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People always say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. But what about innuendo - do you get it regularly? I tend to think of it as rather a British form of humour but I could be wrong

There is a British form of humor? I always thought what was so funny about them was thier complete lack of humor.





/Monty Python exempted/

Innuendo always strikes me as incredibly juvenile.

In your endo! :p

i love it... makes me giggle like a schoolgirl;)


There is a British form of humor? I always thought what was so funny about them was thier complete lack of humor.



that's what we say about americans...

Ah, innuendo, yes, innuendo, wink wink, nudge nudge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMrn4R6_vk), say no more, say no more!

Inneundo - does it go down well with you

wouldn't you like to know :D

I tend to think of it as rather a British form of humour but I could be wrong

naturally its involves a certain amount of wit and thus is a solely British possession

Innuendo always strikes me as incredibly juvenile.

So we don't get even a little titter from you?

RIP Humph :(


Undoubtbly one of the masters of innuendo.


"Samantha's going out now for an ice cream with her new Italian gentleman friend. She says she's looking forward to licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan."


or


Samantha has to nip out now, as she's off to meet a gentleman friend who's helping her restore some old furniture. She's just purchased an antique chest of drawers which her friend says has suffered from having candles placed on it. Samantha says she's looking forward to stripping her new tall boy while he scrapes the varnish and wax off next to her

RIP Humph :(


Undoubtbly one of the masters of innuendo.


indeed :(
the world's most glorious old sod

:fluffle:Humph:fluffle:


its been a sad couple of years for British comedy with Linda Smith going as well :(

RIP Humph :(


Undoubtbly one of the masters of innuendo.




"A Mrs Trellis of North Wales has written in to complain that the show has 'an enormous fistful of rampant innuendo rammed into every crack', but only a truly filthy-minded person would think such a thing."

I will miss him.

There is a British form of humor? I always thought what was so funny about them was thier complete lack of humor.





/Monty Python exempted/

Bwahahah in fact I'll have you know that the cream of comedy comes from Britian, we are the best nation for comics, for understanding comedy and for not censoring comics. We haboured one of the greatest comics of all time, at a time when his native country (Pssst it's America BTW) kicked him out for being...., well, funny!

There is a British form of humor? I always thought what was so funny about them was thier complete lack of humor.

As opposed to Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and such?

And it doesn't help that Terry Jones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsd2yMSonE8) has cancer.

As opposed to Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and such?

Come on, iflecting the end of sentences is funny...



... or maybe not

Intentional innuendo strikes me as juvenile. I much prefer unintentional double entendres which I tend to "get" quite often and have to muffle my laughter so as not to embarrass the person who made the statement.

My girlfriend once asked for the definition of an innuendo.

So I gave her one.

People always say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. But what about innuendo - do you get it regularly? I tend to think of it as rather a British form of humour but I could be wrong

On purpose?

Oh and the quality of British Comedy is excellent opposed to American Comedy which has gone for quantity over quality.

My girlfriend once asked for the definition of an innuendo.

So I gave her one.

Yay, let's see if we can keep this up.

People always say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.What idiot says that? What about insult humour, or dead baby jokes, or any number of other baser forms of wit.
Blackadder-esque sarcasm is quite possibly one of the greatest forms of wit known to mankind.

Inneundo - does it go down well with youDepends on how well it's done.

Intentional innuendo strikes me as juvenile. I much prefer unintentional double entendres which I tend to "get" quite often and have to muffle my laughter so as not to embarrass the person who made the statement.

If it was good enough for Shakespeare, who am I to complain?

Yay, let's see if we can keep this up.

Might need some viagra for that.

Innuendo can be great, especially when it comes in the most unexpected places.

On purpose?


Would you believe me if I say it was just a cock up?

On purpose?

Oh and the quality of British Comedy is excellent opposed to American Comedy which has gone for quantity over quality.

Our stand-up is way better than yours, Eddie Izzard excepted.

I love innuendo, and innuendo loves me. :fluffle:

Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but it's better than no wit at all. And yes, I greatly enjoy a well-constructed piece of innuendo. However, there's a difference between innuendo and downright dirty humor (which I still enjoy), which is something people seem to have a hard time realizing.

Our stand-up is way better than yours, Eddie Izzard excepted.

American stand up is truly awful. The best - the Daniel Kitsons, Stewart Lees, Andy Zaltzmans are all British.

Is innuendo really that hard to swallow? I think it fits well in threads of good taste...

Would you believe me if I say it was just a cock up?

lol

Our stand-up is way better than yours, Eddie Izzard excepted.

Australian stand up is quite good (there are shit ones but hey what are you going to do), so is American but there is a lot of shit stand up comedians that have come out of America.

Our stand-up is way better than yours, Eddie Izzard excepted.

I wouldn't try to argue against british comedy. Personally I find both forms have their strong and weak points, but I like them both. And as for stand up, for every really good standup comedian I've seen, I see five others who are mediocre at best in the US. I haven't seen too many british stand up acts (except for Eddie Izzard) so I can't really form an opinion, but I'd imagine it's much of the same.

What idiot says that? What about insult humour, or dead baby jokes, or any number of other baser forms of wit.
Blackadder-esque sarcasm is quite possibly one of the greatest forms of wit known to mankind.

Depends on how well it's done.

People tell me that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit quite often, the I am quite sarcastic. However if we were ranking types of humour it is obvious to me that innuendo would come in the bottom place...

People tell me that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit quite often, the I am quite sarcastic.Bah, they must not have a sense of humour.

However if we were ranking types of humour it is obvious to me that innuendo would come in the bottom place...Below dead baby jokes? And fart jokes? And debasing practical 'jokes' at someone's expense? I can think of far more horrible things passed of as humour than innuendo. And it's not like there isn't variation in quality.

On purpose?

Oh and the quality of British Comedy is excellent opposed to American Comedy which has gone for quantity over quality.

Fair point.

Although unfortunately BBC3 is starting to follow in the quantity over quality line.

I think USA has some great sitcoms and a whole shedload of awful ones.

Whereas similar is true for UK but with sketch shows. We've got some greats: Mitchell and Webb, Monty Python; and some tired, catchphrase-based ones - Catherine Tate Show, Little Britain.

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"Samantha's going out now for an ice cream with her new Italian gentleman friend. She says she's looking forward to licking the nuts off a large Neapolitan."


or


Samantha has to nip out now, as she's off to meet a gentleman friend who's helping her restore some old furniture. She's just purchased an antique chest of drawers which her friend says has suffered from having candles placed on it. Samantha says she's looking forward to stripping her new tall boy while he scrapes the varnish and wax off next to her

All due respect to the late Humph, but still, this sort of humour just makes me groan - it's not exactly clever and it reeks of lowest common denominator.

My girlfriend once asked for the definition of an innuendo.

So I gave her one.

In her endo?

All due respect to the late Humph, but still, this sort of humour just makes me groan - it's not exactly clever and it reeks of lowest common denominator.

Groan in a good or bad way?

People tend to react the same way to (even very good) puns.


Though wittly, well timed ripostes (a la Wilde) weren't the ISIHAC way anyway. It was much more anarchic and undefined then that.

Which was part of its charm.

Groan in a good or bad way?

People tend to react the same way to (even very good) puns.

In a bad way.

There are some really great puns but the sex-related puns just get so tired and, yes, lowest common denominator.

Like all the Carry On stuff. We're so stuffed up and repressed about expressing sexual desire that we have to turn something like women's breasts into an object of humour, like a rubber chicken.

In a bad way.

There are some really great puns but the sex-related puns just get so tired and, yes, lowest common denominator.

Like all the Carry On stuff. We're so stuffed up and repressed about expressing sexual desire that we have to turn something like women's breasts into an object of humour, like a rubber chicken.

I agree that the Carry On... films were tiresome and very lower common demominator. And the jokes were staid and crap

I may be alone in this, but I would argue that the Carry On... humour is a million miles away from the humour in ISIHAC.

I agree that the Carry On... films were tiresome and very lower common demominator. And the jokes were staid and crap

I may be alone in this, but I would argue that the Carry On... humour is a million miles away from the humour in ISIHAC.

I concur.

I really liked ISIHAC.

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