I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

Originally posted by pinkhat
Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

Yes.

all comedy is offensive to somebody, but little britain is v funny! cant wait till the new series...... :P

I think LB is hilarious. It takes certain walks of life, obvious cliques and makes fun of it. I don't see the problem. I think the PC brigade have gone too far and that's why LB is so refreshing!

Originally posted by pinkhat
Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

Yes! :hihi:

Not looking good for you is it pinkhat, you seem to be the only person in the world!
:D

Originally posted by pinkhat
I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

Then don't watch it. Simple really.

i know what your saying pinkhat but you really need to watch it with a VERY large pinch of salt- its not making fun at disabled or elderly people- its a take on actual modern life itself which makes it funny :D :D

roll on 9pm :D

I'm with you pinkhat, when it first started my sister in law raved about it so much we decided we had to watch it, so we found out when it was on and got settled with coffee and choccy biscuits. It was the worst programme we had ever watched, we gave it a second chance thinking perhaps it was just a bad episode, but halfway through realised it was still rubish and turned off.

Originally posted by neeeeeeeeeek
Not looking good for you is it pinkhat, you seem to be the only person in the world!
:D
Its really not, looks like I'm in the minority. I should have a Little Britian Character based on me!

Little Britain is VERY funny. Anyone who doesnt find it funny need not watch. You do have a choice :thumbsup:

It's hilarious- love it
and if I don't get an Andy doll for Christmas I'm spitting my dummy out! :hihi:

People do get too worked up about these things. It's just a comedy.

Originally posted by JonJParr
People do get too worked up about these things. It's just a comedy.
This happens on here too mate with my posts.

Mind you I did just have a 48hr holiday courtesy of the prudes:hihi: :clap:

although i think the sketch with david walliams fancyin his mates granny, i find my self fancying him, in that sketch only, think its the chav clothes!!!! now i bet im in ther minority :)

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
This happens on here too mate with my posts.

Mind you I did just have a 48hr holiday courtesy of the prudes:hihi: :clap:

so you have joined the 48 hour fun club then ive been in that one a few times myself
i wonder if kirky has:P

With regards to the disabled characters i think the joke lies elswhere - in the case of lou and andy, andy is actually not disabled and the joke is everything he does when lou isn't watching.

The only other 'disabled' character i can think of is that woman (walliams) that goes EH-EH-EEEH!!! Again the joke is that although she does that one minute, the next minute shes on the phone talking normally and arranging dates etc..

Originally posted by pinkhat
I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

probably.

Everyone else in the country find it highly amusing.

I hate it. I think its vile and the pair of them turn my stomach - i choose not to watch it but it's hard to miss - they turn up all over the place...(eg: on the 50 greatest comedy clips thing that was on on sunday on 4)

I don't dislike it as much as i do "the league of gentlemen" though - now that is sick.

Originally posted by pinkhat
I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

i don't find it offensive i find totally crap

Originally posted by pinkhat
IAm I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people,

Well the joke isn't about disabled people if you are referring to Lou and Andy.

It is about lazy people who pretend to be disabled in order to not have to work or anything. It is an extremely well observed sketch, and knowing someone who has worked in social work apparently there is more than a grain of truth about it.
Originally posted by AndrewC
The only other 'disabled' character i can think of is that woman EH-EH-EEEH!!! Again the joke is that although she does that one minute, the next minute shes on the phone talking normally and arranging dates etc..

Exactly.

Originally posted by muddycoffee

It is about lazy people who pretend to be disabled in order to not have to work or anything. It is an extremely well observed sketch, and knowing someone who has worked in social work apparently there is more than a grain of truth about it.




So you know my neighbour then?

Originally posted by absynthfairy
I hate it. I think its vile and the pair of them turn my stomach - i choose not to watch it but it's hard to miss - they turn up all over the place...(eg: on the 50 greatest comedy clips thing that was on on sunday on 4)

I don't dislike it as much as i do "the league of gentlemen" though - now that is sick.

the LOG is pure genius.

Originally posted by JonJParr
People do get too worked up about these things. It's just a comedy.

To be fair to the OP they don't sound that worked up about it. Looks more like an opinion than a crazy rant. There's a tendency to accuse people who don't like 'edgy' humour of being hysterical about it.

I quite like Little Britain. Its a bit repetitive though.

I think that Little Britain is a bit overrated, but I still like it. I think the Catherine Tate show is just as funny, although that seems to get talked about much less.

