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Yah, even in the USA the Best Comedians were the ones that could inteligently use the language w/o “explitives deleted” and still get an actual belly chuckle out of us… I know OR I hear that our sense of humor is different yet I also know whe enjoy some of the same comedians….I’m just sorry that our TV didn’t carry some of the UK programs and we only get them on our PBS Stations like now programs like Downton Abbey, but as for humor I would have loved to see that old program that Hugh Laurie was in… I absolutle love him even now thru all of his incarnations. I miss over here hearing more of the comedians that used the words of our language and literally disected them or their defintions of the pulics usage of them… like Jerry Seinfeld, even Originally George Carlin who said “I bought a ticket to fly somewhere and when boarding time comes they ask me to Get ON the Plane… I want to get IN the plane.” etc…. On a little rougher note I even sadly miss cuz he’s getting older Billy Connelly~ He use to literally make my ribs hurt from laughing..
So does Robin Williams, but then I’m in CA and undertsand most of his references… I always preferred their “cleaner shows” as opposed to when the were in the Night Clubs and were expected to do a more “Adult Show.” I think it takes more Intelligence to get a belly chuckle w/o the “Adult Language” but some could even so do it tastefully… I must confess the LP Album I bought for humor was Carlin’s AM/FM when it was New, so I guess that dates me 😀
I hadn’t heard of Tom Lehrer until someone showed me this video last week.. Dang, just looked him up, I probably also heard a LOT of his stuff here but didn’t know it.. I watched this show all the time back then.. “In the 1960s, he produced a number of songs dealing with social and political issues of the day, particularly when he wrote for the U.S. version of the television show That Was The Week That Was.” Well, I learned my “one new thing for today Already” .. That’s one of my goals, so I this was a perfect was to start the day, with Comedy 🙂 NO Green Beer for me today tho… Thanks for educating me more on Lehrer!