Always Quote by Christopher Lloyd

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

— Ricky Gervais

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires…

— Florence King

In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

British people have a really sophisticated sense of humour, because we're exposed to much more than Europeans and Americans, not least in our literary…

— Frankie Boyle

You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't…

— Matt LeBlanc

We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost…

— David Jason

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups…

— John Oliver

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is…

— Simon Pegg

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

— Kate Bush

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

— Katie Hopkins

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered…

— Theodore Zeldin

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point…

— James Thurber