Primary Research Survey
As part of my Primary Research, I created the following survey.
I got 94 responses, including a few from America and other parts of the world. Here are the responses. I have discussed them in separate sections as appropriate, I wanted to put all the responses here for reference.
Michael McEntire (lol idk how to spell) The one that laughs like a window screen wiper but I can’t remember his name, Jimmy Carr?? |
Will and grace, the it crowd |
Anything by Victoria Wood Only fools and horses Porridge Open all hours Friends Will and Grace |
None come to mind |
Kevin heart |
Stand up |
Stand up comedies eg Russel Howard, real life with aspects of comedy eg idiot abroad |
Films and people like jack whitehall |
Sitcoms (the classics like Fawlty Towers, Dad!s Army, Porridge etc plus more modern ones like 2 point 4 children, After Life). Stand up comedy from the likes of Sarah Millican. Can’t remember many names but I quite like the show from the Apollo as you get variety and the sets are fairly short. |
Mainly sitcoms but generally speaking comedy series. Main ones ive watched that I liked are: Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia The Office US Community Brooklyn 99 Friday Night Dinner Modern Family Top Gear/The Grand Tour I also enjoy comedic youtube videos centred around gaming or even other stuff, but its not all youtube comedy I enjoy. An example of a channel I find entertaining is Casually Explained |
The It Crowd, The Garfield show |
Friends, funne amongus videos (steven suptic), HarleyJAG yt (Sonic startup sound), Brooklyn 99, |
Harley |
1917 |
Monty Python, BlackAdder, The Vicar of Dibley, Deadpool, Inside Number 9, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Ghostbusters (first one), Some Like It Hot, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Nottinghill, The Mask, Pink Panther movies, Shrek, many Pixar movies, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy, anything with Eddie Izzard, Tomska, Jon Malaney |
Daniel Slos, John Mulaney |
Bad Education, Airplane, Big bang theory, Les Misérables, The Office |
Monty python and the holy grail Life of Bwian Deadpool Fury (furry) |
James Acaster, Richard Ayoade, Greg Davies, Alex Horn, Rhod Gilbert, Hugh Dennis, Noel Fielding, Frank Skinner etc |
Task Master, YouTube Skits |
Gareth, I’m afraid that I’m too dumb to think of any comedys. Apologies |
Billy connolly |
A list of comedies that I have either watched more than once or would watch again: TOP TIER (watched many times): Monty Python (all), Edgar Wright movies (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, Spaced), Miranda, Community (mainly first few seasons), Horrible Histories (nostalgia) ROM-COM/TEEN COMEDIES (aka guilty pleasures shh): The Princess Diaries, She’s the Man, Wild Child, St Trinians (both), 10 Things I Hate About You, Mean Girls, Clueless, Bend It Like Beckham, Legally Blonde OTHER MOVIES: The Princess Bride, Shrek, Austin Powers, Johnny English, School of Rock, White Chicks, Clue, Yes God Yes, 12 in a Box, Wallace & Gromit, Mr Bean SERIES: The End of the F***ing World, I Am Not Okay With This, Sex Education, Derry Girls, Friday Night Dinner, The Good Place, One Day at a Time (the ONLY show with a laughing track that I will watch), Fawlty Towers, Outnumbered, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Bad Education, Fresh Meat, Cuckoo, Atypical (comedy-drama), Ackley Bridge (comedy-drama), The Inbetweeners, SOTUS (Thai series, can be found on youtube), Put Your Head On My Shoulder (Chinese series), Who’s Line is it Anyway? YOUTUBE: Jack and Dean, TomSka (asdfmovies), Parle Productions (Demyx Time and other series/videos, were taken down then reuploaded, no longer making videos), Wilbur Soot’s YLYL series, funny animal videos, clips of minecraft youtubers/streamers, Bo Burnham, Daniel Thrasher Probably missed a bunch, these are just ones I can remember 😀 |
Cornetto trilogy, It crowd, the good place, community, Brooklyn 99, Uncle, peepshow, Outnumbered |
Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Wild Wild West, Paul, Red Heat, almost any Disney film, every Top Gear film, The World’s End, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew (technically), Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, Ghostbusters, Borat (And Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) |
Some Like It Hot, Bringing Up Baby, The Jerk, A Fish Called Wanda, Dr Strangelove, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Airplane!, His Girl Friday, Gregory’s Girl, The Man With Two Brains, The Bed Sitting Room, Roxanne, The Holiday. |
The Hangover series of films, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Blackadder, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army, MASH, Kingsman, Despicable Me, Trolls, Lego Batman, Hotel Transylvania |
Blazing Saddles, Smokey & the Bandit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Blackadder |
Fawlty Towers, The It crowd, Blue Stone 42, Black Books, Teachers, Extras, Drifters, Inbetweeners, Killing Eve, Fresh Meat, Have I got News for you, Armstrong and Miller, Nice Guys, Snatch, lock Stock and two smoking barrels, the hang over, Me Myself and Irene. Red Dwalf |
Friends, Big Bang theory, Spy, Dodgeball, The Other woman, deadpool, hot fuzz, Tag, Game Night, 21 Jump Street, Sean of the Dead, American President, wedding crashers, the internship, Groundhog Day, love actually, Wimbledon. |
