I literally just made this thread!
Literally!
A good “bit” for a modern sketch show or improv troupe might be a character who thinks when kids say “It’s lit” that they mean “It’s literally” and then gets confused about it
Copied shamelessly from the Guardian:
“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate” (Jamie Redknapp)
“Barca literally passed Arsenal to death” (Jamie Redknapp)
“he had to cut back inside on to his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot” (Jamie Redknapp).
I’m struggling to see this as being anything other than literally awful, but then again I am a horrendously negative person.
I’ll be honest, I think I’d literally change channel if I saw a thing like that on telly
Might work on a radio four tea time comedy show with Milton Jones.
And by “work” I mean - “be terrible”.
Quote from my sixth form English teacher, discussing Sons and Lovers:
“And when the miners got off work at the end of the day, they were literally buggered”.