Gotta Skim

Between being sick and running like a madman, I've been skimming the comics lately. There's been some spillover - "Zits" had a few strips about Jeremy's gratuitous cel phone bill, which is now also the subject of "Baldo".

Question: does anyone find "Fred Basset" funny? It took me awhile to realize that it's actually a British-flavored (or is that "flavoured") strip, which would account for some of the head-scratching, but it totally seems to exist in a different world than most other comics. I suppose it has to grow on you.