Bordy

First I saw Russell Coight was when I heard my daughter screaming with laughter in her room, yes watching Russell Coight on TV. Hes very funny but then I'm a bit of a Graham Norton fan to.

Big Bird

I like Graham Norton, but I don't get the chance to see him very often as my husband won't watch him

We did watch Eddie Izzard live last year in Melbourne, he was funny. Both laughed like drains, whilst a lot of the audience didn't understand.

OzTennis

That's the funniest statement in this thread for sure! I won't say what you are talking through for fear of being accused of having what you brand 20 million people with (apart from the millions of Brit expats of course?) I won't even bother trying to point out how sweeping your statement is but just one point - the so popular Benny Hill, Men behaving badly, Graham Norton, etc, etc, etc - isn't teenage toilet humour, yeah right?

As someone said humour is an individual and regional thing not a national thing. Just to illustrate this, Alan Partidge hasn't yet managed to raise one laugh from me, nor Graham Norton but Only Fools and Horses, Porridge and many others, that's a different thing. Peter Kay is excellent. Few of you will have heard of Norman Gunston (real name Gary McDonald) but he was a classic in Australia. Like Alan Partidge you either got it or you didn't and that didn't depend on where you were born but your own individual sense of humour.

OzTennis

OzTennis

Billy Connolly shocked his audience in London a few nights ago by making cheap jokes about the hostage Ken Bigley. It went something like, 'Ken Bigley, why don't they get on with it'! Billy perhaps wondered why people didn't laugh and a few in the audience jumped up and told him what poor taste they were in. He continued by trying to make jokes about Bigley's Thai wife. Another British comedian who doesn't resort to teenage toilet humour too!

OzTennis

Phoenixuk2oz

I agree OzT that what Billy said, if he did say it [I was not there], was well out of order. There can be no excuse, only an apology from Billy

However...how many of us can ever say we have NEVER, EVER comitted a faux par whilst at work? The difference is that Billy's job is within the public arena. When he drops a bollock, he does it big style.... in public. You could argue this was totally tasteless and most if not all of us would agree.

Billy made a big mistake at work. Like any of us who have ever said something stoopid, I bet he's sorry about it too

Bob

Bogan

1. fool; idiot; 2. (WA, Tasmania) lout or hooligan, especially of a particular social group noted for wearing black shirt and jeans. In Hobart equivalent to a "Chigga" (probably from Bogan - a river in NSW)

wmoore

I agree. Never really got into Alan Partridge but love Kath & Kim. All Aussie Adventures is better still, that guy is brilliant.
Billy Connolly is good in small doses but I reckon he should be in hiding for a while after his 'gag' the other night. How stupid can you get?

seang

As regards Australian humour Tom Gleisner is fantastic.He is the guy behind the Warwick Todd books .Also wrote the "the Dish" and "the Castle" screenplays for both movies(I think also produced )

chocaholic

What I don't like about the mainstream comedy shows on free-to-air Oz TV especially the one on Channel 10, is that the comedians often seem to go on to explain the joke in case you didn't get it. Or it's about something gruesome like using a head as a football, that kind of stuff. It's not my style. I don't like Benny Hill stuff at all either. However, I loved The Office, some of Jack Dee's stuff and some of Billy Connolly's and Lenny Henry's.

I do think that the sense of humour on the whole is different here. The type of humour I like is harder to find from an Australian comedian, it seems. But you know, you never know who will turn up next week.

Pollyana

Bit of a generalisation from me here, but I have found quite a lot of Aussies themselves are like that - some will even come out with a one-liner, which is funny at first, but then they repeat it a couple of times, then explain it,a nd it ends up not being even vaguely laughable. I just want to scream, and say Yes, I get it, I laughed 10 minutes ago!!! I'm sure some Brits do it, but its much more widespread here.

There does seem to be a huge Aussie following for many Brit sit-coms though; people at work are often mentioning old favourites that they have seen on Foxtel's UKTV.

kath n kim

I quite like Kath & Kim............................................... ...............

Bordy

Would Never have guessed.

madsad

Have you seen chewin the fat Bordy? very funny scottish comedy series!!

Bordy

Yeah got a couple of Videos but canny beat " Still Game".

WhiteRose

I notice 'Little Britain' is going to be shown soon on ABC. Does anyone think it will be popular here in Australia?