" One is told at every level of the entertainment industry that the American audience does not like or understand English humour. We are told that at every level except that of the audience, who, as far as I can see, love it. It’s everybody else, the people whose job it is to tell you what the audiences like; but the people I meet here, and in the US, who are fans, are very much the same type of people. “The most commonly heard plea from American audiences is ‘Don’t let them Americanise it! We get all sorts of pabulum over here…! "

― Neil Gaiman , Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion