Vurtual
Bluelighter
...The UK and the US both have a sliding scale of shit > genius comedy stuff on TV. Many of my favourite comedy performers & shows are American.
To be sure, but it's not really about whether it's shit (one man's shit...) - there are overall cultural differences in our humour (with individual variation obviously) that i find interesting - i don't think one's superior; british people could do with a bit of american optimism as much as american people could have some of our (faux) humility.
Eg Think about 'America! Fuck Yeah!'; taking the point that an american wrote this about americans, it still has to ring true in some sort of way. I can't imagine 'Britain! Hell Yeah!' having the same resonance (maybe 'Britain! Not too Bad!')
Interestingly, these sort of difference would in other situations often be ascribed to race; but we're the same race, and so we don't have the usual easy xenophobic get-out and so have to think about culture itself (using race when you mean culture is like saying 'you're naughty' instead of 'that's naughty' to a child (soz for the tangents

Edit: Droppersneck - is unilaterally declaring yourself top for media and entertainment a form of american exceptionalism
