comedy than 'I'll buy the sandwiches...'

When we only make a dozen episodes there's no time to rotate

Perfect! I was thinking about royal family too

Lil fantastic show , honestly just like me Nana’s living room back in the day

there’s a US remake of the inbetweeners and it’s absolutely sh*t

James Acaster fans on Evan's channel, show yourself 😍

@@ananasetc Acastronauts :D

K and an E and a T and a T E and an R and an ING T and an O an a WN Kettering Town FC!

@@ananasetc when I bought the ready to eat apricots, I was in fact, ready to eat apricots

@@10thhousebabe Hmmm... He thinks he's too good for a free banana.

The thing with the British shows with laugh tracks/studio audience is that they actually enhance the actor's performance I think. I'm thinking Red Dwarf specifically, when they didn't have an audience in series 7 (though they then would screen the episodes for an audience and record the laughter and add it. IDK. That was a dark time for the show). The performances just aren't the same competed to even series 8 when they brought back the audience. You can just see the difference in energy in the performers.

Father Ted is Irish!! Irish humour is not the same as British!!

Apologies, you are right. Would like to see Evan react to it still though :)

@@Olivia_-nd7qc Father Ted was written by Irish writers based in the UK and made by Channel 4 - just like Black Books, the IT Crowd and Toast of London. (the same writers). All fantastic comedies but not uniquely Irish.

I never liked Ricky - I thought he was an utter prick for years. Then I saw him at the golden globes - I really, really like that wanker.

Judeau You spend far too much time on the internet.

I suppose they all reflect society as it is at the time though, so they have to change in order to be relatable to the audience of the time. People of the 2000s can see themselves in the Royle Family, the Inbetweeners etc. but in the 90s they'd have related to Keeping up Appearances, we all know someone like that. :)

@@ThatRomyKate I see myself as Frank Spencer, and I was born in the late 80's

Thank you.

James corden can’t be considered a comedian he’s a host I would say?

@@saxx9088 as Stuart lee once said he's an actor not a comedian.

Gavin and Stacey?

@@biscuitsforyouall Yeah he nailed the comedy in Gavin and Stacey but I think they were referring to his chat show where he tries too hard for the US audience and is generally not as funny

Basically yeah

Same

Im curious, what’s your opinion of some of the classics (python, black adder, faulty towers, pink panther etc)?

@@babomb2146 To be honest, I'm not horribly familiar, I'll be sure to check them out and get back to you on that.

Lol I am the same

Yes, then transferred to tv in the UK for a few seasons before moving to the US. I think the concept was to bring improv to the UK though as we didn't really have an improv culture over here. The comedians in the UK version were mainly Canadians I seem to remember.

There was a marathon on PBS in the 90s and I'm so glad I caught it.

It's British enough that the attempt to make an American version failed miserably (for the better probably).

@@sanityisrelative I didn't know there was an American version, though I would of thought it could have been done quite easily, like the general format fits well to the American style , finishes in the same situation it starts so it can continue for many seasons, all they would have to do is change the plot of episodes a bit

@@georgiaevans2123 there's a pilot episode of the American version (which is almost a shot for shot remake, bus somehow worse). The thing is, they even brought Ayoade over to play Moss. And they had Joel McHale to be Roy. It's abysmal. (And I'm pretty sure this was pre Community, so I'm honestly glad it failed so Joel was available for Community.)

its got a laugh track

Ooof yeah, the pilot was painful to watch.