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It's funny because it's odd. People get too used to American "humor", where the joke is spelled out in painfully obvious detail, and then the show laughs for you.

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Canned laughter is the most reliable guide in the world. It's use signals awful comedy that no audience would have laughed at. It works because once someone else is laughing it lowers the "joke threshold", so people start to laugh at something which isn't objectively funny.

But if you start to actually watch and pay attention the spell is broken.

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I know what you mean... literally painful in some cases.

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People who are easly offended ought not be so easly offended.

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Slippery slope that, especially for an American talking about comedy.....

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I am not saying that british humor is bad, I am just saying that it is not my cup of tea. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Oh come on. I just got the boxed DVD set of Fawlty Towers this week. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Anybody who thinks that FT isn't hilarious has checked out of the human race.