What is British humor?

British humor, we can hardly see exaggerated performances. They always put some ordinary things in reality in the most unreasonable places, in the most normal words, in the most weird places.

What is British humor? I think if you ask a hundred British people, you may have a hundred answers. For the British themselves, the so-called humor, like Zen in Buddhism, is something that can only be understood but cannot be expressed. The definition of the Oxford dictionary is just a short sentence "of an interesting or funny nature." American tradition? English dictionary has two definitions, 1. "Something designed to cause laughter or entertainment." 2。 "The ability to perceive, enjoy or express interesting, funny, incongruous or nonexistent things." Just looking at the definition, everyone must be as confused as I was then. So when my English classmates told me jokes, I basically didn't react immediately.

I asked the British if I didn't know enough, and the answer made me even more confused. Later, I watched the BBC's Question Time (a program that showed British parliamentarians asking questions to the Prime Minister), and I didn't understand what British humor was until I watched it more. In order not to let everyone go abroad, just like I did in the past, "the moderator was poor in Britain, talking about staying up all night, and suddenly he heard the silence of others and fell to the ground on crutches." I will share my experience with you.

When it comes to humor, there are British humor and American humor, which are quite different. Words and metaphors are quite different in tone. Simply put, American humor is more "life-oriented, with more direct words", while British humor is more in-depth and integrated into local culture. In other words, even if you understand what they say, it's hard to understand the real meaning. This may not be clear. I suggest you go to Britain to watch talk shows by comedians such as Question Time, Forget Buzzcock, Blackadder, harry hill and John when you are free, so that you can probably understand what British humor is. A British friend of BBC (British-born Chinese) said that British humor lies in "satire". So when you can still "refute", it means that your English is good enough. But if you don't know English literature or history, you still can't get up.