From: efor6920@bigpond.net.au   
      
   "Steve B"  wrote in message   
   news:na4ut3hli0hvnqlsoepob4393dcer8duha@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02:40 +1000, Xam  wrote:   
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   >>Imo, little Britain sux, it's far too gay for my liking, and I don't   
   >>think you can compare sketch comedy with a sit-com anyway.   
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   > I generally like it, though I do tend to tune out some sketches   
   > entirely.  Most "Fat Fighters" one get the mute button.   
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   I enjoyed it (little britain) on first viewing, gave it up by the third   
   episode, with all due respect I hardly think retelling exactly the same 10 -   
   12 gags every single episode can, in any space time continuum, be considered   
   'clever comedy' even less so when they are working in the british television   
   industry, an industry that gave us 'Allo 'Allo, Yes Minister, It aint half   
   hot mum, Steptoe and son (if one counts being copied as success, this show   
   could be considered the singtle most successful sit-com in history, every   
   western nation produced a show inspired by it), On the buses, Mind your   
   language etc... (gonna stop the examples here, a) im sure i've made my point   
   and b) if I were to list them all (note I havent even touched on the work of   
   Atkinson, Idle, Cleese, Laurie, Fry, Barker or Corbett above) the full list   
   would make this one of the longest non political posts in the history of   
   usenet,  I even had to cut the list of high brow comedy capable top shelf   
   comediennes short because britain has produced literally hundreds of them in   
   the last 50 years alone. If one extends that to radio comedy and includes   
   people of the ilk of Menard, Ross, Skakild etc... the list probalbly reaches   
   in the 1000's of names, and I still havent touched on the female comediennes   
   Old blighty has given to the world, Dawn French for eg, may well be the best   
   female TV comedienne of the current crop world wide and in Vicar of Dibley   
   she proved conclusively that, while blatant humor is her stock in trade,.   
   she is perfectly capable of delivering both subtle and intellectual humor,   
   to very high standards, when the situation calls for it   
      
   Im sorry if i upset any brits with that comment but frankly compared to what   
   british comedy writers have proved themselves capable of Little Britain is a   
   product written by hacks, and rather pathetic ones at that. If it wasn't for   
   the fact the fat guy is a disturbingly convincing drag queen i doubt it   
   would get any laughs at all.   
      
      
   Cheers   
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