I am on an American Christian forum, I don’t understand a lot of their wording, only when they post scripture,…so I look up the words they use,…they are lovely people and so helpful if I get lost on what is being interpreted.
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Many many many more and all same sad quality IMHO
When I was younger I preferred British Comedy
Monty Python
The Two Ronnies
Benny Hill
Fawlty Towers
Now a days I really don’t enjoy sitcoms the way I used to and Variety Shows are a thing of the past.
Non Comedy
The Prisoner
The Avengers
Nor do many of their own either Pauline. I have several friends from California right up the west side to Washington State and they not only confuse me, the confuse each other too. I gave up on 3 way phone calls and now only take singles.
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Nothing as good as Benny Hill then ?
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Not in my opinion. 
Although Jack Wright got the worst of it always patting his poor ole head. 
It was an unusual list,Monty P,The Two Ronnies,Fawlty Towers and then… Benny Hill.
Variety is the spice of life and all that.
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You would expect different from me? 
Why unusual?
Benny was just about chasing girls about wasn’t he ?
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And I was a teenage lad so our goals were right on! 
Sorry didn’t think of that.You are excused.
Well I can agree with some of those.
Monty Python and Fawlty Towers were both highly amusing, for different reasons.
All of the Monty Python films were excellent in my view, especially ‘The Meaning of Life’ which in some ways reflected my life as a child in a working-class home in Yorkshire. Yes, we even had an outdoor lavatory!
The Prisoner was rather strange in some ways, but was entertaining. The Avengers quite good for its time, but probably not quite as good today (when re-shown).
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Non British series from the same time that I still enjoy is NOVA.
Bilko was brilliant. It’s a shame that they aren’t being shown again on the streaming networks.
Frasier was/is pretty funny too, especially Niles’ infatuation with Daphne. In a classic scene, he and Daphne were spending a weekend together in a log cabin. While he was getting some champagne cooled in a bucket of ice, Daphne went off to get ready, and when she came back, Niles, champagne bottle in hand, took one glimpse of her, and the cork flew out of the bottle. Very suggestive. That scene was later edited for the Comedy Channel. Obviously too suggestive for some audiences.
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Ah yes, the rivalry between Australia and New Zealand is something special!
In general, Canadians don’t like being called “American,” but it’s nowt compared to the Kiwis and Ozzies!
On the whole, Canadians definitely do follow a more American culture than British.
I think it’s kind of hard not to, considering there’s not a big puddle between them!
In my early days here - when our daughter was younger - one of her teachers told me that I shouldn’t be teaching her British spellings, sayings, etc. as she lives in America, and I had an accent that was difficult to understand! That floored me!
But I will always spell ‘humour’ with a ‘u’! 
(My apologies for going off topic, again, but I love sharing stuff like this!
As for the Oz/Kiwi thing - it really is a friendly rivalry, which I don’t think will ever stop! And I hope it doesn’t!
Here’s one of the many videos comparing the two countries.
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In my experience of working with Americans (I worked in an American hospital in Saudi Arabia) I found them really insular, even to the extent that at least some of them were even unaware of other countries in the world! Certainly, some of them had a ‘superiority complex’, believing that they were better than people of other nationalities!
That at least is the impression I got at the time, though most of them in that hospital came from the south-eastern states: Atlanta, etc.
On the other hand, when we have visited our relatives in New England, the people we met there were really quite different.
I don’t know about California. I believe that over there they are all hippies anyway!
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I don’t go much on American humour but one programme I used to enjoy was “Cheers” with Ted Danson, the bar-flies were very quick-witted
The rivalry thing is cute as they all seem to get along well. What I have noticed is that both Canadians and Kiwis rise above it all. It seems more important to the bigger neighbours (or is that neighbors?!) to be seen as bigger and better. NZ has definitely put itself on the map of the world recently with Jacinda. I don’t think any country has such a strong young female role model at its helm.
I can understand the teacher as they have their own version of the language, although I am sure she couldn’t mark down the correct spelling 
. I hope she was polite! Teachers here would be likely to mark down using US spelling or terminology too (well in the old days at least).
In my experience, many teachers here wouldn’t know the difference!
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