British humor is shaped by the relative stability of British society and brings a strong satirical element aimed at "the absurdity of everyday life". Themes include classroom systems and sexual taboos; Common techniques include play of words, satire and intellectual jokes.
A strong sarcasm theme and self-cessation, often with unclear delivery, runs across English humor. Humor can be used to bury emotions in ways that do not seem sensitive to other cultures. Jokes are told about everything and hardly any taboo subject, though often lack of subtlety when discussing controversial issues is considered rude. Many British comedy TV shows that are typical of British humor have been internationally popular, and have become an important channel for the export and representation of British culture to international audiences.
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Some of the themes (with examples) that support late-twentieth-century English humor are:
Innuendo
Innuendo in English humor is evident in the literature as far as Beowulf and Chaucer, and it is a common theme in many British folk songs. Shakespeare often uses satire in comedy, but is also often found in other dramas, as in Hamlet act 4 scene v:
Youth will not do it if they come not. / By Cock, they should be blamed.
The Restoration comedy is well known for its innuendo as well as its sexual imbalance, qualities encouraged by Charles II (1660-1685) personally and by the aristocratic ethic of crows from his palace.
In the Victorian era, Burlesque theater combines sexuality and humor in its actions. At the end of the 19th century, magazines like Punch went on sale, and satire was featured in cartoons and articles.
In the early 1930s, cartoon-style postcards (as drawn by Donald McGill) became widespread, and at its peak of 16 million postcards sold per year. They are often somber, with satire and double entenders, and display stereotypical characters such as priests, big women and husbands worn, in the same tone as the Carry On film. This comedy style is common in the music room and in the comedy music of George Formby. Many comedians from music halls and wartime gang performances worked on radio after World War 2, and characters like Julian and Sandy in Round the Horne use satire extensively. Innuendo also featured many British movies and TV series in the late 20th century. The Carry On series is mostly based on smut and innuendo, and many sketches of The Two Ronnies have the same tone. Innuendo with a bit of subtlety symbolized by Benny Hill, and Nudge Nudge sketches by Monty Python openly mocks the absurdity of the innuendo.
At the end of the twentieth century it is more subtle in sex humor to be fashionable, as in Not Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder while Bottom and < i> Viz continue the smuttier trend. In the contemporary British comedy Julian Clary is an example of a productive satire user.
Satir
Disrespect for members of establishment and authority, marked by:
- Beyond the Fringe , stage revue (1960-1966).
- That's That Week (TW3) , satir TV late at night on BBC2 (1962-1966).
- Personal Eyes , satirical magazines (1961 -).
- Not Nine O'Clock News , a satirical sketch show, famous for launching Rowan Atkinson's careers, Griff Rhys Jones, Pamela Stephenson and Mel Smith at BBC2 (1979-1982).
- Yes Minister , the political sitcom at BBC2 (1980-1988).
- The Young Ones , a sitcom, starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan at BBC2 (1982-1984).
- The Comic Strip Presents... , a series of short satirical films on BBC2 and Channel 4 (1982-2012).
- Discworld , a series of fantasy comic books written by Terry Pratchett; heavy with irony criticizing various aspects of society (1983-2015).
- Spit Image , TV TV raucous comedy of the famous and powerful in ITV (1984-1996).
- Drop the Dead Donkey , the Channel 4 sitcom is recorded close to the transmission that mocks the weekly event (1990-1998).
- Have I Got the News for You , an original satire panel game on BBC2, now on BBC1 (1990 -).
- Today , Nineties TV satir (1994).
- Mata Kuningan , an alternative controversial prime time show on Channel 4 (1997-2001).
- The Armando Iannucci Shows , a satirical TV show on Channel 4 (2001).
- The Thick of It , satcom satirical politics (2005-2012).
- Mock the Week , the current satirical affairs panel game on BBC2. (2005 -).
- Time Trumpet , Noughties TV satire (2006).
- The Last Leg , Channel 4 (2012 -) Absurd
- The Goon Show , a surreal radio show at BBC Home Service (1951-1960).
- Bus Driver's Prayer
- Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band , the band plays songs inspired by 1920s music and rock songs (1962 -).
