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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: British humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British Comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years.
		The first four primary humours are Blood, a hot, sweet, tempered, red humour, prepared in the meseraic veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus (chyle) in the liver, whose office it is to nourish the whole body, to give it strength and color, being dispersed through every part of it.
		Humour, he says, is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-humour (2647 words)

	British humour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British humour has a reputation for being puzzling to non-British speakers of English - but certain nations (such as Australia) find it readily understandable whereas the average American viewer may find the comedic elements less comprehensible.
		Black humour: main features of fl humour can already be found in the drama of the Elizabethan age.
		British humour is known for its use of understatement and irony so that many jokes pass unnoticed by those not familiar with it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_humor (543 words)

	British humour: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Humour (humor in american english) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to invoke feelings of amusement in other people....
		British comedy, known in many countries as britcom, is a very particular type of humour that is performed in britain and exported around the world....
		The british council is a partly uk government-funded cultural relations organisation and a registered charity in the united kingdom....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/british_humour.htm (1218 words)

	British humour - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British humour has a reputation for being puzzling to non-British speakers of English, perhaps because it relies on violating strict cultural norms that other anglophonic cultures do not share.
		Smut and innuendo with sexual and scatological themes, typified by the Seaside postcards of Donald McGill and the humour of Benny Hill.
		British comedy and British sitcom weave elements of all these in various mixes.
	www.i-encyclopedia.com /index.php/British_humour (159 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| Is Britain losing its sense of humour?
		Humour is in a constant state of evolvement and has moved on from silly to other directions.
		British humour took a turn for the worse several years ago and has been in a steady decline since.
		British humour always carried either a sense of the ridiculous about it or it had an innocence which no other country could convey as well as us.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/1500273.stm (5764 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Britons 'funny but drunken' breed
		The British are seen by other nations as reserved, the RSA said, but "when alcohol or sporting events, or both, are involved, they let loose and become highly unreserved".
		British humour is one of a kind - long live intelligent comedy, satire and shows like Little Britain, Only Fools and Horses, Have I Got News For You, Fawlty Towers...
		British humour is by far the funniest in the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4013525.stm (2460 words)

	British Character English culture intercultural Russia
		The British are not confident with their bodies, most British men dislike dancing, unless they have had a bit to drink.
		British punctuality should connect with this formality but also with a kind of respect and consideration for other people that helps avoid embarrassing confrontations.
		The British should try to be a little more aggressive and outspoken, especially in Belgium where people consider being polite as a sign of weakness.
	www.oai.ru /britishcharacter.htm (967 words)

	The Dusty Shelf eZine
		Humour (and, being British, I insist upon spelling "humour" with a "u"!) is instinctive and subjective.
		And, though there is no punch line, I love that surreal image of a headless woman, still presumably sitting upright, holding a sandwich in her hand but not having a mouth to put it in.
		Where American humor comes out with memorable one-liners, British humour, far from having punch lines, often doesn't even have a joke as such, but is an expression of a curious eccentricity, or of a grotesque or surreal image.
	www.thedustyshelf.com /1-4/dickens.php (1960 words)

	British Humour - no sex please were British
		It is often said that when it comes to sex and the British there is a strange undercover relationship between the two that would suggest we are shy about our sexual habits and find humour in everything of a sexual nature.
		The British and flashing in public, Catholic priests, obsession with farting, perverts and judges with whips all lead to a very mixed bag of zany British humour that some outsiders could find worrying.
		Once extremely popular and thankfully on the wane, numerous British seaside resorts used to sell funny postcards with quite often ridiculous jokes that hinted on or directly illustrated strange sexual behaviour or repressed sexual feelings that could only be openly expressed on postcards.
	www.birminghamuk.com /uglybritain/humour.htm (620 words)

