Re: Dry Humor and Obvious Lampooning

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Thor wrote:
> Americans have no clue how to do hit-you-over-the-head stuff.  Instead,
lets 
> tune into BBC, shall we?  [IA]  Hmmm... What high-brow stuff do we have 
> here?
> Benny Hill,
> Good Neighbors,
> Allo, Allo,
> Fawlty Towers,
> Keeping Up Appearances,
> Are you being Served?
> Are you being served Again?
> etc, etc, etc.

OK, point taken. The only reason I didn't deliberately preclude the English
`pantomime' style humour is that I did the first time we had this argument,
months ago, and I thought everyone would have remembered. Apparently not.

By the way, I resent you inclusion of Fawlty Towers in a list of coarse,
obvious humour. Fawlty Towers is a masterpiece of writing and performance,
its satire and execution is right up there with anything Swift or Pope
ever did. Just because it's a TV sitcom doesn't mean it hasn't the
potential to be high art.

Camille
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