[Steve_Seattle]

"Comedy often doesn't translate to other cultures."

That's for sure; for years, a friend tried to sell me on British humor like "The Two Ronnies" and that other well-known troupe from the 60s and 70s whose name escapes me right now. I thought they were incredibly lame and corny, but the Brits loved them.

[durasell]

Right. So figure you're a Hollywood executive. You know that something like more than half of the profits will come from Asia, South/Central America, and Western Europe. You have two scripts in front of you:

Script A: An action adventure movie with a Brad Pitt type character and no less than a half dozen exotic cars blowing up on a beach in South California filled with bikini clad babes with Matrix-like special effects.

Script B: A "side-splitting" gentle comedy that takes place in an Amish community.

Both movies cost $100 million to make and if you choose wrong, then you get to be fired and known as the guy who made the "Amish comedy."