Why is Little Britain so damn popular?

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I mean it's quite funny and that but does anyone find it a little strange that this rather repetitive League of Gents / Fast Show hybrid should be getting all these awards and critical lauding? The swimming pool sketch even recently knocked Monty Python's Dead Parrot to number two in a recent "Best Ever Sketches" thing on TV the other day.

What is it that sets this particular show apart from the rest? Did it just come at the right time (Vicky Pollard and the Chav "phenomenon") etc?

And I don't know if this is true but I've noticed that it is mainly the right-wing papers that have welcomed Little Britain into their top 10s. Is this because it is just on the right side of edgy, managing to have jokes about the disabled or the lower classes without doing a Chris Morris in the PC stakes?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this show is one of those reasons i will never "get" england

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, wait, actually i think i totally get it: this is your mad tv

(only with like, apparently, awards and such, instead of universal derision)

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the swimming pool sketch is funnier than the dead parrot sketch

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I find neither funny.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the scottish hotelier, prob. the best character

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes it is. That's because the Dead Parrot sketch isn't that funny.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps - and i've really not given this much thought - it's because people can actually identify more closely with some of the characters than they can with the more surreal creations of the pythons/gentlemen/fast-showers etc. i mean, i don't know any teds and ralphs or swiss tonis, but i sure as fuck see a lot of vicki pollards. and even the more outre characters [1] (dafydd, emily pollard etc) are still juxtaposed with this fantastically parochial backdrop with which everyone can identify ...

... yeh, parochialism. that's the key.

[1] while writing this i realised that, eh, most of the characters are quite outre. but hey, that would fuck my argument a bit.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

On that sketch programme I found the ideas for the characters funnier than the actual sketches - never having seen any LB before. I think I don't like either of the main performers much.

xpost I think there's about the same balance of observational comedy/nonsense as on the Fast Show.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Little Britain is the worst thing Matt Lucas and David Walliams have done, suggesting they should stick to being second/third bananas in other people's work. The right may well champion it as to them it's 'the acceptable side of homosexualised comedy i.e. everyone in it is a freak, as are all homosexuals, so it's okay to laugh - plus everyone in it gets kicks out of being nasty to other people, which i can certainly relate to'. I hate that type of 'comedy' myself. This is a slightly OTT reaction though granted, as I have chuckled once or twice the few times I could stand to watch it (mostly just at Tom Baker's narration mind you).

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

didnt the fast show, fleetingly, rise to the top of all these chart type things?

i think i saw little britain once, it was ok. i dont really like comedy very much, but it didnt seem so bad

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(Tom xpost)

I don't think, unlike the Fast Show, there's anything in there apart from that. I can't imagine Little Britain ever reducing me to tears (as in tears of crying) as one episode of the Fast Show did.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it would seem to be as popular as it seems to be if it weren't for the BBC3 promotion aspect of it, which encourages them to make it seem more popular. And that.

Also it is popular because it has catchphrases which children can repeat at the school bus stop (excpet they don't seem to have school buses any more).

I have only seen brief snippets of the Fast Show and League of Gentlemen and I prefer Little Britain.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's pretty funny but i also think it's wearing out its memes VERY quickly

wasn't it on radio for years? i never listen to radio

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's because it's called "Little Britain" and people automatically think "uh uh uh... Britain = British = British Comedy = We'll giv ethem the award!"

I bought the first series on DVD and to be honest after abou three of the eight episodes I'd had my fill. It is the same joke over and over again in the same way that Fast Show did it, except maybe less clever? A lot of the sketches are directly lifted from League of Gentlemen (Fat-Fighters lady = Pauline from the Jobshop) but again, less clever, less attention to detail (acting and aesthetics). Somehow you always know it's a bloke under the dress in LB but with the League you'd be forgiven for forgetting that Tubbs is actually just a bloke so grotesque is the makeup and costumes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

What was it - the last episode of the second? or the third? series of the Fast Show. Where Rowley Birkin gives that long, haunted look at the camera. Where Ralph has to tell Ted in the context of a pub game that his wife has died. That was high art.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fast Show is The Simpsons 1996 to Little Britain's Simpsons 2005 (not that The Fast Show as as funny as The Simpsons was in 1996 but I did love it - looking back it hasn't dated well due to saturation (see also Harry Enfield) and changes in comedy taste/fashion, though sketch comedy itself hasn't really advanced much from The Fast Show's definitive model).

