Amazing how many of the catchphrases from this show caught on.
would rather watch mrs brownās boys
Can I just not watch either?
A donā like it!
Did find Andy funny tbf with his scouse accent
Aside from all of the obviously foul writing in the show, endless punching down and downright offensive characters etc Iād just like to add that a sketch show with a rotating cast of 10 characters ending every sketch with the same punchline or catchphrase just isnāt fucking funny.
Itās a 1 from me.
Youāll still sometimes catch someone delivering a training course, saying ācomputer says noā
Disliked it at the time and was annoyed at my pals liking this rather than The Fast Show or, yāknow, anything else. Punched downwards even by the standards of the time and Iām sure itās aged dreadfully in that respect.
Iām just trying to think of parts of Little Britain that werenāt horribly offensive. The shit hypnotist, maybe? Was hardly comic gold though
First series had some genuinely good stuff (āIvor, that was the name of Ivorā), second series pushed it a bit with thr catchphrases and ramped up the downpunching stuff, series three and after are genuinely shit enough to drag the whole thing down. Iāll give it a 2
Itās a shame cause they did have a kind of good grasp for sort of absurd caricatures in like Rock Profile or whatever, but then they shorn off the absurdity and funniness and whatever
I liked Dennis waterman, canāt think of anything too offensive in that.
The rest of it was awful though.
Itās odd because from what else Iāve seen and heard of matt Lucas he seems like a decent and funny man.
I remember the Russian babysitter sketch being quite funny at the time (āMy brother Jospehā¦ people say he is bad, but he is good, in his heart!ā), but it doesnāt seem to exist on Youtube, so the only other bits I remember are the awful offensive bits, which Iām sure is most of it.
I AM THE ONLY GAY IN THE VILLAGE was lovely, growing up in a small Welsh town.
A bit off topic but this stuff really wasnāt acceptable at the time (blackface ffs) and it really stank of entitlement with all the council estate stuff. I think there was at the time a bit of an attitude that New Labour had somehow done enough in terms of social and economic progress that it was fine to ironically punch downwards again; fitted in with all the lad culture at the time too
Also catchphrase comedy is just so lazy. The stuff that followed in itās wake was somehow worse as well.
Canāt believe I missed Veronica Marsā thread.
I think The Fast Show is really funny catchphrase comedy (the only one?) , and I actually canāt think of any of its sketches that wouldnāt be acceptable today. Maaaybe the black painter, but not really.
Still holds up really well (5)
if i ever saw gervais think iād shout at him asking him to do the dance
Nope.
Loathed it from the first moment I saw it and time hasnāt been at all kind to it.
It bothers me when the term ācomedianā is applied to David Walliams in much the same way as when itās applied to James Corden.
No wit behind it at all.
We all liked it at the time.
No.
Iāve heard people talk about a ācomputer says no mentalityā
Anyway, even as a child I didnāt understand why people thought it was funny. And I didnāt have a sophisticated sense of humour. If anything, I say right the middle of their target market of massive twats