Rob4BC

Elaine B.

I remember making our Canadian friends watch The League of Gentlemen I think they where in shock for the first few episodes but they grew to love it

ann m

It often makes me smile in a wash-over-you kind of way - I still think it would go down a storm on BBC2 in the UK.

Canadians certainly do have a sense of humour and they are mostly friendly. But my little quips and silly one liners are often lost - which makes me go one of two ways - to either give up completely and just smile a lot, or to keep going and hope someone gets it one day. Mostly, I just keep going

Driving car the other night, pulled up at a 4-way stop in pole position. Another driver took off first anyway so under my breath I just said "that's OK mate, you go ahead". Canadian passenger laughing her head off - like, seriously bent-double

Lady came up to a colleague the other day and said "I have some money for you" and handed over some assorted notes. I smiled and said "Do you have any for me too?" and she looked at me with a mix of indignation and horror. How could I be so crass?! It was a joke Mrs ....

Group of friends discussing a film that had George Clooney in it. Began discussing other actors or characters and I said "Who cares, it has George Clooney in it". Huh?

And that's just me being me - not particularly funny, but obviously in my own little world sometimes

R I C H

You should be on TV.

startwin

Wrong. They may not share what you call humour, that's all.

I've lived half my life in England, half in Canada and still enjoy Brit sitcoms, but most of what the Brits I know call humour is insult or sarcasm-based. So, not the same sense of humour, but different.

clynnog

They must have been 'locals' by the end of it.

I grew up about 15 km from where they film it (Hadfield, Derbyshire)and they managed to capture the essence of the area very well.

Novocastrian

Me neither.

I understand, though, that a sense of humour is useful in Ottawa today?

ann m

Elaine B.

I'm surprised you escaped with your life

I think my friends were Brits in a former life they also loved Alan Partridge.

Yoong

I find Canadians have sense of humour,majority of the staff at my work
place are Canadians -plenty of politically incorrect jokes.
In my 27 yrs.working here, we only got reported once by a student
and another occasion by 2 doctors from other wards.

Yoong

jimf

Is the appraisal episode the one where the guy from accounts does the "always, mostly, sometimes, infrequently, never or dont know" always picking "dont know" to increasingly annoyed David Brent. Very funny. The one that really makes me cringe is his "Gig" at the motivation seminar.

I can't really think of any Canadian comedy on UK TV appart from the series with the mounty (with husky type dog i think) and the chicago cop. That must be quite a long time ago and was probably american anyway.

ann m

Due South. I loved that programme. The second series was half funded by the BBC I believe, due to the protestations from the UK when it was about to be cancelled.

iaink

That would be "Due South"

Most canadian comedy tallent gets sucked down to the US sooner or later, whether it be Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, or the likes of Bill Murray, John Candy, Eugene Levy and Dan Ackroyd, or Lesley Neilson before that generation.

The truth is most canadian tallent is just assumed to be american anyway.

"Made in Canada" is the name of the show I couldnt remember before.

Auld Yin

They don't get British humour.

A major problem for Canadians, and Americans for that matter, is that British humour is very regionalized, to say nothing of the multitude of strange dialects. It doesn't have the required effect with the Close Captioned turned on. The only part of Canada I can think of with that "problem" is Newfoundland. Now the southern states of USA are another matter.

justkidding

What about Corner Gas?

Ok, maybe I've been in Canada too long. My Dutch husband thinks it hilarious but my Dutch Mother-in-Law says "it's too Canadian".