Are American TV comedy programmes funny in Britain and are British Comedies funny in America?
American humour, it can be said, is created to accomodate an audience that has been zombified by years of over-simplified public relations in all spheres of life. British humour has wit and something more than just commercial dross to it. American humour is often mocked and criticised in the UK, because, with such a powerful government-funded force as is the BBC, the excesses of the free market haven’t taken over and viewers are somewhat more enlightened. However, American humour does sell marginally well to those who are either marginalised by society or those who have so much money available to them that they marginalise themselves. British shows are often ignored in America because of the intense patriotic proganda that festers all forms of American public relations. More often than that, they have ‘Americanised’ counterparts made (as is the case with The Office).
