British Humour

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Tue May 24, 2005 9:12 pm

Bloomfield - I forgot about those two series...PBS used to play them quite a few years ago (very early 80s perhaps?), and I thought they were great. I think I saw those at a local bookstore, and having not seen them in years they'd be new all over again yet with that delicious semi-sense of deja vu!

Eric

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:34 am

This is one of the funniest things I have seen in a while.

http://www.beam.tv/beamreels/reel_playe ... GZzTV&fs=1

Mukade

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed May 25, 2005 11:31 am

I thought of a funny British slang that reminds me of one of their sublter styles of humor: a trouser cough.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:35 pm

Britain suffers sense of humour failure due to worries of modern life
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050524/lf ... 0524214117

Tony

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Wed May 25, 2005 9:17 pm

..and then there's another rich vein of humor: Expressions and metaphors and the like. When I was just a pup and my mother was in high dudgeon (whatever that is), she would utter various threats, the gravest of which was, "I'll have your guts for garters." She and my aunt Pam (my namesake) were having a cross-pond phone discussion about the recent Charles and Camilla hooraw; my aunt, never one to have any truck with the royals, delivered a capsule assessment of Camilla's new situation: "She's got her bum in butter, hasn't she?"

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:40 am

It just came to me that while talking about British TV Comedy Blackadder did get a mention. :roll: It should have, especially from the second series onward. It was certainly a series that got the very comical best out of the whole cast.

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:58 am

I love the Black Adder series - even the first series had some great moments.

I was down at the Liberty Memorial in KC yesterday - the national WWI monument in the USA - and it always makes me think of the final season of Black Adder (I think that was not only the most serious but also the best of the series).

Eric

buskerSean · Post by **buskerSean** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:00 pm

ok, deleted

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:33 am

From the Online Sun:

A UNIVERSITY student has been fined £80 — for making “homophobic comments” to a police horse.

Sam Brown, 21, had staggered out of a bar in the early hours and came face-to-face with two mounted officers.

Sam, who is studying English at Oxford University, approached one of the cops and asked: “How do you feel about your horse being gay?”

He was taken to a police station and held in a cell until morning — when he was given a fixed penalty fine of £80 for public disorder.

A police spokesman said: “A man was arrested drunk and shouting homophobic comments at a police horse.”

Sam said: “It was way over the top — as far as I’m aware, horses aren’t that sensitive.”

buskerSean · Post by **buskerSean** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:36 pm

Oxford University, that great centre of learning and culture.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:45 pm

Jayhawk - Father Ted in a list of examples of British Humour?? Is this your idea of a joke?

But seriously, a great show. Sad that Dermott Morgan died or it would have certainly gone on for years more.

A great example of British humourists is Douglas Adams. There's a chapter in Restaurant at the End of the Universe when Marvin is talking to a battle tank and more or less talks the tank into destroying itself. The final line in the chapter had me doubled over with laughter: "What a depressingly stupid machine".

Jayhawk · Post by **Jayhawk** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:39 pm

Douglas Adams was great...like Dermott Morgan, too bad he died so young.

Did you see the new movie of Hitchiker's Guide? I found it terribly disappointing...although Marvin was still pretty good.

Anyone seen the BBC Hitchiker's series? Was it better than the current movie? Some books never translate well into movies or shows, but the content might lend itself better to a BBC series than a movie.

Eric

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:36 pm

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:30 am

Martin Milner wrote:British Humour

British cuisine.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:46 am

I.D.10-t wrote:
Martin Milner wrote:British Humour
British cuisine.

I don't know what's the difference between British cuisine and American. We both eat a fine breakfast of sausage, fried eggs, bacon, and bread and jam. Okay, so we don't have black pudding and non-stripey bacon, and they ain't got no biscuits and gravy, but deep down... we're greasy alike.

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