Fleabag at the Emmys: How America fell in love with a 'dirty' British comedy
The fact it's the first British show to win best comedy series is partly down to the changing TV landscape - non-US shows aren't eligible for the Emmys unless they're co-produced by an American company, and global co-productions are more common in the global streaming era. So great British comedies like Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Absolutely Fabulous and the original The Office couldn't enter.
"There is a baseline appreciation for the craft of the show. But also if you look at the British shows that are really successful in America, I think there's a certain frisson at seeing British people swearing, and being as filthy as Fleabag is." "The clichés are of the British being more sarcastic and of the humour having a darker tinge to it," Stanford says."They are clichés, but there's probably some truth there."Veep nominees Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky consoled each other at the Emmys Governors Ball
"But I suppose it's universal. The feel of the thing is very British, but I think what she's writing about is far broader than that. The writing is just really good."
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