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lanfeust6yesterday at 2:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'm not sure it's generally true that funny English characters aren't sympathetic.


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xnorswapyesterday at 2:42 PM

You're right, there are plenty of sympathetic ones too, but it's the unsympathetic ones that really don't do so well to a US audience. There's a reason that The Office (US) hard pivoted Michael Scott after season 1.

Beestieyesterday at 2:43 PM

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is both hilarious and sympathetic so there's that.