[Cherie]

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]

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

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by CherieB

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]

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]

Americans are literal-minded.

[Mystic Mock]

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]

Since when was no sense of humour code for no social skills

[Saph]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Since when was no sense of humour code for no social skills

Since Denise pulled Karissa's trousers down

[Josy]

I work with lots of Americans almost daily, they all get our humour

[King Gizzard]

I have a couple of american twitter friends and they watch allllll the british comedies

[Saph]

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?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

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?

Well its a hugh generalisation...

[KisameKick]

SOME Americans don't get our sense of humour.
Everyone needs to stop generalising..

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by KisameKick

SOME Americans don't get our sense of humour.
Everyone needs to stop generalising..

Exactly!

[Shasown]

What is "our sense of humour"?

Thats a bit of a generalisation.

[MTVN]

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]

We do tend to have a fairly specific kind of humour though, which swings wildly between dry wit and toilet jokes.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Jezzy

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]

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]

Although saying that, we do also enjoy slapstick, a la Bean...which allies us firmly with the French