On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:04:13 +0100, Langis wrote:

I was mostly trying to get a rise with my comment about US comedy.
Nevertheless, humour does not seem to travel particularly well across
the pond in either direction. I think Americans are mostly to blame
for that - they prefer our dross, because the more complex stuff flies
right over their heads, then they produce and send back similar
quality material assuming we will be into the same crap. Extremely
arrogant behaviour, if you ask me. [Hoho.. Joking of course.]

I'm struggling to think of US comedians I like : Groucho Marx, Laurel
and Hardy, Steven Wright, Woody Allen, Jim Carey, Mike Myers (or is he
a Brit?), Steve Martin (Planes and Trains is *fantastic*), Leslie
Nielsen. Oh yeah, David Lynch deserves a mention - Eraserhead is a
riot, particularly the dinner sketch.

On the Brit side, obviously Peter Cook was the funniest man to ever
live, closely followed by John Cleese (who in the context of comedy is
dead already), and off the top of my head - Rowan Atkinson, Ricky
Gervais, Stephen Fry, Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Adrian Edmonson, Rik
Mayall, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Spike Milligan, Dawn French,
Jennifer Saunders, Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard, Les Dawson, Peter Sellers,
Tony Hancock, Roy Brown, Hugh Laurie, Paul Merton, Eric Morecambe,
Simon Pegg, Leonard Rossiter, Mark Thomas, Phil Kay, Michael Palin,
Harry Hill, Dylan Moran, Sean Hughes, Arnold Brown, Ronnie Barker,
Mark Gatiss, Dermot Morgan, Chris Langham, Peter Kay.

Agreed on all of those, but you forgot a few of my favourites: Les
Dawson, Tommy Cooper and Bill Bailey.

Speaking of Kay and Gervais, do you have the second series of Phoenix
Nights and The Office yet? I watched all of second series of The
Office yesterday. ****ing wonderful. I had seen only one full
programme (and various bits from other episodes) of the second series,
so it was a very special dirty pleasure. The second series is better
than the first, I think. I'm looking forward to the second series of
Phoenix Nights later today.

I wish C4 would hurry up and get the second series of Black Books out
on DVD.

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