From time to time, people ask me if I like British humour (specifically television shows and the Python movies). I usually respond, “I don’t know”. They assume that I haven’t watched any, and we move on from there.
The truth is more complicated. I have watched some, and I like it, really I do, but I just can’t stand it for more than about ten minutes.
This was driven home a few days ago when I watched the first episode of “A Bit of Fry and Laurie”. Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie. I have become a huge Hugh Laurie fan because of the American TV show “House MD”, so I thought I’d give this a glance.
And it’s wonderful. Every sketch was excellent, and well done. I loved all of it. And I had to take a break after 10 minutes. Not because I didn’t like it, or got offended, or had to go to the bathroom, or anything like that. I simply needed a break.
I have the same kind of reaction to Monty Python. Good stuff, for ten minutes. Any ten minutes, it doesn’t matter. Then I start growing restless.
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