using the exact same joke every episode

Not to get back to joke dissection (though it is much more fun), in an interview with Harry Enfield he said the best part of that kind of catch-phrase humour was the anticipation. The audience knows it's coming and claps when they hear?

I always had trouble seeing the Ting Tong sketches as anything other than blatant racism

I just think they're not funny. I don't actually think Daffyd is terribly funny, but I also think Finding has missed the flaming, mincing, squealing joke. And I really wouldn't expect most straight people to?

Far too much English telly humour now revolves around fag jokes and humiliation, it's beyond tedious.

Simply taking these elements to more extreme levels is not creativity or boundary pushing, it's a pissing competition.

Going OTT in mimicking the stereotype of whoever they were trying to dress like, they brought ridicule on the character.

The Office isn't hatred directed at office workers. League of Gentleman isn't hatred directed at rural people.

If the creators of Little Britain *did* have a nasty right-wing agenda after the?

...the best part of that kind of catch-phrase humour was the anticipation. The audience knows it's coming and claps when they hear it.

Yeah, that seems to be it, going by the audience reaction. I just don't get it. Is it a regional thing? Do the English appreciate that sort?

Daffyd isn't the only frigging gay in the villiage, and the only person who has any problems with his sexuality is himself.

Precisely. On the whole Little Britain doesn't do it for me anymore, but a lot of the jokes were in the ridiculousness of the stereotype itself – perhaps?

the Brits are still laughing at men dressed as women or mincing about like poofs.

Walliams and Lucas suggest renamning the show "Gays and Ladies" on one of the DVD commentaries (S1 I think).

That said, other segments involved the same overall joke, but did something different with it each week,

I reckon Andy and Lou blew it in the 1st? 2nd? episode with the "Lou takes Andy to the pool" sketch. None of their appearances since that sketch hold a candle to it.

A quick look at wikipedia shows me this:

At Kelsey Grammar School,

Brilliant. A lot easier to pronounce than the one I went to.

I'm sure sundry people who weren't inclined to work that one through had their prejudices confirmed, but I?

Speaking of guys dressing as queers and women, does anyone want to compare and contrast with The Millen Baird Show?

No, because I've never heard of it – but does anyone else (aside from me) suspect that Julian Clary is secretly straight?

but does anyone else (aside from me) suspect that Julian Clary is secretly straight?

Yup.

In fact one of my favourite characters is a crazy Scottish innkeeper.

Oh, I forgot about him! I'm sad that he disappeared. 'Ask me on a Monday, I'll say yeeeeeeeessss!'

The one I can't quite handle is the puking racist snob lady. I think I have too much sense-empathy or?

The one I can't quite handle is the puking racist snob lady.

According to Findings the racist snob lady is one of the "good ones" because the joke is on racism not on race. (The vomit is still on the little girl though.)

In fact I suppose the biggest finding?

No, because I've never heard of it.

Well, I never watched a whole episode. 'The Millen Baird Show': local comedy that had a short run on TV3 the other month along with pan-asian sketch show 'A Thousand Apologies', which I did watch a couple of all the way through.

Chap called?

feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny

sketch show 'A Thousand Apologies'

This

By the way, considering the other threads that are going, feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny.

I never liked Seinfeld. Does that mean I have no soul?

By the way, considering the other threads that are going, feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny.

OK then; that Te Radar country programme on at the moment.

And before you jump to conclusions HG, it?s not because he?s a ginga.

I just?

By the way, considering the other threads that are going, feel free to bitch anything on TV (or anywhere else) that just isn't funny.

The News. both channels. Lazy attempts to satirise actual news bulletins that just don't come off cos they're trying to hard to be ironic. or something.?

That show was really all about the wonderment that was George.

Specifically George's parents. Frank Costanza = greatest character on a sitcom ever...

I never liked Seinfeld. Does that mean I have no soul?

I don't want to get all meta-physical but ... yes. Sorry.

'The Millen Baird Show': local comedy that had a short run on TV3 the other month along with pan-asian sketch show 'A Thousand Apologies'

A friend saw them?

but the jokes were funny even if you didn't know what "Jewish" was

I imagine someone watching, laughing, and remarking, "Heh, I don't know what a "Jew" is, but they sure are funny!"

Re Ting Ting on Little Britain. That was my 'jump the shark' moment. The first time I?

I'll tell ya what's funny... a researcher named Finding

I laughed at that too.
"Finding's findings were that..."

I never liked Seinfeld. Does that mean I have no soul?

Nope — then again, I seem to be the only person on Earth who finds Fawlty Towers and The Office (original recipie) almost unwatchably sad. Not that they're bad shows, but really find Basil Fawlty's manic outbursts bring back?

And David Brent? Painful – and it just doesn't stop.

I remember watching the second season of The Office and thinking how I couldn't watch this guy continue to get himself into those situations. Which is why I really liked the Christmas special.

re: Tennant.
I heard about it yesterday,?

That said, I did a certain amount of re-working of their material in my head,?

perhaps the fair criticism would be to state that not everyone quite gets that so certain people (already inclined that way I'd imagine) see the joke in the stereotype, rather than in the lampooning of the stereotype.

I?

Now, Shakespeare is typically so full of life that it's possible to forge an understanding of the play to suit your opinions about humanity (mine, anyway). But it's even more difficult to make a (non-rewritten) unracist Merchant than a feminist Taming of the Shrew.?