When it comes to humor, I don’t find a lot of American humor funny. I think that as a whole the majority of American humor seems to have devolved into mindless laughs and that tends to bore me. Forgive me for being one of the people in this world who doesn’t like Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Seth Rogan, Vince Vaughn, or Will Farrell’s comedy. (I happen to love Farrell’s serious stuff, by the by)
I didn’t enjoy Chris Farley back in the day either, and while I do enjoy a few of the 80s era comedies, they’re usually more closely tied to a different genre than just plain comedy, and I rarely think of them as a Comedy per se, (notably Ghost Busters and
Probably one of my least favorite things is people acting stupid for the sake of laughs. I don’t find it funny, the whole of it makes me uncomfortable. And I feel like it encourages people to act like idiots in the hopes that someone will think they’re funny.
I think the reason I like British humor – apart from their accents (kidding) – is the fact that a large part of their humor is based in situational comedy. It’s not a series of one liners, it’s a progression that gets funnier as it goes along. The subject matter can still be crude (Coupling was an entire series devoted to the humor of Sex) without being overtly shovey. And most of all, you rarely see people acting like idiots simply for the sake of being idiots.
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