British Humor

[MysteryJKR]

Thats right, its the Benny Hill Thread!
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Monty Python, Benny Hill, ect. This is a real dumb reason for making a thread, but what do you think of British humor? Is it an aquired taste of sorts?

I think so. Sometimes things are funny or have just something bout it that makes it odd.

Ya get to watching things like Monty Pythons flying circus and there are things that are hilarious but some are just horrible!

its not the same as American comedy. But still good none the less. In this guys opinion anywayz.

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how bout them lakers? lol j/k just wanted to use that pic.

 

[Isolde]

I love watching British comedy. I watch Red Dwarf all the time as well as others. I agree, for us Americans, the British sense of humor takes some getting used to but once you do it can have you rolling on the floor laughing.

 

[MysteryJKR]

I love watching British comedy. I watch Red Dwarf all the time as well as others. I agree, for us Americans, the British sense of humor takes some getting used to but once you do it can have you rolling on the floor laughing.

well knowing all to well that this thread of mine will die in a few short minutes I thank you. my ONE follower.... err stalker. hehe. *hugs*

 

[Isolde]

Well, until I get the cease and desist orders from your lawyer I will assume you dont mind the stalking *grins*

 

[Pyper]

No, wait, I'm with you too! I agree, British humor is an acquired taste. When I first saw Holy Grail I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen. Now, it's one of my favorite movies. Weird how that works out.

 

[Kuddles]

British humor...

I love to watch the sitcoms on BBC! Such as:

Keeping Up Appearances

Yes Prime Minister

There are others but it's late and my brain isn't working!

 

[MysteryJKR]

http://www.montypython.net/pix/grail/1st-arm.jpg
"It's but a flesh wound!"

 

[christo]

I've filled up dozens of tapes with British comedy shows from PBS. Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, The Young Ones...they're all among my all-time favories.

The Brits have the right idea. They don't crank out 20 episodes a year for 10 years and let the show crap out the last few years (Friends seems to be headed that way this season). They do 12 or so shows and they're all totally brilliant.

 

[MinkSoul]

my favorite was

Black Adder...

i've got an 8 tape set...

 

[Laurel]

I like Brit Humor. One British show I can't stand is that one with the two yapping women and one of them has a daughter...Absolutely Fabulous! That's the name. Gawd, that show bugs me...not funny at all.

 

[Madame Pandora]

The original Who's Line Is It Anyway. That show cracks me up all over the place

Never a big Benny Hill fan…but love the Python, Red Dwarf, Ab Fab, Black Adder, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em and all the other stuff

Was the “Young Ones” Brit? Or was that Canadian? Loved them too.

MP

 

[Problem Child]

http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/tv-series/pictures/fc-15/thumbnails/spanish-inquisition-03.jpg


NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is suprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....

Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....

Our *four*...no...

*Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

 

[Madame Pandora]

PC! That's my line

MP

 

[Starfish]

oh this goes over here...........


"The sun will be huge and black, and the eyes of the sun will be red with the blood of living creatures. Then the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three headed serpent. And throughout the land there shall be a great rubbing of parts....

And the demon shall carry a nine bladed sword...NINE BLADED, not two, not five, not seven but, NINE! Which he shall wield on all wretched sinners, like you sir, there.
And the horn will be on the head which he will strain....

And the manifesto of the prophet Jebadiah is fervent, there shall be at that time rumors of things going astray and, there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment.

At this time a friend shall loose his friends hammer and the young will not know where lieth the things posessed by their fathers, that their fathers put, only ,there just the night before...about eight o'clock!...........Consider the lilies!"

 

[Pyper]

OMG, G.R. I love that one! But I haven't heard it in a long time...wasn't there something about fuzzy things in there? Or Kleenex? Something like that.

 

[sir_sleuth]

I just love it

I just love Who's Line is it anyway! I try to catch it when ever I can. It gets me really laughing!

Sir Sleuth

 

[Problem Child]

http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/movies/holy-grail/thumbnails/08-french-guard.jpg


"I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

 

[Styphon]

Hello, Literoticans

My favourite Python film is Life Of Brian - I have a lot of soundclips from it to liven up Windows!

The best scene for me is in the Forum, when the Centurion (John Cleese) catches Brian writing graffiti He corrects his poor Roman, and reminds me of my old Latin teacher a LOT!!