- the Magic Roundabout , a dubbed parody of a French children's cartoon which gained followers of the following sects (1964-1971).
- Spike Milligan's Q , a direct sketch and inspiration view for Monty Python on BBC2 (1969-1982).
- Monty Python , a comedy group, originally known for sketching without conclusions (1969-1983).
- I'm Sorry I Have No Hint , radio game play with weird games, especially Mornington Crescent and One Song for Tune of Another on BBC Radio 4 (1974-).
- Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy , on radio, books, TV series, and movie form (1978-).
- Duck Count , cartoon show at ITV (1988-1993).
- Red Dwarf , science fiction sinetron on BBC 2 and Dave (1988-1999, 2009, 2012 -)
- Brittas Empire , sitcom Chris Barrie is housed in a recreation center about an annoying manager at BBC1 (1991-1997).
- The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer , variety show sketches and songs in the comedy surrealist genre on BBC (1993-1995).
- Shooting Star , a panel game show with apparently no rules about BBC2 (1993-2011).
- Big Train , the sketches show with an unreasonable situation that is done in a realistic style, deadpan on BBC2 (1998-2002).
- The Mighty Boosh , comic fantasy containing non-sequitur references and pop-culture (1998 -).
- Black Book , sitcom comedy about bookstore owners, peppered with surreal and unreasonable elements in Channel 4 (2000-2004).
- The Armando Iannucci Shows , a sketch comedy show that uses Surrealism (2001).
- Green Wing , experimental sitcoms use surrealism, speed up/slow down camera work and smooth, dreamlike sequences in Channel 4 (2004-2007). Macdre
- Gentlemen League , a cult comedy revolving around the strange population of the fictional city of Royston Vasey
- Nighty Night, a TV series on a sociopathic beauty therapist faking her husband's death to steal her flawed neighbor's husband.
- Clock , a troubling TV sketch comedy with an ambient music soundtrack
- Darkplace Garth Marenghi , a horror comedy revolving around the supernatural, and arranged in a hospital in the 1980s
- The Most Horrible Killing , a TV series in which Dawn French acts as murderer and victim.
- Snuff Box , a sketch of an executioner (Matt Berry) and his assistant (Rich Fulcher), who makes jokes or light conversations while hanging men.
- Death at the Cemetery , the 2007 black comedy film.
- Kind Hearts and Coronets , a movie about a man who killed his path to a hereditary position, starring Alec Guinness in various roles.
- Four Lions , a 2010 movie that sings Jihadi terrorists in the British Society.
- Vic Reeves Big Night Out (1990 and 1991) a parody of the various events that dominated the early years of television, but which, in the early 1990s, fell out of grace.
- Bottom (1991-1995) is famous for its chaotic humor and a very rough slapstick.
- The Young Ones (1982-1984), a British sitcom about four students living together. It combines a traditional sitcom style with a violent slapstick, a sequential storyline and surrealism.
- Gavin & amp; Stacey
- Father Ted
- Just Stupid and Horse
- Half Hancock Hour
- Until We Execute the Section
- Steptoe and Son
- Porridge
- Human Remaining
- I am Alan Partridge
- Office
- The Royle Family
- Space (a comedy of situations depicting realistic everyday life and emotional drama from two London twins living in London, also combining surreal and absurd comedy aspects)
- Peep Show
- Reginald Perry's Fall and Awakening
- One Foot in the Grave
- Monkey Dust
- IT crowd
- The Inbetweeners
- Vikaris Dibley
- Cartoon Giles
- The Goodness I and The Kumars at No. 42 , a TV program featuring Indian families, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal Come Dine with Me, a real cooking program where eccentric chefs and their guests are often mocked by narrator Dave Lamb
- Citizen Khan , a situation comedy about the British Asian family in Birmingham.
