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Definitely. It's rather that the plucky underdog surviving on his wits is practically absent in British comedy.

Brits don't do Bugs Bunny, only Wile E. Coyote.

I think there are also plenty of counterexamples in that direction. Isn’t Edmund Blackadder a plucky underdog surviving on his wits?

Blackadder almost always fails by some measure.

He wins sometimes. Ask the Bishop of Bath and Wells.