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andy2002 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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Stretched out, repetitive and exhausted of wit. That pretty much sums up this show.
I think Little Britian started out with some reasonable sketches. OK it was never going to be a absurd as the Fast Show or have the observation of Harry Enfield, but it worked. But after two series it hasn't moved, the same characters but with increasing signs of desperation entering. The writers clearly ran out of ideas halfway through series 1 and have somehow led us to allow them 2 more series, each getting less original and more and more below-average. "Better than most out there" is not an excuse if you consider the current benchmark is so low it's astounding. Seriously we made funnier sketches up on Friday morning in GCSE drama, I'm serious.
I'll not pretend to follow popular comedy trends, I'd say League of Gentleman is infinitely more original, intelligent and talented than say Friends and I don't say that to appear as an outsider bucking the trend- if you analyse the material it simply shines brighter.
But Little Britain is dumb and deperate. I agree with others, it's a poor relation to Fast Show, Harry Enfield and LoG. And Tom Baker isn't really that funny, his voiceovers could be so much better, they sound like spontaneous office humour (always generated through sheer boredom and frustration) which is funny once becuase it's weird but quickly dies off.
Little Britian is like the sad person who spends their whole time doing funny voices in a very average manner and never ever does more than 3 voices.
It belongs with its equally overrated cousin Chris Moyles, in a skip.
I think Little Britian started out with some reasonable sketches. OK it was never going to be a absurd as the Fast Show or have the observation of Harry Enfield, but it worked. But after two series it hasn't moved, the same characters but with increasing signs of desperation entering. The writers clearly ran out of ideas halfway through series 1 and have somehow led us to allow them 2 more series, each getting less original and more and more below-average. "Better than most out there" is not an excuse if you consider the current benchmark is so low it's astounding. Seriously we made funnier sketches up on Friday morning in GCSE drama, I'm serious.
I'll not pretend to follow popular comedy trends, I'd say League of Gentleman is infinitely more original, intelligent and talented than say Friends and I don't say that to appear as an outsider bucking the trend- if you analyse the material it simply shines brighter.
But Little Britain is dumb and deperate. I agree with others, it's a poor relation to Fast Show, Harry Enfield and LoG. And Tom Baker isn't really that funny, his voiceovers could be so much better, they sound like spontaneous office humour (always generated through sheer boredom and frustration) which is funny once becuase it's weird but quickly dies off.
Little Britian is like the sad person who spends their whole time doing funny voices in a very average manner and never ever does more than 3 voices.
It belongs with its equally overrated cousin Chris Moyles, in a skip.
thestraightman said:You don't have to hate everything that’s popular you know
Not that old chestnut. You know there are other reasons for not liking something - it doesn't have to be due to its popularity. One reason could be that they've hardly written a new joke since the first series; another could be that it's derivative, repetitive crap.
"Little Britain?"
"Little Written" would be a more suitable title.
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Actually, after watching the last one I'm beginning to agree with all this.
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