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"Little britain- How depressing"

I see it dominated the british comedy awards, how depressing, a program which is about as fun as finding out you have TB, cancer and AIDS and running your own personal sweepstake on which will kill you first.No offence but this programme is moronic. I am not sensitive to this kind of thing, but they get away with a lot, I wouldn't mind if it was actually relatively funny. Hahahahahaha we will try and take the pisss out of disabled people in the least funny way possible whilst spawning the most stupid and annoying catchphrases ever. If you want to make humour of of the situations at least make it vaguely funny, Timargh in south park is pretty amusing and is related to the same subject matter, thats because they try to actually be funny and slapstick rather than constantly see how much they can get away with.

At what point did screaming "i'm the only gay in the village" make for hilarious viewing? pure bull.

the only thing in little britain i ever at anypoint found amusing was the pikey girl. It was related well to real life and was done pretty well and was amusing the first time you saw it, maybe even the second time. But after that its limited comical value was worn out.

I appreciate that the BBC feels obliged to waste as much of the licence fee as it humanly can, and that bigging up little britain in some way seems to justify the existence of BBC 3, but lets be honest it is bullcrap of the highest order.

I am more than happy to watch mindless crap, low budget productions, hardly any subject is taboo with me, I am a pisshead student for godsake! but this has to be the most over rated programme in the history of television, not clever, not witty, and shitte. those awards better not have been voted for, otherwise this country is in a worse state than i thought (and i am an optimist!)

Omnia Vincit Amor wrote:
> Ashley wrote:
> we will try and take
> the pisss out of disabled people in the least funny way possible
>
> I actually think they were trying to show how there are people in
> this country that pretend they are disabled to get the perks and the
> money.

Or ... or ... perhaps, just perhaps, they were making a comedy sketch.

Oh my God! A guy in a wheelchair! How very racist.
muh

Rickoss wrote:
> Mr T sketch > all

Mr T > all

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Whitestripes DX wrote:
> I don't understand the joke behind 'I'm the only gay in the
> village'.
>
> Is there actually one or is it just meant to be taken at face value?
>
> Face value. He's not gay, that's plainly obvious. He just wants to be
> different. Every opportunity he gets of meeting someone who is
> actually gay, he backs off.

and that the rest of the village is, in fact, gay of course.
tha's kind of the overriding gag.

Little Britain is ok, it has it's moments, but a lot of it's material doesn't stand up to a 2nd (or 3rd, tops) viewing. Funny once, but not worth getting on dvd or anything, i say the same for the office as well.

monkey_man wrote:

> Spaced, Big Train, Jam, The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge, KMKYWAP,
> Brass Eye, Rock Profile - all genius because they are ACTUALLY FUNNY,

absolutely, all because they have a higher calibre of script and material. a majority of those have involved Chris Morris in some way, clearly demonstrating to all who didn't know that he's sheer brilliance :)

as for school of rock > SOTD?? i think they'll find it isn't....

Mr T sketch > all

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> NEver watched Little Britain, always wanted too but I'm either out or
> totally forget it's on.

Seriously? It's hard to miss considering it's repeated five times every night on BBC 3.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> NEver watched Little Britain, always wanted too but I'm either out or
> totally forget it's on. I'll get around to watching it at some
> point....maybe
>
> I can't stand Bo'Selecta though. The whole show's like one big long
> unfunny catchphrase

That's pretty much all Little Britain is too.

NEver watched Little Britain, always wanted too but I'm either out or totally forget it's on. I'll get around to watching it at some point....maybe

I can't stand Bo'Selecta though. The whole show's like one big long unfunny catchphrase, it just sucks so freaking badly.

Light wrote:
> Yup; if people don't like it...well, then ignore it.
>
> People have more respect for that than for someone who goes out of
> their way to show how clever and individual they are by slating
> something for on reason beyond "I don't like it (to nick a
> quote", and it's popular".

no thats not the issue I wish it was! I'm not waging my one man war against the world and am a pretty mainstream kind of guy. I like my humour light hearted, enjoy slapstick comedy and witty satire yet i find none of these present in little Britain. If i constantly tried to make individualist comments and pretend to hate all things mainstream or popular than fair play, but if i just ignore it then the issue isn't raised and its quite a pertinent issue, as the program is pretty crap and is getting ridiculous levels of praise which seems to me to be completely unjustified.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Dear lord, you can tell who's at work on a Christmas Eve eh?
> Feel the bad vibes and tetchiness.

Heh. Not being with Mrs Light at Xmas has led to my wanting to kill people...

monkey_man wrote:

> I'm sticking to my opinion here Light. I've always said it wasn't
> funny, and that's not going to change. It's not Lucas and Walliams
> either, I really like them. It's the material, and the way the BBC
> championed it on BBC3 as a cult comedy, before changing their mind
> and dumbing it down for mainstream viewers. but I don;t care, if
> it's funny, it's funny. It isn't. To me. ME.

M'kay, fair enough; least you're not claiming it's anything more than your opinion, and I can't argue with that.