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

its something that is popular here and now, which means itll do well in these poll/charts, whereas once its popularity wanes, or the show ends, it will gradually descend down the list. monty python is always going to be one of those things people vote for, because its one of those things people vote for. self-fulfilling prophecy lark. people like benchmarks, they suggest stability and order, and something shared or 'objectively true' - "oh yes, well, we can all agree on that", with which to compare current popularities against. it is, if you like, the desire for meaning

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

what pjm said, re: catchphrases. lots of things for ppl to scream at each other in silly accents: yeah but no but, i don't like [x], bitty!, eee eee eee, i'm the only gay in the village, variations on the i'm a lady gag, ooooh he were gawgeous, and so on.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it is a sentimentalised and asset-stripped LoG somewhat

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The recent Paul Whitehouse vehicle Help explored similar territory to the Rowley Birkin and Ralph and Ted sketches mentioned by Marcello, with the old man whose disabled wife was slowly passing away. Again, his performance there moved way beyond TV comedy and into the realms of tragic high art.
He's a truly great actor, but at the same time he'd probably never be able to perform so movingly in a drama.

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree with you it was really funny at first , but not very clever in the sense that very much like peter kay its the same jokes over and over again... repeated in case you didnt get it/ laugh hard enough the first time.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

...and Little Britain totally sucks by the way. I managed to sit through about five minutes of one episode, and it reminded me most of Russ Abbott's Madhouse, for some reason (ie not the greatest of compliments).

― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The right may well champion it as to them it's 'the acceptable side of homosexualised comedy i.e. everyone in it is a freak, as are all homosexuals, so it's okay to laugh - plus everyone in it gets kicks out of being nasty to other people, which i can certainly relate to'. I hate that type of 'comedy' myself

I'd say there's some truth to this. Look at the Lou and Andy sketch. Lou is the blind do-gooder, endlessly striving to help people out while Andy is the lazy parasite, leeching off those who'll provide. In a way this could be construed by right-wingers as a parabel for the liberal way of thinking. Lou is obviously the Liberal while Andy is a sponger. Lou gets his come-uppance at the expense of Andy in each episode but is endlessly forgiving and turns a blind eye to Andy's ableness.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcello highlights the 'edge' that The Fast Show had in this respect - the ability (or at least Paul Whitehouse's ability) to switch to poignant monologue, dropping out of comedy altogether, creating something more...interesting and powerful, at least at the time. So it's easy to knock The Fast Show for the 'damage' it did regarding catchphrase overkill in the public domain - and I certainly think it's sustained popularity culminating in the rather self-indulgent 'Last Fast Show Ever' specials ended up damaging it's reputation here, but it should be credited for taking avenues other sketchcom didn't before and hasn't since - for a mainstream show.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

to attempt a carmodist reading:
—little britain represents the nervous and slightly hypocritical "inclusive" side of modern conservatism (to be fair brit culture has ALWAYS accepted dotty eccentrics affectionately*)
—the eternal reign of monty python - accepted forever into the canon on ""oh yes, well, we can all agree on that" terms - represents the eternal nightmare of the past oppressing the brains of the living

cf eg the two ladies of llandudno or whatever they were called

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this vision that if there's a Little Britain Christmas Special or final episode you'll see Lou discover Andy really can walk, but he'll deny it and they'll carry on as they are, because they can't live without each other, or somesuch nonsense.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

True again. When the Fast Show first came on TV I was taken aback. It literally ble my mind because I'd never seen anything like it. All these super-quick surreal catchphrase sketches that were repeated almost exactly the same way every week. Funny how this became the standard soon after and now the Fast Show is admittedly very dated in its delivery and observations.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love the fast show, yes they did use the same sketch formula every week but slightly update it, I.E. "this week i'll most be wearing court shoes, a bra etc"

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

lou as lou reed and andy as andy warhol, mentioned on another little britain thread, turned that sketch upside down for me.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to say, as someone spendin a fair amt of time lookin after a very disabled dad - who could not be LESS like andy but nevertheless - that some of the dynamic in this relationship makes me laugh a LOT

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fast Show really killed sketchcom for me by being so good at it. I think this was the intention - to create the ultimate sketch comedy. The problem there being where can you go with the genre after that? Little Britain isn't actually innovative is it? I'm disappointed in it's simplicity and cynicism rather than amused by it.

I think there is more scope for this sort of thing in America though, provided it was 'done proper'.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

here is another reason for its popularity: the fast show and even more chris morris (and green wing) require "close reading" for their um "true" effect; LB actually works best if you are not turning it into appointment TV (in fact it suffers); it's funnier if you just happen to see it and don't make a thing of FOLLOWING it

(this is only a guess, as i haven't made a thing of FOLLOWING it)

anything, this mode of comedy is surely bound to be more popular, just bcz most viewers are somewhat distracted and not Committed TV Watchers and Commentators

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

proof of this: my mum LOVES LB but was never too keen on the fast show.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've thought Green Wing is better by not following it too closely though, given the big empthasis on visual 'humour' there.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That was brilliant, Lauren. Have you ever thought of becoming a one man band?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

there is no scientific viewer test for this theory sven as no one person can achieve the two modes of viewing

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What about all these Sun headlines "We've found the REAL Vicky Pollard".... errr... yeh, there are thousands of them, big deal!

