Re: Little Britain: don't believe the hype
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:57:04 -0000, SteveW <sj_walton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:20:50 -0000, Brett Sinclair's Comb
<pilchardlover@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tricky Dicky wrote:
"Brett Sinclair's Comb" <pilchardlover@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> 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.
Are you sure about Walliams being gay? In these enlightened times it
does
not make any sense to pretend he is shagging a string of supermodels
rather
than a string of media studies graduates. Who would care?.
Lucas is definitely gay - been with the same bloke for some time by all
accounts
Tricky
Yupp, he's definitely a shoplifter of Oscar Wilde novels. And of course
the Clifford-staged stories in the Sun and the Screws are fake. The
show wouldn't appeal to Sun readers or get the high ratings it enjoys
otherwise if both stars were publicly known as raging queens. Besides,
the BBC will want to sell LB to the US just as they did THE OFFICE.
It's the same scenario as Simon Cowell but on a smaller scale.
Simon Cowell is funny ? What will the Americans believe next.
Well he did once say that he got involved with Pop Stars/Idol in order to
bring some excitement to the UK pop music industry.
Fred X
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