You don't have to take our word for it -- you can read it for yourself here in this Times of London book excerpt by the writer AA Gill titled "I hate England."
Gill, who spent one year as an infant in Scotland and thus insists he is not English -- in spite of living there ever since -- hates "the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England." He hates so many things about England that it is hard to know where to start, but one peeve stands out above the rest: English humour.
English humour is the sound of the bullies. The overtold story of the English underdog overcoming the big man with laughter is simply not true. The English constantly use their humour as an indiscriminate bludgeon. Jokes come one at a time and then gang up on victims, relentlessly pillorying Indians, West Indians, Jews, Gypsies, Scots, Irish, French, Germans, Essex girls, blondes, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, gays, northerners, southerners, Brummies, yokels, cripples, spastics, epileptics, midgets, lunatics, prostitutes, vicars, the Queen, the unions, Tories, chickens, dogs, donkeys, publicans, the devil and God.
There is hardly anyone who hasn’t at some point been slapped with the famous English humour. The bullying and teasing laughs pervade almost every aspect of life. Newspapers are a constant patter of punning headlines, would-you-believe-it human interest stories and columns of unkind personal observation written to raise a smile.
If you don't know who AA Gill is (we didn't either), there's a bit of info about him here. Basically, he's a newspaper critic and columnist for the Times.

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