Is Little Britain Funny
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Is Little Britain Funny
I was just watching the DVD of series one - excellent
Then put on Series 2 - not so good
Saw Series 3 on telly - absolute piss
Saw the Live Tour DVD - rehashed dogshit sketches from S2-3, with no originality or new interpretations
Therefore, in the greatest tradition of modern science, I have concluded that Little Britain is crap and unfunny. I really like Matt Lucas in Shooting Stars, I thought Rock Profile was superb, but by god Little Britain is crap.
Then put on Series 2 - not so good
Saw Series 3 on telly - absolute piss
Saw the Live Tour DVD - rehashed dogshit sketches from S2-3, with no originality or new interpretations
Therefore, in the greatest tradition of modern science, I have concluded that Little Britain is crap and unfunny. I really like Matt Lucas in Shooting Stars, I thought Rock Profile was superb, but by god Little Britain is crap.
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CrazyHorse wrote:I'm sat here just in my baggy pants. Does that count as cool?communistworkethic wrote:anyone who wears their pants on the outside is cool by me.CrazyHorse wrote:communistworkethic wrote:what Batman said
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If this is true, it's shocking, since each series is like four episodes. No wonder we love British comedy so much, I think I could put out 200 minutes of brilliant comedy.Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:There is only one British comedy that has gotten better as it went along series by series, and that is Blackadder.
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yep, just put all those pro-henrik posts together and we wouldn't stop laughingH. Pedersen wrote:If this is true, it's shocking, since each series is like four episodes. No wonder we love British comedy so much, I think I could put out 200 minutes of brilliant comedy.Soldier_Of_The_White_Army wrote:There is only one British comedy that has gotten better as it went along series by series, and that is Blackadder.
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You can be a girl doing it, like er Catherine Tate. Act stolen from Little Britain but even less funny.Bruce Rioja wrote:Once you've seen the first episode in a new series of Little Britain, you basically seen the entire series. It just seems to be an excercise in - How many ways can we find to deliver exactly the same punchline?
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are you sure about that one? Vicky Pollard dates back to the first LB radio show in about 2001. As far as I can yell Lauren was only even "fly girl" in series 1 of CT in 2004. Tate only had her first solo Edinbugh show in 2001.thebish wrote:Catherine Tate's "bovvered" (Lauren?) character predates Vicki Pollard - so it could be argued that it was the other way around...
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No - I'm not - but I do remember hearing Tate interviewed and her being asked that question and she said there was no connection between the characters - she says she's been doing stand-up for years with the character... she said it was before she'd seen Vicki Pollard, and she doesn't see pollard and lauren as "the same" - I guess I accepted her word for it...communistworkethic wrote:are you sure about that one? Vicky Pollard dates back to the first LB radio show in about 2001. As far as I can yell Lauren was only even "fly girl" in series 1 of CT in 2004. Tate only had her first solo Edinbugh show in 2001.thebish wrote:Catherine Tate's "bovvered" (Lauren?) character predates Vicki Pollard - so it could be argued that it was the other way around...
I also remember hearing Matt Lucas asked the same question - and him saying something pretty similar - not that they had the character first - but that the characters are different - which, let's face it, they are...
I'm quite happy to accept they were both created independently - and I doubt derivativeness can be proved very easily either way..
all comedy is derivative - and no less funny for it,
I happen to find Little Britain and Catherine Tate a bit tiresome (LB - beyond the first series kind of ran out of ideas - as you and batman have said)
Tate is much the same - and her sketches go on far longer - and have the potential to be even more tiresome.
I DO like Tate's Essex couple, though - (as I live in Essex, now) - bang on the money!! - and the woman who panics every time something happens - there are so many characters down here who are simply petrified of the world outside - some of it is well observed...
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