I realized that almost all comedy I ever watched and enjoyed was English-language speaking. Not necessarily natively English, I found "Norsemen" hilarious and it's Norway-produced featuring Norway actors, but it's distinctive feature is that they speak English. The obvious accent only adds to authenticity (they are Vikings) and makes it funnier: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5905354/ Other than that I tried watching comedy in other languages (French, Korean, Israeli, Turkish shows on Netflix) and found them painfully unfunny. Not the case with general movies, action and all, where there's no monopoly on the Anglosphere. My explanation for why comedy is only enjoyable in English boils down to two possible causes: The non-English world is fundamentally unfunny and incapable of anything but the lamest of Three Stooges type of retarded humor Comedy and language are intimately related, more than other theatrical domains like drama, so "getting" the comedy requires a native understanding of the language and it's idiosyncrasies. A Turkish comedy might be very funny to Turkish speaking people but to me it's Three Stooges. Same for Korean and generally Asian comedy, I don't get it at all, basically people hitting each other. Only foreign ones which I do find slightly funny is French and German, non-coincidentally because I speak a bit of these language (examples would be Louis de Funès and Danke, Anke!). What do you think? #1 or #2? I also speak native Romanian and can confirm native comedy is Three Stooges retarded type, so #1 in this case.
Better comedy broadens the tribe. Shared truth reduces negativity. Making people into fools is funny for a police state.
That's interesting. I've seen a lot of Scandinavian films especially Swedish & Finnish films and there isn't much comedy to them. It seems they are mostly dramas with people surviving very cold winters. I mean Ingmar Bergman films are downright depressing. One of my favorite films was the Finnish film Laitakaupungin Valot (2006) but it is yet another drama filled with sadness.