Little Britain,funny or no.

Davedubh

Personally i cant see how this show is so popular.Its just very average and the sketches are very repetitive.It dosent compare at all to the fast show which is still funny after ten years.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I liked the first season, but I didn't see the point in rewatching the exact same stuff in seasons 2 and beyond.

maybe with some new ideas it would have been funny, but so far.. very meh

IamBeowulf

Davedubh wrote: »

Personally i cant see how this show is so popular.Its just very average and the sketches are very repetitive.It dosent compare at all to the fast show which is still funny after ten years.

I don't know any other show that builds an entire village of distinct weird characters with just two comedians. Very funny, lowbrow, leave your brain at home stuff. Love it.

galwayrush

I used to like it, but now it seems to be the same Gags being repeated over and over again

GhostInTheRuins

Like was already said, I liked the first series but there's only so many times you can laugh at the same jokes just slightly different.

Nightwish

I never found it funny at all. I have an intense dislike for catchphrase comedy. Catherine Tate is the same. The characters are completely one dimensional. Its all too repetitive for my simple brain.

Mossy Monk

It is ok but nowhere near classic territory. As people before me have pointed out it is all a tad bit repetitive.

wheres me jumpa

I love it.

Ivan

I've never been a big fan at all. Found it very difficult to leave the t.v. alone, long enough to watch a full episode.

Have come across some funny clips but I could take or leave it.

Shryke

I hate it. Unbelievably repetitive and not very funny in the first place.

Firetrap

It's jumped the shark. They should have taken a leaf out of Ricky Gervais' book and stopped making it after the second series.

Utopia Parkway

It was funny alright but a comedy like that has a limited lifespan. I think by the end of the 2nd series the dead horse was well and truly flogged.

Zaph

Nightwish wrote: »

I never found it funny at all. I have an intense dislike for catchphrase comedy. Catherine Tate is the same. The characters are completely one dimensional. Its all too repetitive for my simple brain.

What she said. I'd also include The Fast Show and Bo Selecta in the list of unfunny, repetitive "comedy" shows.

Creamy Goodness

^^

what he said and she said.

Akrasia

I hate it too.

Nothing at all funny about it in any way.

Not funny the first time, and certainly not funny the 342534565434563rd time.

anotherlostie

I love it.

And they only made 3 series, with characters dropped each series. In general the characters that stayed were ones like Vikki Pollard, Sebastian, Daffyd and Marjorie Dawes.

Dudess

zaph wrote: »

What she said. I'd also include The Fast Show and Bo Selecta in the list of unfunny, repetitive "comedy" shows.

Part of me would be of the same point of view, but there are bits I find funny.

MayoForSam

Not very funny, never really got into it.

qwertplaywert

As many of you, liked the first season- laughed my way through it constantly in fact, but after that it turned into pure ,repetitive muck.

Pigman II

I take issue with the show because too much of their humour depends on making fun of gays and the mentally handicapped. Don't get me wrong it's ok for Walliams and Lucas to use this of humour .... because they are both gay and mentally handicapped. It's just that I don't find it amusing as subject matter.

WindSock

Are you 'avin a laff? Is he 'avin a laff?

I'm getting a bit sick of it now. Much like harry enfield, it doesn't have longetivity. I enjoyed it while it lasted though.

Dudess

And a lot of it was never funny in the first place.

murphaph

WindSock wrote: »

Are you 'avin a laff? Is he 'avin a laff?

I like LB on the whole. Some of the sketches I can pass on but I always found that with any sketch show.

Lockstep

Pigman II wrote: »

I take issue with the show because too much of their humour depends on making fun of gays and the mentally handicapped.

I'm assuming your reffering to Andy and Daffyd>
In fairness now, the whole point with these two is that they are not gay or mentally handicapped. Both are faking it.




As everyone else said here, it's horribly repetitive. I liked the One off characters- Boris the babysitter, the MP who tries to explain all his sordid misdeeds and that scottish guy who strove for eccentricity. THe jokes with the main characters have well and truly worn thin. Admittedly I find Marjorie Dawes amusing and Sebastien has his moments. But in general it's completly run it's course. I feel a lot of it is too similar to League of Gentlemen.


I was never a fan of Bo Selecta: I bought it for e2 at my school fete and was shocked by how awful it was. "celebrities" who were almost universally Big Brother fans appeared on it acting like they were so cool and the ginger bloke can only do about four accents, repeated endlessly. I smiled at the bear a couple of times and laughed at the Ozzy Osbourne impersenation but other than that I found it awful.

Fast show: a friend of mine heard I was into British comedies and she badgered me to borrow the Fast Show and watch it. I didnt like it at all. The fat Sweaty Coppers were funny but other than that I just sat there thinking WTF?


Best british comedy shows IMHO: Anything by Rowan Atkinson (Especially BlackAdder) League of Gentlemen and the YOung ones.

Anyone else notice the pattern of British comedy. They are either comedys of manners (Young ones) Sketch shows (Little Britain, league of Gentlemen, Fast Show) or else programs about complete Misanthropes (Blackadder, My Family, Mr BEan)

Akrasia

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Anyone else notice the pattern of British comedy. They are either comedys of manners (Young ones) Sketch shows (Little Britain, league of Gentlemen, Fast Show) or else programs about complete Misanthropes (Blackadder, My Family, Mr BEan)

I don't know about misanthropic, but isnt it the the case with all good comedy that they always exaggerate character traits to make them funnier, and it always results in some ludicrous or depraved character or another.
there are lots of genuinely good British comedies. One foot in the grave, Only Fools and Horses, Faulty towers, Monty Python, the office, men behaving badly, yes minister etc etc.

Utopia Parkway

Pigman II wrote: »

I take issue with the show because too much of their humour depends on making fun of gays and the mentally handicapped. Don't get me wrong it's ok for Walliams and Lucas to use this of humour .... because they are both gay and mentally handicapped. It's just that I don't find it amusing as subject matter.

Notorious womaniser David Walliams is gay?:D

bill_ashmount

I've never got that show, honestly think it is one of the worst shows I've ever seen on TV. A lot of people I know love it though.

Pigman II

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Notorious womaniser

I'm sure you meant notorious bumaniser

kmick

It was alright for its time, remember it is pretty old now - I never really liked the fast show or blackadder. Fast show was crap and I just never got the humour of blackadder. Now give me curb your enthusiasm any day. That is real comedy.

telecaster

It fell in to the old trap of running too long. The jokes got repetitive. Was interesting when it began though.