British humor tends to be subdued until you get to the punchline. They set up their skits very well.

American humor tends to signal what the punchline will be.

Because they keep dumbing down.

I do watch more British TV of all types. I find them to be real people instead of plastic images of people in designer clothes.

That was a good bit.🤣

Dave was one of the BBC's most popular personalities. This is one of his sketches from his 1973 season.

The whole thing is on YouTube:

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He was actually Irish.

He had long-running TV series in the UK. He was a fabulous raconteur, regularly pillorying the madness of politics and the oddities of the Catholic faith. One sketch which involved "The Pope" doing a striptease on some church steps excited disapproval in some quarters. Lots of other sketches and performances of his can be found on YouTube. Here's one from 1971:



His "standup" sections (he always sat in a leather swivel chair with whiskey and cigarette in hand) were interspersed with filmed sketches like the one in the OP, usually very funny with a regular talented cast of supporting actors.

He was also a deep thinker, and fronted a thought-provoking TV series, In Search of the Great English Eccentric. Here's one episode:

Nice way to end the day. Thanks for posting!