A lot of Little Britain is an ironic look at peoples' prejudices, not an actual prejudiced viewpoint itself. For example, I remember one sketch in which an ex-policeman played a driving instructor. He picked up a teenager, encouraged him to break the speed limit, then demanded he stop the car and questioned him like he was a policeman who'd caught a speeding motorist. At the end of this rant he then ended by saying "you black b*stard", even though the lad was actually white.

Obviously in normal life that'd be a shocking racial insult, but in this case the sketch was funny because it was mocking the policeman, who was a remnant from an age in which the police were much more racist.

Another example is the indian woman in the "Fat Fighters" sketch. The instructor Marjorie Dawes constantly patronises her for being indian, although it's actually Marjorie herself that the audience is laughing at, because of her out-dated views.

Good comedy has to be close to the bone. Look at The League of Gentlemen and Brass Eye. :)

Originally posted by absynthfairy
I don't dislike it as much as i do "the league of gentlemen" though - now that is sick.

It's not, it's great.

I think it's crap. Every episode goes over the same tired old jokes...which weren't even funny in the first place.

The only comedy which truly made me uncomfortable was the latest series of nighty night.

When the mobile beauticians came around to the old people's home and the sketch showed 3 minutes of removing an old ladies pubic hair [ the actress was a real elderly lady ] with a flame thrower, with much descussion.

The whole episode was more cruel than funny and I haven't been around to my friend's house to see any of the rest of it.

However I love Little Britain although the vomiting fete ladies was a bit over the top and not really funny after the first episode.

Brass eye was wonderful especially the way they tackled risque subjects like drugs and paedophilia. It was so enlightening to see thick celebrities being hoodwinked.

I do think it's overrated. It's funny, but things like Alan Partridge and The Office are much better.. Partridge being my best :D

Originally posted by pinkhat
I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?


You are so on your own...

Whatever you do don't turn BBC on tonight at 9.30........IT'S THE NeW SERIES:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

You are so NOT on your own. Boring to the point of being utterly tedious. This state then made me question it and yes I did find some of it offensive.

Nighty Night was great though.

max and paddy beats it hands down:clap:

Originally posted by panda79
so you have joined the 48 hour fun club then ive been in that one a few times myself
i wonder if kirky has:P

Kirky rarely qualifies for such a trivial ban :D

Originally posted by kirky
max and paddy beats it hands down:clap:

100% correct my friend :thumbsup:

Originally posted by littleboo
You are so on your own...

Whatever you do don't turn BBC on tonight at 9.30........IT'S THE NeW SERIES:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

She should turn it on at 9.30pm ........................it's on at 9 o'clock :D

Originally posted by kirky
max and paddy beats it hands down:clap:

I don't know who this paddy chap is but thanks anyway.

Originally posted by kirky
max and paddy beats it hands down:clap:

I agree with you there.this very funny i can watch this over and over and not get bored, and patrick Mcguinness :love:

I use to watch little britain and did like it at first,but now i think it is allways the same all the time no matter what scrip they do you know what going to happen,and after a wile it does get boring.

Originally posted by Mo
She should turn it on at 9.30pm ........................it's on at 9 o'clock :D

I have it on sky + so forgot time sorry:thumbsup:

Originally posted by pete_jim
You are so NOT on your own. Boring to the point of being utterly tedious. This state then made me question it and yes I did find some of it offensive.

Nighty Night was great though.

Nighty night was cruel and in bad taste I liked it but there were times when I was cringing!!

Originally posted by max
I don't know who this paddy chap is but thanks anyway.

steady on fella or you'll find yourself in trouble upstairs its a well known fact that jobsworth status = loss of sense of humour:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Not alone, I hate the show.. Its not even remotely funny :gag:

Originally posted by kirky
steady on fella or you'll find yourself in trouble upstairs its a well known fact that jobsworth status = loss of sense of humour:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
Are you trying to be funny? People get banned for less.

Well I found it to be very funny.. never laffed so much in ages :thumbsup:

Originally posted by max
I don't know who this paddy chap is but thanks anyway.

He's just sucking up max, so the next time the hammer falls it will be easier on him...the creepin sod :rolleyes:

I really like Little Britain, but it won't be to everyones taste, nothing is.

Originally posted by pete_jim
You are so NOT on your own. Boring to the point of being utterly tedious. This state then made me question it and yes I did find some of it offensive.

Nighty Night was great though.

Glad I'm not alone. I don't find it offensive, just not very funny.

I'm reminded of Vic Reeves - his "Big Night Out" was the same.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Glad I'm not alone. I don't find it offensive, just not very funny.

I'm reminded of Vic Reeves - his "Big Night Out" was the same.

You didn't like Vic Reeves Big Night Out?

