# Brits that Americans find funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988 "2006-10-02T16:20:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/21 "2006-10-03T07:07:19Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I sure do miss Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. They were funny separately, but they were even better as a team. [/QUOTE] Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/22 "2006-10-03T08:10:59Z")
Mitch Benn! sin ---
**Author:** ![Hrududu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Hrududu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrududu)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/23 "2006-10-03T09:55:54Z")
No Chris Morris? For shame. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/24 "2006-10-03T16:42:12Z")
[QUOTE=acsenray] Not just lately – before he did _Four Weddings and a Funeral_, he did _An Awfully Big Adventure_, in which he plays an absolutely vicious, chainsmoking local theatre director (and gay, too). [/QUOTE] Oh yes! I bought that after hearing about it on the boards. It does seem out of order with charmingly-shuffling FWaaF and Notting Hill and Mickey Blue Eyes and… Is that Jimmy Carr who hosts Distraction up to anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/25 "2006-10-04T16:22:50Z")
The Fry/Laurie “Jeeves and Wooster” shows are absolutely hilarious and inspired. I will watch any early “Monty Python” show, or almost any of their movies, with giddy glee. Ditto Cleese and Palin in “A Fish Called Wanda.” Anthony Sher, IIRC, played Prime Minister Disraeli in “Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown” and stole every scene he was in. I saw Tim Curry on stage in “She Stoops To Conquer” 20+ years ago, and he was amaaaaaaaazing. He chewed the scenery with great gusto. I still remember that play. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/26 "2006-10-04T16:35:29Z")
All the Python cast members. Peter Sellers Rowan Atkinson Benny Hill And whoever those guys were in _The Two Ronnies._ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/27 "2006-10-04T16:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] …And whoever those guys were in "_The Two Ronnies."_ [/QUOTE] Seymour and Bartholomew? ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/28 "2006-10-04T17:00:56Z")
Ronnie Corbett (Short) and Ronnie Barker (Tall). Jimmy Carr is funny…but offensive. Really, really offensive. I don’t think many Americans would “get” him. Anyone heard of Peter Kay? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988/29 "2006-10-04T17:15:32Z")
Where is \*\*Craig Ferguson \*\* from? Is he Scottish? That guy is hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brits-that-americans-find-funny/374988.md?page=1)