Humor and humour - Gone Away, a journal of Clive Allen in America

Humor and Humour
13/09/2005

Let's face it, humor and humour are two different things. Although the Americans and the British can understand many of each other's jokes, there are areas of comedy where one nation will stare at the other in blank incomprehension. Yet both have specialties (specialities) in which they excel and there is some sharing of television comedy shows between the two nations.

A few British TV shows make it all the way across the Atlantic without amendment; Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Benny Hill Show spring to mind. And both of these examples are interesting in that they represent the adolescent side of Brit humor, the sort of surreal jokes that schoolboys or university students make in their wilder moments.