About Quote by Stephen Merchant

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

— Alice Lowe

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how…

— Kate Bush

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

— Bjork

Succession,' in my mind, is the first successful British comedy in America, and the way that you get Americans to like British comedy is…

— Cord Jefferson

Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs.

— Cord Jefferson

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

There's something inherently British about siding with the underdog. While comedy needs victims, it doesn't need to treat them in a brutal way -…

— Hugh Dennis

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

— Robin Williams

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

— Robert B. Weide

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

— Martin Freeman

The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And when we…

— Alice Lowe