Re: Little Britain: don't believe the hype


Brett Sinclair's Comb wrote:
> 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.

Ahhh yes, I remember being tied to a seat and forced to watch it.
Horrible, nasty BBC.


>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).

Except in the sense that it HAS good succesful reviews by critics from
most newspapers. Or are you thinking that critical success = something
YOU like?

>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.

Ohhh, I get it! Its bloody obvious because YOU say so? Or do you have
personal knowledge of a man who has been in a relationship with him?

> 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.

Yeah, Elton John never made any money in America, did he?

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