Culture Wars: American Office v British Office - which is better?

"The Office" (American version) from what little I've seen of it, to be honest other than snippets just the wedding episode, Niagra, is incredibly cute and fun and very funny. Scripting of the hour-long Niagra episode was a small marvel - it really is as good as a movie and could have been a movie except then they would have made it 90 minutes or maybe 2 hours and it would have lost its charm. Keeping within the hour timeframe (about 45 minutes with commercial breaks) imposed great discipline and showed how efficiently they could tell the story - and you don't even need to be a regular viewer of the show to pick everything up right away. Many very funny scenes and concepts, including Steve Carrell's decorating his own car for the drive to the wedding (Going to a Wedding!), his terrific toast so unfunny it's hysterical (wedding toasts have become a real test of scriptwriter's skills: see the underappreciated Rachel's Getting Married sequence), the guy walking around with Kleenex-box shoes, many more. I've been a fan of the British Office and was not drawn to see the American particularly, but found it great in a different way - which (maybe?) says something about our culture or our differing senses of humor: The American much softer and sweeter, though the characters are of the same type, mostly (the guys, anyway) idiotic but thinking they're smart (cf Dumb & Dumber), the humor is light and inoffensive. The Gervais British original is much more acerbic, and the writing more self-consciously literary (Gervais even reads poems about Slough - they don't do that about Scranton I bet).