Any other Americans love this show?

I'm American (currently living in Scotland, though) and I love this show!

Some people just don't get British humor. Sometimes it's the accent and the slang, sometimes it's just the delivery of the jokes. If it's too dry or deadpan, people just don't get it. They need their jokes spoon fed to them. I tried to get some friends into Garth Marenghi because they like horror stuff and funny stuff...fell completely flat (boggles the mind) but I show them a very straight forward sitcom style show like IT Crowd and they liked it. I saw the title pop up on streaming sites and decided to check it out when I found out who was in the cast. It's continued to get better and better and I hope that it gets picked up for a 2nd season!

americans or people that are not british...?

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I'm american and I like it, although I don't love it. I prefer peep show, which was made by the same people.

As for the humor differences, while that is a standard stereotype of the 2 types, I don't think it is quite so easy to split the 2 nations. America has all sorts of comedy, from deadpan to irony. While we produce some *beep* as well, often our *beep* is like the top rated program in England or Australia, so you can't exactly say its just Americans bad taste.

Furthermore, while I like this show, it isn't exactly the type of humor I would expect to go over people's head in America. Its pretty straightforward, generally (although maybe some of the class-related humor may be lost)

I do!!!! I will agree Howard is the person I have the most problems understanding then comes vod. It took me most of the series to really get into the show but the last three episodes won me over. It seems that the show gets better as it progresses and now i wanna go back and watch the earlier episodes again now that I'm well adjusted to the show. I really hope someone torrents the new season or else its gonna be a tough wait being that we don't have the luxury of ch4.

Yep, I'm from Texas. Definitely found it entertaining, I wouldn't say it made me laugh as hard as Peep Show, or even Misfits, but I still found myself getting invested with the story lines. Since i'm on break i've watched every episode these past 2 days, pretty upset when I read that series 3 wont be out for another year

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I'm an American who was raised on public television. I was watching reruns of "Are You Being Served?" and "Last of The Summer Wine" since I was a kid. In highschool my best friend and I watched "Absolutely Fabulous" religiously. Now, I was an Army brat so I was born and spent my youth in Germany, but I've spent the majority of my adolescence in the States, where I also currently reside. Not sure if it matters, tho.

Now, while I'll admit for quite some time not only was British comedy limited by what was shown here, most people only knew of "Monty Python" and the like, the culture of the UK was also very obscure to us. Most theaters weren't showing the big British blockbusters, and to be honest the Puritan sense of censorship in the States around the time (90's to early 00's) wouldn't have allowed most of the supposedly scandolous topics that Europeans are used to. Hell, I remember the clamor that was raised when our teen dramas started showing openly gay teens "My So Called Life", or mixed couples "Saved By The Bell". So perhaps it's our medias and indirectly our culture to not want to delve any deeper into subject matter that we know we're comfortable with.

The reason I bring this up is to provide a possible reasoning as to why We Americans, might appear to not "get" British comedy. Perhaps it's not that we don't understand it, it's just that we have not been exposed to enough of it.

Now, with the availablity of content provided by most cable providers, DirectTV, and the internet from such sights as Hulu.com that is likely to change. And with shows such as "Misfits", "Spy", "Fresh Meat", and the like, and our medias increasingly lax views of what's taboo formed from such pay-per view sources, Americans can now realize that British humor is much more than just high-brow, dry wit, and dull that some of us have been wrongly lead to believe. That it in fact has a very large range of content sure to please just about anyone.

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American. Love(d) Fresh Meat. Love Peep Show, The Office BBC, Extras, The Inbetweeners and TIPD of Todd Margaret. Can't stand the IT Crowd or Alan Partridge.