I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.