It was not British humor at the time. Monty Python + a couple of other shows slightly before that time challenged their status quo. It's why some of their first tv shows featured very uptight british policemen and the like.
Ironically: calling that "british humor" at a time when the ones criticized by the humor are uptight brits is a form of nationalist cultural appropriation.
It’s British humor now, I don’t see your point
Ricky Gervais is the legacy of Monty python
Ricky is a superficial tv-tier producer. All his success is with shows that appeal to normies. He went against the cancel culture literally a week ago; nice one Ricky; you're only 5+ years late now that you know the normies will accept it and give you cash.
wasn't he always against cancel culture?
Very mildly. In his latest special he directly went sarcastic against the snowflakes who are trans. He wouldn't dare do that between 2015-2020 (when it mattered).
what a shitty legacy then
fpbp
Reminder
Really wish we could go back to those famous economic boom times in Britain, the 1970s. We were so wealthy we only needed to work four days a week!
and die in a war started by Germans or who the frick knows before your 40s, because memberberries are one thing, living before modern technology another.
there are some seriously smart people on this mainly moronic pedophile website
>being genuinely wowed by a boomer fanfic
there are some seriously moronic people on this website
t. mutt zoomer that thinks doctor pepper is culture
had the same thought. some very sober, self aware posters.
All we had to do was to keep the countries white
Kino post
tl;dr
Try making a better post or screenshot . something interesting next time
Ricky Gervais is an awful c**t
>Christians make fun of Christianity
>it's lighthearted and respectful
>Jews make fun of Christianity
>it's vile and meanspirited
Why is that
>Christians are lighthearted and respectful
>Jews are vile and meanspirited
hmmm
They both sack. They believe in things without proof which is objectively the way of the brainlet.
In a few years we'll also realize all ideology itself is that too.
>They believe in things without proof which is objectively the way of the brainlet.
this guy gets it
big bang, hinduism, dark energy, dark matter, islam and most modern science! is just a joke
Dark energy really gets me. And heat death of the universe too. Shit is laughable.
i mean, that's kind of the point. scientists also have a sense of humour
I agree
Trust le science
>but aliens and quantum fluctuations are real
No brainlet, the scientific method by definition, knows that it truly knows nothing.
Big rick n morty fan huh?
>Monty Python
>Christians
Here's a quote by Terry Jones who directed Life of Brian
>Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly
Wow so profound. I'm an atheist now.
This but unironically.
Ethnically Christian, of course
Yeah let's pick and choose our flavors, that's what's correct. I am now atheist i have seen the way.
this is inane OP
it's called 'British humor' purely because the fricking comedians in question come from fricking England. They spoke in English, they used London and British colloquialisms plus their humor depended on understanding the island's culture and history.
You're a fricking moron.
Shut up brit. The humor of brits at that time was superficial non-ironic one. It was them (and a few other shows of that era (often connected to them)) that brought this sarcastic tone to them.
One of them was even American; let alone some Americans now are way more "British Humor" than hacks like Rickie Gervais; e.g. Trey Parker.
could you post some examples of what british humour really was at the time?
I'm willing to entertain your thesis but I need to see what exactly you're talking about
preferably some youtube links, I'm not accepting "look up X"
You have no idea what you're talking about. That Was The Week That Was, The Goon Show were highly ironic and satirical over a decade before Monty Python.
Stfu. You have no idea what you are talking about or what? Do you think you can convince anyone that you're 80 years old?
omg the levels of cope emanating from your oversaturatedsynapses is palpable. just consume next thing and get excited for next thing please sir. it's all your cabable off.
How is Trey Parker more in keeping with Monthy Python's legacy than guys like Graham Lineham, Armando Iannucci, or Chris Morris? I think you're moronic anon
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>haha le poop frick shit frick frick fart noise
What a bizarre and very autistic thing to post.
Your lack of arguments proves my point.
I don’t want to argue, I’m simply going to insult you for being moronic.
>Certain countries still ban this movie from airing shortly before, during and shortly after Easter
lmao, why are christcucks so thin-skinned and love censorship?
Monty Python were inspired by The Goon Show (1951-1960) which they listened to on the radio as kids, and is very much in the same style.
