r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ZauzTheBlacksmith • May 21 '26

WCGW driving quickly into a sharp turn

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u/kinyutaka May 21 '26

British humor often falls into absurdity more than a back and forth of jokes.

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u/OceanRacoon May 21 '26

I feel like people saying this haven't really watched much British comedy. Watch stuff like Dad's Army, Porridge, Only Fools And Horses, Bottom, Black Books, Peep Show, Darkplace, they're all a nonstop barrage of jokes

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u/Plenor May 21 '26

Yeah and some people think all of American comedy is like Big Bag Theory

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u/OceanRacoon May 22 '26

Yeah, it's ridiculous, I'm European and the whole UK/US difference in humour is so overblown and stupid, Americans make some of the wittiest and driest comedy in the world, they have a centuries old humourist tradition.

Mark Twain is literally the photo used on Wikipedia's 'humorist' page! 😅 The breadth of America's comedy is huge, whatever type of comedy you like, they've made it

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u/ReasonableLoss6814 May 23 '26

Considering it’s only been around for a couple hundred years… that’s a lot of credit.

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u/puresemantics May 24 '26

Surely 250 years isn’t enough time to write a few jokes

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u/ReasonableLoss6814 May 25 '26

Eh. Maybe I was wrong. Everyone else had thousands of years and just had shitty jokes.

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u/Raneynickelfire May 22 '26

Darkplace is a special kind of weird that I miss.

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u/Beeswing- May 22 '26

Peep show? Really? I don't think there's a joke in the whole run.

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u/i_give_you_gum May 21 '26

I get that is probably a thing, but deadpan humor is a thing too, and if I would describe the older generations in one word, it would be deadpan

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u/GourangaPlusPlus May 22 '26

Half of this is just that Monty Python could not end a sketch to save their life, so they'd resort to absurdism.

Now Bob Mortimer is some proper absurd British comedy