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2012-12-06 03:21 7067860 Anonymous Comedy in your land (louie ck.jpg 400x422 41kB)
Hey /int/, I was watching this a little while ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao And it made we wonder how other people would try to describe comedy foreign and domestic? What is Comedy like where your from? Any kind of comedy, stand ups, movies, television, if you have examples please post them. I think fry's description of American comedians is mostly accurate, with a few great exceptions like pic related.

7 min later 7067946 Anonymous
>>7067860 Satire. Best comedians here (and there are not many) usually mock politicians or public figures. Those comedians are good but just once a year or so, that's because there are no stand ups. And when there are stand ups, they fail horribly.

11 min later 7068013 Anonymous
We have lots of absurdism / surreal humour. People make a joke, take it too far and continue to the point where it's all a load of nonsense. Hans Teeuwen is the only one I ever saw a vid of in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF5cpxyJqhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJsc19QWhNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-AEp338IwU They also do a lot of characters.

12 min later 7068019 Anonymous
>>7067860 Japs are really big on puns b/c their kanji lend themselves to puns more than other languages' letters/words.

13 min later 7068028 Anonymous
Apparently Germany has a sense of humor after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y-5kNJgyv-A

14 min later 7068036 Anonymous
I don't care at all for foreign comedy, the only comedy outside the USA that has made me lol is the ricky gervais show and idiot abroad because that bald guy is fucking funny as fuck. Oh and flight of the conchords.

16 min later 7068060 Anonymous
>>7067860 Wouldn't Futurama be considered British humor by Stephen Fry's description in that video?

18 min later 7068086 Anonymous
Absolutely god tier highest amount of acclaimed comedians highest amount of acclaimed funny actors we have god tier political satire tv shows god tier political satire movies god tier cartoons god tier comedy tv shows also the most commercially successful comedies, along with most acclaimed

19 min later 7068106 Anonymous (Karl Pilkingtons striking similarity to an orange.png 418x417 253kB)
>>7068036 >that bald guy Karl Pilkington is hilarious. I still can't figure out if he is being serious or not.

20 min later 7068107 Anonymous
>>7068028 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fxdzQPGro

20 min later 7068109 Anonymous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

20 min later 7068120 Anonymous
This is too a large extent specious. I say this {prepare for appeal to some magical expertise via experience that mostly sucked} as a comic who has both written material and has performed standup. Eddie Izzard's is informed by Mort Saul, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, and a bit of Robin Williams (not style ... but rather comic ethos, "where it comes from" and the type - in this case observational/political). For that matter, Punch and Judy taught the Three Stooges. Louis CK reminds me of a working class Eddie Izzard, in fact. The executive transvestite is a leitmotif not found with Louis (yet Louis ass is often in play). Both take amazing risks and pull it off. The addage "dress British, think Yiddish" might apply here. So much American comedy is Jewish or Catholic, usually in rebellion thereof.

20 min later 7068123 Anonymous
>>7068106 A head like a fucking orange.

22 min later 7068136 Anonymous
>>7068036 Ricky Gervais is the British Dennis Miller. Both are fucking brilliant.

22 min later 7068139 Anonymous
>>7068019 >their kanji you mean Tang china's hanzi? China are also big on puns

23 min later 7068157 Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4H_E8b-qmo

23 min later 7068162 Anonymous
>>7068036 Curse you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfuj7Ma7Us

30 min later 7068257 Anonymous
>>7068162 http://www.dota2wiki.com/images/e/e1/Silen_ability_curse_03.mp3

32 min later 7068276 Anonymous
>>7068036 As far as comedy is concerned, God Tier: Anglosphere (specifically US and UK, but also Canada.) Jewish. High Tier: Japan. Ireland. Shit Tier: Everything not listed. No sense of humor Tier: Germany.

33 min later 7068300 Anonymous
>>7068276 add Netherlands to High Tier, I guess.

