Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
e-fluent said:
I do.
Who made anyone here Judge Judy of what is funny and what isn't?
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I do.
Who made anyone here Judge Judy of what is funny and what isn't?
Harold Hill said:
Oh for fucks sake.
Almost everyone posting on this thread (me included) thinks LB is now very largely, or completely, shite.
That doesn't mean we want to 'censor' your 'right' to think different!
Think what you want. So will others think what they want. A lot of others here appear to disagree with you, deal with it.
(Sorry, but these frequent accusations on Urban that those expressing a strong opinion want to be judge, jury and executioner over anyone with a different/minority viewpoint, really gets my goat ... ... it's a discussion board!!!
)HarrisonSlade
say NO to the vaccine
Has it take 3 series' for people to find out that Little Britain is not at all funny?
tangentlama
Nameless voices crying
HarrisonSlade said:
i never watched the first two
i thought as it got to series three
that i might find it funny too
but it wasn't to be
i don't find it funny
i guess that's just my personality
spanglechick said:
I've heard someone else mention this point once, to which I couldn't disagree. However, it's not particularly realism that these characters are meant to be reflecting, but more about caricaturing of real life.
However annoying/ rude/ ignorant/ obnoxious (et al) a lead character is in any comedy (and many of them are : Basil Fawlty, Captain Mainwaring etc ), for it to be really liked by the public, the character needs to have a spin on it. This enables the character to possess perhaps, a warmer, weaker side, but without losing that cutting edge to the part of the character that we love to hate, thus enabling us to empathise/ sympathise, whilst still disliking who they portray.
Nonetheless, Tate's capturing of the 'Lauren' character is very accurate and true to life (i.e very annoying young dysfunctional child), but there's very little caracturing or warming side to her character. It's because of that, that I find it damn right unfunny and very, very annoying, because that's how I view the real 'Laurens' in this world too, unfunny and annoying.
Just an opinion like, but not explained very clearly, I might add.
My feelings have been expressed on this subject many times and can be summarised thus;
1. It's purile obvious "humour" indicative of a group of idiot 13 year olds who think the very mention of sex is funny.
2. It's mindlessly repetative, just rehashing the same sketches week after week.
3. The sketches don't actually have jokes in, merely the repetition of a catchphrase said many times previously indicating extremely lazy writing.
4. It's been done a million times before.
5. This gets prime time publicity whilst quality comedy like The Thick Of It and Curb Your Enthusiasm languish on digital channels.
6. It makes me desperate for the BBC to repeat Monty Python and Not The 9 O'Clock News so the public can see how sketch comedy is meant to be done.
1. It's purile obvious "humour" indicative of a group of idiot 13 year olds who think the very mention of sex is funny.
2. It's mindlessly repetative, just rehashing the same sketches week after week.
3. The sketches don't actually have jokes in, merely the repetition of a catchphrase said many times previously indicating extremely lazy writing.
4. It's been done a million times before.
5. This gets prime time publicity whilst quality comedy like The Thick Of It and Curb Your Enthusiasm languish on digital channels.
6. It makes me desperate for the BBC to repeat Monty Python and Not The 9 O'Clock News so the public can see how sketch comedy is meant to be done.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
characters we like tend to be three dimensional? yup - i'd agree with that. But the examples you have given are from serial comedy (sit coms). Sketch comedy has a tradition of using more two dimensional characters who embody a particular joke. Occasionally (think of ted and his repressed love story in the fast show) sketch characters develop and progress - but it's rare.diond said:
I like Lauren, because I teach secondary age kids and so, for me - it's observational. I don't have to like her - we aren't laughing with her.
spanglechick said:
I suppose that's true, and once I'd pressed submit, I had changed my mind but couldn't be arsed to change it. I still fail to find Tate's character funny, mainly because it lacks that extra exaggeration that Vicky Pollard has, which helps detaches itself from true reality to a degree. It's this slight twist from reality that gives the character more appeal.
As I said before, I do not find real life 'Laurens' funny, so I fail to see the humour in Tate's performance as she's trying to be too much like one and not giving it as much of a comical edge to it. It would be remotely funny if the whole of the character's perception wasn't so hell bent on being annoying.
To be fair, I think both Lucas and Tate have captured their respective characters very accurately. The difference being, is that Lucas seems able to add that something extra that lets you actually like the character, however obnoxious they may be, and thus you find it funny and not too annoying. (I'm not explaining myself well here).
