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Watch two or three episodes. Then stop.
I don't like this program.
I really don't.
By the end of the first season I thought to myself, this is getting a bit tired, can't the please come up with some new jokes? The core idea seems good, the humour has a glimmer of keen satire behind it. OK Vicky was funny once, that freak in the hotel was amusing a few times, Dafydd was never funny, but they have the potential for real clever humour in there. Can we get some new ideas?
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By the end of season 2 I could take no more. All the clever was gone, washed away in a tide of vomit, cliché, obscenity and vomit. It was like watching a rare and beautiful flower wilt and die.
I don't mind the vomit and obscenity, and found Dafydd funny, but I do agree that they tend to run particular scenes and characters into the ground. Really, such ludicrous characters need to appear maybe 2-3 times before being retired, or at least giving us a bit of a break before they recur.
A few times there were actually funny ones that were the Nth in a long series, but most of the characters outlived their funny rather quickly.
Morven
21st Jul 09
I agree with this reviewer wholeheartedly. The best sketches I found, where often the one offs. My two favourites was one the people at a charitable cancer organisation (which was unfortunately deleted from the series), as well as a clever one about Orville the Duck (without Keith Harris).
maninahat
22nd Jul 09
Sans the whole obscenity and vomit thing, this all oddly enough describes exactly how I feel about Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
Guest Of Dishonour
28th Jul 09
(edited by: Guest Of Dishonour)
100% agreement, except with Dafydd. I have known the only gay in the village and seeing people send him up (particularly gay people themselves) was sweet. However it got old fast. Like progeria fast.
wellinever
29th Jul 09
I made the mistake of watching the whole 1st series in a row. A format based around the same catchphrase joke grows old extremely quickly with repetitive viewing.
vampireklepto
30th Jul 09
I have to agree though it's much better than most sketch shows out there.
I don't mind watching it if nothing else is on.
sequeena
17th Aug 09
Totally DISAGREE. Little Britain is one of the funniest shows ever, but I also love Keeping Up Appearances, the Mighty Boosh, Darkplace — you see where this is going. Just face it, people, the british are just funnier than americans.
68.222.26.39
16th Sep 09
I
1:Enjoy Keeping Up Apperance and The Mighty Boosh.
2:Am British.
so, um, I can't see where this is going no.
Reg Shoe
19th Sep 09
When there's nothing else on (And this is a very common situation) it's a good programme to watch. But I certainly wouldn't compare it to the likes of Fawlty Towers, or Red Dwarf. Maybe I like it more because I see more satire in it than most people (Honestly, the number of people I know who actually fake disability could fill the Domesday Book), or maybe I'm just of a different disposition to other people. I won't say I disagree with this review, but I will say there are good parts that the reviewer may have missed out on.
84.45.134.188
2nd Nov 09