	RELEVANT :: View topic - British Humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British version is the funniest show I've ever seen but I have a hard time sitting through an episode of the American version.
		Judging from the television humour here, the American sense of humour is (sorry) much simpler and more geared towards toilet humour, physical jokes and stupid stuff happening.
		British people are also a lot more self deprecating in their humour, and are also more prone to being rude to one another in jest.
	www.relevantmagazine.com /boards/viewtopic.php?t=13249 (2141 words)

	ipedia.com: British comedy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British comedy is known for its consistently quirky...
		British comedy is known for its consistently quirky characters, settings and plots and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years.
		Most British comedy is broadcast via TV with sketch shows, stand-up comedy, impressionists and sitcoms being the four most popular formats.
	www.ipedia.com /british_comedy.html (290 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - British humour
		Many followed, of course, and I think it was the fact that I appreciated the shows didn't seem to pander to the lowest common denominator as so many American shows do, but also that they had a dry sense of humor to them, which matched me perfectly.
		I knew somebody once who thought it required more intelligence to get British humor, which I don't know if is true or not, but I think that if you have more of a dry sense of humor, you will like these shows much more.
		british tv remade "that 70's show" and called it "days of our lives" it was absolutely awful:(the US version was witty and has class the brit version was tragic and depressing.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=295764 (1309 words)

	Funny Across The Atlantic \| MetaFilter
		The English are just funnier, that's all.* Their sense of humour is always on and it applies to the whole of existence, including existence itself and, what's unique, to their own sense of humour.
		The main difference between the US and British 'sense of humour' is that 'a sense of humour' is far more important in every day life over here.
		British humour is almost always at it's best when it's about flawed characters trying to cope.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/23846 (5074 words)

	Random internet findings
		Most British humour is extremely poor, I take it this must be one of those rare exceptions.
		British humour is way better than anything around here.
		Ok I'll admit some British humour is good (Monty Python) but some of it is just utter crap (The Office).
	www.dosgames.com /forum/about376-0-asc-165.html (767 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: British Comedy Greats: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roy Clarke's humour may not be to everyone's taste, especially younger viewers who seem to find fun in violence, humiliation, swearing and lavatorial functions, but he still has many fans who like his sense of humour.
		Booth sums up British humour in his description of what made us laugh about Warren Mitchell’s character, “He [Alf] knew his place in the social and economic order-leaving him, like Pooter, defential but acutely sensitive to humiliation.
		The symbol of British comedy is of course “The Carry On’s,” Rowan Pelling’s portrayal of the timeless classic films is fantastic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1844030555 (1611 words)

	Category:British culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For more information, see the article about Culture of the United Kingdom.
		The main article for this category is British culture.
		There are 39 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:British_culture (96 words)

	British Humour Cartoons
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		British Humour cartoon 1 - catalog reference cma0077
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/b/british_humour.asp (105 words)

	Technorati Tag: British Humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British Humor Free shipping on all your favorite DVDs from AandE, Biography and the History Channel store.
		Some accountants have a wicked sense of humour and Ken Frost is no exception.
		Wise Choice British Foods and Gifts We have a great selection of British food including over 200 Christmas items, chocolate and candies, English tea, frozen foods, beverages, recipe books and more.
	technorati.com /tag/British+Humour (491 words)

	buch.de - bücher - British Humour
		British humour is rather like the Loch Ness monster: everybody has heard of it, some claim to know what it looks like, but very few can actually put their fingers on it, so to speak.
		This compendium of sketches, songs and excerpts from novels, radio and television shows, cartoons, photographs and sundry bits and pieces will not provide you with the answer either; it may help you to realize how wide the spectrum of humour is, though.
		The textes have been organised into thematic groups covering topics in the 'Viewfinder' series and can thus be read either independently or as part of any particular course.
	www.buch.de /buch/01654/379_british_humour.html (163 words)

	New animated film Flushed Away to meld British humour, Hollywood slickness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		British humour is more ironic than American humour," Aardman's chief executive David Sproxton told The Associated Press in an interview on the sidelines of an international entertainment industry conference in the city of Bombay in west India.
		Their previous collaboration, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was critically acclaimed and won an Academy Award earlier this month for the best animated feature, but was a loss for DreamWorks at the U.S. box office.
		British director Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a saga set amid Ireland's struggle for...
	www.canada.com /topics/entertainment/story.html?id=85ef1441-5c52-4070-a766-91a78ef15964&k=85892 (323 words)

