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Humor vs. Humour
Bob Thompson, Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television and Professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, and author, Television in the Antenna Age (Blackwell 2005)
- on British humor and how it translates for American television audiences
» Bob Thompson website
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Andy Stott, Assistant Professor of English Literature at SUNY Buffalo and author, Comedy (Routledge 2004)
- on the differences between American and British comedy
» Andy Stott website
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