Hate:
Almost all American sitcoms - everyone looks like a model, even the geeky characters just look like models with glasses on and a bad haircut. Everyone seems to live in ridiculously large expensive flats, despite being young. I find most of the jokes are so obvious, and just in case you didn't get it you get this loud laughter track to tell you when to laugh (this happens on rubbish mainstream UK comedies too).
Love: The Office(UK) ,The Day Today, Brasseye, Alan Partridge, Garth Marenghi, Green Wing, Peep Show plus a few more.
From the US I like South Park, though think it has gone off the boil. It can be pretty clever and satirical. I also really enjoyed the first series of Flight of the Concords. Don't really like Family Guy or the Simpsons.
Perhaps its down to a cultural difference, Americans do seem to have a very different sense of humour. In summary I think the UK does comedy so much better, but the good American dramas like Breaking Bad/Sopranos etc are brilliant and far superior to what we produce in the UK.
Almost all American sitcoms - everyone looks like a model, even the geeky characters just look like models with glasses on and a bad haircut. Everyone seems to live in ridiculously large expensive flats, despite being young. I find most of the jokes are so obvious, and just in case you didn't get it you get this loud laughter track to tell you when to laugh (this happens on rubbish mainstream UK comedies too).
Love: The Office(UK) ,The Day Today, Brasseye, Alan Partridge, Garth Marenghi, Green Wing, Peep Show plus a few more.
From the US I like South Park, though think it has gone off the boil. It can be pretty clever and satirical. I also really enjoyed the first series of Flight of the Concords. Don't really like Family Guy or the Simpsons.
Perhaps its down to a cultural difference, Americans do seem to have a very different sense of humour. In summary I think the UK does comedy so much better, but the good American dramas like Breaking Bad/Sopranos etc are brilliant and far superior to what we produce in the UK.
