I'm surpised Brits find this funny
I never would of imagened it'd take off in England, I mean it's Irish humor and Irish localisms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsYRptxcuvY&videos=dmLa69f5r7Y
But alot of Brits are Catholic, so they can find it funny from that aspect.
Also just because it's Irish humor and Irish localisms doesn't mean that Brits or any other nation for that mater can't find it funny. Take for example British comedy, a lot of it is loved the world over
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I think it works on more than one level. The Brits will not get the Irish jokes but will laugh at the other stuff. Most Brits are NOT Catholic either (religion is not their thing!), so it's a demonstration of how good the writing was.
shareSurely the British would be the most likely to find it funny. Being closest neighbours, with huge influences of both countries imprinting on the other, humour, language, food, drink, customs etc etc.
Not to mention the fact that the concept was pitched to British production companies, made for British TV and audiences, not Irish TV (It has gained legendary status in Ireland, but was not its target market initially).
I am more surprised it travels well to other countries outside UK & Ireland tbh. The humour is predominantly Anglo-Irish. Fair enough Latin countries would understand the Catholicism but the humour??
You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at three o'clock in the morning!
The show was not made for British TV, it was pitched to a RTE in Ireland first who wouldn't screen the show. It was then pitched to British TV. How does that make it made for British TV? Everything about it is Irish.
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it was never pitched to RTE, The writers have said that many times.
shareMost Brits are NOT Catholic either (religion is not their thing!)
I didn't say that most Brits were Catholic, just that alot are. I know this as I myself am Catholic, and there are many Catholic Churches and Cathedrals in Britain
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Suppose, the main reason why I taught Brits wouldn't like it is because other countrys just wouldn't be used to Irish humor due to lack of Irish media abroad.(or even in Ireland) As only with in the last 6 or 5 years Irish comedians like Dara O Brien, Andrew Maxwell and Ed Buryn became popular in the U.K.
To confuse Stevie Wonder I gave him a basket ball and told him to read it.
(Mean but funny)
As only with in the last 6 or 5 years Irish comedians like Dara O Brien, Andrew Maxwell and Ed Buryn became popular in the U.K.
And how about Sean Hughes? Michael Redmond? Dave Allen? Spike Milligan? Or even that Oscar Wilde bloke who was kicking around 120 years ago?
Honestly, some people...
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"The Brits will not get the Irish jokes..."
OK...I'll take your word on that.
But, as an American...can someone explain to me what exactly IS an Irish joke?
What is a British joke for that matter?
I've been watching "British Television Comedy" sense the early 70's. I heard comments like that from my parents as a child ("Oh...I just don't get British humor...") and I never understood what they were going at either. I'm sure that there are some bits, here and there, that play at different levels based on cultural background that I'm unaware of (most comedy IS contextual), but I can't say that there is anything in 90% of this show that you wouldn't find funny if you found anything at all funny in it in the first place.
My wife and I find the show so hilarious we practically pee ourselves watching every episode (we own it on DVD) and while we find it all very funny, I'm stymied as to say what in these shows are Irish or British save the accents. It's there, of course (personally love the way the Irish say the word "Film" and I find a Scottish or Irish woman's accent almost unbearably sexy) but Designing Women was filled with Southern American women and their accents didn't make it any less an American show (or any better for that matter) and probably wouldn't detract from a British audience's ability to understand it (or like it...if you like that sort of thing).
But as far a simple comedy sit-com goes, Father Ted is TRULY great.
Great writing, great actors, great comedic timing, devoid of the desperate little "additions" that the Yanks F'around with trying to appeal to every human being on earth and thus make it unwatchable to anyone.
So, if there is something that is distinctly Irish, please let me know because, I guess, it just went completely over my head.
Examples?
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