- Uncle (TV series) , starring comedian and actor Nick Helm
- The Beano and The Dandy , the publisher of DC Thomson
- Only William , a book by Richmal Crompton
- Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle
- St Trinian's books and movies also come from Ronald Searle
- Kevin and Perry at Harry Enfield and Chums
- My Family , English TV series
- Most , English TV series
- Fast Event , especially Competitive Chicks
- Uncle (TV series) , starring comedian and actor Nick Helm
- Jeeves and Wooster , book by P. G. Wodehouse (later played by Fry and Laurie)
- Father's Army , comedy TV series
- Rising Damp , comedy TV series
- Fawlty Towers , comedy TV series
- Keeping Appearance , comedy TV series
- You Rang, M'Lord? , comedy TV series
- Absolutely Incredible , comedy TV series
- To Born Manor , comedy TV series
- Blackadder , comedy TV series
- The New Statesman , a political comedy series
- Yes Minister , political comedy series
- Red Dwarf , science fiction comedy TV and novel
- Fast Show , especially Ted & amp; Ralph and The 13th Duke of Wymbourne sketches
- Are You Serving , a comic department store comedy series
- Monty Python's Upscale sketch of the Year
- Two Doors from Lager and Crisps Packages , sitcom comedy
- Royle's Family , sitcom comedy
- Monty Python Four Prisons sketches and Coal Mine
- Arthur Daley at Minder
- The Andy Capp , a cartoon cut made by Reginald Smythe
- The Likely Lads , serial TV
- Steptoe and Son , sitcom TV series
- Rising Damp , sitcom TV series
- Go All Hours , sitcom TV series
- Only Fools and Horses , comedy TV series (1981-2003) starring David Jason as Del Trotter
- The Flashman Papers , the book
- Alan B'stard at The New Statesman , TV series
- Norman Wisdom
- Porridge , sitcom TV series
- Blackadder , comedy TV series
- Red Dwarf , science fiction comedy TV and novel
- Black Book , sitcom TV series on Channel 4
- The Fast Show , especially Chris the Crafty Cockney sketch
- Space
- Billy Connolly, comedian and actor
- Master. Bean , comedy TV series starring Rowan Atkinson
- The Office , a TV comedy series starring Ricky Gervais Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em , comedy series starring Michael Crawford
- Alan Partridge , comedy TV series starring Steve Coogan
- Count Arthur Strong , radio show
- Extras
- One Foot In The Cub , comedy TV series, 1990 to 2000
- Peep Show , TV series
- Miranda , BBC TV comedy series from 2009, starring Miranda Hart The Inbetweeners , the comedy series Channel 4 detailing the last years of the sixth form for a group of teens teenagers
- Citizen Khan , a situation comedy about the British Asian family in Birmingham
- Derek
- Uncle (TV series) , starring comedian and actor Nick Helm
- On Bus , Arthur goes to his wife, Olive
- Blackadder , Edmund Blackadder headed for his sidekick, Baldrick
- The Young Ones , the comedy TV series
- Fawlty Towers , Basil Fawlty headed for his maid, Manuel
- New Statesman , satirising that dominates Conservative MPs
- The Thick of It , a common spinning satirising culture in Tony Blair's heyday
- Do not Think Buzzcocks , a sarcastic music-based panel show
- Mock The Week , a satirical news-based panel event
- Black Book , where Bernard Black attacked his assistant, Manny
- Bottom , where Richie attacks Eddie with little or no provocation, usually produces Eddie roughly (often fatal) replying.
- The Show of Ricky Gervais , Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais scoff at Karl Pilkington's unique outlook on life.
- Outside Outback
- It's That Week (TW3) , late night TV satire
- UK Small
- Fast Show
- The Young Ones
- Harry Enfield Television Program
- France and Saunders
- Today
- Brass Eye
- Citizen Smith parodies the dissatisfied left anarchist left
- Think Your Language , the 1970s sitcom
- Good, Amazing Me
- Monkey Dust
- Blackadder
- Mobile
- Monty Python
- Hale and Pace
- Ali G
- Citizen Khan , a situation comedy about the British Asian family in Birmingham.
- Heath Robinson cartoon
- Professor Branestawm book
- Wallace and Gromit animation
- Fall and Resurrection Reginald Perrin , sitcoms starring Leonard Rossiter
- Morecambe and Wise , a comedy show starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
- Last of the Summer Wine , the longest TV comedy series in the world (1973-2010)
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie , a sketch show written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie noted for the use of eccentric and inventive language
- Vicar Dibley , a sitcom in which Dawn French plays a female viceroy whose parish is arctic and crazy.
