It's not easy to write comedy nowadays with so many people claiming some sort of 'injury' from a comment or remark, and I guess the show does indeed show us the state of Britain today. What more can be said about that? Yet, sadly, we now seem to have humour that is cruel, hurtful, crass, and basically unfunny - all the things levelled at humour in the 70s by right-on alternative comedians (the 70s humour was gentle, cheeky, and genuinely engaging as well as funny) Many scenes in Little Britain are distasteful or meant for shock value. I'm all for non-PC shows, if there is genuine humour, and whilst in Little Britain there are some good moments - mainly Tom Baker's voice-over comments - much is repeated and the lines are just not funny. Mainly because I find most of the characters loathsome,,,(rather like that ghastly Catherine Tate's schoolgirl) I'm sorry but David Walliams constantly dressed as a woman feels somewhat creepy too. Not the worst show but I can't see why it's deserving of all those plaudits; maybe because there's a paucity of good comedy nowadays.
Review of Little Britain
