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November 18, 2005
Little Britain
Am I the only one disappointed in the new series of Little Britain? I was certainly a big fan of the first series and even the second, but now if I’m honest I feel a little cheated as if they have worked for their viewing figures and now all they have to do is sit back and let the cheap visual gags roll on. There are only so many times I can laugh at an old lady in supermarket/ church fete/ enter location here, pissing herself/ vomiting/ enter body fluid here. And then there was the old man getting a hard on, fat women fighting with their clothes falling off, transvestites with beards, the prime minister dusting in a pair of skimpy pants, and ‘the only gay in the village’ as a rent boy with his groin half hanging out. Cheap boring and anyone can do it.
I’m also wondering if all along I was laughing at the wrong part of the Lou and Andy sketches. What always made me smile was the way in which Andy barely says anything but ‘Yeh I know’ and ‘I want that one’ but Lou always credits him with poetry and eloquence. For instance last night I did laugh when Lou said something along the lines of ‘but you always say that the underwater world has a sublime beauty...’ or something like that. Andy jumping out of the wheelchair and parachuting/ swimming blah blah blah became tedious after about the second sketch. And the pusses gag was so poor it borderlined on the Carry On..
And my favourite Scottish hotelier? Nowhere to be seen. .
I think last night I only laughed during the Tom Baker bits...
Posted by purple elephant at November 18, 2005 07:51 PM