Hey /lit/, I was always a fan of british caustic humor and critics.

>>8770492
I could think of a few writers who come to mind, like Wilde or Wodehouse, but I think our best humor is really on our televisions right now. There's this kind of genre of patheticism we've really nailed, and you can see it shows or movies like Withnail and I, Peep Show, Mighty Boosh, Office, Faulty Towres, In Bruges etc, and I think that's the kind of obvious evolution to our sarcastic culture.

Maybe a better anon could give you suggestions that are actually, well, books.

>>8770531
Thanks for it.

I was thinking about recent stuff, you know, like those rants that british are so famous for.

I had watched the peep show and it was amazing, but, I have just this strange feeling which come up in my mind.

I have to feeling that, there is lots of cool things going aroung England, like, cool journalist writting cool stuff and not so famous writer doing this caustic humor or critic about things, but, since I don't live there, this things will delay like 10 years to came to me.

>>8770584
As someone who grew up in London around a couple of journalists and mid-level "intelligentsia",
I'm afraid that's quite a romanticized image. We're a really classist society, and are very cliquey. For such a small island, you can totally identify someone's entire background, and that, coupled with our extreme self-consciousness, means we act very cliquey, basically hang out in the same groups and, sadly, become narrow minded. So while there are some excellent rants (every drunk Englishman is a depressant) they're very rarely enlightened ones, and in fact, often contain a strong air of snobishness (and this works on both sides of the class divide). Furthermore, our penchant for pessimism means what we do believe in strongly, is quite limited. Really, we've been riding on the coattails of a dead empire for a hundred years now, and our reputation really does just proceed it. My city is a prime example - London has been husked out by the super-rich who have no interest in our culture or city other than it's sheer fashionability, and because of that, it has no real fashion left.

But, if you want our brand of dark humour and sarcasm, with a lot more openness and a focus on morbidity, go to Ireland or the North. Things are less shit there.

And out of interest - what country are you from?

>>8770617
Hello buddy.

Well, I agree with what you said, I just talked to some random girls once and they didn't know who Alan Moore is. But let's talk about Alan Moore.

When the British authors started to write comics, all the comics became more...deeply and less shit. It's because, no matter how shitty and not so smart England is now, in other places it's worse. What is normal to a British citizen read in school, is 10 x more than other places. So the power level of England is pretty high if you look up around.

And I am from Brazil. That's why my english sucks, sorry about that.

Classic brit-core humorous writing would be:

Jerome K Jerome - Three men in a boat (endlessly stolen from even today).

Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

EF Benson - various Mapp & Lucia (start with Queen Lucia, its on Gutenberg).

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

I don't really enjoy Wodhouse and I think Benson does the same sort of thing far better and has a lot more depth and skill as a writer of prose.

>>8770492
I've always enjoyed Saki and Jerome K. Jerome.

>>8771077
Never heard about any of the other ones though, so thanks for the recs. I have Wodehouse, Max Beerbohm and John Colliers which were recommended to me on /lit/ a while ago as being essential British humour but I can't vouch for any of them.

>>8771077
>>8771142
Thanks a lot, I will be googling all of them and trying to buy some copies.

This is a cool start.

>>8771196
Check out Gutenberg, they are all old enough they might be out of copyright now.

>>8771077
>Jerome K Jerome - Three men in a boat

good choice, this is one of my favourite books. fun fact, all the pubs mentioned in the book are still open today

could add something more recent to the list as well. tom sharpe maybe

>>8771321

Please recommend recent stuff too if you know some!

>>8770492
I, Claud - Claud Cockburn

Will Self-articles and books
Stewart Lee-articles

Your image immediately brought Terry Pratchett to mind but that may not be what you want.

OP here.

One more thing I remember, a pure gold that I neve had full access.

Do you know the "Black Mirror" writer? The tv show?

He used to have a collumm in a game magazine, people send letter to him so he can say funny shit about them, and it was very fun. I read some of them but couldn't find a compliation of this online, but if you can, give it a try, it's pretty nice.

>>8771425
Watch Brass Eye on youtube. That show is the peak of dark British humour.

>>8771440
All right, it's gonna be a day full of nice stuff.

Thanks.

>>8771486
Start with the Paedophile episode.

>>8771490
That's exactly the first episode I put to watch later on youtube!

The Complete Upmanship is so british that you have to be british to understand all the book

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>>8771425
>Do you know the "Black Mirror" writer? The tv show?

charlie brooker. he has basically made his career out of ascerbic ranting
the most incredible thing about him is that he is married to pic related

>>8771594
Yeah, and when I knew about this fact and also read some of the things he wrote, I totally understood that "The Waldo time" (or something like this) was more about his whole career than actually a critic on society.