Moshkiae


Hi,
but Americans are not used to listening to jokes ... they have to see them! 

Ya, we hear with our eyes. We're evolved.

Spiffing good show old bean.... what.

Americans spend the best part of their lives trying to sound like the people they hear on network television news and not to sound like the people who they raised with. Almost any American regional accent is considered a symptom of ignorance, while in reality that prejudice is only  justified in the case of Texans. Regionalisms of the British Isles however strike Americans as cultured or charming. And if English is spoken as one would expect to hear from an English newscaster, whatever drivel is being spouted is taken as unquestionably authoritative. So if an American hears in a commercial voice-over that his fingers will not break through the toilet paper in the advertisement, he feels he can rely on that, no matter how flimsy the stuff itself may be.

I only buy British approved TP.

bapu


I only buy British approved TP.

beecause ewe have n a.r.s.e.???

Zactly!!!!

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bapu

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looks like americans are excited with british accent...

What we can understand of them, ya.

exactly, one englishman told me once he stopped a car  to ask for a directions in Scotland and he couldn't understood anything they'we telling him...

lol,

I remember somebody recounting to me a story of an American tourist asking for directions to 'Savanna Wax'.

After asking several people and only getting bemused stares for his efforts he then got out a piece of paper which had 'Sevenoaks' written on it...

I assume this means where Bapu lives is pronounced 'Thou sand a wax' then.

Hi,

I hear English dolls are much more fun than some of the American ... gals! Personally I had more fun with the French girls ... but Marguerite would think that I was joking!

English humor tends to be more cerebral ... things like Mr. Bean are almost designed to go after American audiences, with the sad fact, that no one in America can appreciate him reading ... the dictionary? ... like he used to in the Policeman's Balls ... which was a riot ... in days before Black Adder ... still his very best work!

American humor is too centered on television .... and folks thinking they have to see it. But there is anincredible market for the other stuff that was here also, and the Firesign Theater had those folks ... and we all came from "The Goons" ... but America had its fabulous comedians with music and then some ... Tom Lehrer, Ernie Kovacs, PDQ Bach, Spike Jones ... all of whom were extremelly visual ... but they had the luck of also appearing on TV a bit ... but it got around really well. The Goons were just like these guys!

Since then, TV has killed comedy ... you have to be more dynamic on stage and it means your material ... sux ... as in tux ... or dux ... and too many of these folks are not good at mixing the visual with the aural.

Like it's any different with most musicos out there!

jonbouyI assume this means where Bapu lives is pronounced 'Thou sand a wax' then.

 
Jon ... you do know that this is a ... joke ... that is not discuss'able here on this board, right? Very California, btw! But I should state that it really started in Rio!