I like British Humour a lot! My first brush with the British Humour was through legendary Marathi humorist Pu La Deshpande (or P. L. Deshpande). Pu La used to rave about P.G. Wodehouse and followed his kind of humour. When I started reading in English (which was from standard 8 or 9, because my introduction to English was in 5th standard), the first authors I read were Agatha Christie and P. G. Wodehouse. I was fascinated by both!
Since then I have been following British Humour a lot – first the books, later TV shows (Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister are my all time favourites), then British stand-up comedians and even stand-up mathematician (Matt Parker, though he is not strictly British, but an Aussie who has settled in Britain).
There is something about British accent that just works. Maybe I’m biased. But I find it very captivating, compared to American accent. And to me, Australian and South African English accents are a total turn off.
In general, British people have a great sense of humour. I experienced it first hand when I studied and lived there. So whatever they do, it always has a rich humour quotient.
Take example of the game show Countdown on BBC. It’s a game show about letters, numbers and conundrums, but it’s so much entertaining because of ample amount of humour sprinkled throughout the episode. There used to be a different anchor earlier. But now they have a proper comedian, and a very talented one at that, Jimmy Kar as their anchor!
Then there is Rachel Riley, who is so sweet and charming and a math geek too. I really liked Rachel and have seen how she has grown over the years, in terms of her on-screen presence and confidence.
Here is a collection of some funny and witty moments from the Countdown show.
First episode of Rachel Riley as an anchor. Look at her posture and screen presence. It was just belowe par.
Look at the transformation in some of the latest episodes! The show name has now changed to “8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown”
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