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Cherie 24-01-2012 08:03 PM
The Americans dont get our sense of humour???
 
this is the line that is trotted out to excuse Denises behaviour, and why Michael doesnt like her ...he just doesnt get her...the Americans dont get us at all ...he seems to get Frankie, and Romeo and Nicola and all the rest of em....but no the Americans dont get us, in FACT there should be no Americans in the show according to Pete Burns

so how does it work with the sense of humour thing, when Brits go to America....you know the ones that make it big in Hollywood...Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Colin Firth etc..... confused

Angus 24-01-2012 08:26 PM
How about the obvious question, why SHOULD the Americans have to "get" the likes of Denise - where is it written in their CBB contract that the old soak has to be "got" and her cringingly embarrassing drunken antics tolerated? I don't "get" her and I don't want to "get" her, neither do I find her funny and guess what? I'm not American - go figure:idc:

smudgie 24-01-2012 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by CherieB (Post 4905251)
this is the line that is trotted out to excuse Denises behaviour, and why Michael doesnt like her ...he just doesnt get her...the Americans dont get us at all ...he seems to get Frankie, and Romeo and Nicola and all the rest of em....but no the Americans dont get us, in FACT there should be no Americans in the show according to Pete Burns



so how does it work with the sense of humour thing, when Brits go to America....you know the ones that make it big in Hollywood...Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Colin Firth etc..... confused
Well the above are not comedians, actors have no problem. We love American films and they love ours.

Saph 24-01-2012 08:29 PM
Most American's don't really get British humour, thats why they sometimes struggle in the house and make themselves look silly ....Tara Reid.

karezza 24-01-2012 08:30 PM
Americans are literal-minded.

:nono:

Mystic Mock 24-01-2012 08:31 PM
I actually think it's the other way around,like in CBB6 when Coolio joked that the Liberty X girl and Ben loved each other and then they both took it so seriously.

Ammi 24-01-2012 08:36 PM
Since when was no sense of humour code for no social skills

Saph 24-01-2012 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 4905392)
Since when was no sense of humour code for no social skills
Since Denise pulled Karissa's trousers down :hugesmile:

Josy 24-01-2012 08:42 PM
I work with lots of Americans almost daily, they all get our humour :shrug:

King Gizzard 24-01-2012 08:50 PM
I have a couple of american twitter friends and they watch allllll the british comedies

Saph 24-01-2012 08:54 PM
I think there's a difference between which side of America people are from. The New York side are more humourous to our kind of stuff like Ab Fab etc, but the California side dont really seem to get it ....or am I just being ignorant? :suspect:

Cherie 24-01-2012 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by SaphLiike (Post 4905450)
I think there's a difference between which side of America people are from. The New York side are more humourous to our kind of stuff like Ab Fab etc, but the California side dont really seem to get it ....or am I just being ignorant? :suspect:
Well its a hugh generalisation...:bawling:

KisameKick 24-01-2012 08:57 PM
SOME Americans don't get our sense of humour.
Everyone needs to stop generalising..

Benjamin 24-01-2012 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by KisameKick (Post 4905464)
SOME Americans don't get our sense of humour.
Everyone needs to stop generalising..
Exactly! :thumbs:

Shasown 24-01-2012 09:00 PM
What is "our sense of humour"?

Thats a bit of a generalisation.

MTVN 24-01-2012 09:03 PM
I don't think Britain has a unique sense of humour or anything, whether somebody finds something funny or not is more just down to the individual person not their nationality

Jezzy 24-01-2012 09:06 PM
We do tend to have a fairly specific kind of humour though, which swings wildly between dry wit and toilet jokes.

Shasown 24-01-2012 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Jezzy (Post 4905500)
We do tend to have a fairly specific kind of humour though, which swings wildly between dry wit and toilet jokes.
Oh so just about anything and everything then?

Would that be fairly specific? Or encompassing just about every taste?

Jezzy 24-01-2012 09:27 PM
Haha, ok. Well, I mean specifically, things like the Carry On films and Bottom, and then things like Jack Dee, or even to an extreme, Mike Leigh.

I think that we do tend to enjoy the extremes on the spectrum, whereas the Americans tend to embrace the everyman humour (Friends, Big Bang Theory, Frasier.)

Jezzy 24-01-2012 09:31 PM
Although saying that, we do also enjoy slapstick, a la Bean...which allies us firmly with the French :)


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