Americans React To The Most Iconic British Comedy

I have no idea what universe this is the 'Most iconic' british comedy.

British humour is brilliant. It's line walking, often crossing, intelligent, observational and there is no subject off limits. We laugh at everything and everyone but usually ourselves.

I do think that watching compilations like this can be hit or miss as you can end up losing a lot of the context of the jokes.

The group of men with the urn were the Monty Python team. Graham Chapman was the only member of their comedy group who had died at that point. They are mostly known for their Tv show in the late `60`s, called Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Which then led to their films & stage shows popular worldwide. The part featuring the bandaged man was from the Fawlty Towers Tv show, he was portrayed by John Cleese. He was one of the previously mentioned group of men. The guillotine part, was from the 1967 comedy film Don`t Lose Your Head, by the group of comedy actors & actresses of the Carry On Team.

The best Margery line in little Britain was when she was giving non-fat options to eat and she listed dust.

As an Australian(outside looking in), Fawlty Towers is 100% quality, there's no bad episodes. The Two Ronnies is sketch comedy so it's hit and miss, but the hit's are home runs(generally the stuff that's easy to find on youtube) Blackadder i wouldn't rate up to fawlty towers standards, but it's close with the same consistency. Everything else feels sort of niche where some people will fall over themselves laughing or just won't find it funny at all. As for more modern(ish) stuff i find quite a few of the Man/Woman skits quite funny.

The film used was one of the "Carry On" movies, a collection of pure British comedy movies, worth a watch, there are lots of them.

The Monty Python, the guys who spilled the urn, movies are hilarious. The holy hand grenade from the Holy Grail and Biggus Dickus from Life of Brian are worth checking out.

"Everyone in England's from Harry potter" ! lol ty for that.

The Graham Norton show is really quite funny and the censorship is placed at a much lower bar than US talk shows. Many American actors love being on that show. You need to check it out.

The movie was “Carry on, Don’t loose your head”. There were lots of “Carry on” films!

The last scene was from Fawlty Towers. It had only 12 episodes because John Cleese (playing the guy talking to the Germans) didn't want it to get stale. A poll in England chose this as the best comedy of all time, and I agree. I have seen them so often I remember nearly every line. The walk comes from a skit in Monty Python's Flying Circus about the Ministry of Silly Walks. This was probably the first English show to become popular here, and is also worth sampling. (The people gathered together when they spilled the ashes were all from that show, as was the dead man, Graham Chapman).

Greetings from the UK; love your reactions. Can I suggest looking at Father Ted...either the Chinese sketch or when they get stuck in a lingerie shore.

The guillotine one is from a Carry On film (Carry on Don't Lose Your Head) - there about 30 of them from 1958-1978. The old black-and-whites ones are a very different humour, the colour ones are very bawdy...

Definitely needed context for some of them. That show was called Faulty Towers. It's from the late 70's/early 80's. They only made 12 episodes but they're all very funny

The show with the Germans & John Cleese is Fawlty Towers. If you want iconic british comedy Fawlty Towers is by far the best there is.

Fawlty Towers was the last one.

9:58 I think that was a “carry on” movie. And the thing around half way was called “little Britain”. It was taken off most streaming services and Tv for being too inappropriate, racist, sexist and homophobic. But boy was it hysterical.

All humour around the world is hit and miss, you can't judge one entire nation on a few clips. But, the BEST of British comedy just cannot be beaten under any circumstances. We've mastered self deprecation, timing, absurdity and my favourite - abstract or surrealism. I'm glad you found some great stuff, but keep on going.. I guarantee your mind will be changed. SO much good stuff. I gotta say though, this selection of clips was very strangely put together and chosen. I wouldn't rate any of them as truly classic really..

U saw excerpts from Little Britain, The Carry On films, The Office, Monty Python interviews and the superb Fawlty Towers!