	BBC - Cult Presents 2000AD and British comics - Features - Funny comics
		The origins of the British comedy strip date back to the 19th Century, with weekly fl and white tabloid publications such as Funny Folks (1874) and Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884, final picture).
		The establishment balked at Oink's rudeness two decades ago, but now fart gags and zit jokes are commonplace even in the perennial Beano, where Dennis the Menace's new baby sister, Bea (top picture), keeps softies at bay with her smelly nappies.
		For many years, British comics featured a balanced mixture of humour and adventure strips.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cult/comics/features/funny_comics.shtml (1107 words)

	I'm shoked in The AnswerBank: Film & TV
		I think that if a US audience watched a British show knowing it to be a British show, they would be perfectly capable of adapting to British humour, just as we can adapt to American humour when watching one of their comedies.
		Sadly, the TV execs think they need to wet-nurse their audience, so they end up with this curious hybrid of Americanised British humour which, surprise surprise, tends to crash and burn.
		This usually shows that it is the men in suits who don't 'get' British humour, rather than the audiences.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Film_and_TV/Question101197.html (480 words)

	The German Joke of the day
		In Germany, we understand that humour is about telling jokes properly and efficiently.
		I understand that you recently went on a fact-finding trip to the British Isles for your German Joke of the Day radio show.
		British humour is there, but it is at a low level of development.
	www.german-jokes.com /why.html (676 words)

	British humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Humour not only provides insights into human behaviour and puts problems into a manageable context, it also helps to provide common ground between...
		There is no better place to start a short essay on British Humour than in Cambridge 1883.
		Presenting a selection of British humour of, broadly speaking, the 1930's and 40's.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/British_humour (364 words)

	Face of new British humour
		In other words, the era of Benny Hill is over and the heirs of Monty Python have won the day.
		So if comedy is the new rock 'n' roll and Eddie Izzard is a rock star, then he's not the kind who's admired primarily for his technique or level of craft, like Eric Clapton, or for his ability to communicate big emotions, like Bruce Springsteen or Bono.
		If he can win over a Toronto audience with such Brit-specific material, such as Margaret Thatcher and mad-cow disease, then maybe the rest of the world is his for the taking.
	www.auntiemomo.com /cakeordeath/torontoreview.html (462 words)

	British Humour
		What the British think is a humourous joke may be completely mystifying to people from other countries.
		That is why we have created this section for everyone who does find British jokes humourous.
		But you don't have to be British to view this section.
	www.jn10.co.uk /jokes/british-humour.php (570 words)

	humour united kingdom, gnome.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nevertheless, Britons have a great sense of humour and everything is forgotten after a hangover, at least until.
		Nevertheless, Britons have a great sense of humour and everything is forgotten after a hangover, at least until...wikitravel.org/en/United_Kingdom-111k-...
		Humour > TV Tie-in Humour Search for books by subject: General Humor Humour TV tie-in humour United Kingdom, Great Britain i.e., each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND Top of Page...
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	British Car Links
		This is where you can order a certificate with the original build data on your car!.
		Classic Motorsports is an evolution of the former "British Car" magazine and is dedicated to "celebrating the classic sports cars of yesterday and today".
		PistonHeads is a British online magazine which features photos and information on a variety of rare and eclectic performance cars seldom if ever seen on this side of the pond.
	www.ric-johnson.com /iowabrit/britlinks.htm (986 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If you like British humour and zombie`s this is a hit.
		Hilarious british humour, awesome filming, and a little cult classic gore for the kid in all of us.
		The awesome humour that is used really makes you love Shaun and his friends and family, so when they start getting picked off one by one, as they do in every zombie movie, you really are sad to see them go.
	www.tribute.ca /ranking/comments.asp?p_id=9316 (1257 words)

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