with my two star i will probably make it to the head of the imdb hated it list for this apparently tremendously popular tv series . not least because of the enthusiastic comment on this website and i decide to purchase a dvd edition of the series . because i usually find british humour suit me just fine . i give up in the middle of the second instalment and accord to other comment the funniest bit be already through . so now i know and accord to another comment and that i definitely lack a sense of humour . but then i have to laugh like crazy while watch ( and re watch ) fawlty tower to which black book be albeit faintly thematically relate . why the different reaction . it might be a mere generation thing and and yet the difference can be point out . both fawlty tower and black book be set in business which be mean to sustain their owner financially . both business be not successful but seem by a miracle to survive . fawlty tower be funny because the protagonist have to deal with situation they can not cope with . the funniness lie in the fact that they make a serious effort to succeed and while laugh one also feel sorry for them . black book have no situation and it just there and the owner pass his time feeling sorry for himself . if a situation threaten to arise and it be quickly shoo away . it be remarkable how fast and how often a subject be drop and the protagonist turn to something entirely different to produce an additional joke . tell joke and not very good one seem to be all black book be about . why a bookstore . a hardware store would have do the job just as well . no and stop and wait . it a bookshop because below the veneer of rudeness and vulgarity and arrogance the protagonist be suppose to be delicate and culture . they be not some lowbrow gorilla but bumble semi intellectual loser . hey and they be like you and me . the manner in which the series make that claim be the only way i can explain it success . there be nothing remarkable in the protagonist action and what special about them be their economically unrealistic living condition many viewer maybe envy them for . that protagonists that narcissistic and vapid convey a sense of belonging and companionship seem to be a trademark of the time the first world be presently live in . recently i watch tittybangbang and also a fairly new british tv comedy show . i find it uproariously funny . it be often quite tasteless or xenophobic but always with a purpose and hit the bull eye in it social criticism . the humour be mainly create by situation or by character with a purpose . the low rating in imdb might indicate that this brand of humour be not in keep with the time and but i be glad it still alive and kick and hope it will continue to do so .