Comment by lanfeust6

1 day ago

I'm not sure it's generally true that funny English characters aren't sympathetic.

You're right, there are plenty of sympathetic ones too, but it's the unsympathetic ones that really don't do so well to a US audience. There's a reason that The Office (US) hard pivoted Michael Scott after season 1.

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is both hilarious and sympathetic so there's that.