Very poor alchresearch, very poor. :)

I don't find it offensive, but it is very discusting at times. The projectile vomit sketch is just horrible.

The body suits they were for the 'health club' sketches are top! No.1 fancy dress item for Xmas parties :)

Originally posted by pinkhat
I know that i am going to sound like a total prude but I find Little britain really offensive, I like the Vicky Pollard character but find some of the other jokes really sick.

Am I the only one that doesn't like laughing at disabled people, eldery, sex perverts etc?

No, I don't find it terribly funny either, but all comedy is usually at the expense of someone or a set of beliefs.

The problem I have with LB is that the bits of it I have seen seem rather cruel and predictable.

I think I'll continue giving it a miss.

Joe

Mostly it is very predictable now, which it wasn't so much in the first series (obviously because its more familiar now)

However, just occasionally it does just push the limits of whether you think you should be laughing at it or not, and can be really edgy stuff, which makes it worth sitting through the predictable stuff (and the predictable stuff is still quite funny)

there is a phrase that i like to use. It's been said may times.
They can't stop us laughing

I really liked LB before and was excited about the new series but this time something seemed to be missing. The whole point of the show is that's it's not pc, it's nineties backlash telly but watching on Thurs really dragged. I was trying to like it but mostly was bored. It was very predictable, like they were doing impressions of themselves doing impressions...?!

It was funny to me before because it walked a really fine line between affection and evil! - now the jokes are old and nothing new is happening.

*sigh*.

I like Peep show more these days!

I loved the first 2 series' of LB and tuned in with eager anticipation on Thursday night to be sadly dissapointed. I barely managed to raise a chuckle and found it very 'samey' and tiresome.

Now, Katherine Tate is wonderful. Her sketch on Children in Need had me in stitches. It was the only decent thing on ther all night!

Lets hope this series of LB picks up a bit or I shall be tuning out.

Originally posted by FetishFairy
I loved the first 2 series' of LB and tuned in with eager anticipation on Thursday night to be sadly dissapointed. I barely managed to raise a chuckle and found it very 'samey' and tiresome.

Now, Katherine Tate is wonderful. Her sketch on Children in Need had me in stitches. It was the only decent thing on ther all night!

Lets hope this series of LB picks up a bit or I shall be tuning out.

Jesus, Catherine Tate - whilst still very funny - is the most repetitive show on television. Its just the exact same jokes week in week out.

There was a good review of LB in today's Sunday Times by A.A. Gill. He used the phrase "emperors new clothes".

I agree Pinkhat!

I don't watch it purely because I think it's a load of tosh.

However - I am a victim of it.

I am disabled but in a complicated way and I use a wheelchair but can walk. So when I use my wheelchair to get about the majority of the place and then might walk for 5 minutes somewhere the wheelchair isn't really suited to, people immediately think of Little Britain and I get a lot of stick.

I'm a little saddened that so many people said you are the only one! However, I agree if you are going to watch the steaming pile of sh*te - you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

But I don't bother watching it as the adverts themselves put me off!

They do seem to have run out of ideas. Remember that the very funny R4 radio series was effectively Series 1 of the TV series like so many others. Lots of the characters are a bit feeble really, and a projectile vomiting middle Englander ceases to be funny about 3 seconds into the first gut wretching punchline - unless your funny bone never made it past age 7.

Notable recent exceptions where the radio series merely served as a precursor to visual elaboration on TV - The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.

For instance, Mr Ingleby and Babara's bizzare affair l'amour ended up as a cameo part in a small sack in Lazaro's circus.

I get the feeling the LB would have done such an opportunity to death through each series.

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Now, Katherine Tate is wonderful. Her sketch on Children in Need had me in stitches. It was the only decent thing on ther all night!
It must be a lady thing. I find her supremely tedious, but I suspect that most of the humour isn't aimed at making me laugh anyway ;)

I prefer Catherine Tate to LB now. I think the first series of Little Britain was good, in fact, I can't think of one bad sketch. When they started being more purile it lost it's appeal dramatically for me.

I am gladn that someone is finally speaking up and is not taken in by all tha hype of little britain! As an incontinent 23yr old girl I find the sketch advertising this weeks show of series three very distressing and humiliating! I'm glad that someone else is not amused by cheap shots at the less fortunate! Hurrah!:rant: :rant:

There have been other complaints....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4460876.stm

Comedy that makes observations about real situations often upsets people. Brass Eye for example. Little Britain is a pretty tame (though still funny) program to cry about though.