After all, if I wanted to watch somebody act exactly like a real life chav/chavette, then I would watch a fly on the wall documentary about one. I still wouldn't find it funny, though. Making sketches about observations is fine, but you, as the performer, would still have to add the funny element more times than not. Just observing usually isn't enough. That's why I think Lucas has the edge over Tate, but then like most things, humour is subjective.
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
A fairly funny show. So far, not as good as the previous series.
Much preferred "Man stroke Woman".
Nick Frost is genius.
Much preferred "Man stroke Woman".
Nick Frost is genius.
My brother law lent us a promo-copy he had of the first episode (from the first season I think) and said it was the new big thing in Britain. I think they are just beginning to promote it in North America and I have to say that I was very excited to watch a new hopefully groundbreaking British Comedy. I really liked the opening and the Tom Baker voice overs (kind of reminded me of Arrested Development using Ron Howard) and I laughed a couple of times at the opening school girl who I assume is the Lauren character you've been mentioning, but once the initial disorientation wore off in about 10 minutes I realised that it was just a sketch comedy show. The novelty of the presentation made it feel false to me- I felt like it promised more excitement and substance than it ever intended to deliver. Even the title 'Little Britain' made me think that the subject matter would be a microcosm of British Society that hadn't been dealt with before, which it wasn't. I also had an expectation that there would be some kind of continuity or connection between the characters, which there wasn't, at least in the one episode I watched. This might not be worth mentioning, but one of the schools was called "Kelsey Grammar School", and I found the need to make in joke references to American sitcoms to be dissapointing. But Frasier was really popular over there too wasn't it? Somebody mentioned 'dark days'?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
How long is it before the local chavas start calling my Japanese wife 'ting tong' in the street?
LB is not and has never been funny.
LB is not and has never been funny.
The thing that makes it all the more perplexing is that the idea of examining the idiosyncracies of weird Britons is quite a good one, and bless us as a country, there's a lot of stereotypes that you can look at and ape but Little Britain shows none of the subtlety needed to do this properly and makes no attempt to explore the vast array of weirdos we have, instead just being lazy and falling back to previous ideas which were crap in the first place. I can only hope that when the two of them decide to give it up, which can't be too long surely, they retire to the Bahamas and leave us alone.
thestraightman
Hand to mouth to Jaksie
It's cheap and puerile, and fairly irresponsible, but so what? They’re in the business of comedy, not moralising.
It's better than most, and I bet the voice on here 5 years ago when they were doing Rock Profiles would have been resoundingly positive.
You don't have to hate everything that’s popular you know
It's better than most, and I bet the voice on here 5 years ago when they were doing Rock Profiles would have been resoundingly positive.
You don't have to hate everything that’s popular you know
thestraightman
Hand to mouth to Jaksie
Fair play
Drunken Scottish Prince.
Drunken Scottish Prince.
Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
William of Walworth said:Oh for fucks sake.
Almost everyone posting on this thread (me included) thinks LB is now very largely, or completely, shite.
That doesn't mean we want to 'censor' your 'right' to think different!
Think what you want. So will others think what they want. A lot of others here appear to disagree with you, deal with it.
(Sorry, but these frequent accusations on Urban that those expressing a strong opinion want to be judge, jury and executioner over anyone with a different/minority viewpoint, really gets my goat ... ... it's a discussion board!!!
Yeah I'm in bits so many people dislike it (jesus christ
)The only thing I have a problem with is the assumption from people like Bomber that anyone who likes it would be a chav and that kind of stuff.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
why do people hate david walliams so much?
LB is pretty average but david williams deserves props for sucking that old lady's feet
that's real devotion to your craft that is
actually I find him quite attractive
LB is pretty average but david williams deserves props for sucking that old lady's feet
that's real devotion to your craft that is
actually I find him quite attractive
stop affecting my sensibilities 
The Pious Pawn
I Can
Batley said:
i just think its shit !!
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Wow I caught the end last night and it really isn't funny is it! I'm I too old? I just don't get it. Man has hot curry and says a couple of catchphrases????
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Last night's was just absolutely horrible – pissing granny, vomiting WI lady, Bubbles and Desiree's naked body suits. How long before they have a character who just comes on and does a big on-screen dump? Perhaps he could shit on a different thing every week – one episode it could be a little dog, another a young child. In fact, I think I'm going to phone Lucas and Walliams' production company and pitch it to them right now. He could be called Mr Shitty Arse. What do you reckon?
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