How is David Walliams so fucking creepy….

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He’s on This Morning right now. He makes my skin crawl. Him and Ben Shepherd together is like the duo from Hell.

YANBU - he’s such a creepy man
YABU - he’s a fine upstanding member of society, you’re the creepy one here

I also have spidey senses about him ping more than once... one of those creepy men who get written off initially as "eccentric" but turns out to be not just a predator but actually really cruel when not being watched

No. It was homophobic classist tripe.

Perhaps. But at the time most of the country was obsessed with it.

Everybody in the world hasn't has a documentary made about them! Why would one be made about him?

The whole thing about him not writing his books is just ridiculous. He's a comic writer and he's also very vain. There is no way on earth he would let someone else write books in his name. I haven't read any of the books and don't intend to but I think of all the things people can say about him this is the most ridiculous.

100%

Hiding in plain sight.

The poster was trying to say there’s so much evidence against him and talk within the industry of his pervy ways but the fact there hasn’t been a documentary showcasing this, is down to DW’s lawyers trying to keep a lid on it.

There were a lot of posts of Mumsnet regarding his behaviour with teen girls back in the BGT days.

It's obvious there was some kind of cover up from the way he left BGT too,.and the fact he has clearly been pushed to the sidelines as a "celeb"

I also suspect his books are largely ghost written. Not least because the writing style and quality varies hugely. Some of them are utterly dire and derivative, some are marginally better.

I thought it was very funny. Some people have got weirdly uptight about Little Britain in recent years.

Well if somebody wanted to make a documentary about me with unsubstantiated "facts" about me being a pervert then I would definitely employ lawyers to stop that happening!

A lot of people seem to have forgotten that they did laugh at Little Britain. Nowadays it wouldnt be made and it would be called out for what it is but at the time a lot of people did find it funny. Thats why so many people remember it and there are various phrases everyone knows - but hopefully dont use most of them! Who says "computer says no"? I do sometimes.

I found a lot of it funny. Would I now? No, not that I know better but I cant pretend I didnt laugh at the time. Im not ashamed that I laughed at bits of it but I am glad that I can look back on myself (and LB) and say thats not right and know I wouldnt do it again.

DW has always been creepy though. His stage show where he molested young men should have been investigated.

Probably in the same way as love thy neighbour.

No. We weren’t.

There were plenty of us saying these things at the time. Punching down has never been funny.

I was never into it, I heard about some of the things from it as they were everywhere, but I didn't watch it and couldn't sit through it if it came on. I think for various personal reasons I'm oversensitive to some types of sexual and body-part related humour, for example I could not bear the 'bitty" stuff. To be fair I didn't single out Walliams at the time, they both gave me the creeps although ML seems less like that these days.

Also it seemed very old fashioned even at the time - the stuff about being gay and DW's sketches as an unconvincing woman - I associated that with much older, pre-alternative comedy. I would have been watching things like IT Crowd and Black Books, maybe Catherine Tate.

Some of the sketches were great - Marjorie Dawes was embarrassingly funny; and I liked Vicky Pollard, computer says no and the Scottish hotelier.

Some of them were nasty even then, though. Even the canned accompaniment tracks (or was it an actual audience?) were of disgust rather than laughter for bitty and the old lady weeing on the floor.

Just to be clear my love thy neighbour quip was sarcasm.

I know a couple of people in the industry who have met him in real life and say he's even more creepy in real life than he appears on TV! they didn't like him at all!

I personally love the guy!!! And find him.hillariously funny! But each to their own (if I was single, I'd never date him though! and I wouldn't want to meet him in a back room of a club on my own!)

I loved Little Britain!! Yes, some of it wouldn’t work nowadays-but it was a very popular show.

But it's true though isnt it? People thought Love Thy Neighbour, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and the ilk were funny. Even carry on films were seen as funny.

By today's standards they are awful but you cant judge the past and when people pretend they didnt laugh at the time, it doesnt help move the discussion forward.

I never liked Little Britain, never watched it, though did see clippets as it was fucking every where and there was no getting away from it.

I also didn’t get the BGT shit. I mean what’s funny about a middle aged man talking in a ridiculous voice, winking at random contestants and messing about in a way that’s just bizzare.

A bit like that Lee Frances and his persona, there was nothing funny about it or him. That whole era of stuff that folk found hilarious, but there was nothing remotely funny about any of it imo

Maybe, I've never seen live thy neighbour, although from what I do know about it wasn't it supposed to be mocking the sort of racist attitude it portrayed ? (According to my English Lit. teacher circa 1989 when we watched Warren Mitchell as Shylock in the Merchant of Venice.)

TBF some of the humour in the Carry on Films is still funny today.

I loved the Scottish hotelier speaking through the medium of dance and blowing a tin whistle 😂

Errr did you read his Wikipedia under controversies? His pervy ways are substantiated and have been viewed on stage in front of huge audiences 🤨