Last nights final episode of Will and Grace had Karen advise Jack on how to submit to his new gay lover, Leslie:

"Youll do it the same way any self-respecting woman does," she tells him. "Get on your back, point your heels to Jesus and think of handbags!"

OK, not the dirtiest thing ever, but Ive not laughed so hard at mainstream TV in a long time.

Im sure UK TV is much much racier.

Oh, there was also the line in the restaurant that made me howl, when Jack muses about dessert: something "small and fruity, with lady fingers." and Leslie Jordan shows up on cue.



It would all be unremarkable, except for that such language was unheard of on TV a decade ago. Pop culture has this creeping quality about it.

TBH, I think Ive heard racier stuff on vintage episodes of "Are You Being Served" which stars the giant brother of Leslie Jordan.

Our TV is definitely much more racier.

Actually our humour is more crude too, which is probably why blunt, dry jokes get the most laughs.

Yall are cruder, to be sure. In general I find UK humor to be more conceptual, and American humor to be more social. Brits can do the frothy humor that Americas often fail at, but Americans are great at kicking themselves in the nuts.

Another great scene from last night: Will is lured falsely to the hospital to the room of his "friend" bandaged from head to toe. Will laments the injuries and thanks the man for helping him come out as gay so many years ago. The bandaged man yells biblical isults about homos at Will, Will frenches the guy through his small breathing hole, the patient whispers to Will, "Call me!".

lol thats on tonight


should be intermaresting.
D:

Watch it for the always delightful Jack and Karen, the lead characters are pointless except for a few one liners.

grace is good to laugh at. plus i think she is hot.

karen always has a few quality lines each episode
some of it can be construde as heartless but yet still

damn hilarious, to the point a little bit of wee came out

Grace is underfed upstate Jew with war paint. I bet her character smells like soup, matzoh ball soup. Its like youd approach her in a bar expecting a swooning musk with lavender, but instead she gives off the stench of tenement hallway. Boiled cabbage anyone?

id still dog her

Quote from: Clockd 0NeOur TV is definitely much more racier.

Actually our humour is more crude too, which is probably why blunt, dry jokes get the most laughs.

I think the proper term is bawdy. British humour is conceptually based on the humour that abounded in the British theatres. When the Victorians cleaned up a lot of earlier plays the humour moved to the seaside.

If you have a look at some of the early plays (canterbury tales being the best known but if you can get hold of an early copy of Shakespere the stuff is in there too) its pretty obvious what a bawdy lot we were.

I remember an episode of Blue Peter where the male presenter was getting into a Japanese mud bath and nakedly mooned thousands of schoolkids through the telly.