KilledInADuel posted:

also, british humor is basically mutually intelligible with american humor and there's nothing vaguely jewish about british comedy - unless you think the englishman is a "culture jew" or some such. and british people on the whole tend to be funnier than american people, though that could just be due to chris morris skewing the results. it's still too early to say. for further analysis, i recommend 'oy gevalt or oy gestalt?: on alienation and the immanence of irony in western consciousness' by university of london historian shrobert schraubenthal.

The English and the American types of humour are in one way directly contrary. The most American sort of fun involves a soaring imagination, piling one house on another in a tower like that of a sky-scraper. The most English humour consists of a sort of bathos, of a man returning to the earth his mother in a homely fashion; as when he sits down suddenly on a butter-slide. English farce describes a man as being in a hole. American fantasy, in its more aspiring spirit, describes a man as being up a tree. The former is to be found in the cockney comic songs that concern themselves with hanging out the washing or coming home with the milk. The latter is to be found in those fantastic yarns about machines that turn live pigs into pig-skin purses or burning cities that serve to hatch an egg. But it will be inevitable, when the two come first into contact, that the bathos will sound like vulgarity and the extravagance will sound like boasting.

Suppose an American soldier said to an English soldier in the trenches, 'The Kaiser may want a place in the sun; I reckon he won't have a place in the solar system when we begin to hustle.' The English soldier will very probably form the impression that this is arrogance; an impression based on the extraordinary assumption that the American means what he says. The American has merely indulged in a little art for art's sake, and abstract adventure of the imagination; he has told an American short story. But the Englishman, not understanding this, will think the other man is boasting, and reflecting on the insufficiency of the English effort. The English soldier is very likely to say something like, 'Oh, you'll be wanting to get home to your old woman before that, and asking for a kipper with your tea.' And it is quite likely that the American will be offended in his turn at having his arabesque of abstract beauty answered in so personal a fashion. Being an American, he will probably have a fine and chivalrous respect for his wife; and may object to her being called an old woman. Possibly he in turn may be under the extraordinary delusion that talking of the old woman really means that the woman is old. Possibly he thinks the mysterious demand for a kipper carries with it some charge of ill-treating his wife; which his national sense of honour swiftly resents. But the real cross-purposes come from the contrary direction of the two exaggerations, the American making life more wild and impossible than it is, and the Englishman making it more flat and farcical than it is; the one escaping from the house of life by a skylight and the other by a trap-door.

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Oh, you'll be wanting to get home to your old woman before that, and asking for a kipper with your tea.

what is this moon language

deadken posted:

american humour is based around the structuring model of the wisecrack and the dozens, it is resolutely molar, its flows are restricted and univocal. meanwhile british humour positions itself between the two poles of hatred for all humanity and matrons with big tits, coursing the infinite multiplicity of a single path through the body without organs. hth

YANKEE noun
In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Crow posted:

porkin' across america is getting really dark. dont know if that counts as jewish humor (might be more muslim)

omg is this a new onion series? after sex house i gotta get on this, thanks brah

it's even better, it's so brutal

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