the.com/british comedy
the art of making despair sound like the funniest thing that ever happened to you.
means a comic tradition built on understatement, class awkwardness, and the belief that dignity is best lost slowly, on camera.
from traces from music hall and pantomime through radio's the goon show, then exploded via monty python's flying circus in 1969, which took absurdism mainstream and never gave it back.
key rulenever admit the joke is happening
favorite subjectfailure, delivered with a straight face
export successbasically invented the modern sitcom cringe format
secret weaponsilence is funnier than the punchline