Great British Comedy

[Boolean Julian]

Yush. A lot of people didn't like it. A very offbeat brand of comedy.  

[[-Creep of Wrath-]]

My favorites:

Father Ted, Little Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and I really like Joe Pasquale as a comedian. I have seen others but I can't be bothered to mention them all... :3  

[wodewose]

Did anyone catch William Vague`s tribute to "Yes Minister" on Radio 4?
Or, for that matter Vic Reeve`s rogue`s gallery on Discovery?.
I see Robbie Williams will be joining the "ladies" on "Little Britain" for Comic Relief this year.
Actually.....My wife and I recently visited the Market town of Olney (where the writer of the hymn `Amazing Grace` was a pastor).There we saw a transvestite...an obvious transvetite...as he passed my wife, and I in fits of giggles sputtered out:
"I`m a layyy-ddeaaaa!"  

[Days of Empire]

And I'm sure he wanted to kill you.

A housemate of mine is a transexual (they are very definate about the difference between transvestite and transexual) and he absolutely loathes those sketches, not because he finds them offensive, but because everyone mimics them, and it drives him/her crazy.  

[Boolean Julian]

Erix Griffon

And I'm sure he wanted to kill you.

A housemate of mine is a transexual (they are very definate about the difference between transvestite and transexual) and he absolutely loathes those sketches, not because he finds them offensive, but because everyone mimics them, and it drives him/her crazy.

I'm beginning to hate Little Britain. I always thought it was rather poor comedy, being exactly the same few jokes being repeated and repeated to death and beyond, but I never really had anything against it. It's just the fact that everyone quotes it. Everyone. I hardly go through a day without hearing "yeah but no" or "computer says no" or "bitty" or "I'm a laydee!" or similar.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

whapcapn

I'm beginning to hate Little Britain. I always thought it was rather poor comedy, being exactly the same few jokes being repeated and repeated to death and beyond, but I never really had anything against it. It's just the fact that everyone quotes it. Everyone. I hardly go through a day without hearing "yeah but no" or "computer says no" or "bitty" or "I'm a laydee!" or similar.

That isn't a reason to hate the programme itself; it's a reason to dislike the people who quote it. Once or twice might be amusing, but it gets so tired so quickly.  

[Lord Jagged]

Think how I feel.
For some reason, my maths teacher seems to like quoting it. She does it about 15 times every lesson. One lesson she was quoting it through a megaphone. eek  

[wodewose]

Erix Griffon

And I'm sure he wanted to kill you.

A housemate of mine is a transexual (they are very definate about the difference between transvestite and transexual) and he absolutely loathes those sketches, not because he finds them offensive, but because everyone mimics them, and it drives him/her crazy.

It comes with the teritory.
I`m Welsh, I have to endure constant jibes about how I ******** sheep.I don`t but I let it go.I also get jokes about my religious beliefs too, but I let them go....  

[Boolean Julian]

Foetus In Fetu

whapcapn

I'm beginning to hate Little Britain. I always thought it was rather poor comedy, being exactly the same few jokes being repeated and repeated to death and beyond, but I never really had anything against it. It's just the fact that everyone quotes it. Everyone. I hardly go through a day without hearing "yeah but no" or "computer says no" or "bitty" or "I'm a laydee!" or similar.

That isn't a reason to hate the programme itself; it's a reason to dislike the people who quote it. Once or twice might be amusing, but it gets so tired so quickly.

Admittedly, I have no cause to have anything against Little Britain itself, but, to take another example, if you were forced to listen to a piece of music you didn't like over and over again, would you end up hating it? I know I would.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

whapcapn

Admittedly, I have no cause to have anything against Little Britain itself, but, to take another example, if you were forced to listen to a piece of music you didn't like over and over again, would you end up hating it? I know I would.

I would completely change my personality so that I wouldn't be 'me' anymore and then I wouldn't care because I wouldn't exist. The new person can worry about whether or not they like the music, it doesn't affect me.

Fair enough, I would probably grow to hate it.  

[Boolean Julian]

Foetus In Fetu

whapcapn

Admittedly, I have no cause to have anything against Little Britain itself, but, to take another example, if you were forced to listen to a piece of music you didn't like over and over again, would you end up hating it? I know I would.

I would completely change my personality so that I wouldn't be 'me' anymore and then I wouldn't care because I wouldn't exist. The new person can worry about whether or not they like the music, it doesn't affect me.

Fair enough, I would probably grow to hate it.

*Tries in vain to come up with a witty response*  

[50ny4]

Okay there are too many to name but i shall try (and by try i mean i'll like write down three and keep adding on and on until i can't think of any more...because that's what happens when you think in school)

Monty Python Flying Circus (and movies)
Fawlty Towers (yup, enough said)
Eddie Izzard (especially Dressed to Kill)
Joe Pasquale (yup he also sort of speak for himself)  

[illyrianth]

wodewose

Erix Griffon

And I'm sure he wanted to kill you.

A housemate of mine is a transexual (they are very definate about the difference between transvestite and transexual) and he absolutely loathes those sketches, not because he finds them offensive, but because everyone mimics them, and it drives him/her crazy.

It comes with the teritory.
I`m Welsh, I have to endure constant jibes about how I ******** sheep.I don`t but I let it go.I also get jokes about my religious beliefs too, but I let them go....

I think I ought to make another thread about this very subject at some point. I have myself been on the receiving end of snide remarks and comments about my faith path, the music I like and the way in which I choose to dress. Surely it would be better for all of us if none of us ever had to endure such bizarre criticisms from people we don't even know?

The Little Britain show is to me less of a comedy sketch show, but more of a pretty damning indictment on the British Public as a whole. Erix - If you'd be so kind, I might like to run it by you before posting it, once I have it written up...

Mind you, I always loathed the League of Gentlemen too. Something about either show just leaves me cold.  

[Days of Empire]

wodewose

It comes with the teritory.
I`m Welsh, I have to endure constant jibes about how I ******** sheep.I don`t but I let it go.I also get jokes about my religious beliefs too, but I let them go....

It shouldn't come with the territory. It's not like he dresses up for fun. That would be a transvestite. He is a transexual. There is an important difference - he earnestly believes that he was meant to be female, and he doesn't feel he really has a choice about how he dresses. He feels he's cross dressing when he's dressed as a man. He recently won a big debate with the NUS council, saying that now transexuals are allowed to use the female toilets in SU venues, simply because the male toilets are intensely threatening places in that situation.

Sheepshagger jokes are just that. Jokes. But for him, things can turn nasty.  

[Days of Empire]

illyrianth

Erix - If you'd be so kind, I might like to run it by you before posting it, once I have it written up...

I'm a little puzzled as to why, but ok!