Are you making light of my medical problems? :suspect:

I watched my first LB episode earlier this year after hearing how "funny" it was. All I can say is it raised on very small snigger.

I watched the first one in the new series last night on BBC 3 and didnt even get that much.

20 mins me and mrs heed sat there waiting for a laugh,and not one.

As for the incontinent old lady,that stopped being funny for me when I got to the age of 5.

It is the un-funniest "comedy" I have ever watched.

The true comedy giants,( Barker,Morcombe,Cooper) must be spinning in their grave at this tosh.

I loved the first series and some of the second but i haven't laughed at series three yet.

Originally posted by Jon
I loved the first series and some of the second but i haven't laughed at series three yet.

I'll echo that comment. The first series was good, it was innovative but most of what's followed shows that they really have become bereft of ideas. Should have quit while they were ahead really and moved on to something else.
My eldest watched it with me last night and he's gone from being a major fan of the 1st series to last night saying 'Is there anything else on?':(

I have to watch it and I really think it's a pile of rubbish, but I never did find Matt Lucas very funny anyway; I always hit the mute button when he appears on repeats of Shooting Stars because he reminds me of one of those irritating kids at school who'd be the big 'funny guy' in the drama club. It's far too 'stage school' and yet cheap and tacky.

If comedy's going to offend then it needs to do it honestly, like some of the old stand up comics, or it needs to do it cleverly, like Brass Eye. If it's going to be sick then it needs to be surreal and dark like The League of Gentlemen or Monty Python. But what I get from Little Britain is just two men without much wit. It's got one laugh from me tonight, and that was the Richard & Judy thing.

Well I'm not going to disagree with any of that. It felt like having teeth pulled tonight. I'll leave it to record on Sky+ but I can't see me making time for it in future.

Thank goodness that Tom Baker keeps relieving the monotony.

I thought a third series was going to be a bit lame.

But I ended up ******* myself. :hihi:

Mathom's comments are very perceptive indeed, and he has largely expressed my views on the programme, especially with regard to the rather callow, sixth-form Drama Club aspects. However, at least Lucas and Walliams are not as pretentious as Jim Moir [Vic Reeves]. He has, on occasion, rather preciously tried to link his comedy with the Theatre of the Absurd [Beckett, Ionesco etc] and even the Theatre of Cruelty [Artaud]. Lucas and Walliams appear refreshingly honest about what they do.

Sheffmedic's comments give one pause for thought. However, the brutal truth is that many people do find incontinence, extreme conditions of obecity, homosexuality, transvestism, wigs, and cruelty itself in certain circumstances extremely funny. There is an old German saying, 'It is always funny when it is someone else'. I will admit to laughing at Walliams' portrayal of an elderly victim of torrential incontinence, but I would be in despair if suffering from the same condition. These are double standards, one admits, but I doubt if I am in the minority here. I suppose that makes many, if not most of us [myself included], rather hypocritical.

I thought the first episode of the new series was, shall we say, a little tepid.

So I was expecting a real tour-de-force from last night's episode.

But it took another nosedive.

Andy and Lou were okay as was the woman who runs the slimming class, and I adore the lecture's secretary, but some of the sketches were dire.

The parliamentary thing, with all the singing, sorry but that was poor.

The old lady who pees herself just makes me cringe, I'm afraid.

Vicky Pollard has become too much of a cliche. Time to move on.

Simply, it's just not funny anymore. The whole thing seems to have run out of steam.

Has anyone noticed that some of the best comedy stuff - such as Fawlty Towers and The Office - were limited to two series?

Could the third be a series too far for Little Britain?

Although it's not somehting you might admit to in public, it's not a crime to laugh at puerile things such as projectile vomiting and extended urination. Growing up does not have to equate with losing your childhood sense of humour.

Anyway men will always be boys won't they? ;)

Like the Fast Show before it, Little Britain has become overly reliant on lazy catchphrase humour. You can envisage the live show: out steps Vicky Pollard, audience starts laughing before the first syllable of a "no but" passes her lips. In a year's time they'll be fronting a new Homebase advert campaign, Lucas being wheeled about pointing at cans of paint, bleating "I want that one..." at the new "Editions" range.

some bits are funny but i reckon its a bit overrated

I don't think it's very funny at all. Severly overrated!

little britain is too repetative - its gettin 2 the point where david and matt seem 2 expect laughs purely on the basis of usin funny characters and are forgettin or cant be bothered to come up with new stuff.

mind u still better than all the other stuff on channels 1 to 5.

Little Britain is suffering because the characters ailments and jokes rely on repetition. When you've seen a couple of episodes, you've seen them all really. T'was good live though.