WHICH is better; Britcom or American sitcom?
It depends which comedic language you speak. Generally, sitcoms are based around a family, workplace or institution where a group of contrasting characters are brought together each episode. Brit-coms often explore social mores through satire or pathos, quite in contrast to the uplifting sentiments of American sitcoms. Comparing The Office (UK) to The Office (US), viewers are able to wit-pick the difference. The divide between American and British humour has been explored at length. “Americans just don’t get irony,” the saying goes, but British comedian Simon Pegg (Robot Chicken, Black Books) begs to differ. Pegg once wrote in The Guardian newspaper that Americans do use irony, to specific effect, where British comedy uses irony as an ongoing tone. “It’s not so much about having a different sense of humour as a different approach to life,” Pegg wrote. He argued that Americans are not embarrassed by their emotions, where Britons are. Americans “clap louder, cheer harder and empathise mo
