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It's not about whether they had a sense of humour or not, but about the extent to which they needed to know things to find Kath and Kim funny.
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Hello?
If you don't understand Australian class, and what defines who's in what class (mannerisms, accents, etc.), then I imagine you don't really find the show amusing (and you may not find it amusing even if you do understand these things).
It's not about whether we have a sense of humor, it's about satire. If we don't understand the medium, then how can we understand when someone's making fun of it?
I'm sure there's a number of shows here that we find hillarious, but that Aussie's don't get (I don't watch a lot of sitcoms, so nothing comes to mind...).
It's not about "thinking the world revolves around us," it's about cultural knowledge informing our sense of humor.
I've listened to Eddie Izzard, and sometimes I have no idea what he's talking about (the late night petrol station joke comes to mind, about the bag of charcoal). I don't associate late night gas station with buying charcoal. That's a cultural thing.
And, since they're University students, they may have been uncomfortable by the show because it seems like it would be offensive to the group they're showing, which I'm guess from the picture is from a low socio-economic background. We're very PC over here, and a show poking fun at black people isn't acceptable (unless the actors/writers are black themselves). We don't like seeing people making fun of a group unless we know they came from that group. And with Kath and Kim, that may not appear to be the case.