Right, I feel quite defensive of British comedy in general but there's no denying we produce a lot of godawful shite. I've never watched much Mr Bean but I've always mentally filed it in the same category as Mrs Brown's Boys or The Benny Hill Show.
I’m in the same boat. There’s some truly top quality stuff that I’ll defend to the death, and some utter rubbish. The US has the same though - they’ve got excellent stuff like Eddie Murphy and Arrested Development, and awful unfunny shit like Owen Benjamin and Big Bang Theory