British Satire Quotes

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's a cartoon.' There's mixed media. It's funny, and there's stop-motion. But as an adult, you figure it out, how the entire underpinnings of their comedy was poking fun at the rank and file of the British aristocracy and the monarchy.

The British are so funny.

I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge.

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

I love British voicing and British humour in general. I'm a huge Ricky Gervais fan.

'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' is a hugely important movie to me. I remember watching it for the first time on cable when I was about 13 years old.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.

The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the Civil Servant. It doesn't work and it can't be fired.

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science, their labour bore fruit.