- QI or Interesting enough , a panel game in which points are awarded as they are quite interesting and points are taken for common misconceptions
- The Fast Show , especially the Rowley Birkin QC sketch
- Candid Camera
- About Beadle
- Games for Laughing
- TV Happy Trigger
- English comedy and English sitcom (which combines elements of all this in various weavings)
- Comic Relief and Red Nose Day
- The history of English comics
- Minify
- Iron
- American humor
- Australian humor
- Canadian Humor
- Jewish humor
- German humor
- Play the word
- Comedy
- English, Irish, and Scottish
- Sutton, David. A raspberry choir: British comedy 1929-1939 . Exeter: University of Exeter Press, (2000) ISBNÃ, 0-85989-603-X
- Alexander, Richard. Aspects of English humor verbs Volume 13 Language in performance, Publisher Gunter Narr Verlag, 1997 ISBNÃ, 3-8233-4936-8 Google Books Accessed August 2011
- History of English Humor, Vol. 1, by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange, 1878 in Project Gutenberg
- History of British Humor, Vol. 2, by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange, 1878 in Project Gutenberg
- Sketch "British Humor" from "Waldorf And Sauron the Very Serious Circus," Boardcast [sic] Podcast # 2, 2009
The absurd and surreal ones, marked by:
Black humor, where typically treated topics and events are treated in a humorous or satirical manner, characterized by:
Surreal and chaotic
Humor is inherent in everyday life
Humor, not always obvious to participants, is embedded in everyday life, as seen in:
Adults and kids
The 'war' between parents/teachers and their children, characterized by:
English class system
The English class system, especially class tensions between characters; and highly arrogant or grimy middle-class/upper-class members or social climbers, characterized by:
Also, some comedy series focus on family or group of working class, such as:
Lovable rogue
The naughty sweetheart, often from the poor working class, tries to 'defeat the system' and better himself, characterized by:
The shame of social ignorance, characterized by:
Race and regional stereotype
The An Englishman, an Irishman and Scotsman joke format is one that is common to many cultures, and is often used in English, including having a switching nationality to take advantage of other stereotypes. This stereotype is somewhat frowned upon, and these jokes will not be considered xenophobia. This loving stereotype is also exemplified by 'Allo' Allo! , a program that, although set in France in the Second World War, and deliberately done with an overly high accent, derided British stereotypes. as well as foreigners. This also applies to many regional stereotypes in the UK. Regional and dialect accents are used in programs such as Half Hancock Clock , Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Red Dwarf , as this accent provides quick characterization and gestures social.
Although racism is part of British humor, it is now favored, and acts like Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson are demeaned. Most racist themes in popular comedies since the 1970s are targeted against racism rather than sympathy. Love Thy Neighbor and Up to Death Us Do Part are two series dealing with this problem when Great Britain comes to terms with immigrant influx. Fawlty Towers showcases the persecution of a Spanish waiter, Manuel, but the target is the bigotry of the main character. Recently, The Fast Show has mocked people from other races, especially Chanel 9 sketches, and Banzai has been mimicking Japanese game shows, which have a sense of excessive violence, sex. and public absurdity. Goodness Gracious Me change stereotypes in their heads in sketches like 'Going for an English' and when bargain for newspaper prices. An episode of The Goodies describes all blacks in South Africa go to escape from apartheid, leaving South Africa with nothing to oppress - instead, they start a high-risk discrimination system, targeting short people. , labeled "separately".
Bullying and hard sarcasm
Sarcasm and intimidation are harsh, although with oppressors it usually comes worse than the victim - marked by:
Stereotyped parody
Misleading English stereotypes, characterized by:
Tolerance, and attention to, the eccentric
Tolerance, and affection, are eccentric, especially when allied with creativity
Pranks and practical jokes
Typically, for television, practical jokes are held on unsuspecting people while being filmed in a veiled way.
Maps British humour
See also
References
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