This form of tasteless business has little to do with nationality, therefore it would be best not to mention it in the thread title at all. The phenomenon has now spread to all countries where it is not forbidden. And those who think they have just watched the pinnacle of that wave ain't seen nothing yet. Stripping in public, eating anything remotely edible, defecating, (almost) all kinds of insult and abuse, ... you name it, if you have that sort of imagination. In Europe we have several (!) "comedy channels" broadcasting the stuff 12/7 (where the other 12/7 are commercials, equally "funny").

I just watched some newer "Candid Camera" sequences on YouTube - no longer real comedy either (but still better than those "comedy" channels). Watching people being baffled by apparently illogical events can be entertaining, but it is much funnier if it also exposes their weeknesses.

We have many good comedians, and we could find and feed a lot more of them, were it not for the juggernauts of commercial TV who actively fight good taste. The same applies to music, as we all know.