Styphon

 

[p_p_man]

My Own Personal Ranking System

The management accepts no responsibility etc...etc...

First Rank Sitcoms:

Steptoe and Son (before colour and for a short time after)
Absoluteley Fabulous
Yes Minister
Yes Prime Minister
Men Behaving Badly
Fawlty Towers
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
2.4 Children
One Foot In The Grave

Second Rank Sitcoms:

Sorry!
Keeping Up Appearances
'Allo, 'Allo
Red Dwarf
Open All Hours
Porridge

No-Hopers:

Waiting For God
The Young Ones
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Benny Hill Show
Dad's Army
Last of the Summer Wine

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

Well, I am Irish and grew up in Britain and Ireland so to me it is the other way around. American humor is an aquired taste. Strange how that works. I do like American humor thow. I don't watch television (don't even have a television) but when I can I watch US tv shows because I live in Seattle now.

British humor for me is the best though. I grew up on it. Monty Python are Gods. Are You Being Served is my other favorite.

Strangely enough, I only like the "old school" shows that were before my time (I am 23).

I LOVE The Goon Show, which was a radio show with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. That was the best.

 

[Merelan]

Sateema... Are you free?

 

[Madame Pandora]

Okay...no one's done this yet....

The Dead Parrot Sketch

Scene: The Pet Shoppe

A customer enters a pet shop.

Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The owner does not respond.)

C: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
C: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
C: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
O: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!(shouting at the cage)'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...

(owner hits the cage)

O: There, he moved!
C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!
O: I never!!
C: Yes, you did!
O: I never, never did anything...
C: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!(Takes parrot out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
C: Now that's what I call a dead parrot.
O: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
C: STUNNED?!?
O: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up. Norwegian Blues stun easily, major.
C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
O: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
O: The Norwegian Blue prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage!
C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

(pause)

O: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
C: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
O: No no! 'E's pining!
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

(pause)

O: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (he takes a quick peek behind the counter)
O: Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of parrots.
C: I see. I see, I get the picture.
O: I got a slug.

(pause)

C: (sweet as sugar) Pray, does it talk?
O: Nnnnot really.
C: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?
O: Look, if you go to my brother's pet shop in Bolton, he'll replace the parrot for you.
C: Bolton, eh? Very well.

The customer leaves.

The customer enters the same pet shop. The owner is putting on a false moustache.

C: This is Bolton, is it?
O: (with a fake mustache) No, it's Ipswitch.
C: (looking at the camera) That's inter-city rail for you.

The customer goes to the train station.
He addresses a man standing behind a desk marked "Complaints".

C: I wish to complain, British-Railways Person.
Attendant: I DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS JOB, YOU KNOW!!!
C: I beg your pardon...?
A: I'm a qualified brain surgeon! I only do this job because I like being my own boss!
C: Excuse me, this is irrelevant, isn't it?
A: Yeah, well it's not easy to pad these python files out to 200 lines, you know.
C: Well, I wish to complain. I got on the Bolton train and found myself deposited here in Ipswitch.
A: No, this is Bolton.
C: (to the camera) The pet shop man's brother was lying!!
A: Can't blame British Rail for that.
C: In that case, I shall return to the pet shop!

He does.

C: I understand this IS Bolton.
O: (still with the fake mustache) Yes?
C: You told me it was Ipswitch!
O: ...It was a pun.
C: (pause) A PUN?!?
O: No, no...not a pun...What's that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards?
C: (Long pause) A palindrome...?
O: Yeah, that's it!
C: It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of "Bolton" would be "Notlob"!! It don't work!!
O: Well, what do you want?
C: I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any longer as I think this is getting too silly!

Sergeant-Major: Quite agree, quite agree, too silly, far too silly...

 

[Blackbich]

The Holy Grail, Life of Brian and Meaning of Life are all funny as hell.

I used to watch Benny Hill when I was younger but can't find him on my TV anymore.

 

[Ally C]

I'm laughing so much as I reminisce through this 'old' thread and those 'old' shows simultaneously, that I just had to resurrect this thread. The scene G.R. quotes is hilarious, and I never knew Madame Pandora was bilingual! Thanks for the memories ...

 

[R Nitelight]

Shouldn't this thread be about British humour?