I am interested in the adoption of the right here though because there's an awful lot of stuff (Morris and League included) which I can't imagine papers like the Sun and the Mail really being into. I've been thinking about some of the other characters and they all seem to slide into the Tory/Blair way of thinking.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the right is adopting them in an attempt to demonstrate that it is evolving and "inclusive"

i think it is a way too-easy line of crit though, not much more convincing than the "monty python all went to public school" attacks of yore

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

or the claims that shameless is patronising

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

don't give me any ideas, mr. miller.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

face it, i think everything EVER is funny and will defend it

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's take Daffyd for instance. No-one is oblivious to the fact that gay people exist and even the most righteous Mail readers are coming round to the fact that they are here to stay. And what better way to convert to acceptance than via this rather skewed OTT view of the gay community. It's like Are You Being Served all over again really. These are acceptable because the stereotypes are so wrong and therefore one can accept it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

andy m3dhurst wrote a really sour feature on harry enfield in S&S once and i wrote a letter disagreeing which in its uncut form was three times longer than the entire S&S letters page

and i don't even LIKE harry enfield

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the prime minister sketch is shit. and they're ALL like the prime minister sketch.

andy m3dhurst wrote a really sour feature on harry enfield in S&S once and i wrote a letter disagreeing which in its uncut form was three times longer than the entire S&S letters page

i remember that!!!!!! sadly i don't remember seeing your letter. but yeah, it was VVV tendentious. and yet, knowing that, it has soured my view of enfield. not that i was a big fan but come on: smashie and nicey was genius.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd be more convinced of the "daffydd = our john inman" is julian c and graham n weren't omnipresent fixtures all over brit TV

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Little Britain isn't as 'sophisticated' or 'elitist' as Morris and co. so that's another reason the tabloids love it.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a lot of Harry Enfield rather distressing, particularly one Christmas episode I recall which was more dark and depressing than funny. I guess LB takes a lot of queues from Harry Enfield what with Vicky Pollard being a West Country facsimile of Waynetta Slob.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If acceptable stereotypes are the thing, then the BBC ought to repeat It Ain't Half Hot Mum (which I personally thought was the funniest thing ever when I was ten, but then I was ten). They certainly seem to have no qualms about constantly rerunning a sitcom which invites us to make fun of people with Asperger's (Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

the prime minsiter sketch is the least worst offering currently around of "impressions of political figures" = "daring satire" = "funny be default"

ie it is not satire at all, just silly

(even i cannot defend dead ringers)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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baffling phenomenon.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Marjory Dawes made me laugh, and that carried me thru to the end of the show.

Lighten up people, it's just television, it's supposed to be shit.

― Le Marquis de Salade (noodle vague), Friday, 18 November 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, but the pissing pensioner was hilarious, and Sebastian is always great. The rest was terrible.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 18 November 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I really think they could just repeat tonight's episode next week and half the audience wouldn't know or care that it was the same

If they did this for the next five weeks, just to make a point, it would be immense.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 18 November 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

weird Scottish hotelier

Now what was funny!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

i was trying to find a thread about LB last night while it was on ,but the search function was laying at silly buggers...

god, it was awful! can't believe we've been sold another pup. i was forlornly hoping they'd at least do *something* new and interesting, but...no. i laughed out loud once and once only, and i can't even remember what that was about. charlatans. feh.

also, ahem:

The Smoking Room wasn't too bad, btw.

-- $V£N! (stevem7...) (webmail), May 17th, 2005 12:56 PM. (blueski) (link)

The Smoking Room was rubbish.

-- $V£N! (stevem7...) (webmail), May 17th, 2005 1:37 PM. (blueski) (link)

???

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

He's just trying to get in Private Eye in their "Fancy That!" section

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

i missed LB because i was eating prawn saag with my workmates. and very good it was too.

mrs fiendish said she laughed at one bit of it - i can't remember which - and the rest was shit. there seems to be a consensus forming here.

fwiw, i thought the first series was brilliant and the second patchy. why the fuck do producers persist in recomissioning things that so obviously have a built-in obsolescence?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

why the fuck do producers persist in recomissioning things that so obviously have a built-in obsolescence?

Because they're lazy and useless perhaps?

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

I have just recommissioned this from another thread:

I laughed quite a bit more than I expected last night.
It helps that I haven't watched series 2. I got it out of the library, but it was shit.

I did not approve of Tom Baker's leakage or seepage into the intro for the next programme, mind.

