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Little Britain Series 3

Four episodes on - is it improving? (November 2005)

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JO
Jonathan
martinDTanderson posted:
Jonathan posted:
I used to like Little Britain because it portrayed a lot of very amusing British attitudes towards life in this country. For example, Marjorie and Meera or Vicky Pollard or the University Woman or the woman who can't do anything because her husband has died and makes a real fuss about everything(series 2). They are the sorts of scetches which make us think, ''yeh I can see that happening in real life.'' However, recently I've found the programme has turned into quite a p*ss-take. I mean, like those asian people with the horse (however much the horse threw me too!) or the woman with incontinence and Ting-Tong. It seems much more directed to hurt certain people.

I dont see it as hurting, I think it makes us notice people's problems more, even if its through comedy. Who would have thought about incontinence before the sketch, or the thai brides that come over here and take desperate lonely old men and fleece them just to get a passport and a new home for their families.


But it's stereotyping them. However, I am a great fan of the show!
CD
cdd
LB in my view has lost its subtlety. The humour was superior when it was less direct.
JC
JCB
I though last nights show was the best for a long time. there were no pissing old ladies, vomiting women or crap fat suites..and the show was all the better for it!. OK - it's still past it best, but by the end instead of the show instead of been left disappointed again i was glad i chose to watch it over 'Space Cadets'
JO
Jonathan
Anybody know what 'Little Britain Night' is on Boxing Day?

11 days later

BE
benjy
A question for anyone who watched Little Britain Night on BBC Three: did you notice they appeared to be using one of ITV's generic regional sets?!

It was definitely an ITV regional coffee table with a Little Britain logo pasted on the front, and the sofas were the same too.

At first I half-expected to see that it was a Granada production, but come the end there was no sign of that end-cap, and it still would have been bizarre for them to use a news set.

I do seem to remember seeing recently a very accurate mock-up of one of the ITV sets, though - might have been on Broken News or Dead Ringers..? Perhaps a re-cycling of that set is a more likely explanation.

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