There are some funny British stand-ups, and American sitcoms and stand-ups. The problem is they are so rare that you have to be either tipped off about them, or be prepared to wade through a load of rubbish to find the good stuff.
For what it's worth these are my own tips…
Mickey Flanagan - Same sort of age group as me, no PC and the best of the stand-ups currently doing the rounds.
Sarah Millican - I like her. You might not. Yes her humour is targeted at women, but she is a woman so entitled to do that, and she is actually funny.
Nina Conti and Monkey - A ventriloquist. Forget her other puppets, Monkey is the one to watch. A nasty-yet-funny character. The sexual assault on the pint glass is brilliant.
Always Sunny in Philadelphia - A US Sitcom. Not PC - they do blackface, have characters who take drugs, sniff glue, stalk women, and one is almost certainly a serial killer! They swear like good 'uns which is unusual for Americans.
Jeff Dunham - Another ventriloquist. The three best characters are Peanut, Achmed the Dead Terrorist and Walter. Not PC again, but really funny. Swears like a trooper.
Dave Strassman and Kevin or Woody - Another vent. Not PC and funny as hell, especially Kevin.
I wonder why ventriloquism seems to be on the rise again. I enjoy watching them because they are funny, but it seems that the American's can say things through a puppet that they couldn't get away with as straight stand-ups.
No, American’s don’t do our kind of humour, but that doesn’t mean that some of the aren’t funny. They are, but don’t expect to get that more surreal kind of humour we enjoy (except Peanut – one of Jeff Dunham’s characters). It’s not wrong, it’s just different.