Birtish Humour!!!

BRITISH HUMOUR “ It is clear that humour is far superior to humor. ” Oscar Wilde

CONTENTS • Introduction • Characteristics of British Humour • Typical topics of British Humor • Conclusions

INTRODUCTION
What is British humour?
A form of entertainment
It has developed over the centuries:
Court Jestess
Comedies of Shakespeare
The invention of the radio
Television and cinema

CHARACTERISTICS OF BRITISH HUMOUR
Sarcasm
Quotation marks around any World to make it funnier.

Slapstick
It is a traditional folk-style humorous.

Childish behavior
To laugh at people misfortune and bad luck

Satire
Making fun of famous people in general.

Racism
Making fun of the English and foreigners: Germans, French, Spanish, Irish,...

The topics
• Irony i s the core of Humour.
Examples: Charlie Chaplin
"the only genius to come out of the movie industry".
• Bullying and harsh sarcasm: it can mean like
satire it make fun somebody or something .
Example:
- Blackadder, comedy TV series.
- Tom Sharpe: he is written and his ability is to
make fun the life and himself and it explain his
succes.

• Smut and innuendo:
Example: Carry on
The man: Do you think the doctor could give
Me some pills to improve my SEX URGE?
The women: No lad he can only heal the sick
Not raise the dead!
• Disrespect to members of the establishment:
Exemple: Not the Nine O’clock news
• The absurd: is a genre of comedy that relies upon "a violation of causal reasoning," with events that are "logically inappropriate”.
It’s absurd and surreal.
Example: Green Wing : an experimental sitcom
that utilizes surrealism

• Monty Python sketch "dead parrot." In this sketch, a man tries to make another man believe that a parrot is dead. Here is a transcript of this sketch: MAN: I believe that this parrot is dead. SHOPKEEPER: Yep, looks pretty dead to me. MAN: That settles that then. • The macabre: consist on Black Humour. Exemple: Death at a funeral • The humour inherent in everyday life: Exemple: - El principe Bel air: it was a serie comedy - The simpson

• The British Class system consist on make humour with the situation in the class system.
• The embarrassment of social ineptitude:
Mr. Bean: it was a british comedy television series that make humour with the all situation.
• The lovable rogue: consist on make humour in the love.
The Likely Lads was a black and white British sitcom.
• Making fun of foreigners:
is especially common in television sitcoms and films of the 1970s
'Allo 'Allo!: It was a serie comedy set During World War II. This series making fun of French.

CONCLUSIONS
We can find british humour:
• TV series comedy
• Films
• Postcard
• Radio station
• Magazine
The topycs that are more success:
• Irony: Charlie Chaplin
• The Humour inherent everyday life : El principe Bel air and Simpson
• T he British class system and the embarrassment of social ineptitude: Mr. Bean

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Birtish Humour!!!

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