British programming and I have been fast friends since high school. I cut my teeth on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and it did not stop there. I love British humor because it is wry, witty, subtle and smart -- rather like a description I would write of myself.
Here's an example of why I love the Brits so much: as a disclaimer to their new show "Hotel Babylon," they run this:
"The following program contains accents that you would have heard a lot more of if you hadn’t thrown our tea into Boston Harbor."
Followed by:
"To find out what on earth anyone is talking about, please turn on closed captioning."
Don't you just love that?
P.S. I understood them quite fine, thank you, without the assistance of closed captioning. I guess I dig foreign accents, and watching so many foreign television shows and movies probably helps.
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