Its Spike all the way down. The only true genius there has ever been in comedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q..._(TV_series)
The problem in the identification of true British comedy is that by far the most popular show of the war years was ITMA (Its That Man Again). It isn't that its humour has dated, more that it is utterly unintelligible and might as well be written in Middle English.
>Don't forget to pay the diver!
[Audience roars with laughter, collapses, keeps laughing, oxygen is administered, a woman goes into premature childbirth, ambulance removes heart attack victims, audience now starts laughing in earnest...]
Personally I would say the first recognisably modern thing is Hanwiener's Half Hour which is still pretty funny today.
ITMA is still funny and I'm tired of zoomers pretending it isn't because they don't understand English anymore. What do they teach in school these days, gollywog gibberish? It's the same dry style of humour the British have enjoyed since records began.
I am far from a zoomer. I'm prepared to handle even an Arthur Askey film (especially if it has Evelyn Dall in it), the Navy Lark doesn't bother me but I draw the line at ITMA. I literally have no idea what they are talking about.
There's a show called Does The Team Think? which had Arthur Askey on it regularly, after listening to that I really appreciated his movies more, because it was later in his career and his material was more modern and it helped me understand what he was getting at in the earlier stuff. I can't stand the Navy Lark though, I've tried so many times when it comes on the OTR stations I listen to but it's just impenetrable to me.
Now, Much Binding In The Marsh, that's a great old show.
OP on suicide watch
Where can you even find copies of ITMA? It doesn't get re-broadcast on 4 Extra and I'm even on a private radio tracker and they don't have any episodes of it either.
A lot is missing to be honest.
https://archive.org/details/OldTimeRadio-1940s
https://archive.org/details/BBC_Radio_4_Extra_20191027_080000
Thanks senpai <3
The Goon Show was great.
> The Goon Show
it's why I said "and others slightly before their time".
18 years earlier is hardly "slightly before their time" when talking about a medium that had only existed for about 30 years. I reckon you don't know shit and were just hedging your bets. Or if I was kinder, maybe you were somehow aware of shows like Q and At Last the 1948 Show which were a few months/years ahead of them.
Those shows shared the same comedians brainlets.
Did you just skim the wikipedia articles and assume this or do you somehow think that lying will make you 'win'? Either way you get the most embarrassing post of the day award.
John Cleese didn't start at the Monty Pythons zoomer.
I never said he did you fricking moron. Are you having a stroke?
Then why did you say Monty Pythons (who included Cleese) were late to the party?
John Cleese was not in the Goon Show. He was 11 years old when that was on.
Also you should definitely call 911 because you're clearly
a) a dumb mutt
b) have serious brain problems
very good anon 🙂 that was funny...that one got through my defences
It's countercultural co-option, a phenomenon which, fittingly, goes back to Christianity becoming the state religion of Rome.
hands up, who likes me?
shut up rick, no one likes you.
Oxford/Cambridge Toff Comedy
British comedy goes all the way back to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jonson, etc. It's mostly wordplay. The funny voices meme goes back all the way to Aristophanes and "le spartans dumb" meme.
Because everyone who made it was British and it was using British culture as its lens for comedy? You sound like you're saying a culture is owned by whichever government rules over the most number of people of that culture which isn't true
One of them as American brainlet.
Oh my bad, that makes them a perfectly multicultural, multinational act that isn't British in any sense. Please, frick my wife
Yeah probably the least important member who mostly just drew cartoons
It’s incredibly blatant at this point that OP, for some doubtless insane reason, wants to take credit for Monty Python away from Britain and to whatever shithole he crawled out of, only he hit the snag of being a complete moron and never got past step 1.
Literal we wuz kangz behaviour
OI NIGEL THE BLOKE ON THE TELLYS DOIN THE FUNNY WALK AGAIN
It's funny how leftists hogged all the entertainment jobs and now their work wasn progressive enough for new leftards
I've never found British humour to be funny. Aussies are even worse. Only North Americans and kiwis are funny.
>North Americans
>funny
>you
>not a troony
>obsessed with trannies
100% Yankee.
Ricky gervais is a pretentious twat.
Eric idle was the worst python.
John Cleese remains a based Individual. Terry Gilliam has the most talent among them all and we all know why. (American) 2XXDD
British Humor usually revolves with the Pythons, Carry On Regulars, Blackadders, and Horrible Histories Troupe. They still got more individually like Sellers.