Goodbye Little Britain

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There's a sketch from Saturday Night Live where Eddie Murphy get's a make over to become a white man.
It's comedy, it's for people to laugh at, not to take seriously.

If you have a group of people looking at stuff to stick on the television, one of them will find something not to their taste.
There are things that totally cross the line but it seems now they're just getting shot of stuff to fit a demographic when there will be all sorts of stuff out there that could be deemed unsuitable.

Take Bo Selecta for example as someone mentioned the other day, if it was totally white based there would've been complaints, years later Lee Francis is apologising for his black characters.

It's ridiculous.
cluffy said:
Dunno - you can watch it on YouTube if you want? Can't be arsed to send you a link...just put "little britain" in Google should do it.
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I don't want to watch it.
 
What A Waster said:
At times I've felt I'd happily chop my own foot off to avoid watching Mrs Brown.
Then I just reach for the remote. Excruciating. Watched a full episode once in digs at work, everybody laughing at it. Felt like that scene in Spectre when Daniel Craig is in that chair getting his bollocks whacked
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It really is dreadful
muggboots said:
Or they are just doing what they usually do and rotating their library by regularly removing things as they put new ones on.
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No they said it was due to the content
Scunny Dan said:
Rising Damp was another, with Phillip effortlessly owning Rigsby.

I watched Little Britain once....there was a scene with Williams in drag urinating everywhere, to shrieking canned laughter. Fair to say I didn't bother again.
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My fav sitcom, got the complete DVD. The stuff about Philips African roots is the least funny part of the show. Most of it is Philip winding Rigsby up about Africa and Rigsby falling for it
 
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joemcdokes said:
We didn't commission it.
It's like they're trying to eradicate certain things from history, comedy is not there to be taken seriously.
Would someone not be able to create a 70's drama that contained how racism was back then from true life events for example?

I don't watch alot of TV maybes there has already been one.
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I think Life On Mars touched on it a bit, probably more the sexism of the time but it reflects a time when things were different, nothing wrong with seeing how far we have come but it should still be there for people to watch it if they desire, 20 years from now DVD's of Carry On films are going to be going for a fortune on the 'black' market :cool: :rolleyes: :cool:
 
Kid Galahad said:
I think Life On Mars touched on it a bit, probably more the sexism of the time but it reflects a time when things were different, nothing wrong with seeing how far we have come but it should still be there for people to watch it if they desire, 20 years from now DVD's of Carry On films are going to be going for a fortune on the 'black' market :cool: :rolleyes: :cool:
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Will Zulu now be banned?
 
It annoyed me when the beeb wouldn't show the TOTPs presented by DLT.
I mean ok he was a massive bellend but I think he got found guilty of feeling someone's tits and because of that they stopped showing some classic 70s episodes. :rolleyes:
 
cluffy said:
It annoyed me when the beeb wouldn't show the TOTPs presented by DLT.
I mean ok he was a massive bellend but I think he got found guilty of feeling someone's tits and because of that they stopped showing some classic 70s episodes. :rolleyes:
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But jacko still gets played on the radio
 
Big Jeff said:
Perhaps the people who want these things banned are either a little bit thick or just want to shout their message and only their message.
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The rabidly vociferous, free speech, right wing types who call everyone else snowflakes can be some of the biggest, absolute drama queens when the tables are turned on them. The left wing, socially responsible, caring, treat everyone equally whilst looking after the planet and all it's lifeforms types can also be preachy, judgemental, intolerant and viciously, aggressively violent. Both ends of the political spectrum are more similar than they'd care to admit. There's plenty room in the middle, you're allowed to support the NHS, believe that refugees should have a safe haven, that minorities shouldn't be persecuted for their religious beliefs or skin colour, that children should be educated, that everyone should have a roof over their head and the opportunity to better themselves whilst also supporting the capitalist system, law and order, strong armed forces and love for your country. The politicians are the ones who try to convince you otherwise.
 
People going mental about Little Britain not being on is funnier than the programme itself was. :lol:
Be interesting to see what Matt says mind. He's a decent bloke and blatantly not racist.
 
Manny F said:
Yes the dockers who marched in support of Enoch Powell will probably have been staunch Labour voters at the time.
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Whereas the loudest and most forceful opponent of Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts was a posh, white, tory toff born into opulence and wealth as a descendant of hundreds of years of privilege and breeding. He f***ing despised fascism at home and abroad and became one of our greatest wartime heroes of the 1000 years or so we've had so far. Unfortunately, turns out that he also thought that white people were naturally superior to brown ones. He at one point nearly converted to Islam and his family pleaded with him to think again. Pick the bones out of that bastard, history and the people in it are really f***ing complex, add in the fact that attitudes, education and society itself were completely different in the past and it's a minefield. :lol:
Stubbs ftm said:
It's just being removed cos it's shite
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:lol:
Just shows where a simple, obviously answered question can lead on here.
 
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Stormo said:
Which one do you think will be first to air a video blaring their eyes out telling the nation how sorry they are? Walliams or Lucas?
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Walliams, nailed on. Lucas, although he's short, fat, ugly, bald and as camp as a row of pink tents is mentally much more stable. He hasn't got anywhere near as many issues as Walliams.
 
CEF said:
Don't words just evolve though. Bedlam, lunatic, idiot, are all used without a second thought. Mental - a fairly recent one.
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Bedlam isn't a term of abuse, lunatic isn't really either (unless you do howl at the Moon), idiot is a descriptive word like tall, fat, baldy, it's no worse than calling someone thick or daft.
Lately though I've reworded a few things after initially putting mental in. There must be at least 40 or 50 words from when I was a youngun that would now be horrific if used in public.
What A Waster said:
Shite in any era. Because it's horrendously bad.
The way they came at it as some sort of documentary/satire of characters of Britain was pathetic. Everything they done has been done better elsewhere. It's not anywhere near Lucas and Walliams best work together.
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Number one rule of comedy - be funny.
Number two - make it clever or topical.
Number four - be funny.
Number three - target and ridicule unfairness, hypocrisy and conceit.
Number five - highlight social inequalities and subvert the status quo.
Number six - just make the bastard funny.
Number seven - (as utilised relentlessly by LB, Mrs. Brown's Boys, Miranda et al) if all else fails, fall ower. If that doesn't work, spew up then fall ower again.
What A Waster said:
At times I've felt I'd happily chop my own foot off to avoid watching Mrs Brown.
Then I just reach for the remote. Excruciating. Watched a full episode once in digs at work, everybody laughing at it. Felt like that scene in Spectre when Daniel Craig is in that chair getting his bollocks whacked
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Pah, Bond's bollocks being paddled? More like Misery with the wooden block or Escape to Victory when the proper keeper has to snap his arm so they can sell the film in the US.
 
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