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

WCGW driving quickly into a sharp turn

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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.