34 min later 7068317 Anonymous
>>7068157 This is more like a sermon than a comedy show. Not disagreeing with him though.

35 min later 7068328 Anonymous
>>7068276 >japanese comedy >funny at all

38 min later 7068350 Anonymous
>>7068328 It's absurd and retarded and mostly unintentionally funny, but they still have their moments. Like that MXC show. That was pretty funny. Even though it was dubbed over by Americans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSmexkT044Y

40 min later 7068372 Anonymous
Anyone with any common sense in the U.S. knows to avoid female Jewish "comedians" like the plague. Their entire repertoire of jokes is based entirely around making fun of gentiles, talking about periods, and having sex with black. And none of it is funny.

40 min later 7068373 Anonymous
>>7068157 I'm not quite sure that's really stand up comedy. But it's not bad.

41 min later 7068384 ABB
>>7068036 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4Kc7U0fU4 You needa check out Jim Jefferies, he's absolutely hilarious.

42 min later 7068391 Anonymous
>>7068157 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabarett

42 min later 7068395 Anonymous
>>7068372 I think Sara Silverman is funny. So is Rita Rudner.

42 min later 7068402 Anonymous
>>7068350 don't forget MST3K that was from the US

43 min later 7068406 Anonymous
Not really sure OP Thinking you're better than you actually are or something like that

45 min later 7068429 Anonymous
do you think England will ever have another have high tier comedy group like Monty Python?

48 min later 7068479 Anonymous
>>7067860 >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao He's quite insightful. I really like him.

49 min later 7068495 Anonymous (assburger.gif 340x285 1980kB)
Finnish humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyFg9xoPKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6mNd2XT2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9H27B6azM shit translations are really plaguing these videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImuH_mRhOY0 Horrible old comedy where the only funny thing is the accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErHQK5npWI

56 min later 7068570 Anonymous
German version of "the office". Yepp, it's exactly like you imagine it to be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4CPewSqT4 Sadly without subtitles.

57 min later 7068572 Anonymous
>>7068406 Found an example of Icelandic humor Too bad the only translation captions are giving me are Dutch

57 min later 7068573 Anonymous (ufoporno[1].jpg 481x380 46kB)
>>7068495 I've always been a huge fan of UFOPORNO, personally.

57 min later 7068578 Anonymous
>>7068572 Forgot link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynRVwjmQNw

58 min later 7068588 Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ouBrjLUXI This is our best comedian, sadly couldn't find one with subs.

58 min later 7068592 Anonymous
>>7068573 Oh I forgot about that one. Yeah that's fairly interesting too.

58 min later 7068600 Anonymous
>>7068592 What's it from?

1 hours later 7068622 Anonymous (romance.gif 350x251 1816kB)
>>7068328 >never watched GameCenter CX

1 hours later 7068677 Anonymous
>>7068600 A show called Ranuan Kummit (Godparents from the town Ranua or something) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdc6rpc7DkE

1 hours later 7068687 Anonymous
>>7068677 Aah, I see. Nice.

1 hours later 7068835 Anonymous
>>7067860 I just can't bring myself to watch American comedy. It's so sanitised and formulaic.

1 hours later 7068857 Anonymous
>>7068835 What do you think of when you think of American comedy?

1 hours later 7068955 Anonymous
>>7068857 Sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory and Adam Sandler movies.

1 hours later 7069021 Anonymous
>>7068955 ew That's bad American comedy. That's like thinking of McDonalds when beef is mentioned instead of thinking of a real steakhouse like The Palm. If that's the case, I don't blame you.

2 hours later 7069639 Anonymous (1353283711681.jpg 290x318 76kB)
>>7068350 That was supposed to be funny?

2 hours later 7070083 Anonymous
>>7068372 >>7068036 Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Rita Rudner, Gilda Radnor ... but the guys are funnier and there are a lot more of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_entertainers

3 hours later 7070373 Anonymous
>>7068028 >German Comedy >Not posting Forklift driver Klaus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo

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