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Little Britain USA is not big, funny or clever

http://www.mirror.co.uk/2008/10/06/little-britain-usa-is-not-big-funny-or-clever-115875-20777006/ (http://www.mirror.co.uk/2008/10/06/little-britain-usa-is-not-big-funny-or-clever-115875-20777006/)
10/6/2008

IT's the last sketch of Little Britain USA and Bubbles de Vere
displays the kind of sharp observation totally lacking in the "comedy"
up until then.

"I think it's very important to know when to stop," Bubbles confesses,
having gambled – and lost – her dress, wig, and ruby-encrusted
"panties", given her by Omar Sharif, on the roulette table

Nor is Little Britain UK, it is a disgrace to the proud name of British Comedy... (and I'm not talking benny hill or are you being served).

Worse than 'are you being served' or 'benny hill"???? Oh god, I have to see it now.

    I've never seen it, but I'm thinking there has got to be a strong series in the idea of a "little Britain" inside an American city like New York, or a mid-western city, if they have cities in the mid-west.
    It'd be like a 'little italy' or 'chinatown'. You go there and the people all talk funny and there's a billion cultural misunderstandings. The audience hears everyone speaking in English, but the Britons and the Americans can't understand each other.
    Now and then some American southerners turn up and Nobody can understand them - even the audience.


Laughs aplenty.

Little Britain is quite good for one episode.
The next episode you think may actually be a repeat of the first.
The next might be a new episode, but it may be the first repeated again.
The fourth episode may just be a new episode, but so far it is the same as the other three, even down to the exact same characters, lines, punchlines and camera angles.


This has gone on for over four series now. The exact same sketches performed in the exact same way... They even released a sketch book(!)

you're talking about the stinky "Little Britain" and not MY "Little Britain" aren't you?  Because I think MY "Little Britain" is Emmy winning material.



I just thought of this other idea for a show. There's a tiny Island off of England where some British soldiers from WWII never learned that the war was over. Some German Tourists land there by accident and we have laughs aplenty.

Quote from: Rebis on October 06, 2008, 07:32:18 PM
I just thought of this other idea for a show. There's a tiny Island off of England where some British soldiers from WWII never learned that the war was over. Some German Tourists land there by accident and we have laughs aplenty.

I do mean the stinky little britain, which is multi-award winning and made it's creators very rich.

Your second idea reminded me of a fairly good novel by Julian Barnes called England, England where they make a fake and intensified version of a tourist's England on the Isle of White.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England,_England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England,_England)

Crazy. I thought every family has a rude guy like samual johnson.

I myself think Little Britain is funny. Sometimes it goes a little over the top with certain things and doesn't display us in a very good light. However I am looking forward to USA to see what that is like.

Most of Little Britain is basically a really bad drag act :/  Harry and Paul is far superior :)

I was never comfortable with comedians who thought it was funny to put on a dress and a wig and prance around like a "->-bleeped-<-".

From Sid Ceasar, and Jack Benny all the way to Flip Wilson and beyond.  I could never see the point of the humor.  But then again there used to be a great deal of humor to be found in white actors putting on blackface and singing like African Americans, though they didn't call them that back then.

There is a part of humor that satirizes a group of people.  And usually the weaker and less able to defend themselves the more humorous.

I might be a little sensitive, but I never found anything funny in Benny Hill either where he would objectify women.

-Sandy

Quote from: Pica Pica on October 06, 2008, 07:28:58 PM
Little Britain is quite good for one episode.
The next episode you think may actually be a repeat of the first.
The next might be a new episode, but it may be the first repeated again.
The fourth episode may just be a new episode, but so far it is the same as the other three, even down to the exact same characters, lines, punchlines and camera angles.


This has gone on for over four series now. The exact same sketches performed in the exact same way... They even released a sketch book(!)

Yeah, I agree. Do some Youtube searches for "Little Britain" and you'll get segments. You don't want to see more than one episode though or it gets old fast. One or two can be funny.

Dennis