r/SipsTea • u/Quenki • 15h ago

Gasp! Just American things

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u/TheRiled 14h ago

Hi Americans. Brit here.

Please don't base your opinion on British humour from this clip.

This was a shit joke from a mediocre comedian.

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u/workieworkwork 12h ago

He also got like 90% of that wrong.

No one says "waste paper basket", We already say glasses, Squash and racket ball are different sports, the sidewalk isn't made out of pavement and I suppose we do say horseback riding or just riding.

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u/Eyedunno11 10h ago

And as far as I can tell, "sidewalk" originated in the UK, which seems to be the case with 90% of the "stupid words that silly Americans made up". ("Soccer" is the funniest one lol, just with how mad about it some English people get--and yes, at least in my experience it's primarily English people and not, say, Scottish people who get super pissed about "soccer".)

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u/TechnicalBen 12h ago

Next you'll be telling me it isn't "Look, a Lion!"

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u/TomorrowAble979 11h ago

I agree. Pretty obvious watching the host and other guests that they thought his set was garbage.

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u/Trick-Station8742 11h ago

He's such an unfunny bell end. 1.6k upvoter though 🙄

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u/SpaceChef3000 13h ago

The structure is there but the content doesn't really work.

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u/Lieutenant_Corndogs 10h ago

I enjoyed it. Doesn’t really matter if it’s true if the jokes are funny.

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u/PrimeToro 10h ago

Exactly. The whole point of comedy is to exaggerate things. Saying things that are completely true is not likely to be funny.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 9h ago

Tell your people to not to take it as real info then

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u/heyitsfranklin6322 8h ago

Nah I’ve seen taskmaster you guys are funny.

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u/slappingactors 7h ago

I thought it was funny. Great delivery, in any case.

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u/Radioactivocalypse 11h ago

Tbf Michael McIntyre is (or certainly at one point was) the highest grossing comedian in the world

So he's pretty hard to describe as mediocre. Although personal opinions vary

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u/TheRiled 11h ago

Popular =/= good

But yeah, he was extremely successful (and not entirely unfunny).

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u/BAMspek 11h ago

Dane Cook was popular once too…