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When are American's going to realise they can't write comedy?


American's suck at comedy.

They have no sense of subtlety and resort to dumbed-down, juvenile humour aimed at the simplest of minds. This movie sucked. I knew it was going to suck as soon as they gave us a fat joke within in the first five minutes because hey! Fat people are funny lol and can't run!

Typical American tosh. Leave the comedy to us Brits and focus on the high-budget thrillers, sci-fi and action movies/tv series that you yanks are best at. Just leave comedy well alone. Every American comedy is awful, dumbed down nonsense. I honestly can't think of one that I've actually found to be funny.

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Long before you realise what to do with apostrophes, I suspect. I'm British btw.

Those who think you're insane for dancing can't hear the music.

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There are some good US comedies (one of them "The men who stare at goats") but I have to agree that I expected a lot more from this one, too.

There was no single moment in "Zombieland" I could really laugh, and it is not that hard to amuse me. The problem with most newer american so-called comedies is that they seem to be made for the under-12-year-old. Who else finds these toilet jokes funny?

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The problem isn't Americans. The problem is that Hollywood is owned by Jews. So Jewish humour (which is a contradiction) dominates.

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Says the person from the land of Benny Hill...

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules. "
-Walter Sobchak

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Oh no we don't have the condescending foreigner's approval. Whatever shall we do. Your grammar is garbage. I'll give you that you're funnier, but Americans (that's how it's spelled) go for laughs the first go around, not the same sense of humor as found in the United Kingdom.

Communism was just a red herring!

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Do us Americans a favor and do not watch or use anything American you little twat. Stupid Brit with their Mr. Bean crap. Go F yourself. Your movies are horrendous, don't get me started with your tough guy movies about an old man brought back into the street life *beep* That's all you people do is low budget tough guy films and you do it badly.

State champ in martial arts, trained with firearms, I eFF'n dare you!

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Non-American comedy is bad for the opposite reason. It is all "intelligent humor", which is boring and makes one chuckle at best.

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Dr. Stranelove, The Big Lebowski, and The Office U.S. Series are some of the funniest works of comedy to date!

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