{"id":1183,"date":"2007-05-20T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T23:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:29:09","slug":"lazy-sunday-comedy-iii-the-difference-between-uk-and-us-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2007\/05\/20\/lazy-sunday-comedy-iii-the-difference-between-uk-and-us-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Sunday Comedy III: the difference between UK and US comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis time, let&#8217;s look at two sketches with the same joke. The first is from the <cite>Not the Nine O&#8217;Clock News<\/cite> show:\n<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vLDyTFOSWvk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vLDyTFOSWvk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nThe second from <cite>Saturday Night Live<\/cite>:\n<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YYoM481QE4A\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YYoM481QE4A\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nTwo shows, one British, one American, with the same joke. Both aren&#8217;t that funny, but they do show a remarkable difference in approach. A difference in national comedy styles? Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, let&#8217;s look at two sketches with the same joke. The first is from the Not the Nine O&#8217;Clock News show: The second from Saturday Night Live: Two shows, one British, one American, with the same joke. Both aren&#8217;t that funny, but they do show a remarkable difference in approach. A difference in national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,242],"tags":[650,651],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-video","tag-not-the-nine-oclock-news","tag-saturday-night-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}