BBC World Circus...?

I've recently been listening to the BBC World Service news on NPR. When I first started listening to it I couldn't figure out why I had this sense of build up, and then let down.

My brain's been noodling over this puzzle for awhile and finally presented me with an answer: There's no punch line.

The British people on the BBC World Service all have the voices, accents and inflections of a Monty Python skit - I keep waiting to hear something funny.

I'm a Pavlovian Monty Python fan - when I hear those clipped British syllables, my whole body leans toward the radio in anticipation of laughing till I pee in my pants, but instead I get a droll delivery of depressing news about Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs. (How could they not make those two names funny? All the other NPR shows have.)

Now that I understand my conditioned response, it's taken the joy out of listening to the BBC World Service. If they're not going to break into a few verses of "Spam, spam, spam, spam"
why bother?