The vicar of dibley Only fools and horses Rising damp Porridge Blackadder Alloallo! Mr Bean Catastrophe Absolutely fabulous Death at a funeral Hot fuzz The world’s end Third rock from the sun Frasier Parks and recreations Brooklin nine nine Modern family Elf Galaxy quest Trading places The first wives club There’s something about mary Meet the parents Spy |
The Big Lebowski, Amélie (France), Hangover, Relatos Salvajes (Argentina), La la land, Green Book, From Dusk till Dawn, The Graduate, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Spain) |
not going out, life of Brian, South Park |
Carry on films, love thy neighbour, you’ve been framed, dads army, |
Live at the Apollo, Not Going Out, Friday Night Dinner, Only Fools & Horses |
Frasier, Peter Kay, Dave Allen, Blackadder, all Monty Python inc films, Veep |
Only Fools & Horses, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers. |
I forget names too easily sorry. |
Blackadder, My Family, Porridge, The Two Ronnies, Have I got News For You, The Vicar of Dibley, Friends |
League of their own, only fools & horses |
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Stepbrothers, Happy Gilmore |
Lee Evans |
Friends, Not going out, Mrs Browns Boys, Gavin and Stacy, Stella |
Stand up comedy, rom coms, movies, theatre, comics, pod casts |
Whose Line Is It Anyway Friends That 70s Show Beverly Hills Cop Trading Places The Hangover |
Impractical Jokers, Mock the week |
Step Brothers, Austin Powers, Ace Ventura, American Pie, |
Sarah millican, Seth Myers |
Peter kay, Lee mac, Rob Gilbert, Greg davis |
Inbetweeners |
Red Dwarf, IT Crowd, Simpsons, Dads Army, Father Ted, Moone Boy, Bottom, Futurama, Extras, Disenchantment, The Cornetto Trilogy |
The Office, Arrested Development, Peep Show |
Mr Bean, BlackAdder, Only Fools and Horses, Much Ado About Nothing, Bigbang theory, Monty Python films |
Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Frankie Boyle |
McNasty, Soup, Russel Howard |
Me |
taskmaster, QI |
Would I lie to you Taskmaster The gone wrong shows Parks & recreation Allo allo Have I got news for you The Ragenation shows Absolutely Fabulous Only fools and horses Modern family Derry girls Vicar of Dibley Black books Friday night dinner |
himym, glee, bad education, travels with my father, big show etc |
Taskmaster (ITV), 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, would I lie to you |
Would I lie to you Brooklyn Have I got news for you Parks & recreation |
Not sure |
Brooklyn 99 |
booksmart, the package |
The League of Gentlemen, Fleabag, Monty Python, Blackadder, Brooklyn 99 |
Airplane, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Life of Brian, The Holy Grail |
Only fools and horses, Open all hours,Porridge |
Brooklyn Nine Nine, The office, How I met your mother |
Stand up Robin Williams (funniest man who ever lived) Russell Howard Michael McEntyre John Mulaney Dave Chappell Ricky Gervais Patron Oswald Sarah Silverman Iliza Schlesinger Billy Connolly Craig Ferguson Richard Pryor Eddie Murphy Chris Rock Eddie Izzard Danny Bhoy TV Saturday Night Live In Living Color Carol Burnette Show I Love Lucy Coupling The IT Crowd The Big Bang Theory Keeping Up Appearances Fawlty Towers Absolutely Fabulous Monty Pythons Flying Circus Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Marvelous Mrs Masel The Detectorists (one of the best shows ever. Brilliant writing) Fleabag New Tricks The Graham Norton Show Parks and Recreation 3rd Rock from the Sun Movies Anything Mel Brooks ever wrote and directed Arthur Rocky Horror Picture Show Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Blues Brothers A Fish Called Wanda Love Actually The Hangover Harold and Kumar go to White Castle Four Weddings and a Funeral Hot Fuzz Bay watch Get Shorty Hard to categorize Rowan Atkinson could read the phone book and it would be funny. Randy Rainbow The Southern Women’s channel on YouTube. It used to be called Sh*t Southern Women Say |
Billy Connel, David Mitchell, Lee Mack |
Anything by John Mulaney Standup specials on netflix Deadpool Shaun of the Dead The Hangover Talledega Nights Zombieland Zoolander Tropic Thunder Spy who Dumped me Bay watch Jump Street Red |
Trevor Noah |
I watch standup shows, I like situational comedy. I live in Belgium |
The accent annoys me |
it make me go haha |
I like comedy that I can associate with. Things that might happen in my life. Personal situations can be the same the world over. |
It make me go haha 😆 |
It makes me go haha |
It’s more relatable |
It’s just so much better, relates to me more |
American accents are so annoying, and I find English humour i can relate to more |
Americans annoy me |
I prefer listening to a British accent, and making fun out of things we are familiar with. |
Hard to say, but if I HAD to chose I prefer American humour. I like the chaotic energy a lot of american comedy shows have, such as Always Sunny. But I can also really enjoy the more British humour, not sure how to desribe why tho for that |
England had a better sense of humour |
I like american comedy as it seems quite upbeat and less serious, but british comedy is good too as it’s often relatable and more sarcastic |
It make me go ha ha |
It dont make me go haha |
I do think that most British and American comedies have different styles, British humour tends to involve laughing at ourselves more, whereas American seems to be much more “one-liners” but I like both |
