The five stages of British gags: silliness, repression, anger, innuendo, fear
Are you Fawlty, Edina, Partridge or Brent? In his new play Monster Raving Loony, James Graham examines what 70 years of comedy reveal about ourselves " through the story of Screaming Lord SutchWhen it comes to comedy, national stereotypes have long carried their own punch lines: the British like a saucy pun, Americans don't get irony, Germans have an obsession with scatological humour, and the French, well, they don'…