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Benedict Arnold

Does English humour operate on ridicule?

Posted - March 9, 2018
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  • 16796
    Nope, that's American humour. English humour is more sexual innuendo and surrealism.
      March 9, 2018 4:05 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Nope.  It is more tongue-in-cheek subtelty.
      March 9, 2018 4:11 PM MST
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  • 16796
    That too, and self-deprecation. The laugh track is an American invention, English situation comedy doesn't need it.
      March 9, 2018 4:14 PM MST
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  • 14795
    In England we only let Surgeons operate......if we let comedians operate we'd end up a laughing stock.  :(
      March 9, 2018 4:49 PM MST
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  • And one other missing element. :P

      March 9, 2018 6:21 PM MST
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  • 5835
    All humor is scorn. Just different levels.
      March 9, 2018 6:31 PM MST
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