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Re: different senses of humour

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Nathan LeonardMar 22, 2007

I'm currently re-reading a very interesting book called "Watching the English" by anthropologist Kate Fox. It's basically an anthropological study of the unspoken rules and traditions that make you English. One of her observations concerns humour: she asserts that it's not that the English are funnier than the Americans, or even that their types of humour are different - the most crucial thing is that humour pervades all areas of English life, and there is a huge taboo about being too serious or earnest. The reason many English comedies don't translate well into American is that there are very few respites from the humour, whereas most American comedies often have long emotional sequences with no real jokes for some time.

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