Its witty and actually funny |
It make me go hehe |
It causes me to inhale and exhale air in such a way which creates a sound which could be described as going haha |
It often has a drier more nuanced approach to its comedy thats not as in your face |
It make me go haha… Also I find it to generally be far more subtle and witty |
I am dumb, too Himbo, busy makin mushrooms but I take time for dis for u (UwU) |
It make me go ha ha |
I like both, but probably prefer British humour as American humour can be a bit toooo optimistic at times and it can be nice to watch something where what the humour is based around is something you might see everyday (whereas you wouldn’t see the same things everyday as in American comedies, if that makes any sense). Sometimes I prefer the the more ‘optimistic’ (and less self-depricating) American style as it’s kinda comforting and can be used for escapism. I like short videos with more concentrated comedy, as well as series and long movies that have the comedy placed throughout but not necessarily constantly ‘funny’ (with the exception of Miranda) because then it can devalue the humour a bit. Note: I like all the Edgar Wright movies you’ve put down, but just not The World’s End and Baby Driver as much as the others. |
I like the dryness of British comedy, but I also enjoy the whacky nature of American comedy. So I like both bit they’re definitely different. |
I enjoy a range of different types of comedies. |
Both have their own style which I can find funny at the right time. |
I find American films cruder and more risque than English films, but shorter English comedies (tv) tend to be as risque |
British comedy can be dark humour and sarcastic |
Not always , but generally I like clever comedy which is either witty or generally very sarcastic. Although I generally find the UK sense of humour better than the US, for films I find both cultures are very similar. Also volume of films from the US is larger and therefore more variety. |
I like both sense of humour |
In Spain we’re getting much more US films than UK films in general. Then I’m more exposed to US movies. |
I remember more British comedy than American |
Probably enjoy British comedy more but some American is still good. |
Enjoy both types of humour |
Too difficult to explain. If it makes me laugh I like it! |
Don’t find American comedy that funny. |
It make me go haha |
Generally, well written and quite dry. |
Think true Brit comedy is the best |
British comedies way more subtle and nuanced, American comedies are great but way less depth to them |
British comedy is easier to understand, Americans can be a bit dry. |
I prefer the British humour |
I enjoy all other comedy from other cultures but the above were the only choices |
Both British and American comedies are good. British comedy is usually more satire. |
Different parts of each appeal to me |
I like both out right and subtle dry comedy |
Depends on the comedian not their country of origin |
British Humour is dry |
It depends on the series and the mood I am in. Sometimes American comedies feel “over the top” – like the actors are in pantomime. |
They are different types of humour which helps mix things up |
I like the breadth of British comedy which can go from purely visual comic effects or silly situations to subtle dialogs |
For example, i like the big bang theory (american comedy), but i dont like american versions of UK shows, like the US office or US inbetweeners. |
The more controversial n out of left field the better |
Both are good but can be bad |
It make me go haha funny |
british make big funny |
It is about if the comedy makes me laugh or smile not about where it was produced |
brits> americans |
British humid more subtle and overall far superior |
American comedies have longer seasons |
Lives are different so a comedy of someone else’s is interesting and uk ones are relevant. |
I can relate to it and i understand the humor better |
British comedy is more witty and if done well can be much more funny. However there is little margin for error and many low quality British ones are just shoddy which is where the American ones pick up. |
In general British comedy is more subtle and dark/absurd, which I like, whereas I find American comedy tends to be obvious/cliched |
It is a more complex level of comedy that has more dark and serious undertones that bring a greater depth of comedic entertainment. |
Makes me laugh out loud |
British humour is relatable but American comedy is easier to consume eg. English office is excruciating and funny whereas the American office is less excruciating and still funny |
I love to laugh so a good comedy is appreciated! Even though I am American and like American comedy, I prefer British comedy. I just like the humor. American humor is very straightforward. British humor is often dry and witty. There is a lot of innuendo and subtext to British humor. However, I really didn’t like Benny Hill at all. |
They talk about things that are familiar |
As an American, i appreciate both types of humour. American comedies are usually more crass and British comedies are so… British |
i’m not native English speaker so i may not be really get the difference between British and American comedy |
US and UK comedy styles are different, so both can be funny depending on context. |
