Little Britain

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Just seen an interesting discussion on Twitter regarding Little Britain and how damaging it was to minority groups in the UK. I must admit I liked it at the time (I was a teenager) but can't understand how they got away with it now. And I don't think I've ever seen them apologise for it?

There was the disabled guy pretending to be disabled.
The old lady who threw up when she found out anyone foreign had baked the cake and she was eating.
The university secretary who used blatant racist language.
Also transphobic/homophobic issues.

Were they perhaps double bluffing by poking fun at the views of people who for example think all disabled people are fakers? Or was it really that offensive? It definitely wouldn't be aired now but it wasn't really all that long ago. And Walliams and Lucas are still very much in the public eye.

The small minded hypocrites have changed and can no longer tolerate any one making fun of them.

It's satire. The problem with it was it was just crap and punching down snobbery. Plenty of other good sitcoms of the time as well.

Litmus test of a sitcom is it is funny and does it stand the test of time? Little Britain fails on both counts, particularly the latter.

Always hated it, thought it was really dated comedy at the time and surprised so many people liked it!

It just isn't funny though IMO. I'm not a big sketch show fan but The Fast Show and Harry Enfield did the satire on Brits much better. Little Britain is just crude humour, a precursor to the Mrs Browns Boys type shows.

I loved LB. It's nothing like MBB.

"Anyhooo. I am quite confident there is some of the "white English saviour" going on here with some posters because that's the type who shouts down even minorities and people who did experience racism, xenophobia and discrimination when they disagree with something being offensive and harmful."

Just popping in to agree with you @Bubblebubblebah this is definitely the case a lot of the time. I was once called racist by one of these types when I was trying to tell her that shouting "white privileged on our behalf doesn't necessarily help...instead of giving me a chance to explain she decided she knew better and shouted me down calling me racist.
I think sometimes that they assume everyone they're talking to is white..in which case I think they need to check their own racism.

Anyway I'm not white or straight and looking back at clips can see the humour in it, most of my extended family/family friends are brown/black/Asian and I know that a lot of them were fans back in the day 🤷🏽‍♀️ they probably related to many things and understood the jokes

Some posters are confusing jokes that they don't personally find funny or that they themselves find offensive with 'shouldn't be allowed at all'. Can comedians only make jokes if every single person likes it? Should they only make jokes about white, straight, abled people? Wouldn't that also be offensive if they did?

I don't find every joke funny. Sometimes jokes are too close to my own personal experiences to be funny for me. But I wouldn't want to ban those jokes. Unless a joke is inciting hatred against a group of people then I think it's fair game. And LB didn't do that. In fact it was the opposite.

I thought Little Britain was garbage humour and not funny at all, but i'd defend their right to a platform and also recognise humour is subjective.