Re: Little Britain: don't believe the hype


Fr J. Hackett wrote:
> bruce_phipps@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Oh God...we're in for several weeks of Little Britain hype from the
> > BBC.
>
> I was beginning to think I was the only one who didn't find it funny.
>
> fr.

It's absolute rubbish, a series of gay 'Fast Show' style catchphrases
padded out with LoG derived situations. I'm also uncomfortable with the
disabled / fatty / vomiting churchgoer jokes, which seem to reinforce
that all disabled people are cheats, fat people are greedy pigs and
that it's funny to refuse to eat anything prepared by a non white. Just
because Walliams and Lucas are gay and can make gay jokes, it doesn't
mean that every risque joke they joke is on the right side of the
ethical divide.

The BBC have force-fed LITTLE BRITAIN on the viewing public yet the
discerning BBC3 viewers didn't really care that much for it. Any
popular success it achieved occured when the Sun-reading plebs took to
it when it transferred to BBC1 (no way is it a critical success). The
most annoying aspect of LB's tabloid popularity is that the plebs only
approve of such a gay show because they've been duped into believing
that Walliams is a superstud heterosexual who dates a string of
supermodels, when it's bloody obvious that Max Clifford is simply
running one of his Simon Callow 'Macho Up' campaigns e.g. feeding the
Sun hacks with staged publicity photos. If Middle America found out
that Cowell was gay his multi-million career would have been snuffed
out in infancy, and if the Sun readers thought that the LB show was a
blatantly gay vehicle, the show would have received the attention it
actually merited e.g. minimal.

Brett

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