-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...) (webmail), Today 12:08 PM. (PJ Miller 68) (later)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

> Why is Little Britain so damn popular?

more to the point why are there two parallel threads for exactly the same thing?

didn't see last night's, was busy watching alanis murder dylan on ch4 (sadly true. was only watching it for the peel bit and that was right at the end.).

is the pirate memory games bloke back? that and dennis waterman = only good bits and even they were the same joke every week.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

was busy watching alanis murder dylan on ch4 (sadly true.

Oh come on, Alanis Morissette hasn't actually murdered Bob Dylan has she?

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

too busy butchering a poor innocent Seal.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Those Canadians and their Clubs

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Pistol whipping's too good for 'em.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 18 November 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

What the critics say:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4449048.stm

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i tht alanis wz good :(

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

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This has to be the most boring, pointless idea for a book ever, and I'm someone who has both the League of Gents and Royle Family scriptbooks at home.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Both those programmes are well written, though.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

more liek shittle shittain

― am i riet?, Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

so. anybody else slightly unsettled by the computer-shop sketch tonight? i know it's dreadfully postmodern and everything, but matt lucas slathered in make-up and putting on a london-asian-geezer accent seemed a little ... well, completely fucking wrong, to be honest.

and mrs fiendish just sat there going: "what the fuck is he meant to be?"

shame, because the actual sketch was OK otherwise.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

although, hmm, why am i not offended by the david walliams character in the bubbles sketches? probably because she (can't remember her name) is so far beyond the boundaries of belief and offensiveness anyway, but ... ach, i dunno.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

why do you watch this?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

It's like Mind Your Language... on drugs!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

why do you watch this?

i find bits of it amusing, in a puerile and silly way. i think this series has improved as it's gone on. and sometimes utterly brainless comedy of repetition is just what a tired mind needs.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

It's no Spoons!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 15 December 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Perhaps because it's a documentary!

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:10 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

HEY GUYS, Little Britain is COMING TO AMERICA!!! I read it in The Times today; it seems that Lucas and Walliams have been offered a contract to Office-style transfer their hit show across the great Blue.

Our thoughts are with you, America, they truly are. Please don't give this unabashed shitheap the acclaim it tragically received on these unenlightened shores. Please.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

OMFG

Britain, I hate you.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

What is the American equivalent of The Valleys?

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://johnsoncity.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/apologize-704003.bmp

― Scourage (Haberdager), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Just noticed this on Metacritic. How's it going for you guys? :D

― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)

It's showing here on friday night. I'll probably watch an episode or two out of morbid curiosity.

― chap, Monday, 29 September 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

That's what keeps them going, unfortunately.

― It's 10.00 and I'm Huw Edwards. I don't write this stuff. (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

Little Britain USA is 'too crude'

O RLY

― tpp, Monday, 29 September 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

Tracey Ullman has a current series!?

― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

That Little Britain USA show was not very funny. The jokes used were old hat in the 90s.

― sturt banton (burt_stanton), Monday, 29 September 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

I'm happy they got Tom Baker back to do this.

― Office Cat is Eating the Monitor Again (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:20 (seventeen years ago)

HBO is really rolling around in the litter box these days.

― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:41 (seventeen years ago)

I expect Baker wasn't exactly in a pick and choose situation when it came to work offers.

― It's 10.00 and I'm Huw Edwards. I don't write this stuff. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:30 (seventeen years ago)

I dunno, he seems to be 'voiceover man du jour' right now.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:37 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe. Some of them sound like a cheaper Tom Baker impersonator.

― It's 10.00 and I'm Huw Edwards. I don't write this stuff. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

If Tom Baker could do a sunderland accent, he'd get double bubble!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 08:58 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry, Lauren Laverne's got that corner of the market sewn up.

― It's 10.00 and I'm Huw Edwards. I don't write this stuff. (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

That's fine, at least she is.

It's that "Weetabix" one with Egyptian Reggae, with the Rada trained singsong "Geordie" accent that makes the kids laugh derisorily.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:10 (seventeen years ago)

Get that Paul Whitehouse to do it, he's a genius, he can do every accent brilliantly

― Tom D Gives You the Big Reassure (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

Well, it's better than the Weetabix bloke, but still....

― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

That Little Britain USA show was not very funny.

Well that turned out to be very otm. A complete laugh free zone as far as I could tell.

― Any cook should be able to run the country. (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 4 October 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

Oh..

That sketch where the old married couple at the restaurant, he overtalking, she saying nothing.

That was funny.

It was even funnier when it was on Bob Mills' "In bed with me dinner"

Exactly the ruddy same. Except that was from a 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary with BM's 'comments' edited in....

― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)

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