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For the most part yes, but sometimes I just have to roll my eyes....
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Hey, I fully understand it, being English and all that! To be a true patriot, you must share the humour of your fellow countrymen
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It utterly escapes me, and I've tried.
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Well of course I do, it's that American stuff I can't understand.
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I do, but then, I'm British. Whats not to get? For the most part, I dont get Monty Python.
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Most of the time, unless they make some sort of celebrity reference, then I have no Idea what they're talking about.
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Yes, Here is some recent Brit humour courtesy of the Fonejacker:
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Get it, love it, discombobulated by it old bean
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My favorite aspect of British humor is when preposterous notions are given validity and dignified with a response IE: The IT Crowd and yes, Monty Python
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If you don't get it, then neither to I. Benny Hill included.:-)
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Most of the time I get it. I love the dry, tongue-in-cheek humor of the British. ;-)
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I don't get it at all, never have and never will - that is why I have moved to France - much funnier over here!
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Honest answer, well I'm British and in general I don't find British comedy at all funny. I find it excruciating. I find American sitcoms a lot funnier. Our humour is too cruel and OTT on the whole.
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I am British. I get British humour. And, for me, there is nothing that comes close to British humour =)
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I get it. I like British humor much more than American humor. American humor is crude and often foul, even on censored sitcoms. The crap they put on television here in the states is the same old recycled rubbish.
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I get it... now back to the humour!
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They do have a certain dry wit. Guy Fawkes was described as the only man to have ever entered Parilament with an honest intention. (Blowing it up- Gunpowder Treason). "V" from V from Vendetta movie.
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Not really, and I'm married to a Brit. We are two people divided by a common language and so often those Monty Python skits turn on a phrase that I don't catch. I think when Americans "get" British humor, they are really just laughing along because everyone else is laughing. It is silly, and Americans can catch that much. But British usage of English is so different than American usage that even after hearing it from my husband for 17 years and being married to him and hearing it daily for 12, I still don't get what he is saying all the time, especially after he's been home for a visit. They say you know you are fluent in a language when you get the jokes, and I'm still not that fluent in British English. I surely don't get it well enough to understand the humor. But at least I understand it well enough to catch most of the Beatles lyrics now.
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No, but then I don't get humor in general.
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